The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.

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.

Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023

Filed:

Apr. 28, 2021
Applicant:

Movidius Limited, Schiphol-Rijk, NL;

Inventors:

Fergal Connor, Dundalk, IE;

David Bernard, Kilcullen, IE;

Niall Hanrahan, Corrandulla, IE;

Assignee:

Movidius Limited, Schiphol-Rijk, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/544 (2006.01); G06F 17/16 (2006.01); G06F 7/523 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/523 (2013.01); G06F 7/5443 (2013.01); G06F 17/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to perform dot product calculations using sparse vectors are disclosed. An example apparatus includes means for generating a mask vector based on a first logic operation on a difference vector and an inverse of a control vector, the control vector based on a first bitmap of a first sparse vector and a second bitmap of a second sparse vector; means for generating a first product of a third value from the first sparse vector and a fourth value from the second sparse vector, the third value based on (i) the mask vector and (ii) a second sparsity map based on the first sparse vector, the fourth value corresponding to (i) the mask vector and (ii) a second sparsity map corresponding to the second sparse vector; and means for adding the first product to a second product of a previous iteration.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Loading…