Patent ID: 7010477

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for determining analogousness between input words and registered words registered in a dictionary, the information processing apparatus comprising: a sensor section configured to sense an object related to said input words, and generating a sensed output; a pre-processing section configured to receive said sensed output, and extract feature parameters of said object related to said input words from said sensed output; a plurality of discriminators configured to receive said feature parameters of said object, and process said feature parameters to generate notation functions using a plurality of discrimination functions; a selector configured to select a plurality of discriminated words representing said object; a word train generating section configured to receive said plurality of discriminated words along with said notation functions, said word train generating section operating to generate a set of word trains by using all permutations of said plurality of discriminated words; and word analogousness calculating means configured to calculate word analogousness between each word train of said set of word trains and a registered word train using said notation functions, wherein said feature parameters include parameters indicating color, shape, size, position, direction, and/or velocity of said object.