Zoran Corporation

Daniel Seltz

Ohad Meitav

Itzhak Shenberg

Hatch Graham, Iii

A digital camera system in which capture, processing and storage functions are partitioned differently than in existing systems. A hand-held digital camera is used with a workstation that may exist in a commercial image processing service center. A minimal amount of image data processing is performed in the digital camera, thereby allowing significant digital camera cost reductions due to lower memory requirements, lower processing requirements, and lower power requirements. Real-time single pass image compression techniques are employed within this digital camera to permit rapid gathering and storage of raw or minimally processed image data. The workstation to which the image data are transferred performs the image processing normally done within existing cameras. This processing takes advantage of the increased computational power that is possible to have in such a workstation, compared to that of a small camera, and the increased time over which such processing may be performed.

Digital camera with reduced image buffer memory and minimal processing for recycling through a service center

An electronically programmable gate array comprises a plurality of rows of logic cells with each cell having a plurality of inputs, at least one output, and a plurality of electronically programmable voltage levels for configuring the cell. A plurality of sets of interconnect lines are formed in the array with one set of interconnect lines provided between adjacent rows of logic cells with electronically programmable contacts connecting inputs and an output of each cell in a row of cells with two adjacent sets of interconnect lines. Each row of logic cells preferably includes alternating three-input cells and two-input cells. Each electronically programmable voltage level comprises two voltage alterable resistors serially connected between first and second voltage potentials. Each electronically programmable interconnect comprises a voltage alterable resistor.

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Ben Lomond, CA, United States of America

Daniel Seltz