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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 24, 1996
Wayne S Hill, Westborough, MA (US);
Frank J Heirtzler, Londonderry, NH (US);
Foster-Miller, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
An object classification and identification system including stored discriminator quantities indicative of the surface characteristics of known objects; an arm coupled to a detector which provides a voltage signal which varies relative to the surface characteristics of a detected object as the arm moves over the detected object; a computer programmed to calculate a plurality of discriminator quantities indicative of the surface characteristics of the detected object based on the voltage signal; and a neural network used for matching the calculated discriminator quantities of the detected object with the stored discriminator quantities indicative of the surface characteristics of known object.