US Patent Issued to Intel on June 2 for "Hardware and protocols to support image transfers over MIPI I2C/I3C buses" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,633, issued on June 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hardware and protocols to support image transfers over MIPI I2C/I3C buses" was invented by Satheesh Chellappan (Folsom, Calif.) and Haran Thanigasalam (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a system includes a host system-on-chip (SoC) comprising vision processing circuitry and a camera connected to the host SoC through an Inter-Integrated Circuit (I3C) bus. The camera includes circuitry to generate image data and transmit an interrupt signal to the host SoC over the I3C bus indicating the image data is ready for transfer. The host ...