Richard D Weekley

US Patent:

6735550, May 11, 2004

Filed:

Jan 15, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/047311

Inventors:

Richard A. Weekley - Boulder CO
Robert K. Goodrich - Boulder CO
Lawrence B. Cornman - Longmont CO

Assignee:

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research - Boulder CO

International Classification:

G06F 1500

US Classification:

702182, 707 6, 707 7

Abstract:

A processing system uses image processing technology to classify features in time series data. In atmospheric applications, the features can be used to detect outliers and/or failure modes in time series data from atmospheric measurement systems. The processing system is configured to: 1) process the time series data with a plurality of membership functions to generate a plurality of hypersurfaces, 2) process the hypersurfaces to generate a composite hypersurface, 3) process the composite hypersurface to identify clusters, and 4) process the clusters to classify the features.