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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2023
Omnivision Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods for transmitting asynchronous event data via synchronous communications interfaces (and associated imaging systems) are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an imager comprises an array of event vision pixels, a synchronous communications transmitter configured to transmit frames of data to a synchronous communications receiver, and a timer configured to indicate when a threshold amount of time has elapsed. The pixels can generate event data based on activity within an external scene. The imager can be configured to insert available event data into a payload of the current frame during a first time period before the frame timer indicates that the threshold amount of time has elapsed, pad the payload with dummy data during a second time period after the frame timer indicates that the threshold amount of time has elapsed, and transmit (using the synchronous communications transmitter) the current frame of data to the synchronous communications receiver.