Patent ID: 7548258

Claim:
A network comprising: a high resolution image sensor; a computer network interface for transmission off camera of image data streams originated by said image sensor; a multi stage pipelined digital image processor capable of processing and compression of said image data at an output rate of said image sensor, wherein said image processor comprises an image processing pipeline formed by multiple distinct stages, wherein most of said stages perform distinctly different image processing operations, wherein each said stage has an output latch or a buffer to accent input data from the output latch or the buffer of one or more of other said stages, wherein said image data propagates from one stage to another stage, and wherein each of said stages performs a respective operation on said image data concurrently and synchronously with most of other said stages performing their respective operations; and a microprocessor or a CPU configured to initialize the pipeline, communicate with a pipeline measurements engine, set pipeline registers to control dataflow through pipeline multiplexers, and set pipeline parameters utilized in automatic white balance and automatic exposure and gain control operations.