Patents by Inventor Aimar ALESSANDRO

Aimar ALESSANDRO has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Convolution processing apparatus and method
    Patent number: 10296829
    Abstract: A convolution processing apparatus and method are disclosed. The convolution processing apparatus may include a controller configured to load a pixel of an input image and skip a process associated with the pixel in response to a value of the loaded pixel being 0, a filter bank including at least one filter and configured to extract at least one kernel element corresponding to the pixel from the at least one filter based on an index of the pixel and an input channel of the pixel, and a multiplier-accumulator (MAC) configured to perform a convolution operation based on the value of the pixel and a value of the at least one kernel element and accumulatively store an operation result of the convolution operation, the operation result corresponding to an output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., UNIVERSITAET ZUERICH
    Inventors: Hesham Mostafa, Aimar Alessandro
  • CONVOLUTION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20180150721
    Abstract: A convolution processing apparatus and method are disclosed. The convolution processing apparatus may include a controller configured to load a pixel of an input image and skip a process associated with the pixel in response to a value of the loaded pixel being 0, a filter bank including at least one filter and configured to extract at least one kernel element corresponding to the pixel from the at least one filter based on an index of the pixel and an input channel of the pixel, and a multiplier-accumulator (MAC) configured to perform a convolution operation based on the value of the pixel and a value of the at least one kernel element and accumulatively store an operation result of the convolution operation, the operation result corresponding to an output image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicants: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., UNIVERSITAET ZUERICH
    Inventors: Hesham MOSTAFA, Aimar ALESSANDRO