1. An apparatus, comprising:
circuitry for:
storing a first sample based on an electrical signal from a photodiode of an image sensor, wherein the electrical signal includes a photodiode current received from the photodiode of the image sensor,
simultaneous, at least in part, with the storing of the first sample, storing a second sample based on the electrical signal from the photodiode of the image sensor;
outputting a first value based on the first sample, and a second value based on the second sample, for generating at least one image, wherein the first value is output as a first analog signal and the second value is output as a second analog signal, wherein the first analog signal and the second analog signal are each at least one of an ambient analog signal and a flash analog signal;
amplifying the first analog signal utilizing two or more gains to generate a first amplified analog signal and a second amplified analog signal, wherein the apparatus is operable such that the first amplified analog signal is converted to a first digital signal with a first light sensitivity, and the second amplified analog signal is converted to a second digital signal with a second light sensitivity;
blending the first digital signal with the second digital signal, resulting in a first blended digital signal with a first blended light sensitivity;
amplifying the second analog signal utilizing a third gain to generate a third amplified analog signal, wherein the apparatus is operable such that the third amplified analog signal is converted to a third digital signal with a third light sensitivity; and
blending the first blended digital signal with the third digital signal, resulting in a second blended digital signal.
2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the apparatus is operable such that an entirety of the first sample is stored simultaneously with the storing of at least a portion of the second sample.
3. The apparatus of claim 1, and further comprising a first analog value storage circuit for outputting the first value based on the first sample, and a second analog value storage circuit for outputting the second value based on the second sample.
4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the apparatus is configured such that the first analog value storage circuit and the second analog value storage circuit share at least one shared component.
5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the apparatus is configured such that the at least one shared component includes the photodiode of the image sensor.
6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the apparatus is configured such that the first analog value storage circuit and the second analog value storage circuit share a reset signal.
7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the apparatus is operable such that the first analog value storage circuit and the second analog value storage circuit are reset concurrently utilizing the shared reset signal.
8. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the apparatus is operable such that the first value is included in a first analog signal that is amplified utilizing the two or more gains to generate two or more amplified first analog signals, and each of the two or more amplified first analog signals is converted to at least one digital signal.
9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the apparatus is operable such that the two or more gains includes a first gain and a second gain, such that:
the first analog signal is amplified utilizing each of the first gain and the second gain, and converted to the first digital signal and the second digital signal; and
the second analog signal is amplified utilizing each of the first gain and the second gain, and converted to a fourth digital signal and a fifth digital signal.
10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein each of the first digital signal, the second digital signal, the third digital signal, the fourth digital signal, and the fifth digital signal are associated with a different digital image.
11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the apparatus is operable such that at least two of the digital images are blended.
12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the apparatus is operable such that sliding indicia is displayed, and in response to the sliding indicia being manipulated by a user, at least two of the digital images are blended.
13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the apparatus is operable such that the first sample is associated with a first exposure time, and the second sample is associated with a second exposure time different than the first exposure time.
14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the first exposure time is less than the second exposure time.
15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein a rate of storage of the first sample is substantially identical to a rate of storage of the second sample.
16. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the apparatus is operable such that the first blended digital signal is blended remotely.
17. A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising:
code for allowing storage of a first sample based on an electrical signal from a photodiode of an image sensor, wherein the electrical signal includes a photodiode current received from the photodiode of the image sensor;
code for allowing simultaneous, at least in part, with allowing the storage of the first sample, storage of a second sample based on the electrical signal from the photodiode of the image sensor;
code for outputting a first value based on the first sample, and a second value based on the second sample, for generating at least one image, wherein the first value is output as a first analog signal and the second value is output as a second analog signal, wherein the first analog signal and the second analog signal are each at least one of an ambient analog signal and a flash analog signal; and
code for amplifying the first analog signal utilizing two or more gains to generate a first amplified analog signal and a second amplified analog signal, wherein the computer program product is operable such that the first amplified analog signal is converted to a first digital signal with a first light sensitivity, and the second amplified analog signal is converted to a second digital signal with a second light sensitivity;
code for blending the first digital signal with the second digital signal, resulting in a first blended digital signal with a first blended light sensitivity;
code for amplifying the second analog signal utilizing a third gain to generate a third amplified analog signal, wherein the computer program product is operable such that the third amplified analog signal is converted to a third digital signal with a third light sensitivity; and
code for blending the first blended digital signal with the third digital signal, resulting in a second blended digital signal.
18. A method, comprising:
storing a first sample based on an electrical signal from a photodiode of an image sensor, wherein the electrical signal includes a photodiode current received from the photodiode of the image sensor;
simultaneous, at least in part, with the storing of the first sample, storing a second sample based on the electrical signal from the photodiode of the image sensor,
outputting a first value based on the first sample, and a second value based on the second sample, for generating at least one image, wherein the first value is output as a first analog signal and the second value is output as a second analog signal, wherein the first analog signal and the second analog signal are each at least one of an ambient analog signal and a flash analog signal;
amplifying the first analog signal utilizing two or more gains to generate a first amplified analog signal and a second amplified analog signal, wherein the first amplified analog signal is converted to a first digital signal with a first light sensitivity, and the second amplified analog signal is converted to a second digital signal with a second light sensitivity;
blending the first digital signal with the second digital signal, resulting in a first blended digital signal with a first blended light sensitivity;
amplifying the second analog signal utilizing a third gain to generate a third amplified analog signal, wherein the third amplified analog signal is converted to a third digital signal with a third light sensitivity; and
blending the first blended digital signal with the third digital signal, resulting in a second blended digital signal.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for transmitting a data packet in a network, wherein the data packet has a header field containing header data relevant to transmission and a user field, wherein at least one data field containing header data of a first header data type is provided in the header field, and wherein the data packet is transmitted from a transmitter device to a receiver device, is hereby characterized in that in the at least one data field, in addition to the header data of the first header data type, header data of at least one second header data type are transmitted.
2. The method according to claim 1, further characterized in that the header data of the at least one second header data type that are transmitted to the receiver device are reconstructed andor evaluated andor used by the receiver device.
3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, further characterized in that the transmitter device and the receiver device are designed as a router device.
4. A method for configuring a data packet that is transmitted in a network from a transmitter device to a receiver device, wherein the data packet has a header field containing header data relevant to transmission and a user field, and wherein at least one data field containing header data of a first header data type is provided in the header field, is hereby characterized in that in the at least one data field, in addition to the header data of the first header data type, header data of at least one second header data type are also included.
5. The method according to claim 1 or 4, further characterized in that the header data of the at least one second header data type contain information on the local processing of the data packet.
6. The method according to claim 1 or 4, further characterized in that the header data of the at least one second header data type contain information on the decoding andor the encrypting andor the routing policy andor the virtual context.
7. The method according to claim 1 or 4, further characterized in that the method is designed for transmitting or configuring an IP packet that is transmitted over the Internet from a transmitter device to a receiver device.
8. The method according to claim 7, further characterized in that the data field containing header data of the first header data type is designed as a TTL field (Time-To-Live field) and that header data of at least one second header data type are or will be included in the TTL field.
9. The method according to claim 8, further characterized in that the TTL field has a number of bits, that header data of the first header data type are or will be included in a first sub-number of bits, and that header data of the at least one second header data type are or will be included in at least one second sub-number of bits.
10. The method according to claim 9, further characterized in that in the TTL field, five or six or seven bits are used or will be used for the header data of the first header data type, and three or two or one bit(s) are used or will be used for the transmission of header data of the at least one second header data type.
11. The method according to claim 9, further characterized in that the bits used for the transmission of header data of the at least one second header data type span a range of values and that information on the local processing of the data packet will be or are assigned at least to individual values of this value range.
12. The method according to claim 8, further characterized in that a value of the TTL field will be set in the transmitter device from the header data of the first header data type and at least one second header data type, that the value of the TTL field containing the data packet will be transmitted to the receiver device, and that in the receiver device, at least header data of the at least one second header data type will be reconstructed from the transmitted value of the TTL field.
13. The method according to claim 12, further characterized in that a value of the TTL field will be set in the transmitter device from the header data of the first header data type and the header data of at least one second header data type according to the following formula:
TTL field value=2bit number of header data of the first header data type*k\u22121,
wherein the variable k corresponds to a value set by the transmitter device that is referred to the header data of the at least one second header data type.
14. The method according to claim 13 further characterized in that a value is set by the transmitter device for the variable k, which is selected from the value range spanned by the bits that are used for the transmission of header data of the at least one second header data type, and are assigned to the information on the local processing of the data packet.
15. The method according to claim 12, further characterized in that header data of the at least one second header data type will be reconstructed in the receiver device from the transmitted value of the TTL field according to the following formula:
k=quotient (TTL field value2bit number of the header data of the first header data type)+1
wherein the variable k corresponds to a value set by the transmitter device that is referred to the header data of the at least one second header data type, and wherein quotient denotes division into a whole number.