{
  "patent_number": "US 10423875",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How a Camera-Based System Monitors Artificial Neural Network Creativity",
  "original_title": "Electro-optical device and method for identifying and inducing topological states formed among interconnecting neural modules",
  "summary": "A system that uses a camera to watch a screen displaying neural network activity, identifying new patterns and using a critic to decide if those patterns are worth keeping.",
  "what_it_does": "The system monitors an artificial neural network by displaying its internal states—such as reconstruction errors or neuron activations—as color-coded values on an optical display. A camera captures this display, and a processor called a 'thalamobot' analyzes the video feed to identify new, novel topologies (patterns) in the neural chains. If the thalamobot finds a new pattern, it sends it to a 'critic' component that evaluates the merit of that pattern. Based on this evaluation, the system injects noise into an 'imagitron' to either strengthen or weaken the neural connections, effectively guiding the network's learning or idea-generation process.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover systems that analyze neural network data directly from memory or digital buses without an optical display and camera interface.",
    "Does not cover general-purpose neural network training methods that lack the specific thalamobot-critic-imagitron feedback loop architecture.",
    "Does not cover systems that do not use color-coded visual representations of neural reconstruction errors or activation histories."
  ],
  "filed": "2015-01-02",
  "granted": "2019-09-24",
  "expires": "2035-01-02",
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Individual",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/individual",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Stephen L. Thaler",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/stephen-l-thaler"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 1,
  "tags": [
    "ai_ml",
    "consumer_electronics"
  ],
  "abstract": "A system for monitoring an environment may include an input device for monitoring and capturing pattern-based states of a model of the environment. The system may also include a 5 thalamobot embodied in at least a first processor, in which the first processor is in communication with the input device. The thalamobot may include at least one filter for monitoring captured data from the input device and for identifying at least one state change within the captured data. The system may also include at least one critic and/or at least one recognition system.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/10423875/electro-optical-device-and-method-for-identifying-and-inducing-topological-states-formed-among-interconnecting-neural-modules",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/10423875/electro-optical-device-and-method-for-identifying-and-inducing-topological-states-formed-among-interconnecting-neural-modules/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US10423875",
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