Patent ID: 8894461

Claim:
A system for interactive toys comprising: an object comprising: a visible characteristic, said characteristic having a predefined association to a instruction from among a set of instructions; and a housing for a toy, said housing to hold: an imager, said imager to capture an image, said image including said object; a memory, said memory to store said instruction, said set of instructions and said association between said visible characteristic and said instruction; an output device, said output device suitable to output a response associated with said instruction; and a processor, said processor to: detect said object in said image; identify in said memory said instruction associated with said visible characteristic; and issue a signal to said output device to output said response; wherein said object is a wearable marker to be worn on a player, and wherein said image is a first image, and said imager is suitable to capture a second image of said object, and said processor is to measure a change in a position of said object between said first image and said second image.