KR101289327B1 - Method of browsing ontology information, apparatus for browsing ontology information, and storage medium for storing a program driving a ontology information browser - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An ontology information browsing method, an ontology information browsing device thereof, and a storage medium including a program implementing an ontology information browser thereof display a large amount of ontology information in a simple way and make it easier for a user to select which piece of ontology information to be displayed. CONSTITUTION: A transceiver unit (310) communicates with a network and receives a request for ontology information. Based on the received ontology information, a browser operation unit (320) launches an ontology information browser. A display unit (340) displays the search results of ontology information the browser identifies based on the received ontology information. The ontology information browser places the information requested by a user at the edge of the display unit's screen and with the requested information as a center, related pieces of ontology information are placed on several concentric circles with different distances from the center. [Reference numerals] (310) Transceiver unit; (320) Browser operation unit; (330) Storage unit; (340) Display unit

Description

Method of browsing ontology information, apparatus for browsing ontology information, and storage medium for storing a program driving a ontology information browser}

The present invention relates to a method for browsing ontology information, an apparatus for browsing ontology information, and a storage medium for storing a program for driving the ontology information browser.

As research and development in technology has been advancing competitively, there has been a growing need to investigate what relationships a particular research or research undertaking with that particular study will have or will have in the future.

In the past, there have been techniques for presenting associations between research subjects. However, since the associations of research are abstract or the scope of research is not definite, these technologies also provide vague information and can not provide concrete information. As one of the prior arts, Applicant has conducted research to determine the similarity of the research of the institute by measuring the degree of association with the technology performed by the organizations such as corporations. The similarity survey of these studies is also vague and vague, .

This research selects and stores the top few technologies that the technology performs, and measures the degree of co-production of technical documents such as research similarity, thesis, and patent by comparing the degree of performance of the same technology, Was used. In addition, research competitiveness was measured according to the degree of research similarity, while the degree of research cooperation was zero. However, in this study, the cooperation relationship of the institution was limited to obtaining substantial information from the fact that the cooperative relationship was established only when the joint literature according to the joint research was created.

Meanwhile, such information may be expressed as ontology information according to a client request. However, in the conventional method of browsing ontology information, information such as class, instance, property, etc., which are included in ontology information at the request of a client, are displayed in a connection relationship such as a line, so that it is more readable. There was a falling issue.

1 is a diagram illustrating a conventional ontology browsing method. The conventional method is to arrange the association information around the information entity and express the relationship between the entities. For example, here a circle can represent an instance of ontology information, and a line represents a relationship between instances. A line can have a different line shape or color if the relationship between the instances is different.

However, there is a problem in that it is difficult to obtain information systematically when the number of association information increases in a central entity. If there are a lot of related entities, it is necessary to display those associations. It is difficult to display all of them, and even if they are displayed, they can only be expressed with complexity.

If such information is obtained through a small screen such as a mobile device, it is difficult to specifically select the object, so that the conventional ontology browsing method deteriorates readability and visualization of information.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a storage medium for storing the ontology information browser, a method for browsing ontology information, a method for browsing ontology information, which is simple and easy to select, even when there is a lot of information to be displayed. It is.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a storage medium for storing a ontology information browser, a method for browsing ontology information, a method for browsing ontology information, and a method for browsing ontology information, which can simplify information visualization. It is.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for browsing ontology information, which can provide information to a user even when expressing complex information, a device for browsing ontology information, and a storage medium for storing a program for driving the ontology information browser. It is.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a transceiver for communicating with a network network and receiving requested ontology information data, a browser driver for driving an ontology information browser based on the ontology information data received by the transceiver, and the ontology information data And a display unit for displaying the browsed ontology information, wherein the ontology information browser includes the information requested by the user at the corner of the screen of the display unit, and the requested information as the center of the circle. Provided is an ontology information browsing device for positioning and displaying ontology information related to the information requested by the user on circles different from each other from a center to a circle.

The ontology information may include at least one of a class, an instance, a property, and a relation of the ontology associated with the information requested by the user. The ontology information browser rotates at least one of the circles in the tangential direction of the circle in response to the user's request, so that the information located on the circle disappears from the screen of the display unit or belongs to the circle. Information may be displayed to appear on the screen of the display unit.

The ontology information browser may distinguish and display the information on the circle selected by the user among the circles from the information on the circle not selected by the user.

The ontology information browser may display ontology description information on ontology information related to the information requested by the user in the prototypes on a part of the screen of the display unit.

The ontology information browser may correspond to and display information corresponding to detailed classification information among the information on the circles.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising: receiving ontology information data requested by a user by communicating with a network; And driving an ontology information browser based on the received ontology information data, and displaying the browsed ontology information based on the ontology information data, wherein the ontology information browser displays the information requested by the user. The method provides a ontology information browsing method, wherein the requested information is located at the corners of the circle and the ontology information related to the information requested by the user is displayed on the circle at a distance from the center of the circle.

According to another embodiment, the ontology information displayed on the basis of the ontology information data requested by the user in communication with a network network is displayed, and the browsed ontology information includes the information requested by the user at the corner of the screen, Provided is a storage medium for storing a program for driving an ontology information browser in which information is centered in a circle, and ontology information associated with information requested by the user is located on a circle with a distance from the center of the circle.

If the ontology information is browsed and displayed according to the embodiment of the present invention, even if there is a large amount of information to be displayed, the user can easily select the displayed information object.

When the ontology information is browsed and displayed according to the embodiment of the present invention, the visualization of the information presentation can be simplified and the readability of the information can be improved.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, when the ontology information is browsed and displayed, even if complex information is displayed, information can be briefly provided to the user.

1 is a diagram illustrating a conventional ontology browsing method
2 is a diagram illustrating association information of institutions according to an embodiment of the present invention;
3 is a diagram illustrating technology relationship information indicating a relationship between technologies
4 is a diagram illustrating an example of organ technology related information showing the relationship between the organization and technology
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of technical relation information, which illustrates upper-level technical information and lower-level technical information
6 is a diagram illustrating an example of association relationship information of organizations according to an embodiment of the present invention;
7 is a diagram illustrating an example in which technology related information is displayed according to an embodiment of the present invention
FIG. 8 is a view illustrating another example in which technology related information is displayed according to an embodiment of the present invention
9 is a diagram illustrating an example of providing a service according to an embodiment of the technology related information displaying apparatus of the present invention
10 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a technology-related-information display apparatus according to the present invention.
11 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a technology association relationship exposing method according to the present invention.
12 is a diagram illustrating an example of browsing ontology information according to an embodiment of the present invention
13 is a diagram illustrating a screen displayed according to a method of browsing ontology information according to an embodiment of the present invention
FIG. 14 is a view illustrating a screen for browsing ontology information according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.
FIG. 15 is an exemplary diagram showing relationship information of organizations according to a browsing method of ontology information according to an embodiment of the present invention
16 is a diagram illustrating an example of an ontology information browsing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
17 is a diagram illustrating a detailed embodiment of an ontology information browsing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. In order to facilitate the description of the present invention, the following terms are defined in this document as follows.

The organization here includes organizations dealing with technology such as research institutes, companies, research institutions, and universities. The techniques in this document include type elements such as research techniques, which are the intangible elements that an organization deals with, and products that an agency performs.

In the following, the term "agency" means that the agency researches, develops, or produces, sells, delivers, or provides services that include the technology.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of expressing association information of institutions with ontology information will be described, and a browsing scheme of ontology information will be described.

2 shows a diagram illustrating association information of organizations according to an embodiment of the present invention. The association of institutions according to the embodiment of the present invention means a cooperation relationship or a competition relationship. Again, the cooperation relationship is divided into direct cooperation relationship and possible cooperation relationship, and possible cooperation relationship can be classified into future cooperation relationship and indirect cooperation relationship.

In the following, a competitive relationship means that a technology group (or product group) performed by two or more organizations is the same. For example, if two agencies produce the same kind of mobile phones, the two organizations have a competitive relationship.

A cooperative relationship is not a competitive relationship, and a direct cooperation relationship means a case where a specific organization is assisted by another organization to perform the technology (or the product) in carrying out the technology (or product) . For example, if a particular agency produces a cell phone and another agency produces a display panel that is needed to manufacture the cell phone, the two agencies define it as a direct collaboration.

Future cooperative relations as a cooperation relationship can not be established directly at the present time, but the other cooperating relationship can not be established for the technology group (or product group) (Or product) that helps them perform the task. For example, it can be described as a case where a certain agency produces a mobile phone, but another agency does not yet use the mobile phone, but produces a display panel that can be used in the mobile phone.

An indirect cooperative relationship is an indirect cooperative relationship between a first agency and a third agency, if there is a third party that has a direct cooperative relationship with the technology performed by a second organization that has a direct cooperative relationship with the technology performed by the first organization. Explain that we have Indirect cooperative relationships will be described in detail in the following drawings.

FIG. 3 shows a diagram illustrating technology relationship information indicating a relationship between technologies. The storage unit according to the embodiment of the present invention may store the technical relation information as shown in FIG. 3

The technical relationship information includes relationship information between the technologies such as the whole-part or the top-bottom. If it is displayed as a full-part, it can be displayed by relation between product and part. For example, a smart phone and a display panel, which is a component used in the smart phone, can be represented as a full-part technical relationship information. As another example, the LED backlit TFT LCD, a component used in iPhone4 and iPhone4 products, can display relevance with all-parts technical relationship information.

In the case of displaying as upper-lower, the technical relation information can be displayed by the relation of the technology type or the product type and the specific expulsion name and the model name included therein. For example, the model name included in the smart phone technology category may include specific products or models such as LG-F120L, iPhone4, etc. In this case, the smartphone technology and the LG-F120L, Can be expressed by the technical relation information of

As a display technology and its specific technology, LED backlit TFT LCD and Super Amoled can be represented by upper-lower technology relation information, respectively.

The LED backlit TFT LCD used in the smart phone family and its parts can be displayed as a full-part technical relationship information.

As illustrated in FIG. 3, the storage unit according to an embodiment of the present invention may store technical relationship information using a relationship of technology, product, model, and parts. Alternatively, the embodiment of the present invention may extract the technical relationship information from a specific technology by using the detailed category of the technology, and generate the technical relationship information as illustrated in FIG. 3 and store it in the storage unit. An embodiment of the present invention may search, analyze, and extract stored technical relationship information, and display technical relationship information as shown in FIG. 3. A detailed description thereof will be described later.

Fig. 4 illustrates an example of institution-related information indicating the relationship between the institution and the technique. Institutional technology-related information includes technical information carried out by each institution and its institution. Technical information about the institution may include higher technical information and lower technical information.

Institutional technology information represents information on research, development, production, sales, etc., indicating how an institution performs a particular technology.

The technology information related to the institutional technology exemplified by LG is the technology (research or production) conducted by an organization (LED backlit TFT LCD and LG-F120L) , and iPhone4. And it is a technology that is executed (produced or sold) by an organization called Google, indicating that there is an Android, and a technology called Samsung is showing that there is Super Amoled.

As illustrated in FIG. 4, the storage unit according to an embodiment of the present invention may store engine technology related information indicating a relationship with respect to the manner in which the organization performs the technology. Alternatively, an embodiment of the present invention may extract a specific organ from a large amount of data, generate engine technology related information on a technique performed by the specific organ, and a method of performing the same, and store the information in a storage unit. An embodiment of the present invention may analyze the engine technology related information for each engine, and display the engine technology related information for the analyzed engine as shown in FIG. Detailed description thereof will be described later.

5 is a diagram illustrating high-level description information and low-level description information as an example of the description information. In Fig. 5, the description is denoted by T and the organ is denoted by O. [ The number after the O or T depends on the identifier. For example, the first organ O1 can perform the description of T1, T2, ..., Tn.

The upper technology information and the lower technology information represent the relationship between the two technologies. The T1 technique may include the sub-description information of the description of T11, T12, ..., T1n, and the T11 description may include the sub-description information of T111, T112, ..., T11n. The storage unit according to the embodiment of the present invention may store the description information of each organization as shown in FIG. 5, and the description information can be classified into the upper description information and the lower description information of the higher description information. The embodiment of the present invention extracts the upper description information and the lower description information according to the institution information from the large volume data and stores the upper description information and the lower description information for each institution as shown in FIG.

An embodiment of the present invention may analyze the technical information for each organization, and display the technical information for the organization as shown in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an indirect cooperation relationship among organizations' association information according to an embodiment of the present invention. The indirect cooperation relationship among the association relations will be described with reference to FIG.

In the drawing, the description is T and the organ is O. For example, O1 represents the first organization and TOX represents the technology TX performed by the organization O. The number X is an identifier, which can represent the upper and lower relationships of the description. For example, if T1 is higher-level description information, T11 indicates lower-level description information of T1.

In this figure, the first organization O1 has a cooperation relationship among the organizations TO1, TO2, ..., TOn and associations performing the techniques included in the description information T1. On the other hand, the organization TO1 performing the T1 has a cooperation relationship among the organizations performing the techniques included in the T11 description category, TO11, TO12, ..., TO1n and the association relationship. Then, it is defined that the first organization, O1, has a direct cooperative relationship with TO1, TO2, ..., TOn performing T1, and indirectly cooperates with TO11, TO12, ..., TO1n. That is, as a term for expressing a cooperation relationship, the indirect cooperation relationship does not directly cooperate with the first organization among a plurality of organizations at present, does not perform the same technology group as the technology performed by the first organization, Is used to indicate a relationship between a second organization performing the sub-description of the same technical group and its first organization.

As described above, the storage unit according to the embodiment of the present invention can store the large-capacity documents that can store the association information for each organization or extract the association information as shown in FIG. The embodiment of the present invention extracts association information for each institution from large-volume data, stores it, or can display it to the user.

An embodiment of the present invention may generate or extract association information by analyzing an organization and technical information performed by the agency, and display the association information of the organizations in a network form to which the organizations are connected.

7 is a diagram illustrating an example in which technology related information is displayed according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the embodiment of the present invention, when a specific keyword, such as technical information (or product information) or institution information, is input from a user, technical information (or product information) Information can be visualized and displayed. The technology association information can express the association of the plurality of organizations through techniques performed by a plurality of organizations. In this case, the technology association information can be visualized in the form of a network in which institutional information or technical information becomes a node, and an institutional technology related degree is displayed between the nodes.

The information to be visualized may be technical information, and information of institutions having an association with the technical information. The technical information may be displayed together with the upper technical information and the lower technical information.

For example, as shown in FIG. 7, the embodiment of the present invention can be applied to a case where a keyword of a "smart phone," " The relationship information can be displayed.

In this example, it is assumed that the keyword smartphone is input. Here, for example, Apple, Samsung, LG, etc. may be displayed as the first organization, the second organization, the third organization, etc. related to the inputted keywords.

And, sub-technology information related to the input keyword may be displayed. This example discloses an example in which a sub-technology such as display or a model name of LG-F120L or iPhone is displayed as a sub-technology information of a smartphone.

And, institutional technology related information indicating the relationship between the institution and the sub-technology information may be displayed. The relationship between the upper technology and the lower technology can be expressed by the technology relation information as illustrated in FIG. In this figure, it is illustrated that smartphone and display have a full-part relationship. And the relationship between smartphone and LG-F120L and the relationship between smartphone and iPhone shows that it has a high-low relationship.

In this figure, institutional technology related information of the institution LG, the high technology smart phone and the low technology display is indicated by R & D. And, institutional technology related information of LG and LG-F120L is indicated as production.

 Institution Samsung and the top technology The information related to the institutional technology of the smart phone and the sub-technology display is displayed in the R & D relationship.

And, institutional technology related information of the institution Apple and the high technology smart phone is displayed as R & D, and institutional technology related information of the institution Apple and the subordinate technology is displayed as production.

Therefore, when a user inputs a keyword for a technology or an organization, the relationship between the technology or the organization and technology related to the organization can obtain information in the form of a network connection as shown in FIG.

When the user is provided with the illustrated screen of FIG. 7, when the user selects an institution (Apple, Samsung, LG), engine technology related information (produce, R & D, etc.), or a technology (smart phone, display), the selected institution, engine technology related Relevant information about related organizations can be re-expressed based on information or technology.

FIG. 8 is a view disclosing another example in which technology related information is displayed according to an embodiment of the present invention. In order to know a technology association relation among a plurality of organizations, a user can input a plurality of organization information. The embodiment of the present invention can then display the association of the inputted organizations or the association of other organizations related thereto.

8 shows a case where Apple and Samsung are input as the first and second agencies. Then, at least one of the cooperation relationship, the competition relationship, the cooperation possibility relationship, the direct cooperation relationship, the future cooperation relationship, and the indirect cooperation relationship illustrated in FIG. 1 by the technology of the first organization Apple and the second organization Samsung As shown in FIG.

The example of this figure discloses an example in which the association information between the first organization Apple and the second organization Samsung is displayed in a cooperation relationship in the display technology and in a competition relationship on the smart phone. According to an embodiment of the present invention, even if additionally inputted or no input of the related engines of the first keyword and the second engine is performed. The example of FIG. 8 shows that the third institution LG is a competition in the first institution Apple and a smart phone and a cooperation in the display technology, and shows that the third institution LG is a competition in the smart phone and the display with the second institution Samsung.

9 is a diagram illustrating an example of providing a service according to an embodiment of the technology-related relationship display apparatus of the present invention.

The user terminal 100 inputs a user keyword from the technology association display apparatus 200 connected through a network. The technology association display apparatus 200 may search for a technology or an institution related to a keyword requested by a user from a storage unit or a database, extract an association based on a search result, and visualize the extracted association and transmit the same to the user. Alternatively, the technology association display apparatus 200 may include a separate display to display information requested by a user on the display unit.

10 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a technology-related relationship display apparatus according to the present invention. The technology association displaying apparatus can display the storage unit 210, the association extraction module 220, and the display unit 230.

The storage unit 210 stores at least one or more of the technical relationship information between the technologies illustrated in FIG. 3, the institution technology related information illustrated in FIG. 4, and the upper / lower description information according to the technology category illustrated in FIG. 5 Can be stored.

Or the storage unit 210 may store large-scale documents or information capable of extracting technical relationship information, institutional technology related information, and upper / lower description information. Large-scale documents include electronic documents and Internet documents.

The association extraction module 220 performs a search based on the keyword when the user inputs a keyword related to the technique from the storage unit 210, and as a result, The upper / lower description information can be retrieved and displayed.

The association extracting module 220 may transmit the searched result to the display unit 240 and display the result to the user. The association extracting module 220 may generate the agency association information as shown in FIG. 7 or 8 using the data selected by the user or inputted separately from the displayed search results.

The association extracting module 220 can generate association information associated with a corresponding organization when the user inputs an organization to directly obtain the organization association information.

The association extracting module 220 may transmit the generated association information to the display unit 230 to display the information generated by the display unit 230 to the user.

For example, when the user selects the information related to the institution, institution, or technology (production, sale, research, etc.) again from the association relationship provided by the user, The information can be re-displayed.

Meanwhile, the storage unit 210 may store an application or a program capable of visualizing and displaying the association information of the organizations based on the organization information, the technology information, or the engine technology related information input by the user. On the other hand, the user can predict the relationship between the two institutions in the future if the information on the association relationship information of the future cooperation or indirect cooperation relationship is displayed.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a technology related relationship expression method according to the present invention. One embodiment of the technology association relationship display method will be described with reference to FIG.

A keyword associated with institutional information or technical information or institutional technology related information is received from the user (S110).

In step S120, the association information of the organizations related to the institution information or the technical information or the institution technology related information received from the user is retrieved or generated from the data stored in the database.

When information of a plurality of organizations is received, the technology association information between the received organizations can be retrieved or generated.

The association information of the searched or generated organizations is displayed to the user (S130).

If the user selects or inputs institutional information, technical information, or institutional technology information contained in the displayed association information, detailed association information of the institutions related to the selected or inputted institutional information or technical information or institutional technology related information (S140).

The generated detailed association information is displayed to the user (S150).

The embodiment of the present invention may display the stored technical relationship information of FIG. 3, the institution technical relation information of FIG. 4, and the upper / lower description information of each layer of the description of FIG.

Therefore, according to the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to obtain information on how the institutions in the relevant fields, such as research or production by the institutions, related to each other. In addition, it can express what relationships institutions have in relation to specific and detailed descriptions or what relationships they can have in the future. In addition, it is possible to provide visualization information that makes it easy to grasp the relationship, such as institutions for technology at a time.

12 illustrates an example of browsing ontology information according to an embodiment of the present invention. A method for browsing ontology information according to an embodiment of the present invention is a method for locating information (in this case, represented by a big data managment) that can be expressed as ontology information in the center of a circle, , And places information related to the information. If the circle is not necessarily a circle having a constant diameter but is circular like an ellipse, the following embodiments are possible. Hereinafter, the circle will be described as an example for convenience of explanation.

To conceptualize the area of interest, place the information (big data) that you want to express explicitly in the center of the circle. In order to enhance the readability of information, information (big data) to be explicitly expressed in order to conceptualize the region of interest can be positioned at any one corner of the screen. Or it may be displayed in a semicircular form positioned in the middle of the four planes on the screen.

Circles with different radii from the center of the circle can then locate categories associated with that information. If it is not an exact circle, you can place the category on circles with different distances to the line representing the center and circle of the circle. In this example, the big data at the center of the circle may include categories 1, 2, 3 and 4.

The category may be a category belonging to at least one of a class, an instance, a property, and a relation defined in the ontology information.

In this drawing, as indicated by a, category description information or ontology explanatory information can be displayed as to what category the corresponding category is in a part of the screen. In the example of this drawing, the category description information is illustrated in a part of the screen in the form of a bar.

In this figure, a category is related to a relation, and big data and elements in a category indicate that information such as classification, competition, follow-up, substitution, element, fusion, and homogeneity can be expressed.

The category description information or the ontology description information is a detailed classification of at least one ontology component information among a class, an instance, a property, and a relation of the ontology associated with the information requested by the user. May contain information.

The user may cause the circles of different circles with respect to the center information (big data) in the direction of b to be interchanged with each other. For example, when the user moves in the direction of b by using a touch or the like on the screen, the order of circles having different radius of circle from the center may be changed.

The category (circle) selected by the user may be expressed to be highlighted from another category (circle). Each category may include elements included in the category on the same circumference. Then, when the user rotates the circle in the c direction which is the tangential direction of the circle, elements located on the same circle may disappear from the screen, or elements located on the same circle on the screen may appear in the screen along the circle.

A category having information outside the screen on the same circumference may have an indication that additional information is included in the category. This is indicated by a plus sign after the category name, which indicates that category 3 and category 4 indicate that additional elements are located off the screen on the circumference.

In the method of browsing the ontology information according to the embodiment of the present invention, different categories are located in the radial direction of the circle, and the elements belonging to the same category are located on the same circumference. A specific description of the category can be displayed separately in a part of the screen, and the circle can be moved in the direction of the circumference and the circle, thereby improving the readability of the information to be displayed.

In this figure, when the user selects element 1 belonging to category 4 (arrow), a screen displayed in the following figure may be displayed.

13 is a diagram illustrating a screen displayed according to a method of browsing ontology information according to an embodiment of the present invention. When information is selected for the element 1 of category 4 displayed in FIG. 12, the selected information may be located in the center of the circle (big data element 1) in the browsing method illustrated in FIG.

Elements 1 can be placed according to the size of their circle (category 1, category 2, category 3, category 4). Likewise, the category description information (a) can be displayed in a part of the screen as to which category the relevant category is.

The user can change the order of the categories in the b direction and make the information included in at least one category in the c direction rotate in the tangential direction of the circle. In that case, the elements located at the same circle may disappear from the screen, or the elements located at the same circle on the screen may appear in the screen along the circle.

The category information selected by the user can be displayed to be highlighted from other category information, which illustrates the result of selecting category 3.

All. Each category can have elements in the same category placed on the same circumference. If the user rotates the circle in the c direction tangential to the circle, the elements located at the same circle disappear from the screen, or the elements located at the same circle on the screen disappear from the screen.

Then, when the specific elements included in the selected category are selected, the information of the same category can be placed on the same circle, with the information selected as shown in FIG. 13 being located at the center of the circle so that the information is distributed radially.

On the contrary, if the element 1 located in the center of the circle is selected, the screen of FIG. 12 may be returned.

FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating a screen for browsing ontology information according to an embodiment of the present invention. 14 is the same as FIG. 13, but illustrates a screen in which information on each circumference corresponds to one class according to the ontology information. The user selects class 3, and the circle in which class 3 is located is highlighted from the circle containing the other class.

Because there is a + sign in class 3, in class 3, elements 1 through 6 and other elements visible on the screen may be located outside the screen. The user can move the circumference in the c direction and display the element information located on the circumference outside the screen on the screen.

In Fig. 14, an instance or an attribute may be located on each circle, not a class, or a class, an instance, or an attribute may be located together.

The ontology information browser according to an embodiment of the present invention may determine the arrangement order of classes, instances, and properties according to, for example, the importance of the types of classes. The location can be determined. As an example, when there are a large number of circles representing a class, it is possible to place the class with a large number of instances inward or outward.

FIG. 15 is an exemplary diagram showing association information of the organizations illustrated above according to the browsing method of the ontology information according to the embodiment of the present invention. At the center of the circle, information can be placed to conceptualize the information of interest, such as information at a particular agency.

For example, the information of any one of the association information of the institutions, the technology relation information, the institution technology related information, the high technology information of the specific technology, or the low technology information may be located at the center of the circle.

For example, if a particular institution is located, each circle may be grouped by country, organization, product, or technology category, depending on the size of the circle. Each category can have central data and country, agency, product, technology and relevance.

The relevance can be expressed as a relation. For example, if a particular agency is centrally located and the technology associated with that agency is selected and highlighted on the screen, it can be shown how each technology relates to the central data as illustrated in this figure.

It is possible to display the information corresponding to the detailed classification information and corresponding information among the information on the circles. In this figure, tech 4, tech 8, and tech 10 represent the classification relationship, tech 6, tech 9 represents the substitution relationship, and tech 2, 3, 5, and 7 illustrate the follow-up relationship.

If the user runs the ontology browser as a client and displays the association information of the institutions, the specific institution is located at the center, and the institutions related to the central institution can be located in the circle called org. And the centrally located organs can be located in the circle of tech. Then, the relationship (relation) between the center-positioned organs and the specific organs can be expressed on the circumference in the same visualization method (character color) as the visualization method of the element located at each circumference (for example, the letter color).

In this way, any one entity (technology, product, institution, country) can be expressed in different numbers of circles. The user can select at least one circle through the ontology browser and sort the relation types on the screen and the elements into a part of the screen, a color or an icon corresponding thereto, and display the relation.

If the number of objects is large and the number of circles is large, the user can display only a few circles or rotate the circle in a tangential direction so that the invisible objects can be seen on the screen.

16 is a diagram illustrating an example of an ontology information browsing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The ontology information browsing apparatus 300 requests the database 400 for information requested by a user through a network. The database may include a transmitter that transmits the information requested by the user through a network or through a network. The database may store association information of the institutions illustrated above.

17 is a diagram illustrating a detailed embodiment of an ontology information browsing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

One embodiment of the ontology information browsing apparatus 300 may include a transmitting / receiving unit 310, a browser driving unit 320, a storage unit 330, and an exposing unit 340. For example, one embodiment of an ontology information browsing device may be a mobile device such as a mobile phone.

The transmission / reception unit 310 may transmit information through a wired / wireless network, or may receive information through a network.

The storage unit 330 may store the information in the ontology information browsing apparatus or may store the data transmitted from the transmission / reception unit 310.

The browser driving unit 320 can drive the ontology information browser based on the data stored in the storage unit 330 or received by the transmitting / receiving unit 310. The ontology information browser can generate the visualization information as shown in FIGS. 12 to 15 based on the data stored in the storage unit 330 or received by the transmission / reception unit 310. FIG.

The display unit 340 can display browsing information generated by the browser driving unit 320 to the user in the same manner as in FIGS. 12 to 15. FIG.

The user can browse or display new information through an input unit (not shown) of the ontology information browsing apparatus.

The ontology information browser may be stored in the storage unit 330 or may be stored in the temporary storage unit of the browser driver 320. The ontology information browser may be displayed on the screen as shown in FIGS. 12 to 15 Can be displayed to the Department.

If the ontology information is browsed and displayed according to the embodiment of the present invention, even if there is a large amount of information to be displayed, the user can easily select the displayed information object.

When the ontology information is browsed and displayed according to the embodiment of the present invention, the visualization of the information presentation can be simplified and the readability of the information can be improved.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, when the ontology information is browsed and displayed, even if complex information is displayed, information can be briefly provided to the user.

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A transceiver for communicating with a network and receiving requested ontology information data;
A browser driver configured to drive an ontology information browser based on the ontology information data received by the transceiver; And
And a display unit for displaying the browsed ontology information based on the ontology information data.
The ontology information browser locates the information requested by the user at an edge of the screen of the display unit, and associates the requested information with the requested information on the circles having different distances from the center of the circle to the circle. Position and display ontology information and rotate at least one of the circles in the tangential direction of the circle in response to a user's request, so that the information located on the circle disappears from the screen of the display unit or on the circle. An ontology information browsing device for displaying belonging information so as to appear on a screen of the display unit. The method of claim 1,
And the ontology information comprises at least one of a class, an instance, a property, and a relation of an ontology associated with the requested information. delete The method of claim 1,
The ontology information browser, the ontology information browsing device that distinguishes the information on the circle selected by the user of the circles from the information on the circle not selected by the user to highlight and display. The method of claim 1,
And the ontology information browser displays ontology description information on ontology information related to the requested information in the prototypes on a part of a screen of the display unit. 6. The method of claim 5,
The ontology description information includes detailed classification information on at least one component of the ontology of at least one of a class, an instance, a property, and a relation of the ontology associated with the requested information. Ontology Information Browsing Device. The method according to claim 6,
The ontology information browser is an ontology information browsing apparatus for displaying the information corresponding to the detailed classification information among the information on the prototype. Receiving ontology information data requested by a user by communicating with a network; And
Driving an ontology information browser based on the received ontology information data, and displaying browsed ontology information based on the ontology information data;
The ontology information browser locates the information requested by the user at the corner of the screen, places the requested information as the center of the circle, and displays ontology information related to the requested information on the circle at a distance from the center of the circle. In response to a user's request, at least one of the circles is rotated in the tangential direction of the circle so that the information located on the circle disappears from the screen of the display unit, or the information belonging to the circle is displayed on the screen of the display unit. A method for browsing ontology information, which is expressed to appear on the screen. The method of claim 8,
And the browsed ontology information includes at least one of a class, an instance, a property, and a relation of an ontology associated with the requested information. delete The method of claim 8,
The ontology information browser, the ontology information browsing method of distinguishing the information on the circle selected by the user of the circle with the information on the circle not selected by the user to display. The method of claim 8,
And the ontology information browser displays ontology description information on ontology information related to the requested information in the prototypes on a part of the screen. 13. The method of claim 12,
The ontology description information includes detailed classification information on at least one component of the ontology of at least one of a class, an instance, a property, and a relation of the ontology associated with the requested information. How to browse ontology information. The method of claim 13,
The ontology information browser, the ontology information browsing method for displaying the information corresponding to the detailed classification information among the information on the prototype. It communicates with the network network to display the browsed ontology information based on the ontology information data requested by the user, the browsed ontology information is to place the information requested by the user in the corner of the screen, and the requested information as a circular center Position ontology information related to the information requested by the user on a circle with a distance from the center of the circle,
Here, the ontology information browser rotates at least one of the circles in the tangential direction of the circle in response to a user's request, so that the information located on the circle disappears from the screen of the display unit or on the circle. A storage medium for storing a program for driving the ontology information browser to display the information belonging to appear on the display screen.

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