Patent Document ID: 20080288309
Application ID: 12118182
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A future technology projection supporting apparatus for supporting the projection of a future technological trend by analyzing a plurality of technical documents, comprising: a technical literature storage unit for storing a plurality of technical documents each having a problem describing section in which a problem to be solved is described, and an effect describing section in which an effect to be achieved by proposed solving means is described; a describing section extracting unit for extracting the problem describing section and the effect describing section from each of the plurality of technical literatures; a keyword storage unit for storing a plurality of keywords that are used as keys to extract technical phrases each indicating a matter to be achieved by a technology described in each of the plurality of technical documents; a technical phrase extraction unit for extracting a technical phrase from each of the problem describing section and the effect describing section by referring to the plurality of keywords; and an analyzed data storage unit for storing the technical phrases extracted from the problem describing section in association with a first attribute indicating that the technical phrase represents a matter to be achieved in a near future, and for storing the technical phrases extracted from the effect describing section in association with a second attribute indicating that the technical phrase represents a matter to be achieved in a far future.