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Drawing toy with stylus detection

Inactive Publication Date: 2014-01-09
VTECH ELECTRONICS
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This patent describes a new invention, which is a method, system, and device designed to solve certain problems. The technical effects of the invention include improving efficiency, reducing costs, and enhancing performance. These technical effects can be understood more fully by reading the details of the patent and drawing upon the advantages and innovation provided by the invention.

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However, such a magnetic doodle, drawing toy provides limited educational value and may have limited success in retaining a child's interest since such a toy is unable to provide the child with feedback about the objects on the stencils.
In particular, a child may lose interest in drawing with such stencils if they do not understand what is depicted on such stencils.
Although such a drawing toy may provide more educational value and achieve more success in retaining the child's interest, such a drawing toy is still limited due to the toys lack of ability to interact with the child while the child is tracing along the trace paths of a stencil.

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[0015]Various embodiments of a magnetic doodle, drawing toy are described herein by way of example and not by way of limitation in the accompanying figures. For clarity of illustration, exemplary elements illustrated in the figures may not necessarily be drawn to scale. In this regard, for example, the dimensions of some of the elements may be exaggerated relative to other elements. Furthermore, where considered appropriate, reference labels have been repeated among the figures to indicate corresponding or analogous elements.

[0016]Moreover, certain embodiments may be implemented as a plurality of instructions on a tangible, computer readable storage device such as, for example, flash memory devices, hard disk devices, compact disc media, DVD media, EEPROMs, etc. Such instruction when executed by a magnetic doodle, drawing toy or another computing device, may result in appropriate feedback in response to a child placing a stylus proximate to various areas of a drawing surface and / or ...

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Abstract

A drawing toy and associated methods and computer-readable storage devices are disclosed. The drawing toy may comprise a stylus having a tip, a drawing surface configured to produce a visual path that follows a path of the tip along the drawing surface, and a plurality of stencils, each stencil comprising a plurality of designated areas and a plurality of trace paths. A controller of the drawing toy may identify a stencil placed upon the drawing surface, determine that a particular designated area of the placed stencil is proximate the stylus tip, and generate an output signal configured to cause a user perceivable output associated with the particular designated area determined to be proximate the stylus tip.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to a toy and, more particularly, to a drawing toy having a drawing surface and a stylus.BACKGROUND OF INVENTION[0002]Magnetic doodle, drawing toys are popular drawing toys because such drawing toys are clean, easily erasable, and inexpensive. With a magnetic stylus, a child may draw or write on the drawing surface leaving no mess of crayons, markers, paints, etc. A child may also easily erase the drawing surface by sliding the magnetic eraser and begin another drawing or writing over and over. An example of such a magnetic doodle is described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,143,472, entitled “Displaying Magnetic Panel And Its Displaying Device.”[0003]Another example of a magnetic doodle, drawing toy includes one or more stencils. The stencils serve as guides to assist a child, particularly a young child whose drawing or handwriting skills are yet to be developed. The stencils may contain a rich variety of objects, from simple dots, lines ...

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IPC IPC(8): G09B11/04
CPCG09B11/00G09B5/02G09B5/06G09B19/00
Inventor TSUI, ANTHONY M.F.
Owner VTECH ELECTRONICS