Apparatus for and method of interfacing between an image sensor and an image processor
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    发明申请
    Apparatus for and method of interfacing between an image sensor and an image processor 审中-公开
    用于图像传感器和图像处理器之间的接口的装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20040257453A1

    公开(公告)日:2004-12-23

    申请号:US10619835

    申请日:2003-07-16

    CPC classification number: H04N5/335

    Abstract: An interface apparatus of an image processing system includes an image sensor sensing an image, an image processor processing the sensed image to output image data, and a sensor interface coupled between the image sensor and the image processor. The sensor interface includes a sensor type register storing information about the image sensor, a micom storing the information in the sensor type register to control the image sensor, and a sensor signal processor receiving signals corresponding to the sensed image from the image sensor, converting the signals into modified signals, which the image processor processes to output the image data, according to the information stored in the sensor type register, and transmitting the modified signals to the image processor. The interface apparatus used in the image processing system, such as a digital camera, adaptively correspond to the image sensor which is currently used in the image processing system and has one of different types of image sensors, according to the manufacturers and product models of the image sensors. The interface apparatus adaptively processes signals outputted from the image sensor, thereby avoiding any additional redesigning process of redesigning the image processor to correspond to the image sensor used in the image processing system, and reducing a manufacturing time and cost of the image processing system.

    Abstract translation: 图像处理系统的接口装置包括感测图像的图像传感器,处理感测图像以输出图像数据的图像处理器,以及耦合在图像传感器和图像处理器之间的传感器接口。 传感器接口包括存储有关图像传感器的信息的传感器类型寄存器,存储传感器类型寄存器中的信息以控制图像传感器的微型计算机以及从图像传感器接收与感测到的图像相对应的信号的传感器信号处理器, 根据存储在传感器类型寄存器中的信息,图像处理器处理以输出图像数据的修改信号的信号,并将修改的信号发送到图像处理器。 在图像处理系统中使用的接口装置,例如数字照相机,根据制造商和产品型号,自适应地对应于当前在图像处理系统中使用的图像传感器,并且具有不同类型的图像传感器之一 图像传感器。 接口装置自适应地处理从图像传感器输出的信号,从而避免重新设计图像处理器以对应于图像处理系统中使用的图像传感器的任何额外的重新设计过程,并且减少图像处理系统的制造时间和成本。

    Line buffer and method of providing line data for color interpolation
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    发明申请
    Line buffer and method of providing line data for color interpolation 失效
    线缓冲器和提供颜色插值线数据的方法

    公开(公告)号:US20040263650A1

    公开(公告)日:2004-12-30

    申请号:US10626636

    申请日:2003-07-25

    CPC classification number: H04N9/045 H04N2209/046

    Abstract: A line buffer and a method of providing data to a 3null3 line interpolation processor using the line buffer in an image processing system, such as a digital camera, includes a readable and writable single memory, a buffer register having a prior data area storing first line image data, which has been stored in a memory, in a unit of 2m bits, and having a present data area storing second image data, which is inputted from an image sensor in a unit of m bits, in a unit of the 2m bits, and a memory controller providing the memory with a chip enable signal, a write enable signal, and an address indicating locations of the first and second line image data stored in the buffer register, reading and writing the first and second line image data from and on the memory, and outputting the first and second line image data and a third line image data, which is inputted from the image sensor.

    Abstract translation: 行数据缓冲器和在诸如数字照相机的图像处理系统中使用线缓冲器向3×3线插值处理器提供数据的方法包括可读写的单个存储器,具有存储第一行的先前数据区的缓冲寄存器 已经存储在存储器中的图像数据以2m位为单位,并且以2位为单位具有存储从图像传感器以m位单位输入的第二图像数据的当前数据区域 以及存储器控制器,为存储器提供芯片使能信号,写使能信号和指示存储在缓冲寄存器中的第一和第二行图像数据的位置的地址,读取和写入第一和第二行图像数据 并且输出从图像传感器输入的第一和第二行图像数据和第三行图像数据。

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