Patent Document ID: 8200648
Application ID: 12376787

Base Claim:
1. A method for determining signal similarity between a query signal and a reference signal via composition, the method comprising: searching said reference signal to detect at least one matching region to a region of said query signal, the shape and size of said matching region being determined as a function of a local evidence score for said region, wherein said local evidence score is a function at least of a quality of the match of said region and of its statistical significance; and composing at least part of said query signal from at least one said matching region which provides at least one of: local evidence scores and a global evidence score for said query signal; wherein said global evidence score defines the extent of a global similarity of said query signal to said reference signal.

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Claim 9:
9. The method according to claim 1 and wherein said query signal and said reference signal are at least one of the following types: a visual signal, an image, a video sequence, an acoustic signal, an electrical signal, a radar signal, a seismic signal, a audio signal, a sonar signal, a thermal signal, a medical signal, a medical image, functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) data, an ultrasound signal, an electrocardiogram signal, x-ray data, range data, multi-spectral data, DNA sequence, amino acid sequence, protein data, text data, and an N-dimensional signal where N is an integer.