Patent ID: 11962914
Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. An integrated circuit comprising:
a shared memory;
a first buffer;
a pixel data interface circuit configured to receive pixel data corresponding to multiple exposures of an image from a digital overlap (DOL) wide dynamic range (WDR) sensor, the pixel data interface circuit configured to store pixel data corresponding to one or more first ones of the exposures of the image in the shared memory, and to store pixel data corresponding to one or more second ones of the exposures of the image in the first buffer;
a first multiplexer including two or more inputs coupled to the shared memory;
a second multiplexer including two or more inputs coupled to the first buffer;
a merge circuit configured to receive the pixel data corresponding to the first ones of the exposures of the image from the shared memory via the first multiplexer, receive the pixel data corresponding to the second ones of the exposures of the image from the first buffer via the second multiplexer, and process the pixel data corresponding to the first and second ones of the exposures of the image to create merged pixel data representing the image; and
an image pipeline circuit configured to process the merged pixel data representing the image; and
a line buffer configured to store at least one line of the merged pixel data representing the image for processing by the image pipeline circuit.