Appeal No. 1997-3793
Application 08/294,235
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 1-4 and 12-15. Claims 1, 3, 12,
and 14 were amended (part of Paper No. 18) in response to a
new ground of rejection in the Examiner's Answer and the new
rejection was withdrawn (Supplemental Examiner's Answer, Paper
No. 19).
We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a neuron circuit
and method of producing a neuron output which multiplies
together a plurality of gated input signals x and aigi
predetermined weight, where at least one g is greater than
i
one.
Claim 1, as amended by the amendment filed July 18, 1997,
(part of Paper No. 18) is reproduced below.
1. A neuron circuit comprising:
a multiplier circuit in communication with a
plurality of gated input signals, each of said gated
input signals representing one of a plurality of inputs
to said neuron circuit raised to an exponential power of
one of a plurality of gating functions g , said multiplier
i
circuit for multiplying said gated input signals together
to produce a product and for multiplying said product by
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