Synchronized pulses identify and locate targets rapidly

Stimulation of a sensor array, by edges comprising a feature pattern, optical characters or moving edge(s), emits pulses that converge at nodes in serial arrays, which reemit rapidly if input pulses are in temporal synchrony. The repetitive pulses traverse the serial arrays without encoding image features in a temporal data stream that decodes as an image frame. This dimensional reduction of serial arrays reemits convergent one-dimensional (1D) pulses in greater numbers when stimulus feature patterns match sensor or node topographical patterns, thereby serially extracting context, optical flow and inference. Reemitted 1D pulses rapidly identify and locate looming targets without repetitive feedback.