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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2002
David L. Ii, Owego, NY (US);
Elliott D. Reitz, Ii, Bradenton, FL (US);
Dennis A. Tillotson, Glen Aubrey, NY (US);
David L. Ii, Owego, NY (US);
Elliott D. Reitz, II, Bradenton, FL (US);
Dennis A. Tillotson, Glen Aubrey, NY (US);
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
A method and computer program product are disclosed for use in classifying an input pattern into one of a plurality of output classes. A plurality of modular classifiers each represent a set of at least one associated output class. The modular classifiers are capable of being trained separately from the system. The classifiers select one of the associated output classes as a classification result and compute an associated confidence value. This confidence value possesses common significance across the plurality of modular classifiers. A processing stage processes the confidence values from the plurality of modular classifiers. As a result of this processing, the processing stage selects an associated classification result.