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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 1997

Filed:

Jul. 19, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Michael T Glier, Chepachet, RI (US);

John Cole, Northboro, MA (US);

Mark Laird, Milford, MA (US);

Assignee:

Nestor, Inc., Providence, RI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395 27 ; 395 24 ; 395 21 ;
Abstract

A neural network including a plurality of sub-nets stored in a memory array and a method of operation. Each of the sub-nets includes a corresponding plurality of weights and is individually operable to classify an input vector. A computation unit, including a distance calculation unit and a math unit, is responsive to an input vector comprising input training features for determining a distance between the weights of each sub-net to each of the input features of the input vector and for determining whether the distance is within a particular region of influence. Also described is a parallel process for training the sub-nets.


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