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Title:
RETRIEVING DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3469561
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a retrieving device which enables a user to retrieve a document, even when the user can not recall the document, title, and retrieval expression having contents and even when the user can not express the title and contents of the document well in a natural language.
SOLUTION: This device is provided with a 1st storing means for storing data such as the document, sound and image as an object of an operation of inputting, editing and retrieving, etc., as operation object data; an acquiring means for acquiring time series image data obtained by photographing a self- device for performing operations of the operation object data and the vicinity of the self-device; an extracting means for extracting the image data of a scene, having a characteristic for making environment specifiable in operating the operation object data as environment information; a selecting means for selecting the environment information, when retrieval is carried out; a retrieving means for retrieving the operation object data made to correspond to the environment selected by the selecting means among pieces of the operation object data stored in the 1st storing means; and an outputting means for outputting the operation object data which are retrieved by the retrieving means.


Inventors:
Seiji Miike
Akira Morishita
Yasushi Kawakura
Mika Fukui
Hisako Tanaka
Youichi Takebayashi
Hiroshi Mizoguchi
Satoshi Ito
Shigenobu Seto
Yoshikuni Matsumura
Application Number:
JP2001134733A
Publication Date:
November 25, 2003
Filing Date:
December 29, 1993
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Toshiba Corporation
International Classes:
G06T1/00; G06F17/30; (IPC1-7): G06F17/30
Domestic Patent References:
JP267889A
JP63261948A
JP5110972A
JP512086A
JP535737A
JP6476321A
JP1229373A
JP241566A
JP2242373A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Takehiko Suzue (6 outside)