Smart trigger logic for focal plane arrays

An electronic device includes a memory configured to receive data representing light intensity values from pixels in a focal plane array and a processor that analyzes the received data to determine which light values correspond to triggered pixels, where the triggered pixels are those pixels that me...

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Hauptverfasser: LEVY JAMES E, GURRIERI THOMAS M, CAVANAUGH WILLIAM S, KAY RANDOLPH R, WOJCIECHOWSKI KENNETH, LOVEJOY ROBERT, HOLMES MICHAEL L, CAMPBELL DAVID V
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Zusammenfassung:An electronic device includes a memory configured to receive data representing light intensity values from pixels in a focal plane array and a processor that analyzes the received data to determine which light values correspond to triggered pixels, where the triggered pixels are those pixels that meet a predefined set of criteria, and determines, for each triggered pixel, a set of neighbor pixels for which light intensity values are to be stored. The electronic device also includes a buffer that temporarily stores light intensity values for at least one previously processed row of pixels, so that when a triggered pixel is identified in a current row, light intensity values for the neighbor pixels in the previously processed row and for the triggered pixel are persistently stored, as well as a data transmitter that transmits the persistently stored light intensity values for the triggered and neighbor pixels to a data receiver.