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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 1993
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395 22 ;
Abstract
By using the state transition of a highly interconnected neural network, in order to solve a combination problem, an energy function is set by the following procedure: (i) the energy function is set in correspondence to the size of the combination problem; (ii) the energy function is set for a combination problem to be solved by using an energy function which solved another combination problem of a different size from the combination problem to be solved. Also, in order to solve a problem involving the cutting out a specific image from a whole image, as a combination problem when obtaining pixels representing a contour of an object, the energy function is set by either (i) or (ii) above.