Certainly there's some post-processing going on on the Kinect; whether it's via CPU, ASIC, DSP, or FPGA I have no idea. I'd imagine there's some signed code im

Certainly there's some post-processing going on on the Kinect; whether it's via CPU, ASIC, DSP, or FPGA I have no idea. I'd imagine there's some signed code image that is factory-installed to some Flash or EEPROM on the Kinect; it's probably upgradeable via USB, but I don't think it can rely on the code being transferred over every time, since the posted driver gets depth images off the Kinect without doing so. EDIT: The link posted by another commenter http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft-Kinect-Teardown/4066/2 http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft-Kinect-Teardown/406... (Step 11) shows that the Prime Sense reference platform has Flash storage, almost certainly for code and calibration data.