Patent attributes
In one example, an apparatus comprises: an image sensor comprising a plurality of pixel cells; a frame buffer; and a sensor compute circuit configured to: receive, from the frame buffer, a first image frame comprising first active pixels and first inactive pixels, the first active pixels being generated by a first subset of the pixel cells selected based on first programming data; perform an image-processing operation on a first subset of pixels of the first image frame, whereby a second subset of pixels of the first image frame are excluded from the image-processing operation, to generate a processing output; based on the processing output, generate second programming data; and transmit the second programming data to the image sensor to select a second subset of the pixel cells to generate second active pixels for a second image frame.
