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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2017
X Development Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael Jason Grundmann, San Jose, CA (US);
Sylvia Joan Smullin, Menlo Park, CA (US);
X Development LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus for performing convolutional computations using an optical system. In some aspects computations for a neural network are performed in a digital domain using electronic circuitry, the neural network including a convolutional layer. Input data for the convolutional layer of the neural network is obtained, and a convolution or correlation computation on the input data in an analog domain using an optical correlator module is performed to generate an optical correlator module output. Based on the optical correlator module output, data is processed through additional layers of the neural network in the digital domain using the electronic circuitry.