High density network simulation apparatus

Claim 1

HIGH DENSITY ADAPTIVE RANDOM NETWORK SIMULATION APPARATUS WHEREIN A CONNECTIVITY PATTERN ROUTINE IS SPECIFIED BY LIGHT SENSITIVE MEMBERS AND WHEREIN THE TRANSFER FUNCTION OF NEURON-LIKE NETWORK NODES IS EXECUTED BY MEANS OF ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS ADAPTED TO BE CONSECUTIVELY CONNECTED TO SPECIFIED WEIGHTED INPUT AND OUTPUT POINTS IN SAID NETWORK WHEREBY THE NETWORK MAY BE EFFECTIVELY CROSS COUPLED AND/OR LAYERED COMPRISING, OUTPUT STORAGE MEANS FOR TEMPORARILY STORING AN ARRAY OF SPOTS OF LIGHT OF VARYING INTENSITY REPRESENTING THE OUTPUT SIGNALS OF A NEURON-LIKE NETWORK, ELECTRONIC SCANNING MEANS FOR PROVIDING AN INPUT STAGE FUNCTION TO SAID STORAGE MEANS OF SIGNALS REPRESENTING ELEMENTS OF SAID NEURON-LIKE NETWORK, CONNECTIVITY DISTRIBUTION MEANS FOR SELECTING ONE OR MORE LIGHT SIGNAL POINTS FROM SAID INPUT STAGE AND/OR SAID OUTPUT STAGE EFFECTIVE TO DETERMINE THE CONNECTIVITY OF THE NETWORK BY SPECIFYING THE ORIGIN OF THE SIGNAL AND SELECTIVELY PASSING SAID SIGNAL THERETHROUGH, ELEMENT TRANSFER FUNCTION MEANS OPERATIVE TO ASSUME CYCLICALLY THE ROLE OF EACH NEURON-LIKE ELEMENT OF THE NETWORK EFFECTIVELY OPERATING ON SETS OF SIGNAL INPUTS AND PROVIDING AN OUTPUT SIGNAL FOR DISPLAY ON SAID OUTPUT STORAGE MEANS, AND WEIGHT CHANGE FUNCTION MEANS EFFECTIVE TO CONTROL THE ADDITION, SUBTRACTION AND/OR INTEGRATION OF WEIGHT CHANGE INCREMENT SIGNALS TO SAID INPUT MEANS THEREBY MAKING WEIGHTING SIGNALS AVAILABLE TO THE TRANSFER FUNCTION MEANS IN SYNCHRONISM WITH THE SIGNALS TRANSMITTED THROUGH SAID DISTRIBUTION MEANS FOR ADAPTIVELY MODIFYING SAID SIGNALS AS DESIRED OR ORDERED BY A PRESCRIBED NETWORK SIMULATION ROUTINE.