Method of presenting multimedia data in a desired form by comparing and replacing a user template model with analogous portions of a system
First Claim
1. A method of presenting multimedia data in a desired form, comprising the steps of:
- establishing a user model having a plurality of user model structure portions;
establishing a plurality of system models each having a plurality of system model structure portions;
determining similarity levels of each user model structure portion of the user model to each system model structure portion of the plurality of system models, said user model being generated in accordance with a request and having a hierarchical semantic structure of the desired form, and said system models having hierarchical semantic structures of multimedia data layered in accordance with a predetermined hierarchy of each element of the multimedia data;
replacing each user model structure portion by a specific one of the corresponding system model structure portions in accordance with the similarity levels, while adjusting the specific system model structure portion to the user model structure portion in accordance with the similarity level determination; and
executing the user model modified by the replacing step to present the multimedia data in the desired form.
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Abstract
Multimedia data in an object structure include entity objects and relation objects, wherein each entity object has data representing a media element as internal data, and each relation object represents a relation between the entity objects. A relation object is searched according to information specified by a search command, and a searched relation object and internal data of an entity object related thereto are displayed on the screen of a display unit as a set of display elements. To generate a digest of the multimedia data, a matching between a structure portion of a user model and a structure portion of a system model is examined. The user model is generated according to a request of the user and arranged in layers, while the system model has been previously generated. The multimedia data are arranged in layers according to the importance of respective data elements constituting the multimedia data. According to an examination result, a user model structure portion is selectively replaced by a system model structure portion, and the replaced user model is adjusted so as to display the same.
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1. A method of presenting multimedia data in a desired form, comprising the steps of:
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establishing a user model having a plurality of user model structure portions; establishing a plurality of system models each having a plurality of system model structure portions; determining similarity levels of each user model structure portion of the user model to each system model structure portion of the plurality of system models, said user model being generated in accordance with a request and having a hierarchical semantic structure of the desired form, and said system models having hierarchical semantic structures of multimedia data layered in accordance with a predetermined hierarchy of each element of the multimedia data; replacing each user model structure portion by a specific one of the corresponding system model structure portions in accordance with the similarity levels, while adjusting the specific system model structure portion to the user model structure portion in accordance with the similarity level determination; and executing the user model modified by the replacing step to present the multimedia data in the desired form. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method of supplying data analogous to data designated by a request, said method being executed by a computer system and comprising the steps of:
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establishing system models each having a hierarchical semantic structure of data layered in accordance with a predetermined hierarchy, each of a plurality of nodes of the hierarchical semantic structure being an object representing the data and a procedure for the data or relation among its lower objects; generating a specific user model representing a request and having a hierarchical semantic structure of a desired form; examining an analogy level between each of a plurality of portions of the specific user model and each of a plurality of portions of each system model; synthesizing portions of the system models which are selected in accordance with the specific user model and the analogy levels to produce an analogous model; and executing the analogous model to represent the data in the desired form. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10)
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