Design Assistant for Semantic Comparison of Intellectual Property (DASCIP)

将开发一个设计工具，突出一个新兴设计的潜在专利侵权将有助于引导该设计走向一个新的解决方案，以及避免昂贵的诉讼。我们将专注于机械工程设计，其中新颖的创造性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。我们描述了这些类型的应用程序的功能几何发明原理，因此相关的专利图像，发挥了重要作用。目前的专利检索系统只采用基于文本的搜索方法，有必要开发基于图像的语义搜索方法供设计师使用。功能表示法通常是示意性设计图，显示设计元素之间的功能和效果关系，是语义学的一种形式，被一些商业创新系统使用，但不用于专利比较。此外，功能表示尚未广泛应用于依赖于新颖几何特征的设计。现有的功能表示将被评估，以评估它们在专利检索中可用作图形设计描述的程度。将开发本体和语义描述符，用于定义的“功能几何”发明原理，在机械工程设计中常见，以便将新兴设计与相关专利进行比较。将建立一个目标制造领域的产品设计和机器设计专利数据库。一个CAD系统将适用于存储内部模型注释的新兴的设计，表达设计意图，并制定了一个功能的几何形状的相互作用的描述，由本体论和语义开发的这一目的的帮助。将检索专利数据库，以与主要基于原始专利图像的文本和符号注释以及专利中描述的设计的功能表示的新兴设计进行比较。由于特定的设计特征，统计量化的专利侵权，将被描绘在一个可视化叠加在新兴的设计。通过这种方式，设计师将获得支持，以创建避免专利侵权的创新解决方案。

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.