Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Smart sensor scheduler
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Application No.: US17651325Application Date: 2022-02-16
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Publication No.: US11700459B2Publication Date: 2023-07-11
- Inventor: Vlad Cardei , Lucian Ion , Nirav Dharia
- Applicant: Waymo LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Waymo LLC
- Current Assignee: Waymo LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
- Main IPC: H04N25/443
- IPC: H04N25/443 ; G06F9/50 ; G06V10/22 ; H04N23/61 ; H04N23/80 ; H04N25/79 ; H04N25/133 ; H04N25/13

Abstract:
A system includes an image sensor having a plurality of pixels that form a plurality of regions of interest (ROIs), image processing resources, and a scheduler configured to perform operations including determining a priority level for a particular ROI of the plurality of ROIs based on a feature detected by one or more image processing resources of the image processing resources within initial image data associated with the particular ROI. The operations also include selecting, based on the feature detected within the initial image data, a particular image processing resource of the image processing resources by which subsequent image data generated by the particular ROI is to be processed. The operations further include inserting, based on the priority level, the subsequent image data into a processing queue of the particular image processing resource to schedule the subsequent image data for processing by the particular image processing resource.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220174229A1 Smart Sensor Scheduler Public/Granted day:2022-06-02
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