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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 06, 2013
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Siu-Kei Tin, Milpitas, CA (US);

Francisco Imai, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/55 (2014.01); G01N 21/47 (2006.01); B07C 5/28 (2006.01); B07C 5/34 (2006.01); B07C 5/342 (2006.01); B07C 5/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/84 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/55 (2013.01); B07C 5/00 (2013.01); B07C 5/28 (2013.01); B07C 5/34 (2013.01); B07C 5/342 (2013.01); G01N 21/84 (2013.01); G01N 2021/845 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to classification of a material type of an unknown material. The material type is classified into a probability distribution of multiple predetermined material types by using a collection of plural predetermined material classifiers. Each material type of the multiple predetermined material types is associated with a corresponding best performing classifier from the collection of plural predetermined material classifiers by a predesignated stored association. The plural material classifiers are applied to the unknown material to obtain a list of candidate material types. A list of potential best performing classifiers is looked up using the list of candidate material types as a reference into the predesignated stored association. A respective probability that the unknown material belongs to a material type is assigned based on the list of potential best performing classifiers.


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