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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2002
Applicants:
Mihoko Shimano, Tokyo, JP;
Kenji Nagao, Yokohama, JP;
Inventors:
Mihoko Shimano, Tokyo, JP;
Kenji Nagao, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F017/30 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In the present invention, model data groups each comprised of a plurality of items of model data are classified according to predetermined item and are thereby classified into classes each having a smaller distribution than a category that an application requires, a representative value of each class is compared with input data, a class with the representative value having a highest degree of similarity with the input data is determine, a category to which the class belongs is obtained, and thus the category to which the input data belongs is determined.