Patent ID: 8553109

Claim:
An image capture device, comprising: a hardware processor; and an image processing circuitry that concurrently receives first image data to be processed and second image data to be processed, wherein: the second image data is processed to aid in enhancement of the first image data; the image processing circuitry comprises an imaging pipeline for processing a plurality of image data captured from at least one image sensor; the imaging pipeline features two parallel paths for processing the plurality of image data; the first image data is processed at full-resolution on a first parallel path and the second image data is processed at a down-scaled resolution on a second parallel path; and the second parallel path comprises a hardware pipeline that extracts data used in decoding the first image data with the first parallel path, wherein the second parallel path is shut down after passing extracted data to the first parallel path without storing the extracted data in memory, wherein the first parallel path comprises a hardware pipeline.