US Patent 10296351 Computer vision processing in hardware data paths

An apparatus includes a processor and a coprocessor. The processor may be configured to generate a command to run a directed acyclic graph. The coprocessor may be configured to (i) receive the command from the processor, (ii) parse the directed acyclic graph into a data flow including one or more operators, (iii) schedule the operators in one or more data paths and (iv) generate one or more output vectors by processing one or more input vectors in the data paths. The data paths may be implemented with a plurality of hardware engines. The hardware engines may operate in parallel to each other. The coprocessor may be implemented solely in hardware.