Patents Assigned to Lego A/S
  • Patent number: 10238961
    Abstract: A toy system comprising one or more toy elements configured to be detectable by a touch screen when brought within a proximity of the touch screen; and a computing device configured to: detect said one or more toy elements within a proximity of the touch screen; detect, in addition to detecting said one or more toy elements, one or more further touch events on the touch screen in a first predetermined spatial relationship to the detected one or more toy elements; and responsive to the detection of said one or more further touch events on the touch screen in said first predetermined spatial relationship to the detected one or more toy elements, to cause a user-perceptible output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Maiken Hillerup Fogtmann, Daniel W. Mathiasen
  • Patent number: 10213692
    Abstract: System and method for automatic computer aided optical recognition of toys, for example, construction toy elements, recognition of those elements on digital images and associating the elements with existing information is presented. The method and system may recognize toy elements of various sizes invariant of toy element distance from the image acquiring device for example camera, invariant of rotation of the toy element, invariant of angle of the camera, invariant of background, invariant of illumination and without the need of predefined region where a toy element should be placed. The system and method may detect more than one toy element on the image and identify them. The system is configured to learn to recognize and detect any number of various toy elements by training a deep convolutional neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Marko Velic, Karsten Østergaard Noe, Jesper Mosegaard, Brian Bunch Christensen, Jens Rimestad
  • Patent number: 10150045
    Abstract: A writing instrument, comprising a tubular body having a longitudinal axis with a first and a second end, and with an opening arranged in the first end; a first building block having a body part with a substantially plane surface and one or more coupling knobs extending from the substantially plane surface, and where the first building block is fixed onto the outside of the tubular body so that the coupling knobs extend away from said longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventor: Arnaud Dubreuil
  • Patent number: 10143932
    Abstract: A building plate 1 a, 1 b, 1 c for a toy building set is provided, said building plate having a bracket plate 5 and a complementarily configured socket 7 to the effect that several building plates can be interconnected to form a larger building plate by mounting of the bracket plate 5 on a building plate 1 b in a socket 7 on another building plate 1 c.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventor: Kurt Jensen
  • Patent number: 10137381
    Abstract: A toy comprising a rotor and a centrally arranged capsule, wherein the capsule comprises an actuator mechanism that is configured to cooperate with a launch element and an actuator element, wherein the actuator element is configured for engaging with the actuator mechanism to transfer a momentum to the rotor, whereby the rotor can rotate and be launched from the launch element, wherein the capsule is a separate part relative to the rotor, and the capsule comprises at least two capsule parts whereby the two capsule parts can be opened when the rotor and the capsule are separated, and wherein rotor, capsule and actuator mechanism are connected to each other to the effect that the momentum from the actuator element is transferred to the actuator mechanism that conveys the momentum on from the capsule to the rotor, when the at least to capsule parts are closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Timothy Mark Ainley, Jesper Carol Nielsen
  • Patent number: 10080976
    Abstract: A toy comprising a rotor, an actuator means, and a launch device, wherein the rotor comprises an actuator mechanism, and wherein a toy building element comprises a launch device in the form of a cavity configured for receiving the actuator mechanism, and wherein the actuator means can be inserted into a through-going slit opening to cooperate with the actuator mechanism to transfer momentum from the actuator means to the rotor, whereby the rotor can be rotated and launched from the launch device. The toy comprises at least two toy building elements, a first toy building element comprising the launch device and one or more of a first type of coupling means, and a second toy building element provided with one or more of a second types of coupling means that are geometrically configured to relative to the first type of coupling means, whereby the first and second types of coupling means can be releasably interconnected to form a spatial structure comprising the launch device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Timothy Mark Ainley, Jesper Carol Nielsen
  • Patent number: 10065128
    Abstract: A toy building set comprising a first and a second building element, wherein the first building element is provided with a first type of hinge part, and the second building element is provided with a second type of hinge part, wherein the first and second types of hinge parts are configured complementarily in such a way that the hinge parts on the first and second elements can be releasably interconnected to the effect that they form a hinged joint between the building elements, whereby the building elements can be mutually rotated about the common hinge axis defined at the hinged joint, wherein the toy building set further comprises at least one third building element comprising a third type of hinge part which is complementarily configured in such a way that the hinge parts on the first and third elements can be interconnected, whereby both the second type and the third type of hinge parts are provided with a toothing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Mikkel Schildknecht Hoè, Jan Ryaa
  • Patent number: 10016694
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of generating a digital representation of a user-defined construction element connectable to pre-manufactured toy construction elements of a toy construction system, each pre-manufactured toy construction element comprising a number of coupling elements for coupling the pre-manufactured toy construction element with one or more other pre-manufactured toy construction elements of said toy construction system, the method comprising determining one or more positions for placement of one or more coupling elements to be included in the user-defined construction element; generating, responsive to input by a user indicative of a user-defined shape, a digital representation of a user-defined construction element, the user-defined construction element comprising said one or more coupling elements at said determined one or more positions; providing the digital representation for automated production of said user-defined construction element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Erik Bach, Thomas Gjørup
  • Publication number: 20180126293
    Abstract: A toy construction system comprising a plurality of toy construction elements each comprising coupling means for releasably interconnecting the toy construction elements, one or more marker construction elements comprising such coupling means, configured to interconnect with the toy construction elements, and each having a visual appearance recognizable by an image processing system representing a distinct toy object, and a data processing system comprising a digital processor configured to process a captured image of a toy construction model to detect a position of the composite marker construction element within the captured image, and responsive to the detected position of the composite marker construction element, generate a computer-generated image. Direct or indirect interconnection of two or more of marker construction elements with each other or toy construction elements creates a composite marker construction element representing a combination of said distinct toy objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: Lego A/S
    Inventors: Siddharth MUTHYALA, Harm Jan VAN BEEK, Nicolas David Alain Guyon, Frantz Lasorne, Mikkel Holm Jensen
  • Patent number: 9901841
    Abstract: A toy building element comprising toy building elements for building a turntable, said toy building elements comprising a first type (1) which is provided with a rotation shaft and at least one second and one third type of toy building elements (5, 6), each of which can be interconnected with the first type for forming a turntable; and wherein the toy building elements are configured such that, when the first and the second type of toy building element are interconnected, a higher coupling force is accomplished than the one which is accomplished when the first and the third type of toy building element are interconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventor: Jan Ryaa
  • Patent number: 9901842
    Abstract: A toy building set comprising at least a first building element having a ball (5,10) arranged on a connecting rod on each element, and a second building element having a socket (6) arranged and adapted for receiving said ball in order to form an articulated ball and socket joint. According to the invention the building set also comprises at least one third building element having a second type of socket (9) being adapted for receiving said ball on the first building element in order to provide a snap connection between the second type of socket and the ball, and where the first building element and the third building element comprises positioning means adapted for engaging with each other when the ball (5) is received in the second type of socket (9), so as to hold the third building element in a fixed position with respect to the first building element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Christoph Rõttjer, Cerim Manovi, Christoffer Raundahl
  • Patent number: 9844734
    Abstract: The shooting toy (1) includes a shooter (5) and a projectile (4) to be ejected from the shooter. A trigger element (6) is movably mounted in a shooter body (7) and has a pusher part (10) adapted to push the projectile (4) away from its loaded position. The shooter (5) is adapted to eject the projectile (4) along a centre axis of a cylindrical surface of the projectile (4). A pinching element (8) is adapted to prevent ejection in said direction of the projectile (4) in its loaded position in the shooter body (7) by means of frictional force acting between a pinching surface of the pinching element (8) and the cylindrical surface of the projectile (4). The pinching surface is adapted to guide the cylindrical surface of the projectile (4) in the ejection direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventor: Aske Klejnstrup Garling
  • Patent number: 9833936
    Abstract: An injection-molding mold configured for being mounted in an injection-molding apparatus for automated molding of work pieces in plastics, said injection-molding mold comprising at least two separate mold parts that are separated by a mold separation face, and wherein at least one first mold part (1) is configured with an outer frame (2) in which is configured at least one space (14) which is open relative to the mold separation face, in which is mounted at least one exchangeable mold insert (3), and wherein the exchangeable mold insert (3) has a support plate (16) and the mold insert has a recess (20) into which the support plate (16) extends to the effect that the support plate (16) secures the mold insert (3) in the open space (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventor: Jens Stamp Lambæk
  • Patent number: 9827507
    Abstract: A toy construction system comprising toy construction elements, the toy construction elements comprising coupling means for releasably interconnecting the toy construction elements, comprising one or more marker construction elements comprising such coupling means and each having a visual appearance recognizable by an image processing means, and a data processing system comprising image capturing means, image processing means, and display means, wherein the data processing system is adapted to capture an image of a toy construction model constructed from the toy construction elements, to process the captured image to detect at least a presence of at least one of the marker construction elements within the captured image; responsive to the detected marker construction element, to generate a computer-generated image; and to display on said display means a composite image comprising the captured image having superimposed the generated computer-generated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Siddharth Muthyala, Harm Jan Van Beek, Nicolas David Alain Guyon, Frantz Lasorne, Mikkel Holm Jensen
  • Patent number: 9821245
    Abstract: A toy building set comprising at least two toy building elements of which the one toy building element is provided with one or more coupling means of first type, and the second toy building element is provided with one or more coupling means of second type that is/are configured to be complementary to said coupling means of first type to the effect that they can be interconnected to form a structure, wherein the second toy building element comprises a flywheel (10) which is rotatably mounted on the toy building element, wherein the flywheel comprises one or more actuator mechanisms (21); and wherein the coupling means and the complementarily configured coupling means are configured such that the second toy building element can be mounted on the first toy building element in two or more different positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Allan Westermann Larsen, Klaus Elias Nielsen, Per Frederiksen, Erik Legernes
  • Patent number: D806181
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventor: Astrid Jøns Skibsted Johannsen
  • Patent number: D830477
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventor: Kurt Jensen
  • Patent number: D845397
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventor: Michael James Cohen
  • Patent number: D845399
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventor: Sven Robin Kahl
  • Patent number: D845403
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventor: Jeffrey Alan Davies