Patent document collections are an immense source of knowledge for research and innovation communities worldwide. The rapid growth of the number of patent documents …
The patent database is often used by designers to search for inspirational stimuli for innovative design opportunities because of the large size, extensive variety, and the …
We tackle the problem of analyzing and retrieving technical drawings. First, we introduce DeepPatent, a new large-scale dataset for recognition and retrieval of design patent …
M Lupu, A Hanbury - Foundations and Trends® in …, 2013 - nowpublishers.com
Intellectual property and the patent system in particular have been extremely present in research and discussion, even in the public media, in the last few years. Without going into …
K Higuchi, K Yanai - World Patent Information, 2023 - Elsevier
Intellectual property work covers a wide range of areas. In particular, prior art literature searching in the patent field requires finding documents that can be used to determine …
N Bhatti, A Hanbury - International journal on document analysis and …, 2013 - Springer
To verify the originality of an invention in a patent, the graphical description available in the form of patent drawings often plays a critical role. This paper introduces the importance …
This paper proposes a method for binary image retrieval, where the black-and-white image is represented by a novel feature named the adaptive hierarchical density histogram, which …
S Moroni, G Lorini - Journal of Urban Design, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In the twentieth century, the functions of written or spoken language were extensively studied. The functions of drawings were studied less. This was largely due to a kind of …
Recently, the intellectual property and information retrieval communities have shown increasing interest in patent image retrieval, which could further enhance the current …