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| 5652827 | Identifying an object by fast and robust signal processing Systems and methods for identifying objects which emit signals. Systems and methods described herein utilize fast signal processing techniques which exploit the stable root structure of a signal and extract the eigenvalue of a matrix having a characterist... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5642466 | Intonation adjustment in text-to-speech systems A software-only real time text-to-speech system includes intonation control which does not introduce discontinuities into output speech stream. The text-to-speech system includes a module for translating text to a sequence of sound segment codes and inton... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5632006 | Circuit and method of error correcting with an artificial neural network An artificial neural network performs error correction on an input signal vector. The input signal vector is process in a forward direction through synapses in each of a plurality of neurons for providing an output signal from each of the neurons. The out... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5621853 | Burst excited linear prediction A novel and improved apparatus for encoding a signal which is bursty in nature. In a code excited linear prediction algorithm, short term redundancies and long term redundancies are removed from digitally sampled speech, and the residual signal which is b... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5598510 | Self organizing adaptive replicate (SOAR) A self-organizing adaptive replicated (SOAR) for creating a replicate of human expert behavior. The SOAR can be embedded invisibly within multiple types of systems to observe, adapt and grow to emulate a user's interactive behavior and performance level. ... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5592589 | Tree-like perceptron and a method for parallel distributed training of such perceptrons Constraints placed on the structure of a conventional multi-layer network consequently enable learning rules to be simplified and the probability of reaching only local minima to be reduced. These constraints include neurons which are either inhibitory or... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5586220 | Safe system provided with neural circuit Disclosed is an electronic control circuit of the fail-safe emergency shut-down type which includes an input circuit, a first signal processing circuit, in which information is stored beforehand relating to extreme values input signals are permitted to re... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5583966 | Fuzzy retrieval apparatus and method The present invention provides an apparatus and method in which it is possible to set information retrieval conditions wherein the user's intention in performing retrieval is reflected satisfactorily, and in which fuzzy retrieval can be performed in accor... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5583964 | Computer utilizing neural network and method of using same A computing device, which may be implemented as an integrated circuit, is constructed of a microprocessor and one or more neural network co-processors. The microprocessor normally executes programs which transfer data to the neural network co-processors, ... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5579430 | Digital encoding process A digital encoding process for transmitting and/or storing acoustical sigs and, in particular, music signals, in which scanned values of the acoustical signal are transformed by means of a transformation or a filter bank into a sequence of second scanned... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5579441 | Refraction algorithm for production systems with content addressable memory An array processor system is provided with a system to implement a refraction algorithm to prevent incorrect expert system rule firing based on stale or future data, in those production system expert systems which employ content addressable memories for s... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5574825 | Linear prediction coefficient generation during frame erasure or packet loss A speech coding system robust to frame erasure (or packet loss) is described. Illustrative embodiments are directed to a modified version of CCITT standard G.728. In the event of frame erasure, vectors of an excitation signal are synthesized based on prev... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5568591 | Method and device using a neural network for classifying data Method and device having a neural network for classifying data, and verification device for signatures. The device includes a neural network with an input layer 3, an internal layer 4, and an output layer 5. This network is designed to classify data vecto... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5561738 | Data processor for executing a fuzzy logic operation and method therefor A fuzzy inference engine (10) performs fuzzy logic operations with a high degree of accuracy in a minimal amount of time. The fuzzy inference engine (10) includes a fuzzification module (12) which decodes an input signal to access a memory location (18, 2... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5561739 | Defuzzifier curcuit A defuzzifier circuit which is used to obtain a manipulated variable for controlling an actuator by using fuzzy information appearing over a plurality of lines. The defuzzifier circuit can share the membership function with a plurality of converting mecha... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5555345 | Learning method of neural network The present invention is a learning method of a neural network for identifying N category using a data set consisted of N categories, in which one learning sample is extracted from a learning sample set in step SP1, and the distances between the sample an... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5555344 | Method for recognizing patterns in time-variant measurement signals In automatic speech recognition, confusion easily arises between phonetically similar words (for example, the German words "zwei" and "drei") in the case of previous recognition systems. Confusion of words which differ only in a single phoneme (for exampl... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5555382 | Intelligent snoopy bus arbiter The present invention is directed to a method for arbitrating for control of a bus in a multiprocessor system. The multiprocessor system comprises a plurality of processors and a main memory coupled to one another by the bus, each processor including a ca... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5550953 | On-line method and apparatus for coordinated mobility and manipulation of mobile robots A simple and computationally efficient approach is disclosed for on-line coordinated control of mobile robots consisting of a manipulator arm mounted on a mobile base. The effect of base mobility on the end-effector manipulability index is discussed. The ... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5548686 | Neural comprising means for calculating a norm or a distance A neural processor, comprising neural calculation apparatus (30, NQ, RQ) which extracts a root Q of a quantity X, said root constituting either a norm of a data or a distance between data. The calculation apparatus calculates (30) by iteration a series of... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5546506 | Apparatus for automatically generating and adjusting fuzzy reasoning rules based on reasoning error and method therefor An apparatus and method for automatically generating and adjusting fuzzy reasoning, i.e. logic, rules based on changes in the reasoning error. The apparatus includes a fuzzy reasoning section that performs fuzzy logic based on the fuzzy reasoning rules st... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5542076 | Method and apparatus for adaptive interrupt servicing in data processing system A method and apparatus for adaptive interrupt servicing is disclosed. The number of interrupts occurring within a predetermined time period is counted and stored as a value in an interrupt counter. At the end of each interrupt service, the interrupt count... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5542027 | Fuzzy syllogistic system A fuzzy syllogistic inference processing system for use with a chain of implications when links in the chain have various measures between 0 and 1 of confidence. Analog signals that are linearly related to the confidence measures are generated and compare... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5539862 | System and method for the design of software system using a knowledge base A method (40) and system (10) are provided for knowledge based design. Conceptual model elements (12) are stored. Also, stereotype knowledge bases (14) are stored. Ones of the conceptual model elements (12) are matched with ones of the stereotype knowledg... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5537512 | Neural network elements An analog neural network element includes one or more EEPROMs as analog, reprogrammable synapses applying weighted inputs to positive and negative term outputs which are combined in a comparator. In one embodiment a pair of EEPROMs is used in each synapti... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5537513 | Neural processor which can calculate a norm or a distance A neural processor, comprising neural calculation apparatus (30, NQ, RQ) which extracts a root Q of a quantity X, said root constituting either a norm of a data or a distance between data. The calculation apparatus calculates (30) by iteration a series of... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5535301 | Method for guessing the response of a physical system to an arbitrary input Stacked generalization is used to minimize the generalization errors of one or more generalizers acting on a known set of input values and output values representing a physical manifestation and a transformation of that manifestation, e.g., hand-written c... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5535304 | Inference system having a frame structure and method of storing information therein In an inference system, an inference mode and a knowledge editing mode can conduct inference with an inherent effect by using knowledge represented by frames in a hierarchical structure, the frames having a relationship of a parent frame being higher in t... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5524178 | Neural network learning system A neural network learning system is applied to extensive use in applications such as pattern and character recognizing operations, various controls, etc. The neural network learning system operates on, for example, a plurality of neural networks each havi... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5522012 | Speaker identification and verification system The present invention relates to a speaker recognition method and system which applies adaptive component weighting to each frame of speech for attenuating non-vocal tract components and normalizing speech components. A linear predictive all pole model is... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5519814 | High level language-based robotic control system This invention is a robot control system based on a high level language implementing a spatial operator algebra. There are two high level languages included within the system. At the highest level, applications programs can be written in a robot-oriented ... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5515477 | Neural networks The present invention relates to adaptive information processing systems, and in particular to associative memories utilizing confidence-mediated associations, and especially neural network systems comprising an auto-organizational apparatus and processes... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5515476 | Fuzzy control apparatus in which rules can be changed, method of operating same, control system in which changeover is controlled by fuzzy reasoning, and method of controlling the same In a fuzzy control apparatus in which a rule is capable of being changed during operation, a fuzzy reasoning output which prevails immediately prior to a rule change is stored when a rule change is made, and a fuzzy-control output is generated by combinin... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5506939 | Robot control system for moving a position and pose of a hand of the robot without changing the present position of the hand A control system for a robot including a teaching box having a hand alignment command section, and a control unit for controlling the robot. A hand-alignment movement-amount computing section computes an amount of movement of each axis of the robot in a h... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5504834 | Pitch epoch synchronous linear predictive coding vocoder and method A method for pitch epoch synchronous encoding of speech signals. The method includes steps of providing an input speech signal, processing the input speech signal to characterize qualities including linear predictive coding coefficients and voicing, and c... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5504840 | Knowledge acquisition support system and method in an expert system Disclosed in this invention is a knowledge acquisition tool for facilitating a construction of a knowledge base in an expert system, including: a case preprocessing part 21 for checking whether or not data constituting individual cases on which a knowledg... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5504841 | Method of processing signals within a neural network to position arobot A signal processing method for efficiently searching an optimum solution in a neural network by including a term of a nonlinear resistance in an equation of motion and changing such nonlinear resistance periodically. According to the method, the range of ... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5499315 | Adaptive digital audio interpolation system A transition signal detector switches the processing of a digital audio signal between a frequency optimized filter for normal operation and a transition optimized filter when a transition condition is detected.... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5497449 | Fuzzy inference apparatus A fuzzy inference apparatus comprises a rule storing circuit for storing then-part positions respectively corresponding to first if-part membership functions and second if-part membership functions. The first and second if-part membership functions have s... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5495558 | Development supporting system and method for fuzzy inference devices The invention involves a fuzzy inference development system which prepares, automatically, an inference engine module file and a knowledge (i.e., rules and membership functions) data file which are optimized for the system (the CPU or equivalent) which th... | 02/27/1996 |
