http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=4&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 20100145896 Kind Code A1 YUTA; Koutarou June 10, 2010 COMPOUND PROPERTY PREDICTION APPARATUS, PROPERTY PREDICTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD Abstract A compound property prediction apparatus includes a training sample library (16) in which a parameter value and a value for a prediction item are preregistered for each individual one of a plurality of training samples; an input device (12) inputting data concerning an unknown sample; a parameter generating device (14) of the unknown sample; a similarity calculation device (18) which calculates the degree of similarity between the unknown sample and the individual one training sample; a sub-sample set construction device (20) which constructs a sub-sample set by extracting training samples whose degree of similarity to the unknown sample is not smaller than a predetermined threshold value; a prediction model construction device (22) which constructs a prediction model from the sub-sample set; and a prediction value calculation device (24) which calculates the prediction value of the unknown sample based on the prediction model. Inventors: YUTA; Koutarou; (Narashino, JP) Correspondence Address: STAAS & HALSEY LLP SUITE 700, 1201 NEW YORK AVENUE, N.W. WASHINGTON DC 20005 US Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED Kawasaki JP Serial No.: 707878 Series Code: 12 Filed: February 18, 2010 Current U.S. Class: 706/12; 706/54 Class at Publication: 706/12; 706/54 International Class: G06F 15/18 20060101 G06F015/18