| US 7,500,187 B1 | ||
| Creation assisting method and apparatus utilizing element indexes | ||
| Hiroyasu Karimoto, Kanagawa (Japan); Yushi Ogino, Hyogo (Japan); and Hideyuki Hagiwara, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (Japan); and Contents Co., Ltd., Kanagawa (Japan) | ||
| Appl. No. 9/869,647 PCT Filed Nov. 01, 2000, PCT No. PCT/JP00/07703 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Jul. 02, 2001, PCT Pub. No. WO01/33479, PCT Pub. Date May 10, 2001. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 11-314049 (JP), filed on Nov. 04, 1999. | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 17/21 (2006.01); G06F 17/24 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 715—255 [715/201; 715/764; 707/100; 707/104.1; 707/200] | 26 Claims |
| 1. A creation production support method comprising the steps of:
storing, in a database on a storage medium, elements of a creation along with added corresponding element indexes;
extracting, from said database, element indexes for multiple creation elements that match a selection reference;
calculating a correlation among information sets written in said extracted element indexes, and obtaining a set of element
indexes from said extracted element indexes whose correlation satisfies an evaluation reference; and
linking creation elements corresponding to element indexes that belong in said set, and outputting the results as a new creation
onto a terminal device,
wherein information written in said extracted element indexes consists of n sets of information to represent said information
using n-dimensional vectors; and wherein said correlation among said extracted element indexes is evaluated by using an angle
formed by said n-dimensional vectors of said extracted element indexes.
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