Abstract

Optical cellular processors such as the well known symbolic substitution processors require in all cases some kind of a 2-D buffer memory to store the binary result of each iteration. At the next iteration, the memory is read and fed back to the data input plane. In addition, algorithms involving a sequence of more than one binary image recognition per iteration also require the buffer memory to operate as an accumulator storing the results of the successive steps.

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