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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2007
Maurice Kyojin Chu, San Mateo, CA (US);
James E. Reich, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kurt E. Partridge, Palo Alto, CA (US);
James M. A. Begole, San Jose, CA (US);
Maurice Kyojin Chu, San Mateo, CA (US);
James E. Reich, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kurt E. Partridge, Palo Alto, CA (US);
James M. A. Begole, San Jose, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A sensing system includes a set of sensors and a data-fusing mechanism coupled to at least one of these sensors. In the set of sensors, at least one sensor is configured to store one or more measurement models for one or more phenomenon states. Furthermore, at least one sensor in the set of sensors is configured to sample a measurement value and generate a likelihood function based on the sampled measurement and the measurement models. The data-fusing mechanism coupled to a respective sensor in the set of sensors is configured to collect one or more likelihood functions generated by the one or more sensors and use the collected likelihood functions to compute an aggregate probability of a phenomenon state.