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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2003
Applicants:
Hirohito Okuda, Yokohama, JP;
Toshifumi Honda, Yokohama, JP;
Yuji Takagi, Yokohama, JP;
Atsushi Miyamoto, Yokohama, JP;
Inventors:
Hirohito Okuda, Yokohama, JP;
Toshifumi Honda, Yokohama, JP;
Yuji Takagi, Yokohama, JP;
Atsushi Miyamoto, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); H04N 9/47 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A highly reliable defect automatic classifying method and apparatus capable of flexibly coping with a request for classifying a defect given by each user without having to collect lots of teach data items. A classifying class arrangement is defined by a user by combining classes supplied by the system itself or classes defined by the user and, further, a priori knowledge on the defect class is given by the user as a restriction so as to carry out restricted learning.