The invention features a method wherein a recognition environment utilizes
pseudo-English as a programming language to extract simple and complex
objects with image-and/or map-data as inputs. Based on this human/computer
interface in which pseudo-English is a programming language, the
object-recognition system has three major logic modules: (1) an input data
module; (2) an information-processing module, coupled with the above-noted
human computer interface (HCI) module; and (3) an output module that has a
feedback mechanism back to the main information-processing and the
input-data module. A physical phenomenon (i.e., one that is visible,
audible, tactile, etc.) is analyzed by the information-processing module
to determine whether it is susceptible to description or articulation. If
not, the phenomenon is matched or compared, via the output module, to a
known articulatable, physical-phenomenon model and recognizable features
are extracted.
