US Patent Issued on Dec. 2 for "Photonic-controlled crossbar for convolution operations in neuromorphic machine vision" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,553, issued on Dec. 2.

"Photonic-controlled crossbar for convolution operations in neuromorphic machine vision" was invented by Yimin Wu (Waterloo, Canada), Tao Guo (Stittsville, Canada), Baizhou Zhang (Kitchener, Canada) and Y. Norman Zhou (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical synapse device which can be used in a neuromorphic machine vision system to enable broadband sensing and fast data processing in applications where machine vision is used, such as for example in real-time video analysis, autonomous vehicles and medical diagnosis. The novel optical synapse device enables image sensing, convolutional process...