Method for storing multi-media information in an information ret

Details Method for storing multi-media information in an information ret Method for storing multi-media information in an information ret

1995-09-15

1997-08-19

Black, Thomas G.

395602, 395603, 395604, 395607, G06F 1730

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056597428

ABSTRACT:
A method for storing information in an information retrieval system having a database for retrieval of the input information in response to a query. Text information representative of text is received for storing in the system. Image information representative of an image is also received for storing in the system. Additionally, image text information representative of text associated with the image information is received. The image information is stored in an image information format. The text information and the image text information are stored in a common text information format whereby the format of the stored text information is identical to the format of the stored image text information. The text information and image text information are searched in the common text format and the text information and image text information are retrieved in response to a single query. The image information is associated with the retrieved image text information is selected and the selected image information is retrieved whereby the text information and the image information are retrieved in accordance with the same query.

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