Patent 7305132 was granted and assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on December, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method classifies data into multiple classes so that the data in each class have a class-conditional probability distribution. The class-conditional probability distributions of measured data are projected into a likelihood space. The projected class-conditional probability distributions in the likelihood space are then classified according to a discriminant classifier in likelihood space.