Information retrieval system

• US 7,810,020 B2
• Filed: 02/02/2006
• Issued: 10/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Andoh, Yutaka, Omura, Kengo, Nagamine, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): HUYNH, THU V
• Application Number:
  US11/345,334
• Publication Number:
  US 20070074123A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,706 Days
• Field of Search: 715200-203, 715/255, 707/3, 707/736, 707/705, 707/706
• US Class Current: 715/200
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/433 using audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/434 using image data, e.g. images, photos, pictures taken by a user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums

Abstract

An information retrieval system includes an information extracting portion that extracts episodic information to be set as a cue for searching conference record information that stores contents on a conference for personal information, and an information storage portion that stores the episodic information extracted from the information extracting portion and the personal information associated with the episodic information. The personal information of a participant is searched for, personal information being obtained from the conference that a system user attended.

Claims

1. An information retrieval system comprising:

an information extracting apparatus that extracts episodic information on each participant of a plurality of participants of a conference from a sound and an image, both of which are captured and stored during the conference, the extracted episodic information being specific to each participant of the plurality of participants of the conference, the captured image including an image of the participants of the conference;

an information storage portion that stores the extracted episodic information associated with personal information related to each participant, the personal information being obtained from the conference that a system user attended; and

an information retrieval portion that retrieves the personal information stored in associated with the extracted episodic information based on any of the extracted episodic information that the system user inputs, wherein

the extracted episodic information includes number of conversation times, number of remark times, total conference conversation period, average conference conversation period, total conference remark period, average conference remark period, seat distance in conference, average distance in conference, total number of conversation times, average number of conversation times, total conversation period, average total conversation period, average conversation period, total number of remark times, average number of remark times, total remark period, average total remark period, average remark period, average seat distance, and average distance.

2. The information retrieval system according to claim 1, wherein the number of conversation times of the system user and the participant is the episodic information.

3. The information retrieval system according to claim 1, wherein a conversation sound extracted from the sound of the participant is used to extract the episodic information.

4. The information retrieval system according to claim 1, wherein a conversation image extracted from the captured image of the participant is used to extract the episodic information.

5. The information retrieval system according to claim 1, wherein the number of conversation times of the participant is the episodic information.

6. The information retrieval system according to claim 1, wherein a remark sound extracted from the sound of the participant is used to extract the episodic information.

7. The information retrieval system according to claim 1, wherein a remark image extracted from the captured image of the participant is used to extract the episodic information.

8. The information retrieval system according to claim 1, wherein positional information of the participant is used to extract the episodic information.

9. The information retrieval system according to claim 1, wherein the information retrieval portion displays the episodic information or the personal information stored in the information storage portion.

10. The information retrieval system according to claim 9, wherein the information retrieval portion displays the episodic information or the personal information stored in the information storage portion on the basis of a name included in the personal information of the participant.

11. The information retrieval system according to claim 9, wherein the information retrieval portion displays the episodic information or the personal information stored in the information storage portion on the basis of a date of the conference that the system user attended.

12. An information retrieval system comprising:

an information extracting apparatus that extracts episodic information on each participant from a sound and a captured image, which are stored during a conference, the episodic information being specific to each participant of a plurality of participants, the captured image including an image of the participants;

an information storage portion that stores the episodic information associated with personal information related to each participant, the personal information being obtained from the conference that a system user attended;

an information retrieval portion that retrieves and displays the personal information based on the episodic information; and

a forgetting level determination portion that determines a forgetting level of the system user with respect to the episodic information stored in the information storage portion, wherein

the information retrieval portion displays a list of the episodic information stored in the information storage portion according to the forgetting level determined by the forgetting level determination portion, and the episodic information being a search condition to search the stored episodic information that the system user has forgotten.