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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2004
Michael Kaplinsky, Sierra Madre, CA (US);
Michael Kaplinsky, Sierra Madre, CA (US);
Arecont Vision LLC., Glendale, CA (US);
Abstract
The subject of the present invention is the network video camera capable of delivering high-resolution digital images, comprising over a million of pixels per image, at full motion video frame rate. The camera disclosed in the present invention comprises high resolution image sensor capable of operating at video frame rate, computer network interface for transmission off camera of image data streams originated by said image sensor, and also comprising multi stage pipelined digital image processor operating under control of low cost microprocessor capable of processing and compression of image data at the output rate of said image sensor, wherein said image processor comprises image processing pipeline formed by multiple distinct stages, wherein most of said stages perform distinctly different image processing operations and wherein each said stage has an output latch or buffer and accepts its input data from the output latch or buffer of one or more of other said stages, wherein image data propagates from stage to stage and wherein each of said stages performs its operations on image data concurrently and synchronously with most of other said stages performing their respective operations.