How does agile core photography work?

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What’s interesting about “agile core photography” is how it redefines the sensor-readout pipeline like a tiny, self-driving camera stack: instead of scribbling the whole frame into RAM and then processing it in one big gulp, the chip partitions the sensor into tiles that scan themselves in real time. Each tile’s ADC and ISP sub-block runs a stripped-down AI that decides on-the-fly whether to bin, bin+sum, or keep full resolution for that patch, based on a quick histogram and a 20 ms motion vector. That’s the “agile” part—each tile can switch modes faster than mechanical shutter or rolling shutter artifacts can propagate. Now, the night-party trick is where those tile-level processors start trading bandwidth for dynamic range. A dark tile that’s seeing nothing but black sky might pixel-bin 4×4 and still run at 60 fps so the ISP can stack 16 raw frames before the next tile even wakes up. Meanwhile the tile looking at the moonlit foreground stays at 1×1, but because it’s only one tile the total readout bandwidth barely budges. So the SoC never stalls, and the aggregation engine stitches the HDR frame while the sensor is still exposing the next shot—kind of like shooting raw bursts with a mechanical arm that never tires. Have any of you ever tested a 30 fps “always on” capture?