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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2017
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Evgeni Gousev, Saratoga, CA (US);
Alok Govil, Fremont, CA (US);
Jacek Maitan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nelson Rasquinha, San Diego, CA (US);
Venkat Rangan, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques disclosed herein utilize a vision sensor that integrates a special-purpose camera with dedicated computer vision (CV) computation hardware and a dedicated low-power microprocessor for the purposes of detecting, tracking, recognizing, and/or analyzing subjects, objects, and scenes in the view of the camera. The vision sensor processes the information retrieved from the camera using the included low-power microprocessor and sends 'events' (or indications that one or more reference occurrences have occurred, and, possibly, associated data) for the main processor only when needed or as defined and configured by the application. This allows the general-purpose microprocessor (which is typically relatively high-speed and high-power to support a variety of applications) to stay in a low-power (e.g., sleep mode) most of the time as conventional, while becoming active only when events are received from the vision sensor.