US Patent Issued to NTT on Nov. 3 for "Merge device, merge method, and merge program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,888, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Merge device, merge method, and merge program" was invented by Shuhei Yoshida (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Uzawa (Tokyo), Saki Hatta (Tokyo), Yuya Omori (Tokyo), Daisuke Kobayashi (Tokyo), Ken Nakamura (Tokyo) and Koyo Nitta (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The integration unit 26, using configuration information of the convolutional neural network model and each filter used in each convolutional layer of the convolutional neural network model as inputs, deletes one or more pieces of activation function processing performed between the plurality of convolutional layers and integrates...