JPH0577108B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] <Industrial Application Field> The present invention relates to information retrieval that searches primary information registered with secondary information added thereto, which serves as search conditions etc. at the time of search, based on search conditions. Regarding equipment.

<Conventional technology> Conventionally, such information retrieval devices include:
CPU (Central Processing Unit), 1 with secondary information added
A registration section for registering secondary information, a keyboard for inputting search conditions, etc., and a CRT (cathode ray tube) for displaying a list of secondary information retrieved based on the search conditions are installed, and the flowchart shown in Figure 3 is installed. Some search processing operations are performed according to the chart as follows.

In step _S1 , initialization is performed to display various lists and the like.

In step _S2 , a search condition setting processing operation is executed to set the contents of search condition items for searching primary information.

In step _S3 , a search processing operation is executed based on the contents of the search condition items set in step _S2 .

In step _S4 , a list of secondary information having items whose contents match the contents of the items of the above search condition is generated.
Displayed on CRT. The list of secondary information includes predetermined items.

At step _S5 , predetermined secondary information is selected from the list of secondary information displayed on the CRT and input. Then, from among the primary information registered in the registration section, the primary information to which the selected secondary information is added is selected and displayed on the CRT.

<Problems to be Solved by the Invention> However, in order to select predetermined secondary information, the above-mentioned conventional information retrieval device selects secondary information whose contents match the contents of the input search condition items. When displaying a list of information on a CRT, all predetermined items in this list of secondary information are displayed, so if there are many items in the list of secondary information, they will not be displayed on one screen. This reduces the number of secondary information sets. Therefore, when comparing the contents of items in each set of secondary information,
There is a problem in that many sets of secondary information cannot be compared at once.

Furthermore, when comparing sets of secondary information, it is rare to refer to all items in the list, and the comparison is often limited to only a few items. Therefore, there is a problem in that it is very troublesome to search only the item to be referred to from all the secondary information while performing operations such as page breaks and image scrolling many times.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to make it possible to limit the items in the list of secondary information displayed on the display unit in the search processing operation, so that it is possible to easily search for many items at once with fewer page breaks and image scroll operations. An object of the present invention is to provide an information retrieval device that allows predetermined secondary information to be selected by comparing sets of secondary information.

<Means for Solving the Problems> In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an item of secondary information added to primary information registered in a registration department in order to search for this primary information. The display unit displays a list of secondary information consisting of predetermined items including items whose contents match the contents of the input search condition items by comparing the contents with the contents of the search condition items input from the input unit. an information retrieval device that selects predetermined secondary information from the list of displayed secondary information and displays primary information to which this secondary information is added on the display section. is provided with a secondary information list item limiting means for limiting the items of the secondary information list displayed on the display section, the secondary information list consisting of the limited items displayed on the display section. The feature is that predetermined secondary information can be selected from.

<Operation> When the search processing operation starts and the content of the search condition item is input from the input section, the content of the input search condition item and the 1 registered in the registration section are
The contents of the secondary information items added to the next information are compared, and a list of secondary information having items whose contents match the contents of the search condition items entered above is displayed on the display section. . At this time, when the secondary information list item limiting processing operation is entered in accordance with the operator's instructions, the secondary information list item limiting means displayed on the display section limits the secondary information list item limiting means. Ru. Then, a list of secondary information consisting of limited items will be displayed on the display section,
When the operator selects predetermined secondary information from this secondary information list consisting of limited items, it is possible to search for primary information to which this secondary information has been added.

In addition, if the item-limiting processing operation does not start, a list of secondary information consisting of predetermined items is displayed on the display section, and a list of secondary information consisting of unlimited items is displayed. Predetermined secondary information is selected from.

Therefore, when selecting predetermined secondary information, the items in the list of secondary information displayed on the display can be limited to only the necessary items, making it easy with fewer page breaks and image scrolling operations. Predetermined secondary information becomes selectable.

<Examples> The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to illustrated examples.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the information retrieval device of the present invention, in which 1 is a CPU that controls the entire information retrieval device and performs search processing operations, etc., and 2 is a block diagram of registered primary information. Keyboard for manually inputting search conditions etc. to be set when searching,
3 is a CRT that displays a list of secondary information selected as described in detail later, a list of search condition items, etc.; 4 is a CRT that temporarily stores information to be displayed on the CRT 3, search conditions during search processing, etc. A control circuit for controlling the memory 5 and the CRT 3, etc., 8 is 1
7 is a scanner used for inputting primary information, and 9 is a printer used for outputting primary information selected by search. . The scanner 7, storage device 8, and printer 9 are connected to the CPU 1, control circuit 4, and memory 5 via an interface circuit 6.

In the search processing operation in the above information search device,
When the contents of the search condition item consisting of the same items as the secondary information item are entered from the keyboard 2,
The CPU 1 controls each device to compare the contents of the input search condition items with the contents of the secondary information items added to the primary information registered in the registration section of the storage device 8. Then, a list of secondary information having items whose contents match the contents of the input search condition items is displayed on the CRT 3. At that time,
The items in the list of secondary information to be displayed can be limited according to the operator's request. In addition, above 1
The secondary information is, for example, image information, and the above-mentioned secondary information is the "image number", "registration date", etc. of the above-mentioned image information,
This information includes items such as "material name" and "keyword."

This search processing operation will be explained below with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

In step _S11 , initialization is performed to display various lists and the like.

In step _S12 , a search condition setting processing operation is executed to set the contents of search condition items for searching primary information. This search condition setting processing operation is executed, for example, by moving the cursor to the desired item position in the search condition item list displayed on the CRT 3 and keying in the contents of that item from the keyboard 2. be done.

In step _S13 , a search process is executed based on the contents of the search condition items set in step _S12 .

In step _S14 , a list of secondary information including secondary information having items whose contents match the contents of the items of the search condition is displayed on the CRT 3. The above-mentioned list consists of predetermined items in the case of normal display, and consists of limited items in the case of display after the list item limitation process operation described later is executed. Further, in the list of secondary information, for example, a "limit" item is provided for specifying an item limitation processing operation to limit the items in this list, and when the above item limitation operation is executed,
Move the cursor to “Limited” and enter.

In step _S15 , it is determined whether the content input in step _S14 is "limited" or not. the result,
If “limited”, proceed to step _S16 , otherwise proceed to step _S17 .

In step _S16 , the secondary information list item limiting processing operation is executed as follows, and the process returns to step _S14 . That is, only necessary items are selected from the search condition items consisting of predetermined items according to instructions input from the keyboard 2, and the list of secondary information is then displayed again in step _S14 . In this case, a list of secondary information consisting only of the selected items is displayed on the CRT 3.

At step _S17 , predetermined secondary information is selected from the list of secondary information displayed on the CRT 3 and input. Then, from among the primary information registered in the registration section, the primary information to which the inputted secondary information is added is selected and the CRT3
will be displayed.

In this way, the information retrieval device of the present invention, when there are many unnecessary items among the items in the displayed list of secondary information, allows the information retrieval device to select necessary items from the list according to an instruction from the operator. According to this limited list of secondary information, predetermined secondary information can be selected. Therefore, when selecting predetermined secondary information, it is possible to easily compare many sets of secondary information at once and select the predetermined secondary information with fewer page breaks and image scroll operations. becomes possible.

Note that the display of the above-mentioned limited items on the display section can be displayed as a default function.

<Effects of the Invention> As is clear from the above, the present invention has the following advantages: An information search device is provided with a secondary information list item limiting means for displaying a list of secondary information consisting of predetermined items including items whose contents match the contents of the detected search condition items. Therefore, the items in the list of secondary information displayed on the display section are limited, and the desired secondary information can be selected according to the list of secondary information that is made up of limited items, so fewer page breaks and fewer page breaks are required. By operating the image scroll, it becomes possible to easily compare many sets of secondary information at once and select predetermined secondary information.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the information retrieval apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the search processing operation in the above embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart of the conventional search processing operation. 1...CPU, 2...Keyboard, 3...CRT,
4...Control circuit, 5...Memory, 8...Storage device.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. Contents of items of secondary information added to primary information registered in the registration unit in order to search this primary information and contents of items of search conditions input from the input unit A list of secondary information consisting of predetermined items, including items whose contents match the contents of the search condition items entered above, is displayed on the display section, and the list of secondary information displayed above is displayed on the display section. In an information retrieval device that selects predetermined secondary information from among them and displays primary information to which this secondary information is added on the display section, a list of secondary information displayed on the display section. It is characterized by comprising a secondary information list item limiting means for limiting the items, so that predetermined secondary information can be selected from the secondary information list consisting of the limited items displayed on the display section. Information retrieval device.