Patent ID: 7039233

Claim:
A pattern recognition apparatus for detecting a predetermined pattern contained in an input signal, comprising: plural detecting processing means for detecting respectively different features for a same input; plural integrating processing means for spatially integrating, for each process results, the features detected by said plural detecting processing means; plural detecting memories for retaining the process results of said detecting processing means; plural integrating memories for retaining the process results of said integrating processing means; a common data line to which all said predetermined detecting processing means and all said predetermined integrating memories are connected at a certain timing; and plural local data lines each of which is connected to a predetermined set of said detecting processing means, said integrating processing means and said detecting memory; wherein, in entering the process results of said detecting processing means retained in said detecting memories into said integrating processing means, data of a same address in said plural detecting memories are read and entered into said integrating processing means; and in entering the process results of said integrating processing means retained in said integrating memories into said detecting processing means, a same data in one of said plural detecting memories is read and entered into said plural detecting processing means.