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AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsColin Whitby-Strevens, Brijesh Tripathy
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Apparatus and methods for training, initializing, and managing a unidirectional, sink-driven A/V interface of a consumer electronics device. Since camera sensors do not have significant processing capability, the disclosed embodiments couple the camera sensors to a simplified source node as a camera assembly. In the described embodiments, an intelligent receiver (e.g., a master “sink” node) trains, initializes, and manages one or more relatively low complexity camera sensor modules. Various other refinements and simplifications include: (i) where link training is managed by the receiver of the link, not by the transmitter, and (ii) where training multiple links in the network is managed by a single receiver.
A method for link initialization of a unidirectional interface of an electronic device performed by a master sink node, comprising:
A master sink node configured to perform link initialization of a unidirectional interface of an electronic device, comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage apparatus comprising a plurality of instructions that are configured to, when executed by a processor, cause a master sink node of an electronic device to:
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