Patent ID: 7398255

Claim:
A neural prosthesis for providing a signal indicative of a predicted event from a cycle of events, the neural prosthesis comprising: a signal-acquisition system for receiving a neural signal; a first fuzzy-logic inference system for receiving, from the signal acquisition system, a signal indicative of a current location within the cycle of events, the fuzzy-logic inference system being configured to predict a successive event in the cycle of events; a supervisory controller for receiving an output of the fuzzy-logic inference system, the supervisory controller including a memory for storing data indicative of at least one preceding predicted event in the cycle of events, and a comparator to impose constraints on the successive event at least in part on the basis of the preceding predicted event; and a second fuzzy-logic inference system configured to provide, at least in part on the basis of an output received from the comparator, a signal indicative of a predicted event.