Patents by Inventor Willard W. Olson

Willard W. Olson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for pattern classification using distributed adaptive fuzzy windows
    Patent number: 5664068
    Abstract: A method for pattern classification and, in particular, a method which distributes the classification criteria across a neural network. The classification criteria for a pattern class is stored distributively in the neural network in two aspects. First, it manifests itself as one or more levels of templates, each of which represents a fuzzily unique perspective of the pattern class. Second, the template at each level is represented by a set of fuzzy windows, each of which defines a classification criterion of a corresponding feature of the pattern class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Yee-Wei Huang, Willard W. Olson
  • Method and apparatus for pattern classification using distributed adaptive fuzzy windows
    Patent number: 5390261
    Abstract: A method for pattern classification and, in particular, a method which distributes the classification criteria across a neural network. The classification criteria for a pattern class is stored distributively in the neural network in two aspects. First, it manifests itself as one or more levels of templates, each of which represents a fuzzily unique perspective of the pattern class. Second, the template at each level is represented by a set of fuzzy windows, each of which defines a classification criterion of a corresponding feature of the pattern class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1995
    Inventors: Yee-Wei Huang, Willard W. Olson