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Sony patents camera chip that feeds cleaner images to AI

Patent drawing from the official filing.

Sony describes a signal processing device that takes raw data from a camera sensor and converts it into a standard color image before sending it to an AI model. The system selectively provides this processed image to the AI to help it analyze the scene more accurately.

Why it mattersThis could make cameras in phones or cars better at understanding what they see by giving the AI a clearer picture to work with.

In the filing’s own words

Processing accuracy of an image analysis process using an AI model is improved by using an image processing system comprising circuitry configured to acquire image data captured by an image sensor, process the image data to generate a non-demosaic image, and selectively output the non-demosaic image to an artificial intelligence model trained to perform image analysis.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An image processing system, comprising: circuitry configured to acquire image data captured by an image sensor, process the image data to generate a non-demosaic image, and selectively output the non-demosaic image to an artificial intelligence model trained to perform image analysis.

Facts

Company: Sony (Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation)
Official title: SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD
Publication number: US20260311481A1
Application number: 19483620
Filed: May 28, 2024
Published: Oct 8, 2026
Inventors: 1
Claims: 20

Classified under

G06V 10/955 Physics & computingG06V 10/147 Physics & computingG06V 10/774 Physics & computingG06V 10/82 Physics & computingH04N 23/71 Electricity & electronicsH04N 23/843 Electricity & electronics

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