US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on Nov. 3 for "Method for improving convolutional neural network to perform computations" (Chinese, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,848, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method for improving convolutional neural network to perform computations" was invented by Li-Li Tan (Suzhou, China) and Wen-Tsai Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for improving a convolutional neural network (CNN) to perform computations is provided. The method includes the following steps: determining a number of a plurality of multipliers to be N and a number of a plurality of adders to be N according to a number of convolution kernels used by a plurality of convolution layers; and in response to an i-th convolutional ...