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Patent No.:

US 7953682 B1

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Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2011

Filed:

Nov. 30, 2005
Applicants:

Euan Christopher Smith, Cambridgeshire, GB;

Paul Richard Routley, Cambridge, GB;

Clare Louise Foden, Cambridge, GB;

Inventors:

Euan Christopher Smith, Cambridgeshire, GB;

Paul Richard Routley, Cambridge, GB;

Clare Louise Foden, Cambridge, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/18 (2006.01); G06F 3/038 (2006.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G09G 5/39 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

This invention generally relates to methods, apparatus and computer program code processing digital data using non-negative matrix factorisation. A method of digitally processing data in a data array defining a target matrix (X) using non-negative matrix factorisation to determine a pair of matrices (F, G), a first matrix of said pair determining a set of features for representing said data, a second matrix of said pair determining weights of said features, such that a product of said first and second matrices approximates said target matrix, the method comprising: inputting said target matrix data (X); selecting a row of said one of said first and second matrices and a column of the other of said first and second matrices; determining a target contribution (R) of said selected row and column to said target matrix; determining, subject to a non-negativity constraint, updated values for said selected row and column from said target contribution; and repeating said selecting and determining for the other rows and columns of said first and second matrices until all said rows and columns have been updated.


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