Patent ID: 11935291
Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 18:
19. A method comprising:
determining an image capture operation for a plurality of image sensors of a mobile device, wherein:
the plurality image sensors are part of a multi-drop network; and
the image capture operation reduces a volume of image data transmitted over the multi-drop network by determining a subset of image sensors to capture images of one or more objects of interest;

transmitting a control signal to configure image sensing operations at the plurality of image sensors based on the image capture operation, wherein each of the plurality of image sensors have a different orientation than an adjacent image sensor;
receiving, via a physical link, image data from each image sensor of the subset of the plurality of image sensors, wherein the plurality of image sensors and the physical link form the multi-drop network;
combining the image data from the subset of the plurality of image sensors to obtain an extended field of view (FOV) larger than a FOV provided by each image sensor of the subset of image sensors;
determining information of a surrounding environment of the mobile device captured within the extended FOV; and
providing the information to an application to generate content to be output by the mobile device based on the information.