US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 21 for "Depth-first deep convolutional neural network inference" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,486, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Depth-first deep convolutional neural network inference" was invented by Piero Zappi (La Jolla, Calif.), Jin Won Lee (San Diego), Christopher Lott (San Diego) and Rexford Alan Hill (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a computing device includes determining a partition for depth-first processing by a multi-layer artificial neural network (ANN) of the computing device. The computing device comprising a processor, on-chip memory, and off-chip memory. The first partition determined based on an amount of on-chip memory used by the first partiti...