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Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015

Filed:

Feb. 08, 2013
Applicant:

Qualcomm Technologies Inc., San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Micah Richert, San Diego, CA (US);

Filip Piekniewski, San Diego, CA (US);

Eugene Izhikevich, San Diego, CA (US);

Sach Sokol, Washington, DC (US);

Victor Hokkiu Chan, Del Mar, CA (US);

Jeffrey Alexander Levin, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM TECHNOLOGIES INC., San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/08 (2006.01); G06N 3/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06N 3/049 (2013.01);
Abstract

Apparatus and methods for learning in response to temporally-proximate features. In one implementation, an image processing apparatus utilizes bi-modal spike timing dependent plasticity in a spiking neuron network. Based on a response by the neuron to a frame of input, the bi-modal plasticity mechanism is used to depress synaptic connections delivering the present input frame and to potentiate synaptic connections delivering previous and/or subsequent frames of input. The depression of near-contemporaneous input prevents the creation of a positive feedback loop and provides a mechanism for network response normalization.


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