ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,774, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).
"Runtime reconfigurable compression format conversion" was invented by Jong Hoon Shin (San Jose, Calif.), Ardavan Pedram (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Joseph Hassoun (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A runtime data-format optimizer for a processing element includes a sparsity-detector and a compression-converter. The sparsity-detector selects a first compression-conversion format during a runtime of the processing element based on a performance model that is based on a first sparsity pattern of first data stored in a first memory that is e...