Patent ID: 9498721
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: A63F,G06K,G06T

Claim Text:
1. A system for extracting an image of a physical object constructed of bricks, the system comprising: a controller; a digital imaging device coupled to the controller and configured to provide a digital image of the physical object placed on a background; a background detector unit coupled to the controller and configured to detect boundaries and edges of the background in the digital image; a brick identifier unit coupled to the controller and configured to discern bricks in the digital image as part of the physical object's image, the discerned bricks forming the extracted image; and a comparison unit coupled to the controller and a datastore containing a database having records describing predetermined shapes, wherein the comparison unit is configured to compare the extracted image to a corresponding shape among the predetermined shapes; wherein the controller selects the corresponding shape and presents the shape on a display unit along with an instruction to a user to construct the displayed shape from the bricks, so as to create the physical object.