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- Patent Title: Device, apparatus and system to reduce current leakage during differential communications
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Application No.: US16867896Application Date: 2020-05-06
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Publication No.: US11249932B2Publication Date: 2022-02-15
- Inventor: Haran Thanigasalam , Steven Peterson
- Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F13/40
- IPC: G06F13/40 ; H04L25/02 ; G06F13/42 ; H04N5/232

Abstract:
Techniques and mechanisms for communicating packets of image information, the packets each having a respective format that is defined or otherwise indicated by a camera serial interface standard. In an embodiment, circuitry of a first physical layer (PHY) is operated to facilitate such communication via a lane of an interconnect that is coupled between the first PHY and a second PHY. The PHYs further communicate between each other a packet delimiter sequence between two such packets. In another embodiment, the plurality of packets and the packet delimiter sequence are communicated after a transition of one PHY from a relatively low power state, and prior to any subsequent transition of that PHY back to the relatively low power state. The camera serial interface standard specifies or otherwise indicates a protocol whereby a transition to such a low power state is performed between the respective communications of any two successive packets.
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