Patent ID: 8139112

Claim:
A method of operating an integrated camera assembly including a camera housing, comprising: operating a sensor module mounted in said camera housing to generate first fixed size data units, each first fixed size data unit being of a first pixel value size; performing, within said camera housing, an image processing operation on at least some of said first fixed size data units to produce second size data units, each individual one of the first fixed size data units and second size data units communicating a single pixel value, each second fixed size data unit being of a second pixel value size, said second fixed size data units being of a second fixed size which is smaller than said first fixed size; generating, within said camera housing, an image output signal from said second fixed size data units; processing, within said camera housing, at least some of said first fixed size data units, which are also processed by said image processing operation, to perform at least one of a target detection and a target tracking operation; and outputting, to a device outside said camera housing, said image output signal.