Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Content searching apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 内容搜索装置
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Application No.: US12095167Application Date: 2007-10-30
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Publication No.: US07904449B2Publication Date: 2011-03-08
- Inventor: Kazutoyo Takata , Takashi Tsuzuki , Kenji Mizutani
- Applicant: Kazutoyo Takata , Takashi Tsuzuki , Kenji Mizutani
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2006-304455 20061109
- International Application: PCT/JP2007/071118 WO 20071030
- International Announcement: WO2008/056570 WO 20080515
- Main IPC: G06F7/00
- IPC: G06F7/00 ; G06F17/30

Abstract:
A content searching apparatus facilitating a search of a content, which a user desires, even where relativity between a content and a keyword change, wherein the content searching apparatus includes: a content table storing unit storing content tables; an input unit obtaining a keyword, which has been selected as a selected keyword; a relevant keyword creating unit (i) calculating a relevance degree, for each of keywords, to the selected keyword, based on a target content table, (ii) selecting a keyword having a predetermined relevance degree out of each of the keywords, and (iii) creating a relevant keyword out of the corresponding keywords; and a variance calculating unit calculating a variance value of selected keywords including the keyword, when the user is confused. Further, the content searching apparatus includes a content table selecting unit changing the above mentioned target content table to another content table, when the variance value is larger than a threshold value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090313234A1 CONTENT SEARCHING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2009-12-17
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