Patent ID: 11948089
Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus comprising:
an image sensor comprising a plurality of pixel cells, the image sensor being configurable by programming data to select a subset of the pixel cells to generate active pixels;
a frame buffer; and
a sensor compute circuit configured to:
receive, from the frame buffer, a first image frame comprising first active pixels and first inactive pixels, the first active pixels being generated by a first subset of the pixel cells selected based on first programming data, the first inactive pixels corresponding to a second subset of the pixel cells not selected to generate the first active pixels;
perform an image-processing operation on a first subset of pixels of the first image frame, whereby a second subset of pixels of the first image frame are excluded from the image-processing operation, to generate a processing output;
based on the processing output, generate second programming data; and
transmit the second programming data to the image sensor to select a third subset of the pixel cells to generate second active pixels for a second image frame.