Camera module

• US 20100002091A1
• Filed: 08/03/2009
• Published: 01/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Amit Dutta, Kazunobu Shin
• Original Assignee: Amit Dutta, Kazunobu Shin
• Inventors: Dutta, Amit, Shin, Kazunobu
• Application Number:
  US12/462,432
• Publication Number:
  US 20100002091A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/222.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2007/145 Handheld terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0075 by a user operated remote control device, e.g. receiving instructions from a user via a computer terminal or mobile telephone handset
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/673 based on contrast or high frequency components of image signals, e.g. hill climbing method
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/142 Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display

Abstract

A camera module chip-set comprising: a decompressor configured to decompress image data received from a host device connected to the camera module chip-set; and a processor, different to the decompressor, configured to control transmission of the decompressed image data to the connected host device, in order for the decompressed image data to be displayed on a display of the host device.

Claims

1-31. -31. (canceled)

32. A camera module chip-set comprising:

a decompressor configured to decompress image data received from a host device connected to the camera module chip-set; and

a processor, different to the decompressor, configured to control transmission of the decompressed image data to the connected host device, in order for the decompressed image data to be displayed on a display of the host device.

34. A camera module chip-set as claimed in claim 32, further comprising an output interface and a compressor, wherein the compressor is configured to compress the image data and the output interface is configured to provide the compressed image data to the host device.

35. A camera module chip-set as claimed in claim 34, wherein the output interface enables the camera module chip-set to be releasably connected to the host device.

36. A camera module chip-set as claimed in claim 34, wherein the output interface is a serial interface which is configured to provide the decompressed image data to a serial interface of the host device.

37. A system comprising a host device and the camera module chip-set as claimed in claim 32.

38. A system as claimed in claim 32, wherein the host device comprises a host processor configured to control transmission of the compressed image data to the camera-module chip-set for decompression.

39. A system as claimed in claim 38, wherein the host device further comprises a display, and the host processor is configured to control transmission of the compressed image data to the camera-module chip-set, when the a user wishes to display an image, stored as the compressed image data, on the display.

40. A system as claimed in claim 39, wherein the decompressed image data transmitted to the host device relates to the image, and the host device is configured to display the image on the display of the host device.

33. A method, comprising:

decompressing image data, at a camera module chip-set, received from a host device; and

transmitting to the connected host device the decompressed image data, in order for the decompressed image data to be displayed on a display of the host device.

41. A method as claimed in claim 33, further comprising providing compressed image data to the camera module chip-set.

42. A method as claimed in claim 41, wherein the host device provides the compressed image data to the camera module chip-set when a user wishes to display an image, stored as the compressed image data, on a display of the host device.

43. A method as claimed in claim 42, further comprising:

receiving the decompressed image data at the host device, and using the decompressed image data to display the image on the display of the host device.