ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• Main Authors: CHO, Hansu, KIM, Kyounghoon, PARK, Younghwan, KIM, Sukjin, SUH, Dongkwan, PRASADNAGARAJA, Keshava, KIM, Hyunjung
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 30.09.2020
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; COMPUTING; COUNTING; PHYSICS

An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a storage storing object data and kernel data, and a processor including a plurality of processing elements arranged in a matrix formation, wherein the processor is configured to input corresponding first elements among a plurality of first elements included in the object data into processing elements arranged in a first row among the plurality of processing elements, and input a plurality of second elements included in the kernel data sequentially into the processing elements arranged in the first row to perform operations between the corresponding first elements and the plurality of second elements, to identify a depth in which a first element and a second element have a non-zero value, and to input the first element and the second element corresponding to the identified depth into a calculator included in each of the processing elements arranged in the first row to perform a convolution operation.