ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. RE50,792, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Filter processing apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Tsewei Chen (Tokyo) and Masami Kato (Sagamihara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter processing apparatus comprises: K arithmetic operation units configured to perform predetermined arithmetic operation processing parallelly; a data holding unit configured to hold a plurality of data values; a coefficient holding unit configured to hold a plurality of filter coefficients; a first pattern holding unit configured to hold a first pattern that selects K data values from the plurality of data values;...