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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1999
Takatoshi Mochizuki, Amagasaki, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The invention provides an information processing apparatus and method for storing and managing objects such as images, audio data and documents with additional information that is used for retrieving objects. A target object to which additional information is going to be added, and additional information objects accompanied with additional information are positioned on a map. In the process of adding additional information to the target object, the apparatus calculates distances between the target object and the additional information objects, and selects additional information from additional information belonging to additional information objects positioned within a predetermined distance from the target object to add the selected additional information to the object.