Patent Document ID: 8014591
Application ID: 11898636

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented pattern recognition method, comprising: creating electronically a linkage between a plurality of models within a classifier module within a pattern recognition system such that any one of said plurality of models may be selected as an active model in a recognition process; creating electronically a null hypothesis between at least one model of said plurality of linked models and at least a second model among said plurality of linked models; accumulating electronically evidence to accept or reject said null hypothesis until sufficient evidence is accumulated to reject said null hypothesis in favor of one of said plurality of linked models or until a stopping criterion is met; transmitting at least a portion of the electronically accumulated evidence or a summary thereof to accept or reject said null hypothesis to a pattern classifier module.

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Claim 3:
3. A pattern recognition method as in claim 1 , further comprising: obtaining a set of training data for training said classifier module; obtaining a particular training sample for said classifier module and an associated label for said training sample; creating a first model for said classifier module by training said classifier module on said set of training data not including said particular training sample; creating a second model for said classifier module by training said classifier module on said set of training data including said particular training sample; creating said linkage of said plurality of models in which said plurality of models includes at least said first model and said second model.