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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2002
Applicants:
Michael Kaplinsky, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Igor Subbotin, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Xiuhong Lin, Pasadena, CA (US);
Inventors:
Michael Kaplinsky, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Igor Subbotin, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Xiuhong Lin, Pasadena, CA (US);
Assignee:
Aptina Imaging Corporation, Grand Cayman, KY;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/20 (2006.01); G06K 9/28 (2006.01); G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); H04N 3/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/335 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A CMOS imager in which a CMOS image sensor, a color image processing module and an image compression module are all provided on a single die. Both the color image processing module and the image compression module incorporate pipelined architectures to process the image data at a video rate in a massively parallel fashion.