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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2006
Applicants:
Paris Smaragdis, Brookline, MA (US);
Bhiksha Ramakrishnan, Watertown, MA (US);
Inventors:
Paris Smaragdis, Brookline, MA (US);
Bhiksha Ramakrishnan, Watertown, MA (US);
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method decomposes input data acquired of a signal. An input signal is sampled to acquire input data. The input data is represented as a probability distribution. An expectation-maximization procedure is applied iteratively to the probability distribution to determine components of the probability distributions.