Patent ID: 8885179

Claim:
A portable device comprising: an image sensor capable of generating signals carrying image data relating to an image sensed by the image sensor; a multi-core processor for processing the image data; a CPU associated with the multi-core processor and configured to load instructions into the multi-core processor; a memory for storing the image data; a data cache, wherein: the CPU and the multi-core processor share the data cache; the CPU and the multi-core processor and the data cache are integrated on a single chip; and the memory is provided external to the single chip; and an image sensor interface provided on the single chip, the image sensor interface for receiving the image data; and a flash memory provided on the single chip, the flash memory configured to store a table of instructions, wherein: the CPU is configured to load the multi-core processor with the instructions from the flash memory, the multi-core processor includes a plurality of processing units connected in parallel, and the CPU is configured to start and stop each of the processing units.