Event sensor comprising a pixel array and configured to produce a signal stream comprising event data in reaction to light incident on said pixel array, comprising: - for each pixel of said pixel array a photovoltaic converter and an electronic converter connected to said photovoltaic converter, wherein said photovoltaic converter and said electronic converter are configured to produce and store a digital current pixel value, which is dependent on the intensity of light incident on said photovoltaic converter; - for each pixel of said pixel array a corresponding multi-bit digital storage configured to store pixel parameters, including a previous pixel value; and - a readout processor comprising multiple processing blocks connected to said electronic converter and said multi-bit digital storage and configured to generate a pixel event value of said event data based on a pixel subtraction result of subtracting said previous pixel value from said digital current pixel value, wherein the event sensor is configured to support a temporal contrast event mode, which starts with a pixel-parallel conversion of a light-intensity-dependent analog voltage into the digital current pixel value and storing the digital current pixel value in a converter memory of said electronic converter in a synchronous global-shutter fashion, and wherein then the readout processor reads the digital current pixel values from the pixel array row by row and simultaneously the corresponding pixel parameters of the same row of pixels from memory, the information transfer between the pixel array, the memory and the readout processor being coordinated by the readout controller, wherein each processing block is configured to perform the following processing steps to decide whether to output a temporal contrast event from the corresponding pixel: - Receive a digital current pixel value and corresponding pixel parameters of the same pixel; - Compute a signed difference between the digital current and the previous pixel values; - Decide if the signed difference exceeds a positive or negative change detection threshold of the corresponding pixel, if yes, request for a temporal contrast event output and update the corresponding pixel parameters, including overwriting the previous pixel value with the digital current pixel value, if no, perform no such action. - for each pixel of said pixel array a photovoltaic converter and an electronic converter connected to said photovoltaic converter, wherein said photovoltaic converter and said electronic converter are configured to produce and store a digital current pixel value, which is dependent on the intensity of light incident on said photovoltaic converter; - for each pixel of said pixel array a corresponding multi-bit digital storage configured to store pixel parameters, including a previous pixel value; and - a readout processor comprising multiple processing blocks connected to said electronic converter and said multi-bit digital storage and configured to generate a pixel event value of said event data based on a pixel subtraction result of subtracting said previous pixel value from said digital current pixel value, - Receive a digital current pixel value and corresponding pixel parameters of the same pixel; - Compute a signed difference between the digital current and the previous pixel values; - Decide if the signed difference exceeds a positive or negative change detection threshold of the corresponding pixel, if yes, request for a temporal contrast event output and update the corresponding pixel parameters, including overwriting the previous pixel value with the digital current pixel value, if no, perform no such action.