System and computer software program for visibly processing an observed information's relationship with knowledge accumulations

• US 20050203889A1
• Filed: 01/20/2005
• Published: 09/15/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BITS Kabushikigaisha, Co., Omori & Yaguchi USA LLC
• Original Assignee: BITS Kabushikigaisha, Co., Kousaku Okubo
• Inventors: Tamura, Takuro, Okubo, Kousaku
• Granted Patent: US 7,903,884 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/242 Dictionaries

Abstract

A system for visibly processing observed information may include a configuration for systematizing information; a knowledge accumulation housing unit for storing knowledge accumulations from knowledge information belonging to each such configuration; an observed information receiving unit for receiving, from a user, information observed by the user; a fixed quantity processing unit for assigning a fixed quantity to a relationship between the observed information and the knowledge information belonging to each configuration for the knowledge accumulations; and a fixed quantity value display processing unit for displaying a numerical value of the fixed quantity, in accordance with the fixed quantity processing unit, together with its relationship with each configuration of the knowledge accumulations.

Claims

1. A system for visibly processing observed information comprising:

a configuration for systematizing information;

a knowledge accumulation housing unit for storing knowledge accumulations from knowledge information belonging to each such configuration;

an observed information receiving unit for receiving, from a user, information observed by said user;

a fixed quantity processing unit for assigning a fixed quantity to a relationship between said observed information and said knowledge information belonging to each configuration for said knowledge accumulations; and

a fixed quantity value display processing unit for displaying a numerical value of the fixed quantity, in accordance with said fixed quantity processing unit, together with its relationship with each configuration of said knowledge accumulations.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a frequency matrix generating unit for generating a frequency matrix showing the frequency of terms included in the information belonging to each configuration and included in each configuration of said knowledge accumulations; and

a singular value decomposition unit for demanding a singular value coordinate system of said terms and said each configuration, based on said frequency matrix, where said fixed quantity processing unit maps said terms included in said observed information to said singular value coordinate system, and assigns a fixed quantity to a relationship between said observed information and said knowledge information belonging to each configuration of said knowledge accumulations.

3. The system of claim 2, where said fixed quantity processing unit comprises an observed term collection unit for collecting terms included in said observed information, depending on their weighting.

4. The system of claim 3, where said observed term collecting unit collects said terms depending on the usage frequency/importance of said terms of the mother data included in said observed information.

5. The system of claim 3, where said fixed quantity processing unit maps said terms to positions in said singular value coordinate system depending on said weighting.

6. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

a dictionary keeping unit for keeping a term dictionary, where said frequency matrix generating unit generates said frequency matrix by extracting only terms included in said term dictionary from said information belonging said each configuration.

7. The system of claim 1, where said knowledge accumulation is a textbook, and said configuration for systematizing is a table of contents unit of the book such as each page, paragraph or chapter, and information included in said configuration is also contents included in said table of contents unit.

8. The system of claim 7, where said fixed quantity value display processing unit indicates the value of the fixed quantity in accordance with said fixed quantity processing unit, along with a relationship with an optional kind of table of contents unit of said table of contents unit of said book.

9. The system of claim 1, where said knowledge accumulation is a Web site, and said configuration for systematizing is each Web page, and the knowledge information included in the configuration is the contents of each Web page.

10. The system of claim 9, where said fixed quantity value display processing unit indicates the value of the fixed quantity in accordance with said fixed quantity processing unit, along with the pages of said Web site.

11. The system of claim 1, where said knowledge accumulation is a speech or discussion in accordance with natural language, said configuration for systematizing is a paragraph or a time, and the information included in the configuration is the contents of the speech or discussion belonging to the paragraph or time concerned.

12. The system of claim 11, where the fixed quantity value display processing unit displays the numerical value of the fixed quantity in accordance with said fixed quantity processing unit, along with a relationship with said paragraph and time.

13. The system of claim 1, further having a location retrieving unit for retrieving the configuration location of said knowledge accumulation that relates the most to the observed information.

14. The system of claim 1, further having a knowledge accumulation/location retrieving unit handling the relationship between the observed information and a plurality of knowledge accumulations and for retrieving the knowledge accumulation that relates the most to the observed information, as well as that knowledge accumulation'"'"'s configuration location.

15. An article for visibly processing observed information based on a configuration for systematizing information and knowledge accumulations from knowledge information belonging to each such configuration comprising a computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon which when executed causes:

a knowledge accumulation housing unit to store said knowledge accumulations;

an observed information receiving unit to receive, from a user, information observed by said user;

a fixed quantity processing unit to assign a fixed quantity to a relationship between said observed information and said knowledge information belonging to each configuration for said knowledge accumulations; and

a fixed quantity value display processing unit to display a numerical value of the fixed quantity, in accordance with said fixed quantity processing unit, together with its relationship with each configuration of said knowledge accumulations.