Patent ID: 8216036
Filing Date: 2012-07-10
Classification: A63H

Abstract:
1. An entertainment system comprising a remotely controlled toy and an entertainment device operable to communicate using a data communications link with the remotely controlled toy: the remotely controlled toy having a video camera operable to capture video images of a real environment, the remotely controlled toy comprising: a controller operable to control behaviour of the remotely controlled toy; and a control data receiver operable to receive, via the data communications link, the control data generated by the entertainment device, in which the controller is operable to modify the behaviour of the remotely controlled toy in dependence upon the control data received from the entertainment device; and the entertainment device comprising: a transmitter operable to transmit, via the data communications link, control data to the remotely controlled toy that relates to the control of the remotely controlled toy; a receiver operable to receive, from the data communications link, video images captured by the video camera of the remotely controlled toy; a detector operable to detect a real environment feature within the real environment; a processor operable to generate a virtual image feature comprising a computer generated object in dependence upon the detected real environment feature; and a display arrangement operable to generate a combined display of the captured video images and the virtual image feature such that the virtual image feature is arranged and displayed together with the received video images so that the display position of the virtual image feature corresponds to the position of the real environment feature within the received video images.