Patent ID: 8882559

Claim:
A method of providing display information for a remote controlled toy, comprising: configuring a tablet computer having a camera and a plurality of motion sensors to allow for remote controlling of a remote control toy in an environment using the motion sensors; configuring the tablet computer to use the camera of the tablet computer to acquire an image that includes an image portion comprising the toy and an image portion of the environment while the toy is being controlled by a user moving the tablet computer, wherein the environment in the image portion of the environment is selected from the group consisting of a wall, a floor, a ceiling, a staircase, an opening in a wall, and a doorway; configuring the tablet computer to process the acquired image to (1) acquire from the image portion of the environment a spatial parameter representative of spatial constraint information of the actual environment, (2) generate an adjusted virtual environment using the acquired parameter from the image portion of the environment, wherein the adjusted virtual environment is generated based on the spatial parameter representative of spatial constraint information of the actual environment; (3) replace the image portion of the environment with the adjusted virtual environment; (4) produce a composite output image that is formed from the image portion of the toy and the adjusted virtual environment such that the image portion of the environment in the composite output image is replaced by the adjusted virtual environment and such that the composite output image displays the image portion comprising the toy within the adjusted virtual environment; and displaying the composite output image on a display of the tablet computer.