Systems and methods for low power image processing

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus for reducing power consumption in image processing applications. A computing system can include a system-on-chip (SoC), which in turn can include a central processing unit (CPU), an embedded processor, an image signal processor (ISP), and at least one hardware accelerator. The CPU and the embedded processor can run a first and a second image processing stack. An image processing application running on the CPU or other core in the SoC can call application programming interface (APIs) provided by the embedded processor to carry out image processing operations. This alleviates the need for the CPU and the image processing stack on the CPU to carry out image processing operations.

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