ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,097, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Neural network compression device" was invented by Hiroaki Ito (Hitachinaka, Japan), Goichi Ono (Tokyo) and Riu Hirai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing time of a neural network is shortened, and the number of operations of the neural network is reduced such that a plurality of calculators can be effectively used. A neural network reduction device (100) that reduces the number of operations of a neural network by an operation device (140) including a plurality of calculators by reducing the neural network, the neural network reduction de...