METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RETRIEVING MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS

摘要

A method and an apparatus for retrieving multimedia contents are provided to analyze the meaning of an inquiry of a user correctly in a retrieving operation, thereby correctly retrieving multimedia contents corresponding to the inquiry. An inquiry of a user is represented by using a pointer which points a specific region of an MPEG-7 document and a reference which refers to the pointer(10). The meaning of the inquiry represented by using the pointer and the reference is analyzed(20). Multimedia contents corresponding to the inquiry are retrieved according to the analysis result(30).