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US 2020/0252578 A1Published application
Digital ledger camera and image functions
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorDamjan STAMCAR
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Abstract
A camera module includes an imaging sensor that outputs raw image sensor data representative of a scene and an imaging logic engine that processes the raw image sensor data into image data in a predetermined image format. The imaging logic engine carries out a hash function to generate a hash of the image data and adds a genesis block of a digital ledger as part of the image data so that the genesis block is part of the image data in an image file output by the camera module, the genesis block containing the hash.
Claims15
A camera module, comprising:
- an imaging sensor configured to output raw image sensor data representative of a scene;
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- an imaging logic engine configured to process the raw image sensor data into image data in a predetermined image format and carry out a hash function to generate a hash of the image data, the imaging logic engine further configured to add a genesis block of a digital ledger as part of the image data so that the genesis block is part of the image data in an image file output by the camera module, the genesis block comprising the hash.
A method of generating an image file, comprising:
- imaging a scene with an imaging sensor of a camera module and outputting raw image sensor data representative of the scene from the image sensor to an imaging logic engine of the camera module;
- processing, with the imaging logic engine, the raw image sensor data into image data in a predetermined image format;
- applying, with the imaging logic engine, a hash function to the image data to generate a hash of the image data;
- adding, with the imaging logic engine, a genesis block of a digital ledger as part of the image data so that the genesis block is part of the image data in an image file, the genesis block comprising the hash;
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- outputting the image file from the camera module to a control circuit for storage in persistent memory or for transmission to a remote electronic device via a communications medium.
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