Search Apparatus Picture-Expressible Term Extraction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current search engines primarily provide text-based search results, which result in a poorer information expression effect, failing to effectively meet user demands for visual information.

Innovation Solution

A searching method and apparatus that identifies picture-expressible terms within search queries and returns picture results, enhancing information expression by providing quick and vivid visual representations of search terms.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If text-based search results are provided, then the search engine can deliver information efficiently, but the information expression effect is poor

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation expression effectVSAvoidsearch result processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The search result processing is segmented into multiple stages: first extracting picture-expressible terms from the search query, then separately processing text results and picture results, and finally presenting them in a structured format. This segmentation allows the system to handle different types of information expression independently, improving the overall information expression effect while managing complexity systematically.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transitions from traditional one-dimensional text-based search results to a multi-dimensional result presentation that includes both text and picture dimensions. By adding the visual dimension through picture-expressible term processing, the system enriches information expression without completely replacing the text-based approach, thus resolving the contradiction between information quality and system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Loss of information

If picture results are provided based on picture-expressible terms, then information expression effect is enhanced, but the processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisual information expressionVSAvoidpicture result processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-identifying and extracting picture-expressible terms from the search query before generating search results. This preliminary processing step enables the system to prepare picture-related data in advance, which simplifies the subsequent result generation process and reduces overall processing complexity while maintaining enhanced visual information expression.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The picture-expressible term acts as an intermediary between the user's search query and the picture search results. By introducing this intermediate classification layer, the system can efficiently route queries to appropriate picture or text results without requiring complex direct analysis, thus reducing processing complexity while enhancing visual information delivery.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentEP3242222B1Searching method and apparatus
Publication Date: 2024.04.03 BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECH (BEIJIBG) CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided in the present invention are a searching method and apparatus, the searching method comprising: receiving a current search term sent by a client; acquiring a picture-expressible term included in the current search term, and on the basic of the picture-expressible term, acquiring corresponding picture results; and sending the picture results to the client. The present method improves the effect of the information expression of the search results.