Patents by Inventor Louafi Essafi

Louafi Essafi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for indexing and identifying multimedia documents
    Patent number: 7552120
    Abstract: The method of indexing multimedia documents comprises the following steps: a) for each document identifying and extracting terms ti constituted by vectors characterizing properties of the; b) storing terms ti in a term base comprising P terms; c) determining a maximum number N of desired concepts that group together the most pertinent terms ti; d) calculating the matrix T of distances between the terms ti of the term base; e) decomposing the set P of terms ti of the term base into N portions Pj (1?j?N) such that P=P1? P2 . . . ? Pj . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Advestigo
    Inventors: Hassane Essafi, Larbi Guezouli, Salima Sayah, Ali Behloul, Clarisse Mandridake, Louafi Essafi
  • Method for Indexing and Identifying Multimedia Documents
    Publication number: 20070271224
    Abstract: The method of indexing multimedia documents comprises the following steps: a) for each document identifying and extracting terms ti constituted by vectors characterizing properties of the; b) storing terms ti in a term base comprising P terms; c) determining a maximum number N of desired concepts that group together the most pertinent terms ti; d) calculating the matrix T of distances between the terms ti of the term base; e) decomposing the set P of terms ti of the term base into N portions Pj (1?j?N) such that P=P1? P2 . . . ? Pj . . .
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2004
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Inventors: Hassane Essafi, Larbi Guezouli, Salima Sayah, Ali Behloul, Clarisse Mandridake, Louafi Essafi