ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,880, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Optical 4f system performing extended convolution operation and operating method thereof" was invented by Ik-Soon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin Hwa Gene (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an optical system which includes a first lens that receives input data from an object, a kernel that performs a first Fourier transform on the input data and generates learning data by performing calculation on a result of the first Fourier transform and pattern data, and a second lens that gene...