Design Assistant for Semantic Comparison of Intellectual Property (DASCIP)

将开发一种设计工具，突出新兴设计的潜在专利侵权，这将有助于引导该设计走向新颖的解决方案，并避免昂贵的诉讼。我们将专注于机械工程设计，其中新颖的发明步骤在很大程度上依赖于设计的功能和关键几何特征如何相互作用。我们将这些类型的应用描述为函数几何发明原理以及相关专利图像发挥重要作用的应用。目前的专利检索系统只采用基于文本的搜索方法，需要开发基于图像的语义搜索方法供设计人员使用。功能表示法是一种语义学的形式，通常是一种示意图，显示了设计元素之间的功能和效果的关系，被一些商业创新系统使用，但不用于专利比较。此外，功能表征尚未广泛应用于依赖于新颖几何特征的设计。将对现有的功能表示进行评估，以评估它们在多大程度上可以用作专利检索中使用的图形设计描述。本体论和语义描述符将与定义的“功能几何”发明原理一起开发，在机械工程设计中很常见，以便将新兴设计与相关专利进行比较。将创建目标制造领域的产品设计和机器设计专利数据库。CAD系统将用于存储表达设计意图的新兴设计的内部模型注释，并在为此目的开发的本体和语义的帮助下，开发功能-几何交互的描述。将检索专利数据库，主要基于原始专利图像的文本和符号注释，以及相关的专利中描述的设计的功能表示，与新出现的设计进行比较。由于特定设计特征的专利侵权，统计量化，将在叠加在新设计上的可视化中进行描述。通过这种方式，设计师将得到支持，以创造创新的解决方案，避免专利侵权。

A design tool will be developed that highlights potential patent infringement of an emerging design will help to steer that design towards a novel solution as well as avoid costly litigation. We will focus on mechanical engineering designs where the novel inventive step relies heavily upon how functions and key geometrical features of the design interact. We describe these types of application as where function-geometry inventive principles, and hence related patent images, play an important role.Current patent retrieval systems only employ text-based search methods and there is a need for image-based semantic search approaches to be developed for designers to use. Functional representations, which are typically schematic design diagrams showing the relationship of functions and effects between elements of a design, are a form of semantics and are used by some commercial innovation systems but not for patent comparison. In addition, functional representations have not been extensively applied to designs that rely on novel geometric features.Existing functional representations will be evaluated to assess the extent they can be used as a graphical design description for use in patent search. Ontology and semantic descriptors will be developed for use with the defined 'function-geometry' inventive principles, common in mechanical engineering design, in order to compare an emerging design with relevant patents. A database will be created of product design and machine design patents in the target manufacturing field. A CAD system will be adapted to store internal model annotations of the emerging design that express the design intent and also develop a description of the function-geometry interaction, aided by the ontology and semantics developed for this purpose. The patent database will be searched for comparison with the emerging design based primarily on text and symbol annotations of the original patent images plus, where relevant, a functional representation of the design depicted in the patent. The patent infringement due to particular design features, statistically quantified, will be depicted in a visualisation superimposed on the emerging design. In this way, the designer will be supported to create innovative solutions that avoid patent infringement.