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Excitory and inhibitory cellular automata for computational networks

US5511146A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 14, 1994
Grant dateApr 23, 1996
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Expiry dateJun 14, 2014

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06N3/004
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A set of three cellular automata--the E-Cell, the I-Cell, and the D-Node--can be used to design and assemble parallel processing networks for such applications as signal processing and artificial intelligence. The E-Cell (FIG. 1a) is an excitory cell. The I-Cell (FIG. 2a) is an inhibitory cell. The D-Node (FIG. 3) is a combination of E-Cells and I-Cells. The use of the cellular automata is illustrated in three exemplary applications: a lateral inhibition network (FIG. 5b), a tree-search network (FIG. 6b), and a graph-search network (FIG. 7e). In particular, the tree-search and graph-search networks are implemented using the same structure as the tree or graph.

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