HIGH RESOLUTION NETWORK CAMERA WITH MASSIVELY PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPRESSION AND NETWORK SERVER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a network video camera capable of delivering high-resolution digital images, comprising over a million of pixels or more per image, at full motion video frame rate.;SOLUTION: The camera disclosed in the present invention comprises: a high-resolution image sensor 101; a computer network interface 117 for transmission of image data streams originated by said image sensor; and a multi-stage pipelined digital image processor capable of processing and compression of image data at the 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 and wherein each said stage has an output latch or buffer 116, wherein image data propagate from stage to stage and wherein each of said stages performs its operation on image data concurrently and synchronously with most of other said stages performing their respective operations.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI