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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 08, 1995
Larry S Yaeger, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Richard F Lyon, Los Altos, CA (US);
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A statistical classifier for pattern recognition, such as a neural network, produces a plurality of output signals corresponding to the probabilities that a given input pattern belongs in respective classes. The classifier is trained in a manner such that low probabilities which pertain to classes of interest are not suppressed too greatly. This is achieved by modifying the amount by which error signals, corresponding to classes which are incorrectly identified, are employed in the training process, relative to error signals corresponding to the correct class. As a result, output probabilities for incorrect classes are not forced to a low value as much as probabilities for correct classes are raised.