Patent ID: 9426376
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an image capturing unit configured to detect incident light and generate a raw image data; a compression unit configured to compress the raw image data to generate a coded data having a data amount smaller than that of the raw image data; and an output unit configured to output the coded data to a processing unit for processing the coded data, wherein the image capturing unit, the compression unit, and the output unit are configured to be within a same semiconductor package, wherein the compression unit and the output unit are fabricated on a first semiconductor substrate, the processing unit is fabricated on a second semiconductor substrate, and a bus connects a circuitry of the output unit on the first semiconductor substrate to a circuitry of the processing unit on the second semiconductor substrate, and wherein the image capturing unit, the compression unit, the output unit, and the processing unit are each implemented via at least one processor.