OPTICAL SPATIAL LOGIC ARRANGEMENT

摘要

OPTICAL SPATIAL LOGIC ARRANGEMENT An arrangement for modifying an information carrying radiant energy beam array in which occurrences of a first prescribed pattern of radiant energy beamsin the array are detected by producing images of said beam array and shifting the images relative to each other responsive to a first prescribed pat-tern. Theshifted images are superimposed and a radiant energy beam array is formed that identifies the occurrences of first prescribed patterns in the superimposed images. A plurality of images of the identifying beam array are produced and shifted relative to each other in accordance with a second prescribed pattern. The shifted images of said occurrence identifying beam array are superimposed to form the modified beam array. The modifications may comprise arithmetic processing, pattern or image processing or Turing machine type processing.