Patent ID: 9400808
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A color description analysis device which converts a natural language description as a description regarding colors expressed in a natural language into data representing distribution of values in a prescribed color space, comprising: a hardware including a processor; a color description extracting unit, implemented by the processor, which extracts words and phrases indicating relationship between colors and a description regarding colors from the natural language description; a color ratio determining unit, implemented by the processor, which determines a ratio of each area occupied by each color included in the natural language description in the whole area of an image as an object of the natural language description by use of the words and phrases indicating relationship between colors and included in the natural language description; a dictionary storage unit which stores a dictionary containing at least information regarding color names for identifying descriptions about colors in a natural language text and information regarding words and phrases indicating relationship between colors, and further contains names of objects to be recognized as parts of the image and information regarding the types of the objects, a knowledge storage unit which stores object configuration knowledge including at least information regarding relationship between different object types; an object description extracting unit which judges the type of each of the objects by extracting the name of the object from the natural language description by using the dictionary stored in the dictionary storage unit; and a color ratio adjusting unit which adjusts the determined ratio by determining an area ratio of each color occupying a particular area in the image corresponding to each of the objects by using the relationship between object types included in the object configuration knowledge.