US 11,943,557 B2
Image sensor module, image processing system, and operating method of image sensor module
Byeoungsu Kim, Hwaseong-si (KR); Sangsoo Ko, Yongin-si (KR); Kyoungyoung Kim, Suwon-si (KR); and Sanghyuck Ha, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Apr. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/729,533.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0054523 (KR), filed on Apr. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0345592 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 5/222 (2006.01); H04N 23/45 (2023.01); H04N 23/80 (2023.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 5/2226 (2013.01) [H04N 23/45 (2023.01); H04N 23/80 (2023.01); H01L 27/14609 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image sensor module comprising:
an image sensor configured to generate image data; and
memory, including at least a memory bank storing the image data and a processor-in-memory (PIM) circuit, the PIM circuit including a plurality of processing elements, and the memory is configured to
read the image data from the memory bank,
generate optical flow data and pattern density data using the plurality of processing elements, the optical flow data indicating time-sequential motion of at least one object included in the image data, and the pattern density data indicating a density of a pattern of the image data, and
output the image data, the optical flow data, and the pattern density data.