Patent ID: 9412051
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: G06K,G06N

Claim Text:
1. A neuromorphic image processing channel comprising: a plurality of relay neurons to receive spiking input signals from an image source; a plurality of interneurons to provide feed-forward inhibition to relay neurons of the relay neuron plurality according to a one-to-many mapping, an interneuron of the interneuron plurality to receive a set of the spiking input signals according to a many-to-one mapping into the interneuron; and a plurality of reticular neurons to receive output spiking signals from relay neurons of the relay neuron plurality and to provide feedback inhibition to the relay neurons, wherein the relay neurons, the interneurons, and the reticular neurons of the respective pluralities comprise thalamus-like neuromorphic neurons, and wherein a quantity of the relay neurons exceeds each of a quantity of the interneurons and a quantity of the reticular neurons.