Sensor device and method for operating a sensor device

A method for operating a sensor device, the method comprising:

• generating event data with a pixel array of a vision sensor, the pixel array having a plurality of event detection pixels each being configured to receive light and to perform photoelectric conversion to generate the event data based on the received light, which event data indicate as an event the occurrence of an intensity change of the light above an event detection threshold;
• determining, with a control unit of the sensor device, a compression scheme out of a plurality of different compression schemes, which compression scheme is to be used by an encoding unit of the sensor device;
• compressing the event data provided from the pixel array with the encoding unit by using the determined compression scheme;
• transmitting the compressed event data from the encoding unit to a processing unit;
• carrying out predetermined processing on the compressed event data with the processing unit;
• and
• providing feedback information about the results of the predetermined processing from the processing unit to the control unit;
• wherein
• the control unit is configured to use the feedback information to determine the compression scheme to be used.