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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
May. 16, 2005
Applicants:
Jonathan Richard Thorpe, Winchester, GB;
Paul Edward Prayle, Basingstoke, GB;
Mikael Carl Lang, Surbiton, GB;
Inventors:
Jonathan Richard Thorpe, Winchester, GB;
Paul Edward Prayle, Basingstoke, GB;
Mikael Carl Lang, Surbiton, GB;
Assignee:
Sony United Kingdom Limited, Weybridge, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An information handling method in which information items are mapped to respective nodes in an array of nodes by mutual similarity of the information items, such that similar information items map to nodes at similar positions in the array of nodes; a mapping relationship being defined between feature data relating to an information item and nodes in the array of nodes comprises the steps of: