http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=yuta.IN.&s2=fujitsu.AS.&OS=IN/yuta+AND+AN/fujitsu&RS=(IN/yuta+AND+AN/fujitsu) United States Patent Application 20110137841 Kind Code A1 YUTA; Kohtarou June 9, 2011 SAMPLE CLASS PREDICTION METHOD, PREDICTION PROGRAM, AND PREDICTION APPARATUS Abstract To predict the class of an unknown sample, a) a discriminant function for assigning each training sample to class 1 or class 2 is obtained, b) the discriminant score of each training sample and an unknown sample are calculated using the function, c) it is determined whether the score of the unknown sample is either not smaller than the largest score or not larger than the smallest score taken among all of the training samples, d) if the determination in c) is affirmative, the class of the unknown sample is determined based on the score of the unknown sample, e) if the determination in c) is negative, then the training samples having the largest score and the smallest score are removed to form a new training sample set from remaining training samples, and f) a) to e) are repeated. Inventors: YUTA; Kohtarou; (Narashino, JP) Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED Kawasaki JP Serial No.: 019683 Series Code: 13 Filed: February 2, 2011 Current U.S. Class: 706/20 Class at Publication: 706/20 International Class: G06F 15/18 20060101 G06F015/18