US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on July 21 for "Arithmetic processing system and convolution operation method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,253, issued on July 21, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Arithmetic processing system and convolution operation method" was invented by Yoshiteru Hayashi (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arithmetic processing system includes an external memory and an arithmetic-logic unit. The arithmetic-logic unit performs at least operations of 1) acquiring a first partition map from each input feature map stored in the external memory, the first partition map being one of partition maps included in the input feature map; executing a convolution operation on the first partition maps acquired f...