Patent ID: 7412426

Claim:
An artificial neural network comprising: (a) a plurality of neurons, (b) each of the plurality of neurons being a processor with memory and being in an array; (c) the plurality of neurons comprising a plurality of elemental neurons and a plurality of structural neurons; (d) all elemental and structural neurons being configured to be associated with others of the elemental and structural neurons via active connections; (e) each elemental neuron being configured to: (i) represent a unique input value into the artificial neural network, the unique value being at least one selected from the group consisting of: a stimulus, an event, events, a sequence in a pattern, a sequence of events, an elemental stimulus, a defined elemental pattern, a defined elemental data element, a basic input stimulus, and an output stimulus of information being processed; and (ii) express that unique value as an output when activated by a structural neuron; (f) each structural neuron being configured to: (i) receive input from a pair of neurons of the plurality of neurons and with which it is an associating neuron; and (ii) express that input as an output to that pair of neurons to activate the pair of neurons for expression.