ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,503, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Programmable signal processing apparatus" was invented by Shuto Funakoshi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yohei Horikawa (Tokyo) and Kazuma Sakato (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable signal processing apparatus comprises a plurality of ALUs and a control unit that performs control for configuring a targeted circuit based on received information. The plurality of ALUs include a first type of ALU with one input and multiple outputs and a second type of ALU with two inputs and one output. The first type of ALU delays input data and outputs a plurality of pieces o...