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

Claim 0:
1. A mobile device comprising:
a physical link;
a plurality of image sensors, each of the plurality of image sensors:
being configured to transmit image data via the physical link; and
having a different orientation than an adjacent image sensor; and

a controller coupled to the physical link, whereby the physical link, the plurality of image sensors, and the controller form a multi-drop network;
wherein the controller is configured to:
determine an image capture operation for the plurality of image sensors, wherein 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;
transmit a control signal to configure image sensing operations at the plurality of image sensors based on the image capture operation;
receive, via the physical link, image data from at least a subset of the plurality of image sensors;
combine the image data from the at least a 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;
determine information of a surrounding environment of the mobile device captured within the extended FOV; and
provide the information to an application to generate content based on the information.