Patent Document ID: 20020016682
Application ID: 09826474
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for analyzing an output signal matrix by comparison to an output signal matrix database useful in expert systems and neural networks for correlating candidate stimuli and systemic responses of a living thing, comprising steps: (a) constructing a stimulated physical matrix comprising an ordered array of units having X and Y coordinates, each unit confining a different responder of a living thing comprising a plurality of different responders or a probe corresponding to said different responder, and an identifier for said different responder or said probe, said living thing provided a stimulus repressing said different responder of a plurality of said units, said identifier providing a physical signal corresponding to the repression of said different responder, and said array comprising a predetermined functional class of said plurality of different responders; (b) detecting the physical signal at each said unit of the physical matrix; (c) transducing each said physical signal to generate a corresponding electrical output signal; (d) storing each electrical output signal in an output signal matrix data structure associating each output signal with the X and Y coordinates of the corresponding physical matrix unit and said stimulus; (e) determining the effect of said stimulus on said living thing by comparing the output signal matrix data structure of step (d) with an output signal matrix database produced by a method comprising steps: (i) constructing a stimulated physical matrix comprising an ordered array of units having X and Y coordinates, each unit confining a different responder of a living thing comprising a plurality of different responders or a probe corresponding to said different responder, and an identifier for said different responder or said probe, said living thing provided a stimulus repressing said different responder of a plurality of said units, said identifier providing a physical signal corresponding to the repression of said different responder, and said array comprising a predetermined functional class of said plurality of different responders; (ii) detecting the physical signal at each said unit of the physical matrix; (iii) transducing each said physical signal to generate a corresponding electrical output signal; (iv) storing each electrical output signal in an output signal matrix data structure associating each output signal with the X and Y coordinates of the corresponding physical matrix unit and said stimulus; (v) repeating steps (i)-(iv) to iteratively store output signal matrix data structures for a plurality of stimuli to form an output signal matrix database indexing output signal matrix data structures by stimuli.