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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 27, 1997
Satoshi Otsuki, Ikeda, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An input value sorter for calculating a conformity grade in a fuzzy inferential device has a comparator for sequentially receiving data indicative of a position of each of vertexes of a membership function defined as a polygon and receiving fact data. The comparator sequentially compares the fact data showing a determined value with the data indicative of the position of each of the vertexes. The input value sorter also has a device for specifying a side or vertex of the polygon belonging to the fact data on the basis of compared results of the comparator and an input order of the vertexes. A grade arithmetic unit has this input value sorter. In this grade arithmetic unit, the membership function can be suitably sorted by a simplified construction.