US 12,357,905 B2
Play systems for ambient spaces with video controllers
Kenneth J. Huebner, Milwaukee, WI (US)
Filed by Kenneth J. Huebner, Milwaukee, WI (US)
Filed on Mar. 8, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/180,470.
Prior Publication US 2024/0299840 A1, Sep. 12, 2024
Int. Cl. A63F 13/24 (2014.01); A63F 13/211 (2014.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01)
CPC A63F 13/211 (2014.09) [A63F 13/24 (2014.09); G06F 3/017 (2013.01)] 29 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A first controller device for a play system, the first controller device comprising:
a first housing, comprising:
a first object connector disposed on the first housing such that the first controller device is configured to be attached to or at least partially contained in a first arbitrary physical object within a 3D ambient space of the play system;
a first control unit coupled to the first housing, wherein the first control unit is configured to execute computer instructions;
a first motion module operatively coupled to the first control unit;
a first communication module operatively coupled to the first control unit;
a first memory operatively coupled to the first control unit, comprising:
a first relocatable translator, wherein the first memory is configured with computer instructions that, when executed by the first control unit, cause the first controller device to perform first operations comprising:
operating, via the first relocatable translator, such that the first controller device is enabled to be arbitrarily relocatable in the 3D ambient space of the play system, wherein the first controller device is enabled to be attached to or at least partially contained in the first arbitrary physical object at an arbitrary location, and an arbitrary orientation, relative to the first arbitrary physical object in the 3D ambient space, and the first controller device is enabled to be arbitrarily located and arbitrarily oriented in the 3D ambient space that is movable in a 3D real-world space;
detecting, via the first motion module, a first orientation of the first controller device within the 3D ambient space;
transmitting, via the first communication module, a first control data, comprising information of the first orientation, to a display appliance within the 3D ambient space; and
at least in part controlling, via the first communication module of the first controller device, a first virtual object on the display appliance such that a second orientation, of the first virtual object on the display appliance, is based at least in part on the first orientation of the first controller device within the 3D ambient space of the play system.