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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 28, 1994
Hiroyuki Nakahira, Osaka, JP;
Masakatsu Maruyama, Osaka, JP;
Shiro Sakiyama, Osaka, JP;
Susumu Maruno, Osaka, JP;
Toshiyuki Kouda, Nara, JP;
Masaru Fukuda, Osaka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
In an information processing apparatus for implementing a neural network, if an input vector is inputted to a calculating unit, a neuron which responds to the input vector is retrieved in accordance with network interconnection information stored in a first storage unit and the neuron number indicating the retrieved neuron is written in a first register. The calculating unit reads out the internal information of the neuron stored in a second storage unit by using the neuron number, writes it in a second register, and calculates the sum of products of the outputs of the neurons and the connection loads of synapses connected to the neurons. By repeating the sequence of operations by the number of times corresponding to the total number of input vectors, a recognition process is executed. The neural network can easily be expanded by rewriting the contents of the first and second storage units.