US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY on Aug. 26 for "Binary neural network-based local activation method and system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,441, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Binary neural network-based local activation method and system" was invented by Yun Pan (Hangzhou, China), Siqi Hui (Hangzhou, China) and Huaiyu Zhu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A local activation method and system based on a binary neural network, said method including: during forward propagation, comparing the difference between a center pixel and an adjacent pixel to determine a local activation value; during forward propagation, setting an appropriate number of local activation channels and an activation direction to obtain a local ...