An Advanced Scheme of Information Presentation Based on Integration and Conversion of Information and its Application to Recognition and Understand of Concepts

在这个项目中，我们之前提出的媒体转换的概念被应用到几个材料上。最有意义的结果如下。一种是将日语路线指南转换为地图上的视觉表示。语言媒介向形象媒介的转化是各种媒介中最困难的一种，这是一种罕见的成功范例。此外，还开发了一个将学术文档图像编码为文本文件的有趣的图像到符号媒体转换的例子。这项技术有望为图像提供显著的信息压缩，但由于在识别字符以及提取文档中的释义和数学公式的区域、表格等方面缺乏准确率，该技术并未成功实现。然而，在字体识别和区分欧洲字母和日本字母方面的发展取得了一些重要的成果，并达到了令人满意的准确性。在识别产品广告文档的逻辑结构方面采用的对话方法也是该领域独特而富有成效的尝试。在建筑机械部件交换和个人指导领域的几个导航系统可以被视为媒体处理的另一个方面的应用，即媒体整合的概念。

In this project, the concept of the media conversion that we have previously proposed is applied to several materials. The most meaningful results are as follows. One is the conversion of a route guidance in Japanese to a visual representation on a map. It is a rare case of successful example of the media conversion of linguistic media to image one that is the most difficult conversion among the various kinds of them. Besides, an interesting example of the image to symbolic media conversion is developed in terms of coding of academic document images into text files. The technique is expected to provide a significant information compression of images, but was not successfully attained because of the lack of the accuracy rate in recognition of characters and also in extracting paraphrase, and mathematical formulas' regions, tables and so on in documents. However, some significant results are obtained as byproducts of the development in terms of type-face identification and of distinguishing between European alphabets and Japanese ones, and they have attained satisfactory accuracy.A dialogue approach adopted in recognition of logical structure of advertising documents of products is also a unique and fruitful trial in this area.A couple of navigation systems in the field of mechanical parts exchange and personal guidance in buildings can be viewed as applications of another aspect of media processing, that is, the concept of media integration.