ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,568, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus which reduces computation operations, information processing method, and computer readable medium" was invented by Salita Sombatsiri (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide an information processing apparatus capable of reducing redundant computation in CNN. An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes at least one memory configured to store an instruction, and at least one processor configured to execute the instruction to use mask channel in input feature maps to mask pixels of feature...