Imaging Sensor Deserializer Self-Configuration From Captured Setup Streams
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Solution Overview
Problem
The configuration of deserializers in data loggers for image data streams from imaging sensors is complex and requires high specialist knowledge, making it time-consuming and costly, especially when setting up a recording device to intercept and process serialized image data streams for automotive applications.
Innovation Solution
A recording device with a configuration device that analyzes configuration data streams to determine and set up the deserializer configuration, ensuring it reconstructs the image data stream correctly, and optionally includes a serializer to serialize the data stream again, using abstraction and compatibility maps to translate configurations between different serializer and deserializer series, reducing the need for individually selected components and simplifying the process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a recording device is configured to intercept and process serialized image data streams using a deserializer, then the device can record and store image data for later evaluation, but the configuration of the deserializer becomes complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The recording device automatically configures its deserializer by intercepting and analyzing the configuration data stream intended for the receiving device's deserializer. The configuration device extracts configuration information from this stream and uses it to set up the recording device's own deserializer and serializer, eliminating the need for manual configuration and reducing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The configuration device acts as an intermediary that captures the configuration data stream between the receiving device and the sensor device. It analyzes this intermediate data to determine the appropriate configuration for its own serialization and deserialization components, thereby simplifying the setup process.
2Manufacturing precision
If manual configuration of deserializer is performed with high specialist knowledge, then accurate data reconstruction is achieved, but the process becomes time-consuming and costly
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary configuration by intercepting the configuration data stream before the receiving device uses it. The configuration device analyzes this stream in advance to determine the optimal configuration for its own components, ensuring accurate data reconstruction without requiring time-consuming manual setup during deployment.
Solution Approach 2:
The recording device configures itself automatically by extracting configuration parameters from the intercepted data stream. This self-configuration capability eliminates the need for manual intervention by specialists, reducing both time and cost while maintaining configuration accuracy.
3Ease of operation
If the recording device uses its own serializer to forward data to the receiving device, then data transmission is enabled, but the image data stream must be identical to what the sensor device outputs
Solution Approach 1:
The configuration device intercepts the configuration data stream that the receiving device sends to configure its own deserializer. By analyzing this intermediate stream, the recording device determines the exact configuration needed for its serializer to produce an identical image data stream, ensuring compatibility without increasing operational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The recording device's serializer is configured to produce an exact copy of the image data stream that the sensor device would output directly. By using the intercepted configuration data to set up its serializer identically to how the receiving device expects data, the recording device ensures stream identity while maintaining ease of operation.
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AI summary
Recording device for capturing a serialized image data stream from a sensor device. The recording device includes a deserializer for deserializing the image data stream. For configuring the first deserializer, the recording device includes a configuration device that captures a configuration data stream transmitted by a receiving device for configuring a serializer located in the sensor device and derives a configuration of the recording device's deserializer by analyzing the captured configuration data.In a preferred embodiment, the derivation is achieved by abstracting the configuration of the serializer into a functionality of the serializer, deriving a functionality of the first deserializer from the functionality of the first serializer, and specifying the functionality of the first deserializer into a configuration of the first deserializer.