Data Format Conversion for Unified Metadata Association
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing data processing systems face complexity in handling data items in multiple formats, particularly when metadata is associated with real data, as they often require conversion to a common format for subsequent processing, which can be complicated and inefficient.
Innovation Solution
A data processing apparatus and method that includes a processor and memory, which executes a program to convert input data from various formats (including those with and without metadata) into a standardized second data format, ensuring that real data and metadata remain associated and can be processed uniformly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If data items in multiple different formats are processed directly, then data processing complexity increases, but data format diversity is maintained
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a data format conversion unit as an intermediary component that receives data in multiple different formats (first, second, and third data formats) and converts them into a unified fourth data format. This mediator handles the format diversity issue by systematically transforming various input formats into a standard output format, thereby reducing processing complexity in downstream operations while preserving the ability to accept diverse input formats.
2Ease of operation
If data format conversion is performed for all input data, then a common data format is provided to subsequent processes, but additional processing steps are required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary data format conversion by introducing a data format conversion unit that performs format standardization before data enters the main processing pipeline. By converting all input data to a unified fourth data format in advance, subsequent processing steps can operate on standardized data without needing to handle format variations, thereby simplifying downstream operations and improving ease of processing despite the added initial conversion step.
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AI summary
A first data format may include real data. A second data format and a third data format each may include real data and metadata indicative of an attribute of the real data. The second data format may include the real data and the metadata in data units different from each other. The third data format may include the real data and the metadata in a single data unit. A program may cause a processor to convert, in response to an input data being in the first data format or in the third data format, the data format of the input data to generate output data in the second data format.