Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.

Siemens Corporation

Peiya Liu

Liang Hua Hsu

Liang-Hua Hsu

Amit Chakraborty

Kenneth Hampel

Fusheng Wang

Sridharan Palanivelu

Young Francis Day

Dorin Comaniciu

Arding Hsu

Zhijing Liu

Shaorong Liu

Tim Dawidowsky

Sean Daniel Frank Sullivan

A GUI (Graphical User Interface) supported specification method for form field extraction and database mapping in a computer system that includes converting a form file into a fixed electronic document format by using a GUI which is used to specify the form file and conversion parameters and extracting fields from the fixed electronic document format by using the GUI that is used to specify the fields to be extracted; and mapping the fields onto the database schema by using a GUI which is used to specify the mapping between the fields and the database schema.

System and method for GUI supported specifications for automating form field extraction with database mapping

A method for knowledge generation from raw medical records uses XML-based specifications. The method includes content extraction, data aggregation and data enrichment. The method operates on various sources of medical data including financial data, clinical documents and medical images.

Specification-based automation methods for medical content extraction, data aggregation and enrichment

An RFID events processing system includes a rules database having filtering rules and complex event rules, a primitive event filtering unit for receiving a plurality of primitive events to generate filtered events based on the filtering rules, and a complex event detection engine which receives the filtered events and detects complex events based on the complex event rules.

Method and apparatus for complex RFID event processing

Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a database table comprising a plurality of records, each of the plurality of records comprising an identification of an object, and an identification of a particular location of the object, each particular location of the object automatically determined responsive to automatically generatable, automatically receivable, radio frequency identification information.

Systems, devices, and methods for managing RFID data

A technique for optimizing the archival and management of data stored as XML documents is capable of handling mixed data including highly structured data and unstructured data. The technique maps the structured data to a relational database while storing the unstructured data in its native XML format. The data is updated using a rules database that maps updating rules against attributes and classes of elements within the documents. A document checking/validation engine performs the updates based on rule verification. A search engine searches the documents using both a path index table and a weighted content index.

Method for querying XML documents using a weighted navigational index

An adaptive transformation and User Interface system enables transformation of a file or document (e.g. an SGML, XML, HTML or other multimedia file or document) from one format to another format. The transformation supports error correction, filtering and collation of elements of a source document for output and is performed in response to control information comprising transformation parameters. The system transforms a document encoded in a language including presentation style determination attributes from a first format to a different second format. The system includes a source of transformation parameters determining a desired presentation style and content structure as well as an input document processor. The input document processor transforms a received input document in a first format by parsing the input document and collating elements of the input document into a hierarchically ordered structure representing an intermediate document structure. The system employs a transformation processor for transforming the intermediate document structure into an output document with the desired presentation style of a second format in response to the transformation parameters.

System for multimedia document and file processing and format conversion

A Product Document Constraint Specification Language (PDCSL) is provided for a document author to represent various types of documentation guidelines that must be enforced within documents or across different documents. A Document Constraint Analyzer (DCA) takes as input a set of document files together with a document constraint specification file, extracts and examines the contents, attributes, and relationships associated with the document objects, and evaluates the logical expressions specified in the document constraints. If a document constraint is not satisfied, an action can be taken to correct the documents or provide an explanation to the document author.

Automatic validation method for multimedia product manuals

A generalized hyperlinking system interactively creates hyperlinks one a time or automatically in mass production, statically at authoring time or dynamically at browsing time. A Generalized Hyperlink Specification Language (GHSL) allows for the author to specify patterns and contexts for identifying sources and destinations of links in all media and define link information as interfaces between hyperlinking modules. The generalized automatic hyperlinking system includes a source identifier, a source anchor generator, an initial semi-link generator, an intermediate destination identifier, an intermediate anchor generator, an intermediate link generator, an intermediate semi-link generator, a destination identifier, a final semi-link generator, a final link generator, link management, a link database, a link browser, a link interpreter and a document browser.

Generalized system for automatically hyperlinking multimedia product documents

An automatic card-based presentation generation system programmatically creates card-based presentation documents from source documents by transforming a card layout style specification into presentation specifications which at run-time, are used to generate formatting object descriptions. The formatting object descriptions are then used to actually create card-based presentation documents. The invention includes a presentation style transformer and a card-based presentation generator. The presentation style transformer takes a card layout style specification (CLSS) and a card display schema (CDS) and transforms them into card-based presentation specifications (CPS). The card-based presentation generator takes the card-based presentation specifications and a card-based document content to create formatting object descriptions.

Automatic generation of card-based presentation documents from multimedia data

A method for authoring video documents includes the steps of inputting video data to be processed, segmenting the video data into shots by identifying breaks between the shots, subdividing the shots into subshots using motion analysis to provide location information for motions of objects of interest, describing boundaries for the objects of interest in the video data such that the objects of interest are represented by the boundaries in the shots and creating an anchorable information unit file based on the boundaries of the objects of interest such that objects of interest are used to identify portions of the video data. A system is also included.

Method and apparatus for authoring and linking video documents

An automatic formatting system programmatically creates an electronic file format for card-based hypermedia documents without the knowledge of the target document format. The script-based formatting system includes an automated method for generating formatting scripts which, at run-time, are used by a commercial authoring tool to generate the document file format. With this approach, it is possible to take advantage of the script interpreter capabilities rather than interactive editing capabilities in authoring tools. The system includes a mixer where descriptions about documents are obtained by attaching formatting commands to document contents through a pre-processing procedure. The descriptions are input to an automatic scripting module which generates formatting scripts. The automatic scripting module includes an HCF generator and a formatting script interpreter. At run-time the formatting scripts are executed by the authoring tools' script interpreter to generate card-based hypermedia documents.

Formatting card-based hypermedia documents by automatic scripting

A system for automatically assembling product manuals based on a product model, a delivery model and a formal configuration specification includes a structure instantiator for instantiating a product manual structure from a model-specific configuration specification to create a logical structure for a product manual. The product manual structure incorporates product information from a product model, the product manual structure including document objects. A manual configurer is included for configuring the product manual by binding the document objects in the logical structure to proper versions of component documents stored in a document database. A manual generator is also included for generating the product manual by physically extracting the document objects from the document database to a directory, based on a delivery model. A method for automatically assembling product manuals is also included.

Automatically configuring product manual by binding document objects in logical structure to proper versions of component documents in a document database

A system that automatically restructures SGML documents into a format referred to as card-based documents is based on a Card Layout Style Specification Language (CLSSL). The CLSSL controls the information, arrangement, sequencing, and presentation features of the cards. The system includes a scroll-card transformer, a media-card extractor, a card style editor, a platform-independent generator and a platform dependent generator. SGML documents are first transformed in scroll-card transformer into cards based on various scroll-to-card transformation guidelines. The non-textual media that are associated with textual documents are also transformed in the media-card extractor by extracting a portion of the information for individual cards. Once the textual and non-textual documents are transformed properly into cards, the card layout style editor is used to create the formatting commands, referred to as Card Layout Style Specifications (CLSS), for each type of card in the card-based manual. The card-based SGML manual together with a card layout style specification file is then processed by a presentation formatter to generate a platform-dependent format for the presentation tool.

Style specifications for systematically creating card-based hypermedia manuals

A system for automatically synthesizing semantic information units from raw material extracted from non-textual documents supports error detection and correction, allows mapping from pieces of raw information extracted from the media into semantic information entities in the application domain and provides a complete procedure for building up hierarchical information structures for non-textual media. It adopts a formal specification to describe the synthesis process of constructing semantic media structures for all different media in multimedia documentation. The system includes an error corrector for receiving raw AIU's and for providing corrected raw AIU's. A primitive identifier receives the corrected raw AIU's and provides primitives. A basic synthesizer receives the primitives and provides basic objects. An abstract synthesizer receives the basic objects and provides abstract objects which are in condition for the hyperlinking process.

Automatic synthesis of semantic information from multimedia documents

A method for recognizing text in graphical drawings includes creating a binarized representation of a drawing to form an electronic image of pixels. The image is discriminated between text regions and lines in the image by grouping pixels into blocks and comparing blocks with a predetermined format to identify text regions. The lines that remain in the text regions are removed to create text only regions. The text is recognized in the text only regions.

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