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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2001
Rand C. Chandler, Gainesville, FL (US);
Rand C. Chandler, Gainesville, FL (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A digital camera system includes a digital image sensor, a memory coupled to the digital image sensor via a data bus, a microcontroller having control signal output ports and a data I/O port, and a bi-directional tri-state buffer coupled to the data I/O port and the data bus for passing data therebetween. At least one of the control signal output ports is coupled to each of the digital image sensor, memory and tri-state buffer. The microcontroller issues control signals over it's control signal output ports to control access to the data bus by establishing only one of a plurality of possible data transfer paths at any given point in time.