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

• US 7,903,884 B2
• Filed: 01/20/2005
• Issued: 03/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BITS Kabushikigaisha, Co., Omori & Yaguchi USA LLC
• Original Assignee: BITS Kabushikigaisha, Co.
• Inventors: Tamura, Takuro, Okubo, Kousaku
• Primary Examiner(s): Le; Vu
• Assistant Examiner(s): Park; Soo Jin
• Application Number:
  US11/039,176
• Publication Number:
  US 20050203889A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,238 Days
• Field of Search: 707/3, 707/723, 707/724, 707728-730, 382/229
• US Class Current: 382/229
• 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 via a computer, an information object based on observed information comprising:

a knowledge accumulation housing unit for storing electronic data representations of a plurality of known books, wherein each electronic data representation is associated with table of contents information including a plurality of titles of chapters of each associated entire book that systematizes a known content of each said entire book, wherein each electronic data representation comprises known knowledge information;

an observed information receiving unit for receiving, from a user, an information object observed by said user, wherein the information object comprises an unknown text;

a fixed quantity processing unit for;

comparing the unknown text of the information object with the known knowledge information of one of the data representations based on terms included within the text and the knowledge information, and

generating a fixed quantity value for each said chapter indicative of a correlation between the compared unknown text and the compared known knowledge information; and

a fixed quantity value display processing unit for displaying the fixed quantity value and a relationship between the fixed quantity value and the table of contents information including said chapter titles, associated with the electronic data representation of the compared knowledge information in order to visually display, as a representation of the entire associated book, correlations between the known content of the associated book and the unknown information object text,

wherein said visual display enables said user to use the known systematizing of the known content to interpret said unknown text.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a frequency matrix generating unit for generating a frequency matrix showing a frequency of terms included in the knowledge information; and

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

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 object, 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 a mother data included in said observed information object.

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 knowledge information.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the knowledge information comprises at least a portion of the table of contents information.

8. The system of claim 7, where said fixed quantity value display processing unit displays the value of the fixed quantity in accordance with said fixed quantity processing unit, along with a relationship with a desired table of contents of said table of contents information of the electronic data representation of the associated book.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising a location retrieving unit for retrieving a configuration location of the electronic data representation of the book that relates the most to the observed information object based on the fixed quantity value.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a knowledge accumulation/location retrieving unit for:

evaluating a relationship between the observed information object and the electronic data representations of the plurality of books;

retrieving the electronic data representation of the book that relates the most to the observed information and a corresponding configuration location.

11. A system for visibly processing observed information comprising:

a computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon which when executed causes;

a knowledge accumulation housing unit to store electronic data representations of a plurality of known books, wherein each electronic data representation is associated with table of contents information including a plurality of titles of chapters of each associated entire book that systematizes a known content of each said entire book, wherein each electronic data representation comprises known knowledge information,

an observed information receiving unit to receive, from a user, an information object observed by said user, wherein the information object comprises an unknown text,

a fixed quantity processing unit to;

compare the unknown text of the information object with the known knowledge information of one of the data representations based on terms included within the text and the knowledge information, and

generate a fixed quantity value for each said chapter indicative of a correlation between the compared unknown text and the compared known knowledge information, and

a fixed quantity value display processing unit to display the fixed quantity value and a relationship between the fixed quantity value and the table of contents information including said chapter titles, associated with the electronic data representation of the compared knowledge information in order to visually display, as a representation of the entire associated book, correlations between the known content of the associated book and the unknown information object text,

wherein said visual display enables said user to use the known systematizing of the known content to interpret said unknown text.