Method and apparatus for updating prototypes

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8856120
APP PUB NO 20100299328A1
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12682705

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An apparatus and method for machine-updating of prototypes—for example, during design of digital objects, or content-management—has input means (15) for inputting descriptive classifiers (tags) that a user assigns to prototypes and a tag model generator (20) that uses machine learning techniques to produce a model of the association between the assigned tags and the values of quantifiable, non-subjective attributes of the tagged prototypes. In order to obtain a desired updating of a current prototype, the user issues a command which defines the desired variation of the current prototype by referring to one or more conditions that should be met by specified tags of the updated prototype. The prototype-updating apparatus/method has a prototype updater (30) that identifies a suitable updated prototype whose tags meet the condition(s) specified in the user's command and which, globally, is fairly similar to the pre-update prototype. The user can, thus, express instructions for prototype-updating using his own terminology.

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SONY EUROPE B VTHE HEIGHTS BROOKLAND WEYBRIDGE SURREY KT13 OXW

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Pachet, Francois Paris, FR 25 1062

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