Information processing apparatus

• US 3,097,349 A
• Filed: 08/28/1961
• Issued: 07/09/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Franz L. Putzrath, Thomas B. Martin
• Original Assignee: Franz L. Putzrath, Thomas B. Martin
• Inventors: Putzrath, Franz L., Martin, Thomas B.
• Application Number:
  US04/134,368
• Time in Patent Office: 680 Days
• US Class Current: 703/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 7/023 adaptive, e.g. self learning
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 3/045 Combinations of networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 3/049 Temporal neural networks, e.g. delay elements, oscillating neurons or pulsed inputs
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 3/063 using electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/00 Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups G10L15/00 - G10L21/00 muting semiconductor-based amplifiers when some special characteristics of a signal are sensed by a speech detector, e.g. sensing when no signal is present, H03G3/34
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 19/00 Logic circuits, i.e. having at least two inputs acting on one output circuits for computer systems using fuzzy logic G06N7/02; Inverting circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 5/24 the characteristic being amplitude

Claims

1. ELECTRICAL APPARATUS WHICH SIMULATES THE COCHLEA, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT NEURONS, MEANS FOR SEPARATELY EXCITING SAID NEURONS TO RESPOND TO DIFFERENT FREQUENCY COMPONENTS OF AN ACOUSTIC ELECTRICAL SIGNAL INCLUDING A TRANSMISSION LINE HAVING SUCCESSIVE SECTIONS WHICH PASS SUCCESSIVELY LOWER FREQUENCIES OF SAID SIGNAL, AND MEANS FOR EXCITING AND INHIBITING DIFFERENT ONES OF SAID NEURONS WITH THE SIGNAL PASSED, RESPECTIVELY, WITH A FIRST AND A SECOND OF DIFFERENT PAIRS OF ADJACENT SECTIONS OF SAID LINE.