US Patent Issued to NEC on May 26 for "Forward propagation apparatus, learning apparatus, information processing system, processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,580, issued on May 26, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Forward propagation apparatus, learning apparatus, information processing system, processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program" was invented by Youki Sada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A forward propagation apparatus is a forward propagation apparatus for a neural network, including: a mask generation unit that generates a binary mask; and a layer execution unit that performs an operation for a sparse convolutional layer according to a value at each coordinate of the binary mask, in which the mask generation unit: generates heat maps b...