US Patent Issued to DEEPX on June 9 for "NPU and apparatus for transceiving feature map in a bitstream format" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,450, issued on June 9, was assigned to DEEPX Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"NPU and apparatus for transceiving feature map in a bitstream format" was invented by Lok Won Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Ha Joon Yu (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural processing unit (NPU) for decoding video or feature map is provided. The NPU may comprise at least one processing element (PE) to perform an inference using an artificial neural network. The at least one PE may be configured to receive and decode data included in a bitstream. The data included in the bitstream may comprise data of a base layer. Altern...