Patent ID: 11962928
Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus comprising:
an array of pixel cells, wherein each pixel cell of the array of pixel cells includes:
a first circuit to generate local programming data;
a memory to store the local programming data and measurement data; and
light measurement circuits configured to, based on the local programming data from the memory, perform a light measurement operation to generate the measurement data, and to store the measurement data at the memory; and

a peripheral circuit configured to:
receive chip-level programming data targeting at least a subset of the array of pixel cells;
receive a pixel array programming map including pixel-level programming data, the pixel-level programming data including respective pixel-specific programming data for each pixel cell;
extract pixel-level programming data from the pixel array programming map; and
for each pixel cell of the at least the subset of the array of pixel cells, transmit the chip-level programming data and the respective pixel-level programming data to the respective pixel cell to enable each respective pixel cell of the at least the subset of the array of pixel cells to:
generate, using the first circuit and based on the chip-level programming data and the pixel-level programming data, the local programming data; and
configure the light measurement circuits based on the local programming data to individually control the light measurement operation and a generation of the measurement data at the pixel cell.