Patent ID: 11956413
Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus comprising:
a first photodiode to generate a first charge in response to incident light;
a second photodiode to generate a second charge in response to the incident light;
a quantizer;
a first memory bank and a second memory bank; and
a controller configured to:
control the quantizer to perform a first quantization operation and a second quantization operation of the first charge to generate, respectively, a first digital output and a second digital output, the first quantization and the second quantization operations being associated with different intensity ranges;
store one of the first digital output or the second digital output in the first memory bank;
control the quantizer to perform a third quantization operation of the second charge to generate a third digital output, the third quantization operation being associated with a different intensity range from at least one of the first quantization operation or the second quantization operation; and
store the third digital output in the second memory bank.