Patent ID: 6747643
Filing Date: 2004-06-08
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
A method for characterizing an m-dimensional shape in an n-dimensional space, comprising the steps of:a) configuring a device in at least one of hardware, firmware and software to characterize said m-dimensional shape, said configuring comprising: defining labels for a plurality of facial directions of a polytope in said n-dimensional space, said polytope being of k dimensions; defining a unit vector for each of said facial directions; and defining a polytope tiling map for said n-dimensional space; b) tiling said m-dimensional shape with said k-dimensional polytope within said n-dimensional space; c) mapping a shape into a sequence of tile addresses; d) configuring said device to carry out an attractor process for mapping a source multiset to an attractor space, said attractor process being an iterative process which causes elements in said source multiset to converge on one of at least two different behaviors defined within said attractor space as a result of said iterative process, said configuring step including inputting a characterization of the source multiset to input to said device the number of distinct elements of said source multiset; e) using said device, executing said mapping of said sequence of tile addresses to one or more coordinates of said attractor space, each of said coordinates corresponding to a different behavior in the attractor space; and f) mapping said attractor space coordinates into a target space representation, said target space representation including at least the attractor space coordinates.