18835702. NEURAL NETWORK CIRCUIT AND ARITHMETIC METHOD (Sony Group Corporation)

NEURAL NETWORK CIRCUIT AND ARITHMETIC METHOD

Organization Name

Sony Group Corporation

Inventor(s)

Hiroyuki Katchi of Tokyo JP

NEURAL NETWORK CIRCUIT AND ARITHMETIC METHOD

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18835702 titled 'NEURAL NETWORK CIRCUIT AND ARITHMETIC METHOD

Original Abstract Submitted

Downsized division circuitry is disclosed. In one example, a coefficient holding unit holds a coefficient of a filter used for a convolution operation. A multiplier data holding unit holds, as multiplier data, an inverse number of the number of elements of a pooling window used for an average pooling operation. An input data holding unit holds input data of the convolution operation and the average pooling operation. A control unit performs control to input the input data held in the input data holding unit and the coefficient held in the coefficient holding unit to a product-sum operator for a product-sum calculation for the convolution operation, and performs control to input the input data held in the input data holding unit and the multiplier data held in the multiplier data holding unit to the product-sum operator and cause the product-sum operator to perform a product-sum operation for the average pooling operation.