Patent ID: 7895560

Claim:
Apparatus for information processing, comprising: An array of passive energy transmitting devices, each having a number of terminals thereon that are connectible along directions as defined by a dimensionality of said array, each of said passive energy transmitting devices being capable of being transformed into a corresponding active energy transmitting device capable of receiving energy packets having information contained therein and performing information processing on said energy packets; A first array of active energy transmitting devices having proximal and distal ends, said active energy transmitting devices being capable of passing energy packets therethrough upon an imposition thereto of an enabling signal, with said proximal ends of said active energy transmitting devices being connected respectively to different ones of said connectible terminals on said passive energy transmitting devices, and said distal ends of selected ones of said active energy transmitting devices being connected respectively to an energy source, an entry location for energy packets, and an energy sink; A second array of active energy transmitting devices having proximal and distal ends, said active energy transmitting devices being capable of passing energy packets therethrough upon an imposition thereto of an enabling signal, with the proximal ends of each of said energy active transmitting devices of this second array that had not already been connected to an energy source, entry location for energy packets, or energy sink, connecting to each of said connectible terminals on each of said passive energy transmitting devices, with the distal ends of each of said active energy transmitting devices of this second array that had not already been connected to an energy source, entry location for energy packets, or energy sink, connecting to each of said connectible terminals of an adjacent passive energy transmitting device, in as many directions as may be defined by the dimensionality of said arrays of active and passive energy transmitting devices; and Addressing means by which enabling signals can be directed to selected ones of said active energy transmitting devices; whereupon An imposition of an enabling signal onto one or more of said active energy transmitting devices connected to one or more of said passive energy transmitting devices will transform said one or more passive energy transmitting devices into corresponding active energy transmitting devices capable of performing information processing upon an entry of energy packets into said entry location for energy packets; and Data entry means by which data bits (energy packets) requiring information processing are acquired and sent to appropriate ones of said data entry locations, so that upon a use of said data entry means by actual data entry, in conjunction with an entry of enabling bits to appropriate ones of said active energy transmitting devices as established by an algorithm being executed and the data provided, will bring about a desired information processing.