Patent ID: 7938928

Claim:
A method for the reproduction of images using glass, plastic or ceramic pixels, where the initial image is obtained from a photograph taken with a digital camera or scanned using an appropriate device, the image being composed of a number of individual colored pixels of a general cubic shape, the method comprising the following operations: a) in a preliminary operation, applying to the digitalized image a software program that makes it possible to cut, retouch and modify the photograph until it can be separated into an appropriate number of pixels and which provides for the optimization of the color data to reduce the number of colors below a certain value, and the storing of said information to constitute a base imager; b) preparing a database with the above information so that the identification of the color and the position of each pixel that makes up the base image are established, where all this information is stored in a file that can be subsequently read, ordered by rows and columns in the same order in which they are to be extracted later; c) generating and transmitting instructions from the computer that contains the operative programs to the devices responsible for supplying the colored pixels; in which said method further includes: d) supplying each colored pixel in order for the successive formation of each row of pixels that are to make up the image, for which purpose the pixels are expelled from the corresponding column and sequentially fed onto a conveyor belt for being transported such that at the end of the travel they come up against a stop and from this position they cannot continue to move and remain in said position and the conveyor belt slides relative to the pixels with the pixels arranged against each other and against said stop in order in the final positions that correspond to them in accordance with the row being formed; e) once each row of pixels has been formed by the supply of one pixel after another, displacing the complete row to the position it occupies in the image being formed, in a final position adjacent to the last row moved, where all the rows are positioned on a support; and f) once the image has been completed by the accumulation of successive rows on the support, effecting a final binding-together of the pixels that make up the image on said support and/or to each other.