Patent ID: 9432529
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: B41J,B42D,B82Y,G03B,G06F,G06K,G06T,G07F,G09G,G11C,H01L,H04N,H05K,Y10S

Claim Text:
1. A portable device comprising: an image sensor configured for sensing an image and generating image data; a multi-core processor including a plurality of processing units, the plurality of processing units being configured to process data; a flash memory storing therein a table of instructions; an input buffer common to the plurality of processing units of the multi-core processor and configured to write data to the multi-core processor; and a CPU communicatively coupled to the flash memory and the input buffer and configured to read one or more instructions from the flash memory; wherein the input buffer is separate from the CPU, wherein the CPU is configured to cause the one or more instructions to load into the plurality of processing units, wherein the image sensor is configured for providing the image data to the input buffer for processing by the multi-core processor, wherein the CPU and the multi-core processor are part of a single chip, wherein the single chip includes an authentication interface that includes a plurality of ports to connect to an on-device authentication chip and to another authentication chip used with another device.