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Method and apparatus for rule evaluation in a fuzzy inference processor

US5732191A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Thomas Kunemund · Birkenfeld, DE
Klaus Hentschel · Rodenbach, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 19, 1996
Grant date	Mar 24, 1998
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 19, 2016

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10S706/90
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a process an apparatus for operating a fuzzy inference processor in which it is verified, in sequence for each input variable, whether the conditions of a number of rules are fulfilled, and in which for one input variable in each case only those conditions of rules are verified whose conditions for the preceding input variable had been met in the method and apparatus a screening device having an address memory, an address formation unit and a device control signal former operate in combination for detecting rule segment values which continue to be relevant, thereby achieving the advantage of rapid rule evaluation.

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