Patent Document ID: 8977582
Application ID: 13548071
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computerized neuron-based network image processing apparatus comprising a storage medium, said storage medium comprising a plurality of executable instructions being configured to, when executed: provide feed-forward stimulus associated with a first portion of an image to at least a first plurality of neurons and second plurality of neurons of a network; provide another feed-forward stimulus associated with another portion of said image to at least a third plurality of neurons of said network; cause said first plurality of neurons to encode a first attribute of said first portion into a first plurality of pulse latencies relative to an image onset time; cause said second plurality of neurons to encode a second attribute of said first portion into a second plurality of pulse latencies relative to said image onset time, said second attribute characterizing a different physical characteristic of said image than said first attribute; determine an inhibition indication, based at least in part on one or more pulses associated with said first plurality and said second plurality of pulse latencies, that are characterized by latencies that are within a latency window; and based at least in part on said inhibition indication, prevent encoding of said another portion by said third plurality of neurons.