Patent ID: 11902685
Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 19:
20. A method comprising:
generating, using a photodiode of each pixel cell of an array of pixel cells, a charge in response to incident light;
generating, using a charge sensing unit of each pixel cell of the array of pixel cells and based on the charge, a voltage;
generating, using a quantizer, a digital output for each pixel cell based on quantizing the voltage output by the charge sensing unit of the pixel cell;
storing, at an in-pixel memory of each pixel cell of the array of pixel cells, the digital output for the respective pixel cell;
receiving, by an off-array frame memory via a set of parallel interconnects, the digital outputs from the in-pixel memory of each pixel cell of the array of pixel cells;
storing the digital outputs in the frame memory; and
transmitting, via a bus interface, the digital outputs from the frame memory to a host device.