Patent Document ID: 20100250475
Application ID: 11480285
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method performed by an apparatus comprising: receiving as input a plurality of points in an N-dimensional space, where N can be any number between 2 and 500; defining the received plurality of points as second order, symmetric, nonnegative definite tensors that encode an orientation and confidence of the orientation of each point based on known prior orientation information; voting between points to determine, in an unsupervised manner, at least one likely D-dimensional manifold on which said points lie, where D is less than or equal to N, wherein said voting propagates the orientation information and the confidence of the orientation among the plurality of input points that are encoded as different types of tensors comprising stick and ball tensors based on the known prior orientation information, wherein the voting is performed independent of voting fields and without storing the voting fields; and producing and outputting information about said at least one D-dimensional manifold used to find relations between points that cannot be visualized in at least one of pattern recognition, data mining, kinematics, non-linear interpolation and visualization.