TW201811407A - System for replacing surface patterns of magic cube and magic cube thereof capable of downloading a pattern through a mobile device to replace the surface pattern of a magic cube - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a system for replacing surface patterns of magic cubes, which comprises a user device and an internal circuit of magic cube. The magic cube or user device is provided with a pattern database or pattern folder, which is configured for an user to select at least one pattern or at least one magic cube surface from the pattern database or the pattern folder. The internal circuit is disposed inside the magic cube and is configured to replace the selected at least one magic cube surface with the selected at least one pattern.

Description

   System for transforming surface pattern of magic cube and magic cube thereof   

The present invention relates to a magic cube, and more particularly, the present invention relates to a system for changing the surface pattern of a magic cube and its magic cube.

Since Rubik, a Hungarian architecture professor, invented the magic cube in the 1970s, the magic cube has become a popular educational mechanical toy. Many parents and parents use magic cubes to train children's memory, observation, and imagination. For a third-order magic block, its structure includes a core block, 6 center blocks, 12 edge blocks, and 8 corner blocks to form six faces. When they are combined together, each part will pinch each other and will not spread out, and any side can be rotated horizontally without affecting other blocks.

In recent years, in order to increase the entertainment of Magic Cubes, the developers of Magic Cubes have made every effort to increase the visual effects and freedom of Magic Cube games. For example, a light-emitting diode (LED) is added to a magic cube, so that when a user rotates the magic cube in a dark environment, the six different color blocks on the surface of the magic cube can be clearly identified, thereby improving the visual effect of the magic cube game. Some magic cube manufacturers will design a variety of different surface patterns. The outer surface of each outer block of the magic cube is pasted with a puzzle, and the outer surface of the outer block of any magic cube is pasted to form a complete puzzle. Surface pattern for users to turn the magic cube to try to recover the magic cube and complete the puzzle. In addition, the puzzle is fixed to the surface of the magic cube with self-adhesive (or self-adhesive), so that the surface pattern of the magic cube can be changed at any time, so that the magic cube's gameplay shows diversity, increasing knowledge and freedom , Can also have the function of carrying ads.

However, today's magic cube devices do not provide a technology that allows users to download the surface pattern to the magic cube by themselves through a mobile device such as a mobile phone, thereby replacing the surface pattern of the magic cube. The user manually tears or pastes the surface pattern to the magic cube, which is not only time-consuming and laborious, but also leaves dirt on the surface of the magic cube.

For this reason, the applicant proposes a magic cube, which can provide users to download patterns to the magic cube by themselves through a mobile device, such as a mobile phone, so as to change the surface pattern of the magic cube.

An object of the present invention is to provide a system for transforming the surface pattern of a magic box, which includes a user device for the user to send a pattern to the magic box after the user selects a pattern from the network through the user device, thereby replacing the magic box. Surface pattern of squares.

According to one aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides a system for transforming the surface pattern of a magic cube, which includes: a user device and a magic box, wherein the user device has a pattern clip and the magic box has an interior A circuit, wherein the user device is configured to select at least one pattern in the pattern clip and select at least one magic square surface via a user input, and transmit the selected at least one pattern and a command representing the selected at least one magic square surface Go out. The internal circuit is arranged inside the magic block, and is set to receive the selected at least one pattern and the command, and according to the command, change the pattern on the surface of the selected at least one magic block.

Preferably, the user device can display the surface pattern change of the magic cube in synchronization with the magic cube. In addition, the user device allows the user to input a self-designed surface pattern to customize the surface pattern of the magic cube.

11‧‧‧magic cube

110C‧‧‧Core Block

101U, 110D, 110F, 110B, 110L, 110R‧‧‧Center blocks

102‧‧‧Side Block

103‧‧‧ Corner Block

12‧‧‧ Internal Circuit

121‧‧‧Wireless communication module

122‧‧‧Processing Module

123‧‧‧Display Module

301‧‧‧Server

302‧‧‧user device

303‧‧‧Internet

311‧‧‧ communication interface

312‧‧‧processing unit

313‧‧‧Pattern Database

321‧‧‧ communication interface

322‧‧‧Processing device

323‧‧‧Memory device

324‧‧‧Magic Block Pattern Transformation Module

325‧‧‧Magic cube display module

326‧‧‧Magic Box Pattern Custom Module

14A, 14B, 14C, 14B ’, 14C’‧‧‧Surface pattern

Fig. 1 shows the three-dimensional appearance of a preferred embodiment of the magic block of the present invention; Fig. 2 shows the structure diagram of the core block and the center block of the magic block of Fig. 1; A system block diagram of another embodiment of the surface pattern system; and FIGS. 4A to 4C show a preferred embodiment of the surface pattern change process of the magic block after the system of the present invention is applied.

Please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, wherein FIG. 1 shows a three-dimensional appearance view of a preferred embodiment of the magic block of the present invention, and FIG. 2 shows a structural diagram of a core block and a center block of the magic block of FIG. 1. . As shown in FIG. 1, in this embodiment, the magic block 11 is a third-order magic block, which includes 26 rotatable blocks and a core block 110C (shown in FIG. 2). The rotatable block of Magic Block 11 contains 6 center blocks (110U, 110D, 110F, 110B, 110L, 110R), which are located adjacent to the core block 110C above, below, front, back, left and right, respectively. , As shown in Figure 2. The rotatable block of the magic block 11 further includes 12 side blocks 102, wherein each two side blocks 102 are adjacent to the center block. The rotatable block of the magic block 11 further includes eight corner blocks 103, which are located on eight corners of the magic block body 11, wherein each two corner blocks 103 are adjacent to one side block 102. The center block (101U, 110D, 110F, 110B, 110L, 110R), the edge block 102, and the corner block 103 are connected to each other. The magic block of the present invention further includes an internal circuit 12 and a display device 123, which are disposed inside the magic block 11. The aforementioned magic block structure is not limited to the aforementioned aspect. The magic cube generally has six faces. However, in this embodiment, only three of the six faces can be displayed due to the display angle. In the first figure, the upper surface, the front surface, and the right side of the magic cube 11 are set to display a surface pattern 13A, 13B, 13C, respectively, for the user to turn the magic cube to spell the surface pattern. The surface patterns 13A-13C are displayed on the surface of the magic block 11 by the display module 123 (shown in FIG. 3).

Please refer to FIG. 3, which shows a system block diagram of a preferred embodiment of a system for transforming the surface pattern of a magic cube. As shown in FIG. 3, the system for transforming the surface pattern of the magic cube of the present invention generally includes a server 301 and a user device 302. The user device 302 may be a mobile device, including a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, or a fixed device, such as a desktop computer, a workstation, or the like. The system further includes an internal circuit 12 of the magic block 11. The server 301 generally has a communication interface 311, a processing unit 312, and a pattern database 313. The server 301 is configured to be connected to the user device 302 via a network 303, and the server 301 is connected to the network 303 via a communication interface 311. The pattern database 313 mainly stores a large amount of pattern data, which includes pattern data built in the system and pattern data uploaded by a certified user. Preferably, the pattern database 313 is stored in a memory device (not shown). The processing unit 312 is connected to the communication interface 311 for processing a download request from the user device 302 and management of the pattern database 313. The server 301 may generally be a network server, a file server, a mail server, a database server, an FTP server, a proxy server, or the like.

The user device 302 includes a communication interface 321 configured to perform communication between the user device 302 and an external device. The user device 302 further includes a processing device 322 configured to manage the network communication between the user device 302 and the server 301 and the wireless transmission between the user device 302 and the internal circuit 12 of the magic block 11. The user device 302 further includes a memory device 323 connected to the processing device 322, which is configured to store an application program and store the patterns downloaded from the pattern database 313 of the server 301 via a connection with the network 303 into a pattern folder ( Not shown). The user device 302 further includes a magic square pattern conversion module 324, a magic square display module 325, and a magic square pattern customization module 326. The internal circuit 12 of the magic block 11 further includes a wireless communication module 121 and a processing module 122. The display module 123 may include a plurality of display panels, and each display panel is separated from each other and corresponds to a surface of the magic block 11. The processing module 122 is configured to process the rotation data of the magic block 11 and manage the surface pattern of the magic block 11. The rotation data here represents the angular acceleration, position, and three-axis acceleration information of the rotation of the magic cube detected by a rotation sensing module (not shown) inside the magic cube 11. The wireless communication module 121 is configured to transmit the processed rotation data output by the processing module 122 to the user device 302 via the wireless communication method, thereby enabling the magic cube display module 325 to synchronize the image and game process of the magic cube. .

The user can input instructions through an input / output interface (not shown) of the user device 302 to change the magic cube to create a pattern clip so as to change the surface pattern of the magic cube 11. After the magic square pattern conversion module 324 is activated, the user may enter an instruction to request the selected pattern to be downloaded from the server 301 to create a pattern folder. Therefore, the processing device 322 is driven to send a download request to the communication interface 321, and sends the download request to the server 301 through the network 303 via the communication interface 321. After receiving the download request, the communication interface 311 of the server 301 transmits the download request to the processing unit 312 for processing. In response to the download request, the processing unit 312 extracts the pattern selected by the user from the pattern database 313 and returns it to the user device 302 via the network 303. The downloaded pattern is stored in the memory device 323 into a pattern folder (not shown).

After the pattern clip is completed, the user can input instructions through the magic square pattern conversion module 324 to select at least one pattern to be replaced from the pattern clip and at least one magic square surface of the surface pattern to be replaced. After the user selects the surface of the magic square to change the surface pattern and selects the pattern to be changed from the pattern folder, the command of the selected pattern and the surface of the magic square representing the surface pattern to be replaced will pass the communication interface 321 to The wireless communication method is transmitted to the internal circuit 12 of the magic block 11 and received by the wireless communication module 121. Accordingly, in response to the received command, the processing module 122 drives the display module 123 to convert the displayed surface pattern into a pattern desired by the user.

In addition, the magic cube display module 325 interprets the processed rotation data transmitted from the internal circuit 12 of the magic cube 11, thereby simultaneously displaying the image of the magic cube and the game process on the user device 302. As described above, when the processing module 122 is driven and the surface pattern displayed by the display module 123 is changed to a pattern desired by the user, the magic cube display module 325 will simultaneously display the surface pattern of the magic cube 11 change. In addition, the user device 302 further includes a magic square pattern customization module 326, which is set to allow the user to input a pattern designed by himself, thereby customizing the surface pattern of the magic square 11.

In another embodiment, the server 301 may be selective. In the absence of the server 301, the pattern database 313 is built in the memory device 323 of the user device 302, instead of being built in the server 301 to connect to the server 301 via the network 303 to download the pattern in order to Create a pattern clip.

In another embodiment, the pattern database 313 is built in the internal circuit 12 of the magic block 11, instead of being built in the memory device 323 of the user device 302 as in the previous embodiment.

Please refer to FIG. 4A to FIG. 4C. In FIG. 4A, the upper surface, the front surface, and the right side of the magic cube respectively present surface patterns 14A, 14B, and 14C through the display module 123 shown in FIG. By using the system for transforming the surface pattern of the magic cube of the present invention, the surface pattern of any surface of the magic cube can be transformed. For example, the user may choose to change the surface pattern 14B of the front surface of the magic square in FIG. 4A to 14B ', as shown in FIG. 4B. Alternatively, the user may choose to change the surface pattern 14C on the right side of the magic square in FIG. 4B to 14C ′, as shown in FIG. 4C.

To sum up, the system for transforming the surface pattern of the magic cube proposed by the present invention can download a desired pattern through a user device through a network connection, and save the downloaded pattern as a pattern folder, borrow Makes it easy to use the surface pattern on any surface of the transform magic cube in the pattern clip. Alternatively, the user can input the surface pattern designed by the user to customize the surface pattern of the magic cube. Therefore, the present invention does not need to tear and paste the surface patterns manually as in the prior art, thereby increasing the plasticity and freedom of the magic cube game.

The foregoing are merely preferred embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of implementation of the present invention. Therefore, all equal changes or modifications made according to the features and spirit described in the scope of the application of the present invention shall be included in the scope of patent application of the present invention.

Claims (10)

    A magic block includes: a display module including a plurality of display panels, each display panel being independent of each other and disposed on a surface of the magic block; and an internal circuit including: a pattern database including at least one A pattern; and a processing module connected to the display module and configured to drive the display module to transform at least one pattern on the surface of a magic square with at least one pattern in the pattern database.         The magic block described in item 1 of the patent application scope, wherein the internal circuit includes a wireless communication module configured to receive a command from a user device, and the processing module drives the display module in response to the command. The group transforms the pattern on the surface of the at least one magic square with at least one pattern in the pattern database.         A system for transforming the surface pattern of a magic cube, comprising: a user device having a pattern clip, set to select at least one pattern in the pattern clip by a user and selecting at least one surface of the magic cube, and The selected at least one pattern and a command representing the surface of the selected at least one magic block are transmitted; and a magic block having an internal circuit disposed inside the magic block and set to receive the selected at least one pattern And the command, and corresponding to the selected at least one pattern, the pattern of the surface of the at least one magic square is changed.         The system for transforming the surface pattern of a magic cube as described in item 3 of the scope of patent application, wherein the user device includes a mobile phone, a tablet computer, or a notebook computer.         The system for transforming the surface pattern of a magic cube as described in item 3 of the scope of the patent application, further includes: a server including a pattern database; wherein the user device is connected to the server via a network, And set to select a desired pattern in the pattern database of the server through a user input, thereby connecting the server through the network to download the desired pattern in the pattern database to the The user device to create the pattern clip.         The system for transforming the surface pattern of a magic cube according to item 5 of the scope of the patent application, wherein the user device includes: a magic cube display module configured to synchronously display the image and game process of the magic cube; and The magic square pattern conversion module is set for the user to select a desired pattern in the pattern database of the server, thereby downloading the desired pattern in the pattern database from the server through the network connection. A desired pattern to create the pattern clip and for the user to select the surface of the at least one magic square.         The system for transforming the surface pattern of a magic cube as described in item 6 of the scope of the patent application, wherein the user device further includes a custom module of the magic cube pattern, which is set for the user to input the design surface pattern, and borrow This customizes the surface pattern of the magic cube.         The system for transforming a surface pattern of a magic cube according to item 3 of the scope of patent application, wherein the internal circuit includes: a wireless communication module configured to receive the at least one pattern and the command by wireless communication; and The processing module is connected to the wireless communication module and is set to manage the surface pattern of the magic block, thereby changing the pattern of at least one surface of the magic block in response to the command.         The system for transforming the surface pattern of a magic cube as described in item 8 of the scope of patent application, wherein the system further includes: a display module, which is arranged inside the magic cube and connected to the processing module, and is set to display the The surface pattern of the magic cube, wherein the display module includes a plurality of display panels, and each display panel is independent of each other and disposed on a surface of the magic cube.         A magic block includes: a display module configured to display a surface pattern on at least one surface of the magic block; and an internal circuit including: a wireless communication module configured to communicate wirelessly Receiving at least one pattern and a command representing the surface of at least one magic square from a user device; and a processing module connected to the display module and the wireless communication module and configured to drive the display module in response to a command Transform the pattern on the surface of the at least one magic square with the received at least one pattern.