公开(公告)号：US09429940B2

公开(公告)日：2016-08-30

申请号：US14691349

申请日：2015-04-20

Applicant: Sphero, Inc.

Inventor： Ian H. Bernstein ,  Adam Wilson ,  Chun Kong ,  Ross MacGregor ,  Damon Arniotes

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  A63H30/04 ,  A63H33/00 ,  A63H33/26 ,  G05D1/02

CPC classification number: G05D1/0022 ,  A63H30/04 ,  A63H33/005 ,  A63H33/26 ,  B60R11/00 ,  B60R2011/007 ,  B62D39/00 ,  B62D61/00 ,  G05D1/0016 ,  G05D1/027 ,  G05D2201/0214 ,  Y10S901/01

Abstract: A self-propelled device includes a spherical housing and an internal drive system including one or more motors. The internal drive system acts to provide power to an interior surface of the spherical housing, thereby causing the self-propelled device to move. A biasing assembly can be included to enable the internal drive system to continuously engage an inner surface of the spherical housing. An external accessory magnetically interacts with interior magnetic components through the spherical housing such that as the self-propelled device rotates and maneuvers, the accessory component maintains a positional relationship to a top portion of the self-propelled device.

公开(公告)号：US20180089699A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-29

申请号：US15712986

申请日：2017-09-22

Applicant: Sphero, Inc.

Inventor： Damon Arniotes ,  Ian Bernstein ,  David Hygh ,  Jonathan Carroll ,  Kevin Menzie ,  Anya Grechka ,  Isaac Squires

IPC: G06Q30/02 ,  G09F3/00 ,  G06F11/34 ,  G06F17/30

CPC classification number: G06Q30/02 ,  G06F11/3438 ,  G06F16/955 ,  G09F3/0297

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and method for providing a managed user experience for consumer products. A base station may detect a tag associated with a consumer product, which may be used to retrieve a managed user experience cached locally, or stored at a remote device associated with an experience provider. The managed user experience may include gameplay, content, and/or instructions to perform specified functionality. In an example, content and/or instructions may be transmitted to the consumer product and/or one or more intermediary devices in order to generate the managed user experience. In some examples, information may be received from the consumer product by way of the tag and used to provide the managed user experience. In other examples, the tag may be retrieve and/or provide aspects of a managed user experience from an experience provider without use of the base station or intermediary device.

公开(公告)号：US20170189803A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-06

申请号：US15253785

申请日：2016-08-31

Applicant: Sphero, Inc.

Inventor： James Atwell ,  Jeffrey Wiencrot ,  Jonathan Carroll ,  Damon Arniotes

IPC: A63F13/28 ,  A63F13/32 ,  A63F13/21

CPC classification number: G06F3/017 ,  A63F13/21 ,  A63F13/211 ,  A63F13/212 ,  A63F13/235 ,  A63F13/28 ,  A63F13/32 ,  A63F2300/405 ,  A63F2300/8082 ,  A63H17/26 ,  A63H23/04 ,  A63H27/00 ,  A63H27/12 ,  A63H30/04 ,  A63H33/005 ,  G05D1/0016 ,  G05D2201/0214 ,  G06F1/163 ,  G06F1/1694 ,  G06F3/016 ,  G06F3/02 ,  G06F3/0346 ,  G06F3/038 ,  G06F3/0485 ,  G06F3/04883 ,  G06F3/167 ,  G08B7/06 ,  G08C17/02 ,  G08C2201/32 ,  G08C2201/92 ,  H04L12/2803 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W8/005 ,  H04W84/18

Abstract: A wearable device can be worn by a user, and can include a mode selector, one or more sensors, a signal detector to detect wireless signals, a feedback mechanism comprising at least one of a haptic system, an audio system, or a visual system and providing feedback outputs. The wearable device can also include a controller that can initiate a selected mode from a plurality of modes on the wearable device, where the selected mode causing the controller to execute a real-world game. In accordance with the selected mode, the controller can interpret sensor data from the one or more sensors and inputs from the signal detector, where the sensor data corresponds to a series of actions performed by the user utilizing the wearable device. Based the interpretations, the controller can generate feedback responses via a feedback mechanism.