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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2019
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/533 (2006.01); G06F 7/544 (2006.01); G06N 3/08 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/533 (2013.01); G06F 7/5443 (2013.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus includes a first holding unit and a second holding unit configured to hold first-type data and second-type data, respectively, a first operation unit configured to execute a first product-sum operation based on the first-type data, a branch unit configured to output an operation result of the first product-sum operation in parallel, a sampling unit configured to sample the operation result and to output a sampling result, and a second operation unit configured to execute a second product-sum operation based on the second-type data and the sampling result.