Data processing apparatus and method
First Claim
1. A method of generating process information for a number generation process operable to generate a number representative of an analogue source from an analogue data set corresponding to the analogue source, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving for an analogue source at least one training analogue data set representative of said analogue source;
performing a set of measurements on each of the at least one training analogue data sets to obtain for each training analogue data set a corresponding set of measurement values suitable for processing by said number generation process;
for at least one measurement of the set of measurements;
analysing the stability of the number generated by the number generation process in response to change in the corresponding measurement value; and
determining at least one process instruction operable to modify the processing of the corresponding measurement value during the number generation process to improve the repeatability of numbers generated by the number generation process in case of change in said corresponding measurement value; and
generating processing information indicative of the at least one determined process instruction, whereby the repeatability of the number generated by the number generation process is improved for subsequent performances of the number generation process on analogue data sets corresponding to the analogue source by using said processing information.
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Abstract
There is decribed an apparatus for generating a number from data originating from an analogue source, the apparatus comprising means for performing a set of the data and then processing, in accordance with stored processing instructions predetermined by a training process, the data to generate the number. During the training process, the sensitivity of the value of the generated number to variation in each of the measurement values is analyzed, and the process instructions are generated so that the processing of individual measurement values is modified to reduce this sensitivity. In this way, the repeatability of the generated number is improved.
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166 Claims
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1. A method of generating process information for a number generation process operable to generate a number representative of an analogue source from an analogue data set corresponding to the analogue source, the method comprising the steps of:
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receiving for an analogue source at least one training analogue data set representative of said analogue source; performing a set of measurements on each of the at least one training analogue data sets to obtain for each training analogue data set a corresponding set of measurement values suitable for processing by said number generation process; for at least one measurement of the set of measurements; analysing the stability of the number generated by the number generation process in response to change in the corresponding measurement value; and determining at least one process instruction operable to modify the processing of the corresponding measurement value during the number generation process to improve the repeatability of numbers generated by the number generation process in case of change in said corresponding measurement value; and generating processing information indicative of the at least one determined process instruction, whereby the repeatability of the number generated by the number generation process is improved for subsequent performances of the number generation process on analogue data sets corresponding to the analogue source by using said processing information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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49. A method of generating a number representative of an analogue source, the method comprising the steps of:
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receiving an analogue data set representative of the analogue source; performing a set of measurements on the analogue data set to obtain a set of measurement values; retrieving process information from a data store; and applying a number generation process using the set of measurement values, in accordance with the processing instructions stored in said process information, to generate said number representative of the analogue source; wherein the process information is indicative of at least one determined process instruction for modifying the processing of said set of measurements to stabilize the number generated by the number generation process, thereby improving the repeatability of the number generated by the number generation process for the analogue source. - View Dependent Claims (50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 106, 107, 108, 109)
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87. An apparatus for generating process information for a number generation process operable to generate a number representative of an analogue source from an analogue data set corresponding to the analogue source, the apparatus comprising:
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a receiver operable to receive for an analogue source at least one training analogue data set representative of said analogue source; a measurer operable to perform a set of measurements on each of the at least one training analogue data sets to obtain for each training analogue data set a corresponding set of measurement values suitable for processing by said number generation process; an analyser operable to; analyse, for at least one measurement of the set of measurements, the stability of the number generated by the number generation process in response to change in the corresponding measurement value; and to determine at least one process instruction operable to modify the processing of the corresponding measurement value during the number generation process to improve the repeatability of numbers generated by the number generation process in case of change in said corresponding measurement value; and an information generator operable to generate processing information indicative of the at least one determined process instruction, whereby the repeatability of the number generated by the number generation process is improved for subsequent performances of the number generation process on analogue data sets corresponding to the analogue source by using the processing information. - View Dependent Claims (88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127)
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128. An apparatus for generating a number representative of an analogue source, the apparatus comprising:
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a receiver operable to receive an analogue data set representative of the analogue source; a measurer operable to perform a set of measurements on the analogue data set to obtain a set of measurement values; a data store for storing process information indicative of processing instructions operable to modify selectively the processing of the set of measurement values to improve the stability of the generated number in case of variations in the set of measurement values obtained from different analogue data sets representative of the analogue source; and a number generator operable to generate said number representative of the analogue source using the set of measurement values and using said processing instructions to improve the repeatability of the number generated by the number generation process for the analogue source. - View Dependent Claims (129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166)
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