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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 07, 2017
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;

Inventors:

Ariel Orfaig, Kfar Bin-Nunn, IL;

Nathan Henri Levy, Givatayim, IL;

Assignee:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H04N 5/917 (2006.01); H04N 5/335 (2011.01); G06F 12/10 (2016.01); H04N 5/911 (2006.01); G06F 12/1018 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/378 (2013.01); G06F 12/1018 (2013.01); H04N 5/917 (2013.01); G06F 2212/401 (2013.01); H04N 5/335 (2013.01); H04N 5/911 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of a virtual frame buffer (VFB) for buffering asynchronous data originating from an imaging source such as a dynamic vision sensor. The VFB may include a hash table memory, a data memory, and a control unit. The control unit receives an input address of an asynchronous data event and determines a pseudo-randomly computed hash of the hash table memory at which to store the input address. The control unit links the hash to a handle corresponding to a data memory cell that stores pixel data of the event. The VFB may interface like a full frame buffer, but use significantly less memory. The VFB may be used with a pixel processing algorithm to search for recent events in a localized environment of a pixel.


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