The methodology to protect an image database by a patentable program of a media search engine

摘要

This paper presents a methodology as a set of evaluation criteria of technical conditions with its mathematical reasoning for a semantic based indexing and retrieval to protect a multimedia database: image and document, audio and video while it offers with its mathematical reasoning a set of evaluation criteria. A set of index feature weightings focused on index features of media data is an indispensable part of a retrieval algorithm to compute correlative index features with queries for appropriate classification of contents. The set of weightings reduced in the form of a patentable program should be the more securely protected than by copyright when it implements semantic based indexing and retrieval to construct one-to-one correspondence between weighted index features and retrieved results. The set of weightings in the patentable program also protects contents in a multimedia database in a certain narrowly defined domain when it covers the semantics in its domain with a finite set of retrieval classes.