Patent ID: 8843426
Filing Date: 2014-09-23
Classification: G06N

Abstract:
1. An electrical circuit, comprising: a plurality of Retinal Ganglion Cell (RGC) circuits, wherein each of the RGC circuits generates, at an output, a sum of weighted inputs from receptor circuits associated with that RGC circuit; a plurality of primary visual cortex cell (V1) circuits, wherein each of the V1 circuits generates another sum of weighted outputs of a subset of the RGC circuits; and an interface circuit configured to connect two or more of the V1 circuits to each other, wherein the two or more V1 circuits receive inputs from the same RGC circuits of the plurality of RGC circuits, wherein: a weight connecting one of the RGC circuits from the subset with that V1 circuit is positive when modeling that RGC circuit from the subset as an ON RGC, and the weight is negative when modeling that RGC circuit as an OFF RGC.