Patent ID: 7296012

Claim:
A computer program for a multimedia processing method used in a multimedia processing apparatus that includes: a multimedia information database that stores multimedia information; an ontology information database that stores ontology information; a name information database that stores name space information; an installation space information database that stores part table list information corresponding to the installation space; a registration control unit that controls registration of information at the multimedia information database, at the ontology information database, at the name information database, and at the installation space information database; and an ontology generating unit that generates ontology, the ontology generating unit being configured to read the part table list information from the installation space information database and to set name information based on an item to be conceptualized, the program making a computer execute: selecting a specific element from an installation space having a plurality of elements where each element to be given a name is hierarchically expressed on one of a plurality of interrated levels; generating a name space ontology by setting a table of mutual relationships of concept expressed between two pieces of name information which is ruled as an extensible markup language name space in worldwide web consortium, the mutual relationships including lateral relationships and vertical relationships, wherein the name space ontology is a hierarchy of names assigned to respective elements from the installation space with the selected element having a respective name at a top level of the name space ontology; determining a layer depth of the name space; and linking each name of the name space ontology with multimedia information related to the element having the name assigned thereto, and storing the multimedia information linked with the name into the multimedia information database.