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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1991
William E Engeler, Scotia, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Digital synapse input signals which are temporally aligned with each other are converted to analog form for application to a neural net layer. Several digital synapse input signals can be written into digital memory at different times, to be read out in temporal alignment for conversion to analog form for application to a neural net layer. The digital synapse input signals can originate from apparatus for raster-scanning a field or successive fields of video samples, for example, with the neural net layer providing filters for recognizing shapes in a field of the video samples. The neural net layer can be either a pre-programmed type or a learning type, and its axonal outputs may be digitized for use in subsequent digital processing.