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US 2003/0144976 A1Published application
Processing data for interpretation
AssigneeMirada Solutions Limited
InventorsJohn Michael Brady, Jacques Feldmar
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AssigneeMirada Solutions Limited
InventorsJohn Michael Brady, Jacques Feldmar
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A system for improving sensor-based decision making provides for the automatic submission of data obtained locally from instrumentation (such as image data) together with the interpretation of that data, which can be the output of some software which has been checked and possibly corrected by a user according to his/her expertise, to a remote database via an internetwork. The submission to the remote database is preferably automatic so that the remote database grows over time. The local site can access the remote database to retrieve information to assist in interpretation of the locally produced data (for example similar images and their corresponding interpretations), or can retrieve updated or improved software or parameters improving the software used for processing the data. The information on the remote database can also be reprocessed by software agents to provide statistical information based on information from a variety of such local sites.
A method of processing data comprising:
A method according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein said database comprises information produced by execution of said method by said plurality of users at a plurality of geographically separate sites.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims further comprising accepting and associating ground truth input by the user with said data sets.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the database stores user truth based on the interpretation of the image by the user.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein said data to mediate the processing and/or interpretation of said data set is data relating to similar data sets stored in the database.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein said data to mediate the processing and/or interpretation of said data set is statistical data relating to the information domain.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the data set comprises image data.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the software agent is operative to transfer to the database data concerning manual adjustments made to said processed data set by the user.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the information in the database is accessible by reference to the processed dataset.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the processed dataset comprises quantitative values derived from the dataset.
A computer program comprising program code means for carrying out the method of any one of the preceding claims when said program is run on a computer.
Data processing apparatus operative to accept input of data acquired from instrumentation as a data set of an information domain, to process the data set under the control of processing software to assist in the interpretation of the data set;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.