Multi-processor support for array imagers
AssigneeGoogle Technology Holdings LLC
InventorsJohn T. Bretscher, Randall S. Vaas
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Abstract
Using the techniques discussed herein, a set of images is captured by one or more array imagers (106). Each array imager includes multiple imagers configured in various manners. Each array imager captures multiple images of substantially a same scene at substantially a same time. The images captured by each array image are encoded by multiple processors (112, 114). Each processor can encode sets of images captured by a different array imager, or each processor can encode different sets of images captured by the same array imager. The encoding of the images is performed using various image-compression techniques so that the information that results from the encoding is smaller, in terms of storage size, than the uncompressed images.
Claims20
A smartphone, comprising:
- at least one non-transitory computer-readable media to store instructions;
- one or more processors;
- a display;
- and
- an array imager including a plurality of image sensors,
- wherein
- a first image sensor among the plurality of image sensors is configured to capture a first plurality of images that depict substantially a same scene at substantially a same time, and
- a second image sensor among the plurality of image sensors is configured to capture a second plurality of images that depict substantially the same scene at substantially the same time, and
- the one or more processors are configured to execute the instructions to:
- obtain the first plurality of images and the second plurality of images,
- perform a first encoding task, via a first core from among the one or more processors, with respect to a first subset of images among the first plurality of images and a first subset of images among the second plurality of images, and
- perform a second encoding task, via a second core from among the one or more processors, with respect to a second subset of images among the first plurality of images and a second subset of images among the second plurality of images.
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