Patent ID: 7287015

Claim:
A method of transmitting at least one signal through an element of a classification system comprising the steps of: receiving one or more input signals relating to an image at the element; extracting one or more functional components from the one or more input signals, wherein the one or more functional components correspond to a classification type; extracting one or more membership components from the one or more input signals, wherein the one or more membership components correspond to a relationship measure between the one or more input signals and the element; and generating an output signal that changes a color of one or more pixels in the image from the element comprising a functional component and a membership component that correspond to one or more of the functional components and membership components from the one or more input signals, wherein the one or more membership components from the one or more input signals modulate an effect of the one or more functional components from the one or more input signals on the generation of the output signal, and wherein the one or more membership components of the one or more input signals alter the membership component of the output signal.