Portable handheld device with multi-core image processor
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorKia Silverbrook
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Abstract
A portable handheld device includes an image sensor for capturing an image; an image sensor interface for receiving data from the image sensor; a DRAM for storing the data received by the image sensor interface; an image processor for storing the image the DRAM, the image processor including a plurality of micro-coded processing units; a central processor for instructing the image processor; and an orientation sensor for sensing a rotation of the protable handheld device at a time of sensing the image. The central processor is configured to load the plurality of micro-coded processing units of the image processor with micro-code for performing an affine transform of the data in the DRAM to rotate the data in the DRAM by a rotation corresponding to the rotation sensed by the orientation sensor.
Claims16
A device comprising:
- an image sensor configured for capturing an image;
- a second image sensor configured for capturing a second image;
- an image sensor interface configured for receiving data associated with the image from the image sensor;
- a second image sensor interface separate from the image sensor interface and configured for receiving data associated with the second image from the second image sensor;
- a memory configured for storing the data associated with the image;
- an image processor configured for processing the data associated with the image stored at the memory, the image processor including the image sensor interface and a plurality of processing units;
- a central processor configured for instructing the plurality of processing units;
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- an orientation sensor configured for sensing a rotation of the device at a time of sensing the image, wherein:
- the central processor is configured to load the plurality of processing units of the image processor with code for performing image processing of the data associated with the image;
- the image sensor interface, the second image sensor interface and the image processor are integrated as a system-on-chip device;
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- the memory is provided external to the system-on-chip device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.