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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2004
Jacob Allen, Troy, MI (US);
Robert L. Ewing, Kettering, OH (US);
Hoda S. Abdel-aty-zohdy, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Jacob Allen, Troy, MI (US);
Robert L. Ewing, Kettering, OH (US);
Hoda S. Abdel-Aty-Zohdy, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
An odor discrimination method and device for an electronic nose system including olfactory pattern classification based on a binary spiking neural network with the capability to handle many sensor inputs in a noise environment while recognizing a large number of potential odors. The spiking neural networks process a large number of inputs arriving from a chemical sensor array and implemented with efficient use of chip surface area.