| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and a method that analyze explanations of multimedia objects such as images, animations, video, audio and tables from structured documents such as webpages, XML files and newspapers. <P>SOLUTION: The multimedia object retrieval apparatus and method, which retrieve multimedia objects from structured documents containing both a multimedia object and relevant explanation text, parse an input structured document into a parsing result such as a DOM tree, recognize a main block in the parsing result to output a main-block-annotated structured document model, extract a pair of a multimedia object and corresponding explanation to output a structured object index such as an XML format index, and search through the structured object index to form a target object list. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |
