The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. patent US12585434B2, titled 'Computing device with pixel unshuffle and pixel shuffle operations and computing method therefor.' The patent, filed on February 23, 2022, and granted on March 24, 2026, describes a method that includes unshuffling first image data to generate input data, implementing a neural network (NN) model with the input data to generate output data, and shuffling the output data to generate second image data. This technology is classified under CPC codes G06F 7/76 and G06N 3/04.

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