US Patent Issued to HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 18 for "Operation method and apparatus for network layer in deep neural network" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,668, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Operation method and apparatus for network layer in deep neural network" was invented by Yuan Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Di Xie (Hangzhou, China) and Shiliang Pu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation method and apparatus for a network layer in a Deep Neural Network are provided. The method includes: acquiring a weighted tensor of the network layer in the Deep Neural Network, the weighted tensor comprising a plurality of filters; converting each filter into a linear combination of a plurality of fixed-point c...