Conjuring Assisting Toy

• US 20080274807A1
• Filed: 10/19/2007
• Published: 11/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited, Tenyo Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited, Tenyo Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Kondo, Hiroshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,187,090 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/31
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2001/008 adapted for being playable on a screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/241 Touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2457 Display screens, e.g. monitors, video displays
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2476 Speech or voice synthesisers, e.g. using a speech chip
• CPC Class Codes: A63J 21/00 Conjuring appliances; Auxiliary apparatus for conjurers

Abstract

The invention provides a conjuring assisting toy which can make a viewer feel the supernatural force and interestedness which are inherent in a conjuring trick by displaying the result of a conjuring trick through simple operations, there is provided a conjuring assisting toy including a display means for displaying an image, a coordinate inputting means for designating coordinates relative to a display area of the display means, and a central control means, wherein the central control means includes a main control unit, a conjuring data storage unit, an input analyzing unit and an operation unit, an operation result storage unit, an inputted diagram storage unit, and an image data forming and outputting unit, an inputted position signal is analyzed by the input analyzing unit, the main control unit causes position information based on the inputted position signal to be stored in the inputted diagram storage unit, causes the display means to display a line image, determines specific feature information from information stored in the conjuring data storage unit based on an input order, and causes part or the whole of the line image which is caused to be displayed on the display means to be changed to display a time-varying image.

Claims

1. A conjuring assisting toy comprising display means for displaying an image, coordinate inputting means for designating coordinates relative to a display area of the display means, and central control means, wherein

the central control means comprises a main control unit, a conjuring data storage unit, an input analyzing unit and an operation unit, an operation result storage unit, an inputted diagram storage unit, and an image data forming and outputting unit, wherein

the input analyzing unit analyzes an inputted position signal from the coordinate inputting means,

the main control unit causes position information based on the inputted position signal which is sent from the input analyzing unit to be stored in the inputted diagram storage unit, causes the display means to display a line image inputted by the coordinate inputting means by causing diagram data to be outputted from the image data forming and outputting unit based on the position information, and when the operation unit selects and determines specific feature information from the information stored in the conjuring data storage unit, causes part or the whole of the line image which is caused to be displayed on the display means by the image data forming and outputting unit to be changed to display a time-varying image or causes data to be outputted which allows a picture image or text image based on the specific feature information so determined to be added to the image which has already been displayed for display together with the image,

the conjuring data storage unit stores feature information of conjuring tools, and

the operation unit selects and determines specific feature information from the conjuring data storage unit based on drawing order information on an inputted diagram which is inputted from the coordinate inputting means and input starting position information on the inputted diagram.

2. A conjuring assisting toy as set forth in claim 1, wherein the conjuring assisting toy has speech generation means, the conjuring data storage unit has a speech data storage area, and when the operation unit determines specific feature information and changes for display part of the line image displayed on the display means, the main control unit reads out speech data which enables the contents of the specified information to be expressed by speech from the speech data storage area and causes the speech generation means to output the contents of the specified information by speech.

3. A conjuring assisting toy as set forth in claim 1, wherein the conjuring data storage unit stores as feature information graphic design data and/or character data on four suit markers and numbers one to thirteen which are provided on playing cards used as a conjuring tool.

4. A conjuring assisting toy as set forth in claim 2, wherein the conjuring data storage unit stores as feature information graphic design data and/or character data and speech data on four suit markers and numbers one to thirteen which are provided on playing cards used as a conjuring tool.

5. A conjuring assisting toy as set forth in claim 1, wherein the main control unit causes the display means to display twelve dots which are disposed in a circle less conspicuously, and the operation unit determines specific feature information based on a drawing order of a circular line drawn in the vicinity of the position of the dots and a plurality of lines drawn within the circular line, and when specific feature information is determined, the main control unit causes the image data forming and outputting unit to change among lines drawn at least a lower line which is drawn within the circle.

6. A conjuring assisting toy as set forth in claim 2, wherein the main control unit causes the display means to display twelve dots which are disposed in a circle less conspicuously, and the operation unit determines specific feature information based on a drawing order of a circular line drawn in the vicinity of the position of the dots and a plurality of lines drawn within the circular line, and when specific feature information is determined, the main control unit causes the image data forming and outputting unit to change among lines drawn at least a lower line which is drawn within the circle.

7. A conjuring assisting toy as set forth in claim 3, wherein the main control unit causes the display means to display twelve dots which are disposed in a circle less conspicuously, and the operation unit determines specific feature information based on a drawing order of a circular line drawn in the vicinity of the position of the dots and a plurality of lines drawn within the circular line, and when specific feature information is determined, the main control unit causes the image data forming and outputting unit to change among lines drawn at least a lower line which is drawn within the circle.

8. A conjuring assisting toy as set forth in claim 4, wherein the main control unit causes the display means to display twelve dots which are disposed in a circle less conspicuously, and the operation unit determines specific feature information based on a drawing order of a circular line drawn in the vicinity of the position of the dots and a plurality of lines drawn within the circular line, and when specific feature information is determined, the main control unit causes the image data forming and outputting unit to change among lines drawn at least a lower line which is drawn within the circle.

9. A conjuring assisting toy as set forth in claim 1, wherein the operation unit determines specific feature information based on a drawing order of a predetermined diagram, and when specific feature information is determined, the main control unit picks up feature information on a specified conjuring tool from the conjuring data storage unit and causes the image data forming and outputting unit to display an image or test based on feature information of the specified conjuring tool within a frame of the predetermined diagram.

10. A conjuring assisting toy as set forth in claim 2, wherein the operation unit determines specific feature information based on a drawing order of a predetermined diagram, and when specific feature information is determined, the main control unit picks up feature information on a specified conjuring tool from the conjuring data storage unit and causes the image data forming and outputting unit to display an image or test based on feature information of the specified conjuring tool within a frame of the predetermined diagram.

11. A conjuring assisting toy as set forth in claim 3, wherein the operation unit determines specific feature information based on a drawing order of a predetermined diagram, and when specific feature information is determined, the main control unit picks up feature information on a specified conjuring tool from the conjuring data storage unit and causes the image data forming and outputting unit to display an image or test based on feature information of the specified conjuring tool within a frame of the predetermined diagram.

12. A conjuring assisting toy as set forth in claim 9, wherein the conjuring data storage unit stores therein graphic design data of playing cards which constitutes conjuring tools and graphic design data of face graphic design data of each of the playing card as feature information, the operation unit determines a specific playing card based on a drawing order of a diagram drawn into a rectangle, and when a specific playing card is determined, the main control unit causes the image data forming and outputting unit to display a face of the playing card so specified within a frame of the diagram.

13. A conjuring assisting toy as set forth in claim 10, wherein the conjuring data storage unit stores therein graphic design data of playing cards which constitutes conjuring tools and graphic design data of face graphic design data of each of the playing card as feature information, the operation unit determines a specific playing card based on a drawing order of a diagram drawn into a rectangle, and when a specific playing card is determined, the main control unit causes the image data forming and outputting unit to display a face of the playing card so specified within a frame of the diagram.

14. A conjuring assisting toy as set forth in claim 11, wherein the conjuring data storage unit stores therein graphic design data of playing cards which constitutes conjuring tools and graphic design data of face graphic design data of each of the playing card as feature information, the operation unit determines a specific playing card based on a drawing order of a diagram drawn into a rectangle, and when a specific playing card is determined, the main control unit causes the image data forming and outputting unit to display a face of the playing card so specified within a frame of the diagram.

15. A conjuring assisting toy as set forth in claim 1, wherein the conjuring data storage unit stores therein graphic design data of a face graphic design of each of playing cards which constitutes conjuring tools as feature information, the operation unit determines a specific playing card by a marker and a number which are drawn inside a rectangle after the rectangle has been drawn on the display means, and when a specified playing card is determined, the main control unit causes a face image of the specific playing card which is determined in the operation unit to be written to be added to a diagram which has already been drawn by the image data forming and outputting unit.

16. A conjuring assisting toy as set forth in claim 2, wherein the conjuring data storage unit stores therein graphic design data of a face graphic design of each of playing cards which constitutes conjuring tools as feature information, the operation unit determines a specific playing card by a marker and a number which are drawn inside a rectangle after the rectangle has been drawn on the display means, and when a specified playing card is determined, the main control unit causes a face image of the specific playing card which is determined in the operation unit to be written to be added to a diagram which has already been drawn by the image data forming and outputting unit.

17. A conjuring assisting toy as set forth in claim 3, wherein the conjuring data storage unit stores therein graphic design data of a face graphic design of each of playing cards which constitutes conjuring tools as feature information, the operation unit determines a specific playing card by a marker and a number which are drawn inside a rectangle after the rectangle has been drawn on the display means, and when a specified playing card is determined, the main control unit causes a face image of the specific playing card which is determined in the operation unit to be written to be added to a diagram which has already been drawn by the image data forming and outputting unit.