Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Solutions Are Everything, Inc.

Tetsuji Abe

Toshio Horiki

Benito Mishiro

Yoshihiko Sugiyama

Masayuki Mukai

Atsushi Tanaka

Kimihiko Higashio

Satoshi Matsuura

Akira Murakawa

Hidetoshi Takeda

Katsumi Nagano

Yoshifumi Yanagawa

Takeshi Imanaka

Kunio Yamada

Shuhei Taguchi

Takao Shudo

Shinichi Ban

Yutaka Kohno

Masaru Tochishita

Kagumi Moriwaki

Kinya Hasegawa

Kazuhiko Yamagiwa

Takahiro Fujii

Chikako Tada

Yutaka Kono

Shuji Nakao

Hiroyuki Uenaka

Takuma Masuda

Miyuki Ono

Masako Inoue

An icon display apparatus reduces data to icons and displays those icons. The data corresponds to items classified into a plurality of groups and to apparatus for processing the data. A storage stores the data; a graphic generator produces a graphic data for visualizing those data as icons each representing an object in a multi-dimensional space; and a display displays those icons arranged in respective groups corresponding to attributes of data in the multi-dimensional space.

Icon display apparatus and method used therein

Personal computer

Portable computer

In image data retrieval, image data that becomes the base of search is specified. When the search is to be carried out according to the distance from the image data on an image map, an automatic setting process of retrieval information is carried out. Here, a keyword, icon, chromaticity and the like of that image data are automatically set as retrieval information. The position of that image data on the image map becomes the center of a range when the ambiguity is set. By setting the ambiguity of the image map, keyword, icon, chromaticity, and the like in this state, the range of ambiguity is displayed, and image data within that range is automatically retrieved. As a result, analogous image data can be searched for according to subtle and ambiguous information or information that cannot be quantified.

Data administration apparatus that can search for desired image data

The invention provides a data retrieval apparatus which includes a sensibility database 2 for storing a plurality of title names, evaluation points on a plurality of evaluation items, and identifiers assigned to evaluators responsible for the evaluation points; an evaluation point input block 1 for accepting an evaluation on each of the plurality of evaluation items; an evaluation point correction process block 5 for correcting each of the evaluations accepted by the evaluation point input block 1 by using a plurality of evaluator difference data for each of the plurality of evaluators; a retrieval criteria generating process block 6 for selecting a title name from the sensibility database 2 on the basis of each corrected evaluation; and a data retrieval process block 7. With this data retrieval apparatus, flexible data retrieval can be conducted by just entering subjective evaluation points even for objects from which objective numeric values related to subjective evaluation criteria are difficult to extract.

Data retrieval apparatus, evaluation entry apparatus and sensibility

Computer

Arithmetic processor for use in electronic computers

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Osaka, Japan

Tetsuji Abe