Patent ID: 11961263
Assignee: SILICONESIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A hardware camera comprising:
a camera sensor configured to determine input image data;
an image signal processor configured to perform one or more image signal processing operations on the input image data;
a neural processing unit configured to:
determine a fingerprint specific to a hardware camera, wherein the fingerprint is a fixed pattern noise (FPN) dark signal non-uniformity (DSNU) pattern, and wherein determining the fingerprint includes capturing one or more dark frame images with a camera sensor included in the hardware camera while the camera sensor is covered, and
determine encoded image data by encoding the input image data with an image data encoder portion of a camera autoencoder, the camera autoencoder being trained based on training image data collected from the camera sensor and the fingerprint, the camera autoencoder including an image data decoder stored on a remote computing system; and

a camera communication interface configured to transmit the encoded image data to the remote computing system, the remote computing system determining decoded image data by decoding the encoded image data via the image data decoder.