Pulse domain neuromorphic integrated circuit for computing motio

Details Pulse domain neuromorphic integrated circuit for computing motio Pulse domain neuromorphic integrated circuit for computing motio

1998-07-10

2000-07-11

Bella, Matthew

Image analysis

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7351416, 250214A, 2502081, 257290, G06K 900, H01L 2700

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060884673

ABSTRACT:
An integrated circuit that computes the velocity of a visual stimulus moving between two photoreceptor locations is disclosed. In its most basic version, the circuit comprises two temporal edge detectors with photoreceptors, two pulse-shaping circuits, and one motion circuit on a single silicon chip. Velocity is computed from the signed time delay of the appearance of an image feature at the two photoreceptor locations. Specifically, each temporal edge detector detects a rapid irradiance transient at its photoreceptor location and converts it into a short current spike. This current spike is transformed into two different voltage pulses, a fast pulse and a slowly-decaying pulse, by the pulse-shaping circuit that is coupled to the temporal edge detector. The slowly-decaying voltage pulse produced at one location together with the fast voltage pulse generated at the other location, act as inputs to the motion circuit which generates a signal representative of the speed of motion for one sign or direction of motion. A pair of motion circuits encodes velocity, each motion circuit encoding speed for one of the two opposing directions of motion. The motion circuits are sample-and-hold circuits that use the fast pulse from one location to sample the slowly-decaying pulse from the other location. The individual motion-sensing cells are compact, and are therefore suited for use in dense one-dimensional or two-dimensional imaging arrays. Various embodiments are described.

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