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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gerald Edelman, New York, NY (US);
Olaf Sporns, New York, NY (US);
Giulio Tononi, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
Neurosciences Research Foundation, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06K / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 15 ; 382-9 ; 382 14 ; 395 21 ; 348 25 ;
Abstract
Apparatus which segments visual scenes into discrete objects. The apparatus is able to perceptually group the elements corresponding to a coherent figure, and to segregate them from the background or from another figure. Reentrant signaling among rhythmically active neuronal groups is used to correlate responses along spatially extended contours. The efficacy of the connections is allowed to change on a fast time scale resulting in active reentrant connections which amplify the correlations among neuronal groups and provides the desired segmentation.