Patent Document ID: 10142533
Application ID: 14671705
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computing device for controlling user access to image sensors of an image sensor array, the computing device comprising: a camera device that includes an image sensor array, wherein the image sensor array comprises a plurality of image sensors; and a camera driver module to (i) manage access to image data streams generated by each of the image sensors of the image sensor array, (ii) determine a user input mode setting of the camera device selected by a user of the computing device, (iii) expose image sensor data captured by a single image sensor of the image sensor array to the user of the computing device based at least in part on the selected user input mode setting while the other image sensors of the image sensor array, other than the exposed single image sensor, perform corresponding sensor functions to generate corresponding image sensor data, and (iv) restrict, while the camera device is in the selected user input mode setting, user access to the other image sensors of the image sensor array by not displaying settings of the other image sensors to the user of the computing device while the other image sensors of the image sensor array perform corresponding sensor functions.