Patent ID: 8570393

Claim:
A vision system having an image sensor that produces image data relative to each of a sequence of acquired images comprising: a first processor group including a plurality of SIMD processors, at least one general purpose processor and a directly accessible data memory, each residing on a single die and operatively connected to the sensor so that the first processor group receives the image data read-out from the image sensor, wherein the data memory is smaller in capacity than a size of the image data relative to each of the sequence of acquired images, the first processor group being constructed and arranged to operate a data reduction process that generates a reduced data set with respect to each image data concurrently as the image data is read-out; and a second processor that receives at least a portion of the image data concurrently as the reduced data set is stored in the data memory, the second processor including an image analysis process that generates output values based upon information in the reduced data set.