Patent ID: 7062578

Claim:
A configurable vision processing system for connection to a personal computer (PC), said configurable vision processing system comprising: a local peripheral component interconnect (PCI) bus; a vision accelerator subsystem coupled to said local (PCI) bus, said vision accelerator subsystem including a processing accelerator and at least one image memory interfaced with said processing accelerator; a digitizer subsystem directly coupled to said local (PCI) bus, said digitizer subsystem including a digitizer and at least one camera coupled to said digitizer; and a vision central processing unit (CPU) subsystem coupled to said local (PCI) bus, said vision CPU subsystem including an embedded vision system CPU, a host bus bridge for interfacing said vision system CPU to said local (PCI) bus, system memory, at least one system peripheral, and a display controller for interfacing a local display to said local (PCI) bus.