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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2005
Applicants:
William Peter, Bethesda, MD (US);
Don Lemons, Wichita, KS (US);
Inventors:
William Peter, Bethesda, MD (US);
Don Lemons, Wichita, KS (US);
Assignee:
BAE Systems Advanced Technologies, Inc., Nashua, NH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An information-theoretic method clusters and merges bi-variate normal data or 'error ellipses' lying in a plane. Two or more error ellipses are clustered and then merged into a single error ellipse if the information lost in the merging process is sufficiently small. This criterion is numerically implemented and tested in a code developed for this purpose.