Patent
1993-10-12
1998-01-13
Black, Thomas G.
395614, 395615, G06F 1730
Patent
active
057088055
ABSTRACT:
An image retrieving apparatus including a language analyzer, an object determiner, a rule for defining an undefined object, an image selector, a display, a word dictionary, and an image database. The language analyzer analyzes an input sentence and extracts objects of the input sentence. The object determiner determines whether the object data expresses a background or a part using a rule for defining an undefined object. Images of background and parts are separately retrieved.
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Hamada Masahiro
Okamoto Shusaku
Black Thomas G.
Matsushita Electric - Industrial Co., Ltd.
Von Buhr Maria N.
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