Robot vision system based on sleep and wake functions of human beings

The purpose of this paper is to design a mathematical model for a robot vision, that can express states of human´s consciousness, and build a dynamical information processing system, that can change processing modes. Especially the author takes notice to a state transition between waking and sleep. A human being processes external information obtained from sensory organs and internal information accumulated within a brain flexibly and in parallel. The proposed mathematical consciousness model controls a ratio between external and internal information processing runs in parallel. In a waking mode, the external information is mainly processed. In a sleep mode, large proportion of processing is paused, or the internal information is mainly processed. The advantage of this system is that a resource of a computing machine is made effective use of. Because required processes are executed only when needed.