Patent ID: 8229177

Claim:
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.