John Stephen Gaudet
Engineering at Upton St, Saint Petersburg, FL

2005018, Aug 18, 2005

Aug 30, 2002

10/488148

Sieghard Marzian - Krefeld, DE
Wolfhart Smidt - Garbsen, DE
John Gaudet - Gulfport FL, US
Kai Wille - Krefeld, DE

G06F017/60

705010000

The invention relates to a method for automatic pattern recognition in economic processes, taking into account a productive value for customer relations, using a digital processing system (), whereby a number of process-relevant input parameters and/or process-relevant control parameters are at least partially automatically recorded with suitable data recording means (), such as physical, chemical, biological or digital measuring heads (to ) and at least one characteristic parameter is at least partially automatically determined, based on the input parameters and/or control parameters. The invention also relates to a method for automatic regulation, using the characteristic parameters as determined, which carries out an electronic selection of the control parameters, corresponding to the result of a comparison, from comparing the characteristic parameter with at least one reference value, which for its part has an influence on the economic process, such that an automatic regulated loop is achieved. The invention further relates to a pattern recognition system () and autopilot system () corresponding to the above method. The invention is advantageously characterised in that complex relationships, such as are usual in economic processes, can be at least partially automatically recorded and processed, such that at least a part of the economic process can be regulated whilst taking into account the productive value of customer relations. The invention permits an objective evaluation of process-relevant input parameters, without the subjective interpretations of an individual influencing the results of the pattern recognition or the automatic regulation.