US Patent 10430440 Apparatus program and method for data property recognition

A data property recognition apparatus, includes a storage unit; a model data acquisition processor acquiring a plurality of model sets of data entries, each data entry individually representing an identified property common to the model set and being of a data type common to the model set; a feature vector generation processor receiving an input set of data entries, recognizing a data type common to the input set of data entries from among a plurality of supported data types, selecting a set of statistical characteristics representing the input set of data entries in dependence upon the recognised data type, generating a value of each of the selected set of statistical characteristics from the input set of data entries, and outputting a feature vector composed of the generated values of statistical characteristics.