Patent ID: 9554100
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,H04N

Claim:
1. A smart sensor for sensing dynamic scene-based occurrences, the smart sensor comprising: dedicated computer vision (CV) computation hardware configured to receive sensor data from a sensor array comprising more than one sensor pixel and capable of computing one or more CV features using readings from neighboring sensor pixels of the sensor array; and a first processing unit communicatively coupled with the dedicated CV computation hardware and configured to process signals resulting from operations based on the one or more computed CV features; wherein the smart sensor is configured to generate an event to be received by a second processing unit in response to the processing of the signals resulting from the operations based on the one or more computed CV features by the first processing unit, the event configured to trigger an operation to be performed by the second processing unit and indicating a reference occurrence for the second processing unit and comprising a multi-field message.