Facebook Technologies, LLC

Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC

Oculus, Vr, LLC

Lyle David Bainbridge

Nirav Rajendra Patel

Sam Padinjaremannil Alex

Qi Qu

Ryan Hamilton Brown

Hongyu Zhou

Ali Yazdan

Ganesh Venkatraman

Oskar Linde

Matthew James Devoe

Andrew Samuel Berkovich

Song Chen

Xinqiao Liu

Sandro Hermann Pintz

Andrew Thomas Forsyth

Tsung-Hsun Tsai

Karina Singer

The present disclosure provides a privacy control circuit including an array of pixel cells having a first output data path and a second output data path, the first output data path including a one-time data protection circuitry, a sensor communication interface communicatively coupled to the first output data path, an on-sensor processor coupled to the second output data path and communicatively attached to the sensor communication interface, and a data register communicatively attached to the sensor communication interface.

On-sensor data guardian

Some examples described herein include a noise-reduction circuit for an image sensor. The noise-reduction circuit can include a reference frame generator configured to generate a reference frame based on a set of image frames received from an image sensor during a calibration phase. The noise-reduction circuit can also include a memory coupled to the reference frame generator. The memory can receive the reference frame from the reference frame generator and store the reference frame for subsequent use during a noise-reduction phase. The noise-reduction circuit can further include a processor coupled to the memory. The processor can retrieve the reference frame from the memory and use the reference frame to reduce noise in an image frame received from the image sensor during the noise-reduction phase.

Noise-reduction circuit for an image sensor

In one example, an apparatus comprises: a first photodiode to generate a first charge; a second photodiode to generate a second charge; a quantizer; a first memory bank and a second memory bank; and a controller configured to: control the quantizer to perform a first quantization operation and a second quantization operation of the first charge to generate, respectively, a first digital output and a second digital output, the first and second quantization operations being associated with different intensity ranges; store one of the first digital output or the second digital output in the first memory bank; control the quantizer to perform a third quantization operation of the second charge to generate a third digital output, the third quantization operation being associated with a different intensity range from at least one of the first or second quantization operations; and store the third digital output in the second memory bank.

Pixel sensor having multiple photodiodes and shared comparator

Embodiments of the present disclosure support a head-mounted display (HMD) wirelessly coupled to a console. The HMD includes a positional tracking system, a beam controller and a transceiver. The positional tracking system tracks position of the HMD and generates positional information describing the tracked position of the HMD. The transceiver communicates with a console via a wireless channel, in accordance with communication instructions, the communication instructions causing the transceiver to communicate over one directional beam of a plurality of directional beams. The beam controller determines a change in the positional information. Based on the change to the positional information, the beam controller determines a directional beam of the plurality of directional beams. The beam controller further generates the communication instructions identifying the determined directional beam, and provides the communication instructions to the transceiver.

Positional tracking assisted beam forming in wireless virtual reality systems

A system detects a screen tear in a display device for frames of video by retrieving an identification code associated with each pixel row of the frame of video and analyzing identification codes across the pixel rows of the frame of the video to detect occurrence of a screen tear. To support compressed (e.g., lossy) video data, the identification code associated with each pixel row of the frame of video is inserted into the most significant bit (or bits) of a color channel of a first pixel of the pixel row. Identification codes across the pixel rows of the frame of the video are then compared for tear detection. Because modification of the most significant bit of a color channel of a pixel may result in color distortion, the pixels including inserted identification codes are hidden from view by the display device.

In-band tear detection with compression

A video coder is configured to encode video data, wherein one or more pixels of the encoded video data is used to signal in-band a luminance adjustment value for configuring an overall luminance of the displayed video data. In addition, the video data for pixels of the video data are scaled based upon the luminance adjustment value to compensate for the changed overall luminance. By signaling the luminance adjustment value in-band as part of the encoded video data, the need for a separate control channel is reduced, while also simplifying synchronization between the luminance adjustment value and the frame of video data to which it applies. The display may extract and parse the signaled luminance adjustment value to control a parameter of the display device (e.g., driving voltage, supply current, duty cycle, etc.) to achieve the overall luminance level indicated by the luminance adjustment value.

In-band signaling for display luminance control

A head-mounted display (HMD) is wirelessly coupled to a console or a relay depending on the relative positions of the HMD, the console, and the relay. The HMD communicates wirelessly with the console using a beam that is oriented in a particular direction. As the position of the HMD changes, the quality of the communication link between the HMD and the console may degrade. In response to the degradation, the HMD forms a communication link with a relay, which operates as an intermediary between the HMD and the console. The relay communicates with the HMD over a dedicated communication channel that is isolated from the communication channel over which the relay communicates with the console.

Diversity based relay for wireless communications between a head-mounted display and a console

Embodiments relate to a method and a system for performing image compression and decompression of image data. In one or more embodiments, the image data is divided into one or more image data blocks, and the image compression and decompression are performed for each image data block. The image data block is compressed and includes a base value corresponding to a first image component and a compressed difference value corresponding to a second image component. For decompression, a first value of the image data block can be obtained based on the base value, and a second value of the image data block can be obtained based on the first value, the first compressed difference value and a corresponding quantization table. An output image can be presented to a user, according to the decompressed image data block.

Display-side video decompression using quantization tables

A method for detecting a screen tear in a display device for a given frame of video is described. The method includes retrieving an identification code associated with each pixel row of the frame of video and determining whether the retrieved identification code is same across pixel rows of the frame of video. If the identification code is found to be same across the pixel rows of the frame of video, no screen tear is found. On the other hand, a screen tear is detected if the identification code is found not to be same across the pixel rows. An indication of the detected screen tear is provided to the host machine to re-render the frame of video without such screen tear.

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Lyle David Bainbridge