摘要:
An optical computer for performing product and/or sum operations on input vector information and matrix information includes an array of light emitting elements, the array having a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows. Input circuitry is provided for supplying input vector information to the array while matrix circuitry is provided for dynamically applying matrix information to the array. Logic circuitry is provided for performing one of a logical product and a logical sum operation on the input vector information and the matrix information and for generating an output thereof.
摘要:
An optical neural network which imitates a biological neural network, to provide an associative and/or pattern recognition function, is made of light emitting elements to represent an input neuron state vector, a correlation matrix which modulates light according to stored vector information, light receiving elements, an accumulator and a comparator to perform a threshold function. A stored vector closest to an input vector can be found from a large amount of information without increasing the system size by dividing the correlation matrix and the input neuron state vector with time division techniques, frequency modulation or phase modulation techniques. Positive and negative valves can also be provided with similar techniques.
摘要:
An intelligence information processing system is composed of an associative memory and a serial processing-type computer. Input pattern information is associated with the associative memory, and pattern recognition based on the computer evaluates an associative output. In accordance with this evaluation, an associative and restrictive condition is repeatedly added to the energy function of a neural network constituting the associative memory, thereby converging the associative output on a stable state of the energy. The converged associative output is verified with intelligence information stored in a computer memory. The associative and restrictive condition is again repeatedly added to the energy function in accordance with the verification so as to produce an output from the system.
摘要:
An intelligence information processing system is composed of an associative memory and a serial processing-type computer. Input pattern information is associated with the associative memory, and pattern recognition based on the computer evaluates an associative output. In accordance with this evaluation, an associative and restrictive condition is repeatedly added to the energy function of a neural network constituting the associative memory, thereby converging the associative output on a stable state of the energy. The converged associative output is verified with intelligence information stored in a computer memory. The associative and restrictive condition is again repeatedly added to the energy function in accordance with the verification so as to produce an output from the system.
摘要:
Predetermined multiple points of the front passenger seat and its periphery are irradiated with spot beams, caught with a camera, and distances are measured based on the irradiation position of the spot beams. Conversely, the characteristics for each status of use of the seat such as the shapes of the contour of the seat or the contour of a child seat are detected from the picture information caught with the camera. The status of use of the seat is decided based the characteristics for each status of use and the distance information that was previously measured. Based on this decision, the operation of a passive safety device such as an air bag device is controlled.
摘要:
An apparatus for sensing and processing images is provided with a photo detector array arranged in a matrix form, a control circuit for feeding a row of the array with voltage for sensitivity control, and a neural network for processing current flowing from a column of the array to the ground in order to obtain an apparatus for sensing and processing images having a simple configuration, a high frame speed, the capability of forming a focus of attention, and high throughput of data and possibility of connecting to the neural network.
摘要:
A photodetector device for converting incident light to an electrical signal has two pn junctions or two MOS junctions fabricated in a silicon substrate. Preferably, a control terminal is provided between the two junctions. A photodetection circuit including a photodetector device has a variable sensitivity and can change the polarity of the output of the photodetector device. For example, the photodetection circuits may have a circuit for providing a bias voltage of one of the two polarities to the photodetector device. The photodetection circuit may have a circuit for changing the polarity of the output signal from the photodetector device.
摘要:
In a light-responsive semiconductor device in which the laser oscillation state is controlled by incident light, a layer of material having a conductivity modulatable by light is integrated in a semiconductor laser structure and is responsive to the incident light for the control of the laser oscillation state of the device. In one embodiment constituting a light logic element, a plurality of semiconductor lasers are integrated on a substrate with each respective semiconductor laser having a grating along the entirety or a portion thereof and provided with a light waveguide connecting with a waveguide of an adjacent semiconductor laser. In a bistable semiconductor laser there are provided two different conductivity type light confinement layers, an active layer comprising a multiple quantum well structure which is between the two light confinement layers, a grating provided close to the quantum well active layer. The oscillation wavelength established by the grating is shorter than the peak gain wavelength produced by the quantum well active layer.
摘要:
After resetting the potential VPD of the photodiode (11) to the predetermined potential VRST, light is incident onto the photodiode (11) for a predetermined period to decrease the VPD corresponding to the amount of the incident light. After that, a declivous ramp voltage VRAMP is applied to the source terminal of the first MOS transistor (12) which is a common-source amplifier for reading out the VPD. When the voltage difference between the gate and source of the MOS transistor (12) exceeds a threshold voltage, the MOS transistor is turned on and the output suddenly decreases. If a signal having a pulse width from the starting point of the sweep of the ramp voltage to the sudden lowering point of the output is generated, the pulse width depends on the amount of the incident light. With the signal readout of this PWM method, it is possible to lower the power consumption while a wide dynamic range is maintained, and to downsize the picture cells to achieve a higher number of picture cells.
摘要:
It is an object of the invention to provide a vision regeneration assisting apparatus capable of assisting in vision regeneration without making a system structure complicated.In the invention, a vision regeneration assisting apparatus for regenerating a vision of a patient going blind by a disease of a retina includes a photosensor embedded in the retina of an eye of the patient and converting an optical signal into an electric signal, photographing means for photographing an object to be recognized by the patient, image processing means for carrying out an image processing to extract a feature with respect to an image of the object obtained by the photographing means, pulse light forming means for forming a luminous flux into a pulse light to induce a vision, and irradiating means provided before the eye of the patient and applying the pulse light toward the photosensor so as to be formed as an image processed by the image processing means.