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US 5,317,508 AGranted
Image editing apparatus
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsShusaku Okamoto, Toshiyuki Maeda, Fumio Maehara
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Abstract
There is provided an image editing apparatus, which comprises language image uniting dictionary storing informations on words, on relation between meanings of the words, and on image, a grammer dictionary storing grammer, image editing rule and, a language parsing means to parse a linguistic sentence, an image retrieving means to retrieve image information and an image editing means to edit image, and, being input information on an intended image in natural language, parses the input sentence, retrieves images for expressing the meaning thereof, processes and snystesizes the retrieved images, all automatically, so that, an intended image can be obtained by simple operation.
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An image editing apparatus comprising:
- a first storing means to store information of simple words which form a linguistic sentence, and information on relation of meaning between the simple words,
- a second storing means to store information solely on attributes of images or image information on attributes of images and data of image elements combined,
- a third storing means to store the grammer of the language,
- a fourth storing means to store the relation between the information stored in the first storing means and the information stored in the second storing means, if any relation exists,
- a fifth storing means to store image editing rule to edit images using the result of parsing of the language and the image attribute,
- a linguistic sentence input means to input a linguistic sentence,
- a linguistic sentence parsing means to parse a linguistic sentence using the informations stored in the first and third storing means,
- an image retrieving means to retrieve image information from the second storing means using the parsing result of the linguistic sentence parsing means and the information stored in the first and fourth storing means,
- a displaying means to display the image element data stored in the second storing means, and
- an image editing means to conjecture, using the parsing result of the linguistic sentence, the retrieved image information, and the information stored in the fifth storing means,
- whether the editing of the meaning of the input linguistic sentence to an image is possible, and in case it is possible, to process and synthesize the retrieved image to edit an image showing the meaning of the input sentence.
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An image editing apparatus comprising:
- first storing means for storing information relating to simple words which form a linguistic sentence in a language, and for storing information on relation of meaning between the simple words,
- second storing means for storing information solely on attributes of images or image information on attributes of images and data of image elements combined,
- third storing means for storing the grammer of the language,
- fourth storing means for storing the relation between the information stored in the first storing means and the information stored in the second storing means, if any relation exists,
- fifth storing means for storing image editing rule to edit images using the result of parsing of the language and the image attribute,
- linguistic sentence input means for receiving the linguistic sentence,
- linguistic sentence parsing means for parsing the linguistic sentence using the informations stored in the first and third storing means,
- image retrieving means for retrieving image information from the second storing means using the parsing result of the linguistic sentence parsing means and the imformation stored in the first and fourth storing means,
- displaying means for displaying the image element data stored in the second storing means, and
- image editing means for conjecturing, using the parsing result of the linguistic sentence, the retrieved image information, and the information stored in the fifth storing means, whether the editing of the meaning of the input linguistic sentence to an image is possible, and in case it is possible, to process and synthesize the retrieved image to edit an image showing the meaning of the input sentence,
- wherein the image information stored in the second storing means has as its image attribute the first instance value to distinguish between the background imnage and image part, the second instance value to distinguish whether the image is edited one or not, and the third instance value to describe the physical size of the object displayed.
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An image editing apparatus comprising:
- first storing means for storing information of simple words which form a linguistic sentence in a language, and information on relation of meaning between the simple words,
- second storing means for storing information solely on attributes of images or image information on attributes of images and data of image elements combined,
- third storing means for storing the grammer of the language,
- fourth storing means for storing the relation between the information stored in the first storing means and the information stored in the second storing means, if any relation exists,
- fifth storing means for storing image editing rule to edit images using the result of parsing of the language and the image attribute,
- linguistic sentence input means for receiving the linguistic sentence,
- linguistic sentence parsing means for parsing the linguistic sentence using the informations stored in the first and third storing means,
- image retrieving means for retrieving image information from the second storing means using the parsing result of the linguistic sentence parsing means and the information stored in the first and fourth storing means,
- displaying means for displaying the image element data stored in the second storing means, and
- image editing means for conjecturing, using the parsing result of the linguistic sentence, the retrieved image information, and the information stored in the fifth storing means, whether the editing of the meaning of the input linguistic sentence to an image is possible, and in case it is possible, to process and synthesize the retrieved image to edit an image showing the meaning of the input sentence,
- wherein the apparatus is further provided with an image revise means to modify the image by hand working, with which, if necessary, the image edited and displayed by the input sentence can be modified.
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An image editing apparatus comprising:
- a parsing dictionary, storing information necessary to understand a linguistic sentence,
- an image storing-arranging means to store and arrange image parts and method to process the image parts,
- a language input means to have input of linguistic sentence,
- a parsing means to parse the linguistic sentence, using the parsing dictionary and the information stored in the image data storing-arranging means,
- an image editing means to retrieve, with the parsed result of the linguistic sentence, image parts necessary for expressing the contents of the linguistic sentence and method to process the image parts, by the image data storing-arranging means, and a displaying means to display the synthesized image parts.
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An image editing apparatus comprising:
- a parsing dictionary, storing information necessary to understand a linguistic sentence,
- image storing-arranging means for storing and arranging image parts and a method to process the image parts,
- language input means for receiving the linguistic sentence,
- parsing means for parsing the linguistic sentence, using the parsing dictionary and the information stored in the image data storing-arranging means,
- image editing means for retrieving, from the parsed result of the linguistic sentence, image parts necessary for expressing the contents of the linguistic sentence and method to process the image parts, by the image data storing-arranging means, and a displaying means to display the synthesized image parts,
- wherein the image part consists of description part of the instance value and image element data, and the method in the image data storing-arranging means is characterized by the use of the instance value as parameter.
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An image editing apparatus comprising:
- a parsing dictionary, storing information necessary to understand a linguistic sentence,
- image storing-arranging means for storing and arranging image parts and method to process the image parts,
- language input means for receiving the linguistic sentence,
- parsing means for parsing the linguistic sentence, using the parsing dictionary and the information stored in the image data storing-arranging means,
- image editing means for retrieving, from the parsed result of the linguistic sentence, image parts necessary for expressing the contents of the linguistic sentence and method to process the image parts, by the image data storing-arranging means, and a displaying means to display the synthesized image parts,
- which is further provided with an image synthesis knowledge base to store temporarily information parsed by the linguistic parsing means and information retrieved by the image retrieving means, and carries out process in the image editing means using the information stored in the said image editing data storing means.
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A method of editing an image which includes a plurality of image parts, comprising the steps of:
- storing information necessary to understand an input linguistic sentence,
- storing and arranging said plurality of image parts;
- receiving said input linguistic sentence,
- parsing the input linguistic sentence, using the information necessary to understand the linguistic sentence and said plurality of image parts to obtain a parsed result of said input linguistic sentence;
- retrieving from the parsed result of the linguistic sentence a further plurality of image parts necessary for expressing contents of the input linguistic sentence;
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- processing and displaying said further plurality of image parts.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.