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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2007
Mi-ran Choi, Daejon, KR;
Hee-cheol Seo, Daejon, KR;
Hyun-ki Kim, Daejon, KR;
Myung-gil Jang, Daejon, KR;
Jeong Heo, Daejon, KR;
Soo-jong Lim, Daejon, KR;
Yeo-chan Yoon, Seoul, KR;
Kyoung-ro Yoon, Seoul, KR;
Mi-Ran Choi, Daejon, KR;
Hee-Cheol Seo, Daejon, KR;
Hyun-Ki Kim, Daejon, KR;
Myung-Gil Jang, Daejon, KR;
Jeong Heo, Daejon, KR;
Soo-Jong Lim, Daejon, KR;
Yeo-Chan Yoon, Seoul, KR;
Kyoung-Ro Yoon, Seoul, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Konkuk University Industrial Cooperation Corp, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for expressing a query for searching multimedia data. The apparatus and method of the present invention expresses diverse query types in MPEG-7 query formats and uses field types to reuse a designated region. The apparatus for expressing a query inputted from a user for multimedia data search includes: an input means for receiving a query for multimedia data search from a user; and a query expression means for expressing the input query in a field type, wherein the field type includes at least one among identifier information indicating identification (ID) information of a field presenting a search condition included in the input query; type information indicating data type information of the field; and reference information indicating identifier information of another field for reference. The present invention is applied to MPEG-7 query formats.