Gopro, Inc.

Xilinx, Inc.

Nio Technology (anhui) Co., Ltd.

Paul Mobbs

Scott Patrick Campbell

Sumit Chawla

Balineedu Chowdary Adsumilli

David A Newman

Kasturi Rangam

Shay Ping Seng

William Edward Allaire

Jing Zhao Ou

An imaging system according to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a plurality of cameras disposed at different locations on a body of a vehicle, each camera of the plurality of cameras configured to collect image data from an environment around the vehicle; an autonomous drive ('AD') electronic control unit ('ECU') comprising an AD processor; an in-vehicle infotainment (&#x201c;IVI&#x201d;) ECU comprising an IVI processor; and a communication path running from a first camera of the plurality of cameras to the AD ECU, wherein the AD ECU splits the communication path into a first path that is interconnected to the AD processor and a second path exiting the AD ECU and that is interconnected to the IVI ECU, and wherein image data collected by the first camera is sent along the communication path to the AD ECU before being sent to the IVI ECU.

Methods and systems for camera sharing between autonomous driving and in-vehicle infotainment electronic control units

Systems and methods are provided that capture and process frames of frame data. An image sensor captures frames of frame data representative of light incident upon the image sensor using a rolling shutter and outputs the frames of frame data. The image sensor captures at least one of the frames over a frame capture interval and then waits over a blanking interval before capturing another frame. A buffer receives and stores the frames output by the image sensor. An image signal processor retrieves the frames from the buffer and processes the frames over successive frame processing intervals to generate a video having a time interval per frame greater than the frame capture interval. At least one of the successive frame processing intervals is greater than the frame capture interval and is less than or equal to a sum of the frame capture interval and the blanking interval.

System and method for frame capturing and processing

An image capture accelerator performs accelerated processing of image data. In one embodiment, the image capture accelerator includes accelerator circuitry including a pre-processing engine and a compression engine. The pre-processing engine is configured to perform accelerated processing on received image data, and the compression engine is configured to compress processed image data received from the pre-processing engine. In one embodiment, the image capture accelerator further includes a demultiplexer configured to receive image data captured by an image sensor array implemented within, for example, an image sensor chip. The demultiplexer may output the received image data to an image signal processor when the image data is captured by the image sensor array in a standard capture mode, and may output the received image data to the accelerator circuitry when the image data is captured by the image sensor array in an accelerated capture mode.

Upscaling and downscaling in a camera architecture

On-chip upscaling and downscaling in a camera architecture

An image sensor of a camera system captures an image over an image capture interval of time, and waits a blanking interval of time before capturing an additional image. The captured image is provided to a frame controller, and is buffered until an image signal processor accesses the captured image. The image signal processor processes the accessed image over an image processing interval of time, producing a processed image. The image processing interval of time is selected to be greater than the image capture interval of time, but less than the sum of the image capture interval of time and the blanking interval of time. By reducing the image capture interval of time but maintaining an image processing interval of time, rolling shutter artifacts are beneficially reduced without increasing the processing resources or power required by the image signal processor to process the image.

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