INTEGRATED RETINA WITH PROCESSOR NETWORK

摘要

P THE RETINA IS CONSTITUTED BY A NETWORK OF CELLS 10 FORMED ON THE SAME SUBSTRATE AND INCLUDING, EACH, A PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENT 11 PROVIDING A SIGNAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE VALUE OF AN ELEMENT OF AN IMAGE FORMED ON THE RETINA, AN ELEMENT OF CONVERSION OF THIS SIGNAL INTO BINARY INFORMATION, MEANS OF MEMORIZING BINARY INFORMATION I1, I2, T1, T2 ORGANIZED IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL NETWORK OF SHIFT REGISTERS TO ALLOW THE TRANSFER OF BINARY INFORMATION FROM A CELL 10 TO A ANY NEXT CELL, AND AN ELEMENTARY PROCESSOR 12, THE SHIFT REGISTERS AND ELEMENTARY PROCESSORS BEING CONNECTED IN PARALLEL TO CONTROL INPUTS IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO CONTROL THE ACQUISITION OF AN IMAGE BY SIMULTANEOUS MEMORIZATION OF BINARY VALUES OF THE PIXELS OF THIS IMAGE CONDUCTING SIMULTANEOUS AND PARALLEL PROCESSES ON STORED BINARY INFORMATION, AND WRITING RESULTS IN THE MEANS OF STORAGE. /P