Patents by Inventor Peter Michael Allday

Peter Michael Allday 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).

  • Summarisation representation apparatus
    Patent number: 7234942
    Abstract: At least one topic in text data is determined by a topic determiner (4). A topic thread determiner (5) identifies in the text data context data associated with the at least one determined topic and provides topic representation data defining a graphical representation of the at least one topic in which are distributed visual indicia representing at least some of the context data with the distribution of the visual indicia indicating the positions within the text of the corresponding context data. The topic thread determiner (5) provides the topic representation data for display to a user on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jiawei Hu, Peter Michael Allday
  • Summarisation representation apparatus
    Publication number: 20040029085
    Abstract: At least one topic in text data is determined by a topic determiner (4). A topic thread determiner (5) identifies in the text data context data associated with the at least one determined topic and provides topic representation data defining a graphical representation of the at least one topic in which are distributed visual indicia representing at least some of the context data with the distribution of the visual indicia indicating the positions within the text of the corresponding context data. The topic thread determiner (5) provides the topic representation data for display to a user on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jiawei Hu, Peter Michael Allday