US Patent Issued to DEEPX on Feb. 17 for "NPU and decoder capable of transceiving feature map" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,726, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to DEEPX Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"NPU and decoder capable of transceiving feature map" was invented by IIMyeong Im (Seoul, South Korea) and SunMi Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural processing unit (NPU) for decoding video and/or feature map may include at least one processing element (PE) for an artificial neural network (ANN), the at least one PE to receive and decode a bitstream. The bitstream is received in units of frames, and one frame includes a weight for an ANN model, data of a base layer, and data of a plurality of enhancement layers. An NPU...