Method and system for automatically diagnosing faults in rendering devices
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method for automatically diagnosing new faults in a device, said method comprising:
- said computer generating a measure of membership with respect to each feature vector belonging to at least one known class among a plurality of known classes utilizing a classifier;
said computer clustering a plurality of members associated with said at least one known class into two clusters including core class members and at least one outlier cluster in order to detect a presence of a new defect and a drift in the probabilistic distribution of the plurality of members between the core class and the at least one outlier cluster in a known defect in the device overtime, wherein the device is a rendering device and the known defect is an image quality defect;
said computer determining if a probabilistic distribution of said plurality members of said outlier cluster associated with said class quantifies a change in distribution when a set of spurious features becomes sufficiently different from said corresponding distribution of said core class members to therefore indicate said new faults and said drift in said known defect and thereafter diagnose said new faults and said drift in said known defect in said device, wherein said new faults are unknown image quality defects; and
said computer retraining said classifier with updated characteristics of said new defect.
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Abstract
A method and system for automatically determining an optimal re-training interval for a fault diagnoser based on online monitoring of the performance of a classifier are disclosed. The classifier generates a soft measure of membership in association with a class based on a training data. The output of the classifier can be utilized to assign a label to new data and then the members associated with each class can be clustered into one or more core members and potential outliers. A statistical measure can be utilized to determine if the distribution of the outliers is sufficiently different than the core members after enough outliers have been accumulated. If the outliers are different with respect to the core members, then the diagnoser can be re-trained; otherwise, the output of the classifier can be fed to the fault diagnoser.
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20 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method for automatically diagnosing new faults in a device, said method comprising:
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said computer generating a measure of membership with respect to each feature vector belonging to at least one known class among a plurality of known classes utilizing a classifier; said computer clustering a plurality of members associated with said at least one known class into two clusters including core class members and at least one outlier cluster in order to detect a presence of a new defect and a drift in the probabilistic distribution of the plurality of members between the core class and the at least one outlier cluster in a known defect in the device overtime, wherein the device is a rendering device and the known defect is an image quality defect; said computer determining if a probabilistic distribution of said plurality members of said outlier cluster associated with said class quantifies a change in distribution when a set of spurious features becomes sufficiently different from said corresponding distribution of said core class members to therefore indicate said new faults and said drift in said known defect and thereafter diagnose said new faults and said drift in said known defect in said device, wherein said new faults are unknown image quality defects; and said computer retraining said classifier with updated characteristics of said new defect. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A computer-implemented method for automatically diagnosing new faults in a device, said method comprising:
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said computer mapping known faults to user-defined classes to derive a plurality of known classes; said computer configuring a classifier based on training data, wherein said classifier assigns image quality based feature vectors to at least one known class among said plurality of known classes; said computer generating a measure of membership with respect to each feature vector belonging to said at least one known class utilizing said classifier; said computer clustering a plurality of members associated with said at least one known class into two clusters including core class members and at least one outlier cluster in order to detect a presence of a new defect and a drift in the probabilistic distribution of the plurality of members between the core class and the at least one outlier cluster in a known defect in the device overtime, wherein the device is a rendering device and the known defect is an image quality defect; and said computer determining if a probabilistic distribution of said plurality members of said outlier cluster associated with said class quantifies a change in distribution when a set of spurious features becomes sufficiently different from said corresponding distribution of said core class members to therefore indicate said new faults and said drift in said known defect and thereafter diagnose said new faults and said drift in said known defect in said device, wherein said new faults are unknown image quality defects; and said computer retraining said classifier with updated characteristics of said new defect. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system for automatically diagnosing new faults in a device, said system comprising:
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a processor; a data bus coupled to said processor; and a non-transitory computer-usable medium embodying computer program code, said non-transitory computer-usable medium being coupled to said data bus, said computer program code comprising instructions executable by said processor and configured for; mapping known faults to user-defined classes to derive a plurality of known classes; configuring a classifier based on training data, wherein said classifier assigns image quality based feature vectors to at least one known class among said plurality of known classes; generating a measure of membership with respect to each feature vector belonging to said at least one known class utilizing said classifier; clustering a plurality of members associated with said at least one known class into two clusters including core class members and at least one outlier cluster in order to detect a presence of a new defect and a drift in the probabilistic distribution of the plurality of members between the core class and the at least one outlier cluster in a known defect in the device overtime, wherein the device is a rendering device and the known defect is an image quality defect; and determining if a probabilistic distribution of said plurality members of said outlier cluster associated with said class quantifies a change in distribution when a set of spurious features becomes sufficiently different from said corresponding distribution of said core class members to therefore indicate said new faults and said drift in said known defect and thereafter diagnose said new faults and said drift in said known defect in said device, wherein said new faults are unknown image quality defects; and retraining said classifier with updated characteristics of said new defect. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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