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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8103606 | Architecture, system and method for artificial neural network implementation An architecture, systems and methods for a scalable artificial neural network, wherein the architecture includes: an input layer; at least one hidden layer; an output layer; and a parallelization subsystem configured to provide a variable degree of parallelization t... | 01/24/2012 |
| 7409374 | Explosive event discrimination method A method for discriminating between explosive events having their origins in High Explosive or Chemical/Biological detonation employing multiresolution analysis provided by a discrete wavelet transform. Original signatures of explosive events are broken down into su... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7395248 | Method for determining competing risks The invention concerns a method for determining competing risks for objects following an initial event based on previously measured or otherwise objectifiable training data patterns, in which several signals obtained from a learning capable system are combined in an... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392231 | Determining utility functions from ordenal rankings A user's preference structure in respect of alternative “objects” with which the user is presented is captured in a multi-attribute utility function. The user ranks these competing objects in order of the user's relative preference for such objects. A utility fu... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7359489 | Method and apparatus for inclusive echo canceller testing A testing and performance analysis methodology applies a series of test vector pairs to the input ports of an echo canceller under test. The test vector signal pair may represent a particular speech activity state transition, e.g., a Brady Model transition. A scorin... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7296129 | System, method and storage medium for providing a serialized memory interface with a bus repeater A packetized cascade memory system including a plurality of memory assemblies, a memory bus including multiple segments, a bus repeater module and a segment level sparing module. The bus repeater module is in communication with two or more of the memory assemblies v... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293002 | Self-organizing data driven learning hardware with local interconnections A method for organizing processors to perform artificial neural network tasks is provided. The method provides a computer executable methodology for organizing processors in a self-organizing, data driven, learning hardware with local interconnections. A training da... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7274819 | Pattern recognition apparatus using parallel operation In a pattern recognition apparatus, a local area recognition module is constructed with operation elements having predetermined operation characteristics. Pattern data of a predetermined size in input data is acquired by time-sequentially performing inputting proces... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7143072 | Method and a system for calculating the values of the neurons of a neural network A neural network having layers of neurons divided into sublayers of neurons. The values of target neurons in one layer are calculated from sublayers of source neurons in a second underlying layer. It is therefore always possible to use for this calculation the same ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7130776 | Method and computer program product for producing a pattern recognition training set The present invention recites a method and computer program product for generating a set of training samples from a single ideal pattern for each output class of a pattern recognition classifier. A system equivalent pattern is generated for each of a plurality of cl... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7092922 | Adaptive learning enhancement to automated model maintenance An adaptive learning method for automated maintenance of a neural net model is provided. The neural net model is trained with an initial set of training data. Partial products of the trained model are stored. When new training data are available, the trained model i... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7080055 | Backlash compensation with filtered prediction in discrete time nonlinear systems by dynamic inversion using neural networks Methods and apparatuses for backlash compensation. A dynamics inversion compensation scheme is designed for control of nonlinear discrete-time systems with input backlash. The techniques of this disclosure extend the dynamic inversion technique to discrete-time syst... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7080053 | Neural network device for evolving appropriate connections A method for evolving appropriate connections among units in a neural network includes a) calculating weight changes at each existing connection and incipient connections between units for each training example; and b) determining a K ratio using the weight changes,... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7054850 | Apparatus and method for detecting or recognizing pattern by employing a plurality of feature detecting elements A pattern detecting apparatus has a plurality of hierarchized neuron elements to detect a predetermined pattern included in input patterns. Pulse signals output from the plurality of neuron elements are given specific delays by synapse circuits associated with the i... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7031513 | Data processing apparatus and data processing method A data processing apparatus processes input data and outputs the processed data. The data processing apparatus includes a data processing section and a real-time learning section. The data processing section processes the input data by a predetermined processing met... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027649 | Computing the Euler number of a binary image An Euler number representation of a binary image is calculated. The binary image is considered as a series of partial images. The Euler number for each partial image is calculated using properties of runs of zeros and ones in the pixel matrix, and the results are co... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6925361 | Distributed energy neural network integration system A system that couples distributed power generators together as a collective unit for the purposes of selling or purchasing energy from the electrical power grid. The apparatus includes a charge/discharge controller and an adaptive controller. The charge/discharge co... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6876989 | Back-propagation neural network with enhanced neuron characteristics A neural network system includes a feedforward network comprising at least one neuron circuit for producing an activation function and a first derivative of the activation function and a weight updating circuit for producing updated weights to the feedforward networ... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6856983 | Adaptive feedback control in e-service management A method and system is described that adaptively adjusts an eService management system by using feedback control. Behavior experts are distributed at different levels of the hierarchy of the eService management system. Within the hierarchy, feed-forward reasoning is... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6826550 | Method, system, and program for converting application program code to executable code using neural networks based on characteristics of the inputs Provided is a compiler to map application program code to object code capable of being executed on an operating system platform. A first neural network module is trained to generate characteristic output based on input information describing attributes of the applic... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6778986 | Computer method and apparatus for determining site type of a web site Computer method and apparatus identifies content owner of a Web site. A collecting step or element collects candidate names from the subject Web site. For each candidate name, a test module (or testing step) runs tests that provide quantitative/statistical evaluatio... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6714924 | Computer-implemented neural network color matching formulation system A method and apparatus for color matching are provided, in which paint recipe neural networks are utilized. The color of a standard is expressed as color values. The neural network includes an input layer having nodes for receiving input data related to paint bases.... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6643627 | Dynamic synapse for signal processing in neural networks An information processing system having signal processors that are interconnected by processing junctions that simulate and extend biological neural networks. Each processing junction receives signals from one signal processor and generates a new signal t... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6601052 | Selective attention method using neural network The present invention discloses an implementation of the selective attention mechanism occurring in the human brain using a conventional neural network, multi-layer perceptron and the error back-propagation method as a conventional learning method, and an... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6601051 | Neural systems with range reducers and/or extenders A neural system is disclosed for processing an exogenous input process to produce a good outward output process with respect to a performance criterion, even if the range of one or both of these processes is necessarily large and/or keeps necessarily expa... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6526168 | Visual neural classifier A neural classifier that allows visualization of the query, the training data and the decision regions in a single two-dimensional display, providing benefits for both the designer and the user. The visual neural classifier is formed from a set of experts... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6473746 | Method of verifying pretrained neural net mapping for use in safety-critical software A method of verifying pretrained, static, feedforward neural network mapping software using Lipschitz constants for determining bounds on output values and estimation errors is disclosed. By way of example, two cases of interest from the point of view of ... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6405122 | Method and apparatus for estimating data for engine control A data estimation capability using a FNN to estimate engine state data for an engine control system is described. The data estimation capability provides for making data relating to the engine state available as control parameters in a simple, inexpensive... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6381083 | Multilevel signal equalization utilizing nonlinear maps In a recording/playback system, increased information is achieved by 4 level biased magnetic recording where the maximum amplitude 4 level recording signal drives the medium's magnetization into a nonlinear region of its transfer function. The bias does n... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6363333 | Method of classifying statistical dependency of a measurable series of statistical values A time series that is established by a measured signal of a dynamic system, for example a quotation curve on the stock market, is modelled according to its probability density in order to be able to make a prediction of future values. A non-linear Markov ... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6360193 | Method and system for intelligent agent decision making for tactical aerial warfare In an intelligent object oriented agent system, a computer implemented or user assisted method of decision making in at least one situation. The method includes the step of configuring at least one tactical agent implemented by at least one tactical agent... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6338052 | Method for optimizing matching network of semiconductor process apparatus A method for optimizing matching network between an output impedance and an input impedance in a semiconductor process apparatus is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: providing a neural network capable of being trained through repeated learning;... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6278986 | Integrated controlling system An integrated control for a machine such as an engine installed in a vehicle or vessel is conducted by the steps of: determining the characteristics of a user and/or using conditions; and changing characteristics of a control unit of a machine in accordan... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6192351 | Fuzzy neural networks There is disclosed a pattern identifying neural network comprising at least an input and an output layer, the output layer having a plurality of principal nodes, each principal node trained to recognize a different class of patterns, and at least one fuzz... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6064997 | Discrete-time tuning of neural network controllers for nonlinear dynamical systems A family of novel multi-layer discrete-time neural net controllers is presented for the control of an multi-input multi-output (MIMO) dynamical system. No learning phase is needed. The structure of the neural net (NN) controller is derived using a filtere... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6058386 | Device for designing a neural network and neural network The invention relates to a device for designing a neural network, in which to determine the number of neurons (21 . . . 24) in the intermediate layer, the domain of the input signal (X1, X2) in question is subdivided into a predefinable number of subdomai... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6041322 | Method and apparatus for processing data in a neural network A digital artificial neural network (ANN) reduces memory requirements by storing sample transfer function representing output values for multiple nodes. Each nodes receives an input value representing the information to be processed by the network. Additi... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6028956 | Object location and span determination method and apparatus which determines a location and span of an object in an image Apparatus and method for determining a location and span of an object in an image. The determined location and span of the object are used to process the image to simplify a subsequent classification process.... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6026178 | Image processing apparatus using neural network In order to realize a neural network for image processing by an inexpensive hardware arrangement, a neural network arranged in an image processing apparatus is constituted by an input layer having neurons for receiving information from picture elements in... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6016154 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus, such as a laser printer, ink jet printer, or a thermal transfer, which comprises a neural network. The apparatus improves image quality by reducing a zigzag included, e.g., in input image data, reducing the circuit size by redu... | 01/18/2000 |
