46 results about "Arithmetic processing unit" patented technology

An example computing device may include memory and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to determine a Cartesian grid in a space. The Cartesian grid may correspond to a precision of an arithmetic processing unit. The one or more processors are configured to, for each of a plurality of neural network weights, determine a respective vector in the space, such that each respective vector belongs to a corresponding predefined vector on the Cartesian grid and represents a respective compressed neural network weight of a plurality of compressed neural network weights. The one or more processors are configured to execute, based on the plurality of compressed network weights, a neural network. The one or more processors are configured to generate, based on executing the neural network, an output.

The present disclosure discloses a product recognition apparatus and method, in which the apparatus includes: a vision sensor configured to obtain and transmit image information of a product to an arithmetic processing unit; the arithmetic processing unit configured to deal the image information of the product based on an image recognition model, to obtain and transmit category information of the product to a data transceiver; and the data transceiver configured to transmit the category information of the product to a backend server of a seller, so that the backend server of the seller makes a settlement based on the category information of the product and preset price information of different categories of products. By adopting the product recognition apparatus, it is possible to quickly recognize the categories of various products, increase efficiency and accuracy of the cashing, and improve the user experiences.

This oil evaluation device is provided with a calculation processing unit that calculates, on the basis of a measurement result of the density of oil in an internal combustion engine, the proportion of soot mixed into the oil as an evaluation index.

To provide a CMP apparatus and a polishing method that can easily improve the accuracy of measuring the thickness of a polishing layer among a plurality of layers stacked on the surface of a wafer.SOLUTION: There is provided a CMP apparatus 1 for polishing a polishing layer W1 of a wafer W comprising the polishing layer W1 and at least one underlayer W2 located below the polishing layer. The CMP apparatus comprises: a database 30 including respective model waveforms of reflected light spectra for respective thicknesses of the polishing layer corresponding to respective thicknesses of the underlayer; a detection unit 120 for determining the thickness of the polishing layer on the basis of the database and a first reflected light spectrum detected during polishing of the wafer; and an arithmetic processing unit 130 for generating the database on the basis of information on materials of the polishing layer, information on materials of the underlayer, a first thickness range of the polishing layer, a second thickness range of the underlayer, and thickness intervals of the polishing layer and the underlayer.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

To provide a target commodity authorization program and a target commodity authorization device which analyze commodity data of display shelves for usage by a company manufacturing products for consumers.SOLUTION: A target commodity authorization program is a program for allowing a computer including a storage medium and an arithmetic processing unit to operate each of the following steps. The steps include: an image data storage step of storing image data of shop shelves obtained by each photographing means in the storage medium; a shelf contents grasping step of grasping shelf steps of shelves, and commodities arranged on the shelf steps; and a ratio calculation step of specifying a previously set target commodity among the grasped commodities, grasping the number of commodities of the target commodity, and calculating a ratio of the target commodity among all commodities on the shelves for a previously set commodity category or each of sub-categories being subordinate categories of the category.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

According to the present invention, a computation processing device for a calculation system that comprises memory, storage, and the computation processing device comprises a computation unit that reads each key of a set of data for secret-shared key-value pairs from the memory and the storage, uses a pseudo-random function to calculate a hash value for each key, calculates a substitution on the basis of the resulting series of hash values, uses the substitution to construct a hash table from the set of data as extracted from the memory and the storage, and uses secret sharing to store the hash table at the memory and the storage.

An inclination of a weighing apparatus is automatically detected by the apparatus itself while preventing an increase in the number of components. In order to achieve the object described above, a weighing apparatus includes a weight sensor, a built-in weight to be loaded on the weight sensor, an adding / removing unit for adding / removing the built-in weight, a memory storing a theoretical value of the built-in weight, and an arithmetic processing unit, wherein the arithmetic processing unit includes an inclination angle computing unit configured to obtain an apparatus inclination angle from an arc-cosine of a weighing value of the built-in weight and the theoretical value of the built-in weight.

A tensor calculation device, a data processor, a tensor calculation method and a storage medium. The tensor calculation device comprises a receiving unit, a tensor processing unit and an arithmetic processing unit; the tensor processing unit is configured to perform a first tensor calculation on a first tensor to obtain a first intermediate tensor; the tensor processing unit is further configured to obtain a virtual tensor and perform a second tensor calculation on a second tensor according to the virtual tensor to obtain a second intermediate tensor, wherein the second intermediate tensor and the second tensor have the same shape, and the numerical values of the elements at all corresponding positions of the second intermediate tensor and the second tensor have the same preset proportional relationship; and the arithmetic processing unit is configured to perform arithmetic operation processing on the second intermediate tensor and the first intermediate tensor to obtain a result tensor. The tensor calculation device does not need to load data for performing the arithmetic operation, and there is no bandwidth competition phenomenon, thereby greatly improving the overall efficiency of the operator and effectively utilizing the powerful computing power of the tensor calculation device itself.

A counting scale includes a weighing pan, a weighing sensor connected to the weighing pan, a storage unit including a registered data table storing, as registered data, a unique identification number, an article name, and a unit weight with respect to one article, an arithmetic processing unit configured to urge placement of one piece of the target article on the weighing pan, calculate a unit weighed value of the one piece of the target article from the weighing sensor, narrow down registered data including a unit weight within a predetermined range with respect to the unit weighed value as candidate data from the registered data table, and obtain sorted candidate data by selecting and sorting the candidate data in ascending order of absolute value of deviation from the unit weighed value, and a display unit configured to display the sorted candidate data.

Monitoring the delta value, which is an indicator of directional risk, and buying and selling the Nikkei 225 mini when the delta value changes from 0 require constant monitoring and buying and selling by users, which places a heavy burden on users and makes it nearly impossible for individual investors in particular. [Solution] The option delta neutral automated system 3 calculates the delta value of an option based on stock price fluctuations and market price information acquired in real time from a market price information acquisition unit 31 connected to a market price information database 21 of a financial instruments trading device at a financial instruments business operator. When the delta value is not 0, an arithmetic processing unit 32 makes an automatic trading decision for the held futures in order to return the delta value to 0, and performs automatic trading processing for the held futures based on the decision of the arithmetic processing unit 32.

To provide an information processing apparatus, etc. capable of supporting construction of thermal environments in both a bedroom and a bed suitable for an individual user.SOLUTION: An information processing apparatus 100 includes a storage unit 130 and an arithmetic processing unit 120. The storage unit 130 stores attribute information including one or both of user's biological information and user's preference information about coldness and hotness. The arithmetic processing unit 120 specifies to which of a plurality of preset thermal sensation groups the thermal sensation of the user belongs, using user's attribute information stored in the storage unit 130, and determines a combination of a room temperature and warming performance of bedding and sleep wear while the user is sleeping according to the thermal sensation group that the user's thermal sensation belongs. The information processing apparatus 100 further includes an output unit 140 for outputting the combination of the room temperature and the warming performance of bedding and sleep wear while the user is sleeping.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

The invention discloses a convolutional neural network accelerator based on a lookup table and in-memory computation, which comprises an on-chip main memory and a plurality of operation processing units, and is characterized in that each operation processing unit comprises a data preprocessing unit, an in-memory computation array unit, a first summator and an accumulator which are connected in sequence; serial input based on bit feature values is adopted, and an input feature value sequence is compressed; the data preprocessing unit is used for decompressing the compressed feature value sequence and the compressed weight, and matrix multiplication based on a lookup table form is carried out in the in-memory calculation array unit through an in-memory calculation macro module; the first adder is used for adding a first part and a result output by each column of in-memory computing macro-module in the in-memory computing array unit to obtain a second part and a result, and the accumulator is used for calculating the second part and the result to obtain a multiply-accumulate result corresponding to the characteristic value data stream; and high sparseness caused by unstructured pruning can be effectively utilized.

SOLUTION: A computation apparatus comprises a plurality of memory banks and a computation processing unit that generates a result data sequence obtained by computation of a plurality of data sequences by repeating processes of reading the data sequence from a source memory bank among the plurality of memory banks, performing computation between the read data sequence and the next data sequence, and writing the data sequence obtained as a result of the computation into a destination memory bank among the plurality of memory banks while alternately switching the source memory bank and the destination memory bank.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4

According to one embodiment, the augmented reality presentation system comprises a haptic presentation unit which presents a haptic sensation to the specific part, a display unit, an information acquiring unit for acquiring spatial position information of the specific part, an information setting unit for setting haptic information corresponding to the haptic sensation presented to the specific part, and an arithmetic processing unit for generating a specific part image that simulates the specific part.

An embodiment is a computer including a plurality of accelerators, a computer for distributed processing includes a plurality of accelerators to each of which a part of a neural network is assigned and each of which is configured to derive a learning result based on input data and update each parameter value included in the part of the neural network by using the learning result; a plurality of network interface circuits each of which is configured to transmit and receive information on learning including the learning result via a network, and an arithmetic processing unit that is configured to control the plurality of accelerators and the plurality of network interface circuits to cause each of the plurality of accelerators to derive a learning result based on input data and to cause the plurality of network interface circuits to transmit and receive information on learning including the learning result.

An abnormal sound diagnosis system includes a sound acquisition unit configured to acquire data of a sound generated from an object, an inquiry information acquisition unit configured to acquire inquiry information regarding an abnormal sound generated in the object, an arithmetic processing unit configured to acquire a spectrogram indicating a relationship among a time, a frequency, and sound pressure from the data of the sound, an extraction unit configured to acquire, based on the inquiry information acquired by the inquiry information acquisition unit, an inferred frequency range of the abnormal sound generated in the object and extract an extracted range corresponding the inferred frequency range of the spectrogram acquired by the arithmetic processing unit, and a diagnosis unit configured to diagnose, based on the extracted range of the spectrogram extracted by the extraction unit, a cause of the abnormal sound generated in the object.

Provided are a device and a method which are capable of autonomously extending and changing the control of even a control device differing in instruction format and protocol. The present technology includes, for example, an extension control device that can communicably connect to a device having a control device, the extension control device including an arithmetic processing device, a memory in which a predetermined control program is stored, and a sensor, wherein the arithmetic processing device is configured to transmit the predetermined control program to the control device in response to the reception of a predetermined signal from the sensor.

To provide a power supply device that, even when output voltage output from a power supply voltage generation unit is unstable, can stabilize the output voltage to an arithmetic processing unit after a transition to a power saving mode.SOLUTION: When the operation mode of an image forming apparatus is switched to a power saving mode, output voltage output from a power supply circuit to a main control unit is stepped down to have a voltage value obtained by subtracting a correction value based on a prescribed step-down correction value (first step-down correction value, or second step-down correction value) from a reference voltage V0.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

To provide a semiconductor device which can improve arithmetic capacity such as AI learning and processing efficiency.SOLUTION: A flash memory 100 includes a NAND type or NOR type memory cell array 110, and an arithmetic processing unit 190. The arithmetic processing unit 190 includes a bit line current detection unit 200, a voltage holding unit 210 which holds voltage corresponding to detected current, an addition unit 220 which adds the voltage held in the voltage holding unit 210, and an A / D conversion unit 230 which performs A / D conversion on an addition result of the addition unit 220. The arithmetic processing unit 190 can calculate the sum of currents which flow through a bit line in a line direction and / or a column direction at reading of the memory cell array.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

In the arithmetic processing device, the arithmetic control unit controls in the following manner: during the filtering process and the accumulation process for a specific pixel used to calculate the output feature quantity map, the intermediate result is temporarily stored in the memory for storing the accumulation result to perform the processing of other pixels. After the intermediate results of the accumulation process for all pixels are stored in the memory for storing the accumulation result, it returns to the first pixel, reads out the value stored in the memory for storing the accumulation result, uses this value as the initial value of the accumulation process, and continues to execute the accumulation process.

To appropriately manage the quality of a product when using a raw material having variations in characteristics or the like in many cases.SOLUTION: A control device 100 that operates an electrical device 120 constituting a manufacturing line of a product and acquires data from a measurement device 130 installed in the manufacturing line, the control device 100 including a controller unit 110 that operates the electrical device 120, an arithmetic processing unit 104 that has a function of calculating a parameter for controlling the electrical device 120 and outputting the parameter to the controller unit 110, a function of performing arithmetic processing on data acquired from at least one of the electrical device 120 and the measurement device 130, and a function of acquiring at least one of procurement information and storage information of a raw material of the product, 130 120, and a storage part 106 for storing an arithmetic processing result of the arithmetic processing part 104, wherein the arithmetic processing result is associated with at least one of the procurement information and the storage information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

A maintenance assistance system assists maintenance in a component mounting system including a plurality of work units. The maintenance assistance system includes: a display unit that displays a maintenance event of a work unit that needs to be maintained among the plurality of work units; a display control unit that controls the display unit; and an arithmetic processing unit that performs processing for obtaining data of a parameter indicating the work accuracy of the work unit per unit period, and processing for detecting the work unit, the work accuracy of which is reduced, as a work unit to be maintained on the basis of the data. The display control unit controls a display method and / or display content of maintenance items of the target work unit such that maintenance of the target work unit is prioritized than maintenance of other work units.

To provide a transport temperature monitoring device and a transport temperature monitoring system which can predict the time at which temperature inside a transport container deviates from management temperature during transport or storage, and notify a user of the time in advance.SOLUTION: A transport temperature monitoring device which can be attached to or incorporated into a transport container comprises: one or more internal temperature sensors which measure at least the temperature inside the transport container; an internal temperature acquisition unit; an external temperature sensor which measures external temperature of the transport container; an external temperature acquisition unit; a control unit; a storage unit; a communication unit; and a display unit. The control unit comprises an arithmetic processing unit which calculates the time when the internal temperature deviates from management temperature based on the internal temperature and the external temperature. Moreover, the control unit may comprise a display control unit which integrates the internal temperature and the external temperature, and information such as the time at which the internal temperature deviates from the management temperature to generate and display a code image.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

A control device (100) operates an electrical device (120) constituting a production line of a product and acquires data from a measurement device (130) installed on the production line, the control device comprising: a controller unit (110) that operates the electrical device (120); a computation processing unit (104) that includes a function for calculating a parameter for controlling the electrical device (120) and outputting the parameter to the controller unit (110), a function for computing data acquired from the electrical device (120) and / or the measurement device (130), and a function for acquiring procurement information and / or storage information for raw material for the product; and a storage unit (106) that stores the data acquired from the electrical device (120) and the measurement device (130), and the computation processing results of the computation processing unit (104). The computation processing results are associated with the procurement information and / or the storage information. Due to this configuration, it is possible to appropriately manage the quality of a product when using a raw material that often has variations in characteristics or the like.

An optical measurement device includes at least a multi-frequency laser configured to simultaneously generate a frequency-fixed carrier and at least one frequency-modulated subcarrier, an optical branching element, a dual frequency beat signal generator, a difference signal generator, and an arithmetic processing unit. Either the carrier or the subcarrier within the output light of the multi-frequency laser is used as first measurement light and either the carrier or the subcarrier having a frequency different from that of the first measurement light is used as second measurement light. The dual frequency beat signal generator separates and outputs a first complex beat signal derived from the first measurement light and a second complex beat signal derived from the second measurement light. The difference signal generator outputs a difference signal between the first complex beat signal and the second complex beat signal.

The invention provides a two-piece head-mounted system. The two-piece head-mounted system includes an arithmetic processing unit, a head-mounted unit, and a cable unit. The arithmetic processing unit and the head-mounted unit are connected to each other by a plurality of optical fiber cables in the cable unit. The two-piece head-mounted system includes a processor, a first conversion device, an image device, and a second conversion device. The processor is installed in the operation processing part. The first conversion device is configured to perform parallel-serial conversion and photoelectric conversion on a signal transmitted between the processor and the optical fiber cable. The image device is installed in the head-mounted part. The second conversion device is configured to perform parallel-serial conversion and photoelectric conversion on a signal transmitted between the image device and the optical fiber cable.

The invention discloses a system-on-chip and a method for operating the system-on-chip. The system on chip includes: at least one arithmetic processing unit configured to: process an instruction based on a driving voltage and a clock signal; a temperature management module configured to estimate a cooling coefficient and a heating coefficient associated with the at least one arithmetic processing unit based on the temperature measured at the at least one arithmetic processing unit, determining an operation frequency of a clock signal to be transmitted to the at least one arithmetic processing unit based on the cooling coefficient and the heat generation coefficient; and a dynamic voltage frequency adjustment (DVFS) module configured to output a control signal for adjusting the driving voltage and the clock signal based on the operating frequency.

An air conditioning system includes a main body device and a remote device. The main body device includes a hardware group and first software that controls the hardware group. The remote device includes an arithmetic processing unit and second software that controls the arithmetic processing unit. The first software includes a hardware access layer, a control layer, and a main body device-side function layer that accepts an order to the main body device and outputs a first instruction to the control layer. The second software includes a remote device-side function layer that accepts an order to the main body device and outputs a second instruction to the control layer via the main body device-side function layer. A function execution program that executes a function of the main body device is in at least one of the main body device-side function layer or the remote device-side function layer.

This system comprises an arithmetic processing unit for performing arithmetic processing, and a memory for storing data handled by the arithmetic processing unit. The system is provided with: a conversion circuit for executing, in hardware, conversion processing for converting the byte order of input data between big endian and little endian; and a table for storing access patterns corresponding to a transmission source and a reception destination of the input data. The conversion circuit determines the access pattern by referring to the table, and executes conversion into big endian or conversion into little endian according to the determined access pattern.

The invention provides a calculation device, a test device, a calculation method, and a calculation program. The arithmetic device includes a plurality of banks, and an arithmetic processing unit that performs a process of reading a data column from a source bank among the plurality of banks, performing an arithmetic between the data column and a next data column, and writing a data column obtained as a result of the arithmetic into a target bank among the plurality of banks. The processing is repeated while alternately exchanging the source bank and the target bank, thereby generating a result data column obtained by computing the plurality of data columns.