US 12,131,527 B2
Ultrasonic computation hardware for convolutional neural network computing and other computation applications
Amit Lal, Ithaca, NY (US); Yutong Liu, Ithaca, NY (US); Juneho Hwang, Ithaca, NY (US); and Justin Kuo, Ithaca, NY (US)
Assigned to Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (US)
Appl. No. 18/282,141
Filed by Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 20, 2022, PCT No. PCT/US2022/025586
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 14, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/245462, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 24, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/177,220, filed on Apr. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0265694 A1, Aug. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. G06V 10/94 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01)
CPC G06V 10/955 (2022.01) [G06V 10/82 (2022.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ultrasonic computation apparatus comprising:
first and second ultrasonic transducer arrays arranged on opposing ends of the ultrasonic computation apparatus;
first and second ultrasonic propagation regions arranged between the first and second ultrasonic transducer arrays and proximate respective ones of the first and second ultrasonic transducer arrays; and
an intermediate computational structure arranged between the first and second ultrasonic propagation regions;
wherein respective first and second signals applied to respective ones of the first and second ultrasonic transducer arrays cause propagation of corresponding ultrasonic waves through the respective first and second ultrasonic propagation regions towards the intermediate computational structure; and
wherein the intermediate computational structure is configured to receive the propagating ultrasonic waves from the respective first and second ultrasonic propagation regions and to generate from the received propagating ultrasonic waves an additional signal that is a function of the first and second signals.