CN105701133B

CN105701133B - Address input method and equipment

Info

Publication number: CN105701133B
Application number: CN201410714739.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王生; 郑佳栋; 李强; 周大良; 王伟
Original assignee: Founder International Co Ltd; Founder International Beijing Co Ltd
Current assignee: Founder International Co Ltd; Founder International Beijing Co Ltd
Priority date: 2014-11-28
Filing date: 2014-11-28
Publication date: 2021-03-30
Anticipated expiration: 2034-11-28
Also published as: CN105701133A

Abstract

The invention relates to the technical field of address recognition, in particular to an address input method and device. The method of the embodiment of the invention comprises the following steps: the address prompt equipment receives a target character group sent by the address input equipment, wherein the target character group is determined by the address input equipment according to information in a pinyin input box of an input tool; the address prompting device queries all address information matched with the received target character group according to an address library to form a candidate address set; the address prompting device sends the candidate address set to the address input device. When the user inputs the target character group, the measure of inquiring all address information matched with the target character group input by the user according to the address library is added, so that the speed of the user inputting the complete detailed address is improved, the handwriting part is reduced, and the probability of information input errors is reduced.

Description

Address input method and equipment

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of address recognition, in particular to an address input method and device.

Background

At present, in software such as professional mailing, personnel information management and the like on the internet, text controls without any prompt or only prompting provincial and urban street information are used as carriers and means for inputting address information. Because the memory capacity of people is limited, when people need to write detailed address information in daily communication, network ordering or mailing, people have difficulty in completely writing and memorizing the detailed address information. Therefore, the method for only helping the user to input the address is realized by using the administrative division, part of important place names and word prompt of the road in the Chinese input method.

Because the complete detailed address is long and difficult to memorize, the selection prompt function of the common Chinese input method is not detailed enough, the speed of inputting the address is slow, a plurality of handwriting parts exist, important address element information is easy to lose, especially address information which is not well known by a user, and the user needs to consult the information to know the detailed address information. This may cause the detailed addresses entered by people for the same address to be not identical, or even cause the problem of information errors. This brings about a lot of trouble in searching and locating the detailed address. Moreover, due to the plurality of writing formats of the same address, the statistics and analysis work based on the address information is difficult.

In summary, the current Chinese input method has the problems of slow speed of inputting complete detailed addresses, more handwriting parts, easy occurrence of input information errors and the like.

Disclosure of Invention

The method and the equipment for inputting the address are used for solving the problems that the speed of inputting the complete detailed address is slow, the number of handwriting parts is large, the input information error is easy to occur and the like in the traditional Chinese input method in the prior art.

The address input method provided by the embodiment of the invention comprises the following steps:

the address prompt equipment receives a target character group sent by address input equipment, wherein the target character group is determined by the address input equipment according to information in a pinyin input box of an input tool;

the address prompting device queries all address information matched with the received target character group according to an address library to form a candidate address set;

and the address prompting device sends the candidate address set to the address input device.

Another address input method provided in the embodiment of the present invention includes:

the address input equipment determines a target character group according to the information in the pinyin input box of the input tool;

the address input equipment sends the determined target character group to address prompt equipment;

and the address input equipment receives a candidate address set containing address detailed information sent by the address prompt equipment and displays the candidate address set in a character selection box of an input tool.

The address input address prompting device provided by the embodiment of the invention comprises:

the first receiving module is used for receiving a target character group sent by address input equipment, wherein the target character group is determined by the address input equipment according to information in a pinyin input box of an input tool;

the prompting module is used for inquiring all address information matched with the received target character set according to an address library to form a candidate address set;

a first sending module, configured to send the candidate address set to the address input device.

the determining module is used for determining a target character group according to the information in the pinyin input box of the input tool;

the second sending module is used for sending the determined target character group to address prompt equipment;

and the second receiving module is used for receiving a candidate address set containing address detailed information sent by the address prompting equipment and displaying the candidate address set in a character selection box of an input tool.

The address input device provided by the embodiment of the invention sends the target character group determined according to the information in the pinyin input frame of the input tool to the address prompt device, and the address prompt device inquires all address information matched with the received target character group according to the address library to form a candidate address set and sends the candidate address set to the address input device, so that the address input device can display the candidate address set in the character selection frame of the input tool. By adopting the address input method provided by the embodiment of the invention, because the measure of inquiring all address information matched with the target character group input by the user according to the address library is added when the user inputs the target character group, the speed of inputting a complete detailed address by the user is improved, the handwriting part is reduced, and the probability of inputting information errors is further reduced.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an address input tool according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a detailed structural diagram of an address input tool according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an address prompting device for address input according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of an address input device for address input according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a first address input method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a second address input method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a general flowchart of an address input method for chinese character sets and pinyin character sets according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The address prompt equipment receives a target character group sent by address input equipment, wherein the target character group is determined by the address input equipment according to information in a pinyin input box of an input tool; the address prompting device queries all address information matched with the received target character group according to an address library to form a candidate address set; the address prompting device sends the candidate address set to the address input device. By adopting the address input method provided by the embodiment of the invention, because the measure of inquiring all address information matched with the target character group input by the user according to the address library is added when the user inputs the target character group, the speed of inputting a complete detailed address by the user is improved, the handwriting part is reduced, and the probability of inputting information errors is further reduced.

The preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, and it will be understood that they are described herein for the purpose of illustration and explanation and not limitation. And the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict.

In the following description, the description is first made from the implementation of the address presentation device and the address input device when they are connected, and finally from the implementation of the address presentation device and the address input device when they are used for address input, respectively.

As shown in fig. 1, an address input system provided by an embodiment of the present invention includes: an address prompt device 10 and an address input device 20.

The address prompt device 10 is used for receiving a target character group sent by the address input device, wherein the target character group is determined by the address input device according to the information in the pinyin input box of the input tool; according to the address library, all address information matched with the received target character set is inquired to form a candidate address set; the set of candidate addresses is sent to the address input device.

An address input device 20 for determining a target character set based on information in a pinyin input box of the input tool; sending the determined target character group to address prompt equipment; and receiving a candidate address set containing address detail information sent by the address prompt device, and displaying the candidate address set in a character selection box of the input tool.

In practice, the input tool in the embodiment of the present invention may be an existing general input method, and the address input device 20 may be embedded in an entity for inputting information by a user, such as a computer, a mobile terminal, and the like. Therefore, when the user inputs information, the target character group can be determined more quickly and sent to the address prompting device 10, and therefore detailed address information can be displayed according to the information input by the user.

The address prompt device 10 and the address input device 20 may also be combined in one entity, so that a fast local query may be achieved.

In addition, the input tool of the embodiment of the invention can be a tool specially used for inputting detailed address information, so that some professional mailers, information managers and the like can input detailed address information quickly and accurately.

Meanwhile, the address library for performing the address query may be an address library carried by the address input device 20 itself, or may be a separate address library separated from the address input device 20. In implementation, the user can update it, newly add an address, or modify a stored address as needed.

FIG. 2 is a detailed structural diagram of an address input tool according to an embodiment of the present invention; however, the embodiment of the present invention is not limited to the structure shown in fig. 2, and fig. 2 is only one case for clearly explaining the structure of the system according to the embodiment of the present invention. In fig. 2, the address input method provided by the embodiment of the present invention is set as a single address input method, and is displayed on the display device, and meanwhile, the address prompting device 10 and the address input device 20 are taken as two entities, and the address library and the address input device are also in a separate structure.

It should be noted that the embodiment of the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned manner in which the address presenting device 10 and the address input device 20 perform address input, and the embodiment of the present invention is applicable to other manners in which automatic address input is possible.

In implementation, the characters in the target character set input by the user may be kanji, letters, numbers, symbols and foreign language symbols. Because the numeric characters are generally used for representing a more specific house number or a unit number, when an input target character group comprises numeric symbols, in the process of matching address detailed information, if the address detailed information obtained by matching comprises the numeric characters, corresponding matching can be directly carried out, and if the address detailed information does not comprise the input numeric characters, the address prompting device automatically ignores the numeric character information when matching is carried out;

when the input target character group comprises symbol characters, in the process of matching address detailed information, if the address detailed information obtained by matching contains symbol character information, the address prompt equipment automatically ignores the input symbol characters when matching, and if the address detailed information in an address library contains symbol characters, the corresponding symbol characters are directly matched like numbers.

Preferably, in the implementation, a memory module may be added according to needs, and is used to memorize the historical address information that the user has input and selected, so that when the user inputs the same detailed address again next time, the historical address information can be quickly searched from the address library only by inputting the abbreviated spelling without inputting much information.

The following describes the detailed procedure of address input.

Preferably, the address input device determines the target character set, including:

the address input device determines a target character group after detecting that information in the pinyin input frame of the input tool changes and/or the number of characters in the pinyin input frame of the input tool reaches a set threshold value.

Preferably, the address input device determines the target character set when one of the following conditions is satisfied.

Firstly, after detecting that information in a pinyin input box of an input tool changes, address input equipment;

in the implementation, the address input device can detect whether the information in the pinyin input box of the input tool changes in real time, when a user inputs information in the pinyin input box, or the user inputs information and does not find proper address information in the character selection box of the input tool, and continues to input more information in the pinyin input box, the information in the pinyin input box can be considered to change, at the moment, the address input device can determine a target character group according to the information in the pinyin input box, and sends the determined target character group to the address prompt device for screening and inquiring.

Secondly, after the address input equipment detects that the number of characters in a pinyin input box of the input tool reaches a set threshold value;

in the implementation, the threshold of the number of characters in the pinyin input box can be set according to actual needs, for example, when the number of characters in the pinyin input box is more than two, the address input device determines a target character group according to the information in the pinyin input box and sends the determined target character group to the address prompt device for screening and querying.

The address prompting device queries detailed address information matched with a target character set input by a user according to a preset address library, wherein the address library is a set of detailed addresses collected and generated in advance according to needs, and meanwhile, the generated address library can be updated in real time, which is specifically described below.

Preferably, the address prompting device generates the address library according to the following modes:

aiming at a character type, address prompting equipment converts address detailed information collected in advance into address query information corresponding to the character type;

the address prompting equipment makes address query information corresponding to all character types of the address detailed information into address query information corresponding to the address detailed information;

and the address prompting equipment stores all address detailed information and address query information corresponding to each address detailed information in a database.

Preferably, the address prompting device updates the address base according to the following modes:

if the address base needs to add new address detailed information, aiming at one character type, the address prompting equipment converts the added new address detailed information into address query information corresponding to the character type; the address query information corresponding to all character types of the added new address detailed information is combined into the address query information corresponding to the added new address detailed information; storing all the added new address detailed information and the address query information corresponding to each added new address detailed information in a database;

if the address library needs to replace the address detailed information in the address library, aiming at one character type, the address prompting equipment converts the address detailed information used for replacement into address query information corresponding to the character type; address query information corresponding to all character types of the address detail information used for replacement is combined into address query information corresponding to the address detail information used for replacement; and replacing all the address detailed information to be replaced and the address query information corresponding to each address detailed information to be replaced in the database with all the address detailed information for replacement and the address query information corresponding to each address detailed information for replacement.

In implementation, according to different character types, the address prompting device converts the collected address detail information into address query information corresponding to the character type, wherein the address query information includes: chinese character address query information, pinyin address query information, first letter address query information, and foreign language address query information (e.g., japanese, korean, etc.). Meanwhile, the address query information is composed of independent characters which can be searched, namely, the address prompt equipment weaves and indexes the detailed address information into a library to form an address library which can be searched by using single Chinese character, Chinese character phrase, pinyin, first letter and foreign language. The address prompting equipment splits the information input by the user through the important 'single Chinese character', 'Chinese character phrase', 'pinyin', 'first letter' and 'foreign language' mixed sequential information, namely splitting the Chinese character, the simple pinyin and the pinyin to form an independent unit capable of being retrieved, and the address prompting equipment is used as a screening condition to retrieve the corresponding reverse order index in the address library and retrieve the address information which is most matched with the input.

The detailed address information in the address library can be updated as required, for example, the detailed address information is added or changed. When a user wants to add new address detailed information, the corresponding address prompting equipment converts the address detailed information needing to be added into address query information of different character types, namely converts the address detailed information needing to be added into corresponding Chinese character address query information, pinyin address query information, initial address query information and foreign language address query information, and stores the detailed address information needing to be added and all converted address query information in an address library;

when a user wants to change the address detailed information in the address library, the corresponding address prompting equipment converts the address detailed information to be replaced into the address query information of different character types, namely converts the address detailed information to be replaced into the corresponding Chinese character address query information, pinyin address query information, initial address query information and foreign language address query information, and replaces the address detailed information to be replaced and the corresponding address query information in the address library with the address detailed information to be replaced and all the address query information obtained by conversion.

There may be many situations in which the user enters information into the pinyin input box of the input tool, such as chinese characters, chinese word groups, pinyin character groups, first letter character group foreign language character groups, etc. for detailed addresses; therefore, the target character set determined by the address input device according to the information in the pinyin input box may also include multiple conditions, and the processes of splitting and matching detailed address information by the address prompt device are different for different received target character sets. This will be described in detail below.

Preferably, the address prompting device forms a candidate address set according to all address information matched with the received target character set queried by the address library, including:

the address prompting equipment splits the target character set to form an independent character which can be retrieved;

and the address prompting equipment queries all detailed address information matched with the formed independent characters according to an address library to form a candidate address set.

Preferably, the address prompting device splits the target character set to form an independent character capable of being retrieved, including:

the address prompt equipment divides the characters in the target character group into character groups according to the character types;

the address prompting equipment divides each character group into independent characters capable of being retrieved respectively;

the address prompting device queries all detailed address information matched with the formed independent characters according to an address library to form a candidate address set, and the candidate address set comprises the following steps:

the address prompting equipment forms address query information by the independent characters obtained after splitting;

the address prompting device matches the obtained address query information with all address query information stored in an address base, and selects the address query information from the address base according to a matching result;

and the address prompting equipment determines the address detailed information corresponding to the selected address query information according to the corresponding relation between the address query information and the address detailed information in the address library, and forms all the determined address detailed information into a candidate address set.

Preferably, the address prompting device divides the characters in the target character group into character groups according to character types, and includes:

and the address prompting equipment divides the characters of the same type in the target character group into character groups according to the positions in the target character group.

The address prompting device divides the characters in the target character group into character groups according to the character types, wherein the character groups can be divided into two cases, firstly, all the characters with the same type in the target character group can be divided into one character group, namely, the characters with several types in the target character group are divided into several character groups; secondly, dividing the characters of the same type in the target character group according to the positions in the target character group, namely, dividing the target character group into a character group by starting from the initial position and dividing the continuous characters of the same type.

For example, if the target character set inputted by the user is "xi chengqu yumin way" in beijing city, the address prompting device can divide the target character set into two forms according to two character types of the inputted Chinese characters and letters, and firstly, the target character set is divided into two character sets of "xi chengqu way" and "xi chengqu" in beijing city; secondly, the Chinese character is divided into three character groups of Beijing city, xichengqu and Yumin road. In addition to the kanji character and the alphabetic character, the target character group of the type characters including the initial character, the numeric character, the symbolic character, the foreign character and the like can also be divided into the character groups in two forms, which are similar to each other and are not listed one by one here.

When a user inputs a certain part of information of an address which needs to be filled in by the user in an address input device, namely, when inputting a target character group, such as important interest point names, administrative division names, street names, community names, house number and other information, the address input device determines the target character group according to the information in the pinyin input box and sends the determined target character group to an address prompt device, the address prompt device splits the received target character group, splits Chinese characters, simple spellings, pinyin and foreign characters to form independent and retrievable independent characters, combines the separated independent characters into address query information, and then retrieves the corresponding reverse index of the obtained address query information in an address library; the pinyin input box is a box capable of displaying pinyin information input by a user in real time when the user inputs an address.

In the retrieval process, all address detailed information matched with all Chinese characters, simple spellings, pinyin and foreign characters input by a user forms a candidate address set and sends the candidate address set to address input equipment, wherein the candidate address detailed information set sent to the address input equipment is sorted according to the matching degree of the Chinese characters, the simple spellings, the pinyin and the foreign characters input by the user and is displayed in a character selection frame of an address input tool; the user selects the required address information from the address information candidate set prompted in the character selection box below the pinyin input box or continuously inputs more screening information to form a new target character group, wherein the screening information comprises Chinese characters, simplified pinyin, pinyin and foreign characters, and the step of repeatedly sending the target character group to the address prompting device is repeated.

When the address prompting device queries the address detailed information matched with the formed independent characters according to the address library, all the independent characters obtained by splitting in the target character group input by the user can be matched, and only a part of the independent characters can be matched.

When the address prompting device displays the address detailed information according to the target character set input by the user, the displayed address detailed information is sorted according to a preset rule, which is described in detail below.

Preferably, the address prompting device composes all the determined address details into a candidate address set, including:

the address prompting device determines the matching degree corresponding to the selected address query information according to the matching result, and takes the matching degree corresponding to the address query information as the matching degree of the address detailed information corresponding to the address query information;

and the address prompting equipment forms the determined address detailed information into a candidate address set according to the matching degree of the address detailed information and the sequence from big to small.

Correspondingly, the address input device displays the candidate address set in a character selection box of the input tool, and the method comprises the following steps:

the address input device displays the address detailed information in the candidate address set in a character selection box of the input tool according to the order of the address detailed information in the candidate address set.

In the implementation, the address prompting device forms a candidate address set by the detailed address information matched with the information input by the user in the pinyin input frame of the input tool, matches the address query information with all address query information stored in the address library according to the address query information preset by the address prompting device, determines the matching degree corresponding to the selected address query information according to the matching result, forms the determined address detailed information into the candidate address set according to the matching degree of the address detailed information from large to small, sorts the address detailed information in the set according to the size of the matching degree, and can also set the sorting according to the relevance, the use frequency, the importance and the like of the detailed address information according to needs, and sends the sorted candidate address set to the address input device for display, wherein the candidate address set can be sorted in real time according to the change of the information input by the user in the pinyin input frame of the input tool The situation changes.

Preferably, the candidate address set displayed in the character selection box of the input tool, that is, the address information for prompting the user, is complete detailed address information, rather than "words" constituting an address, so that the user only needs to type several key "chinese characters", "phrases", "pinyin" or "pinyin initials", that is, the complete address information can be completely entered, and the user can select a correct address and directly enter the address into the address information box of the address to be entered by distinguishing the correctness of the prompted address information when finding the appropriate address information.

In implementation, the address prompting device splits each group of character groups of the same type from the initial position of the target character group according to the type of the character in the target character group, and the following specifically introduces different types of character groups.

Preferably, the character group is a Chinese character group;

the address prompt device splits each character group into independent characters capable of being retrieved respectively, and the address prompt device comprises:

aiming at one character group, the address prompt equipment matches the character group with the set Chinese characters, and splits the character group into single Chinese characters capable of being retrieved according to a matching result; and/or

Aiming at one character group, the address prompt equipment matches the character group with the set Chinese character phrase, and divides the character group into the Chinese character phrases which can be searched according to the matching result.

In implementation, when the character group is a Chinese character group, matching is performed according to Chinese characters or Chinese character phrases preset in the address prompt equipment, and then the Chinese character group is divided into single Chinese characters or Chinese character phrases.

For example, when the target character group input by the user includes "Yumin way A number in Beijing City, and if the address library has the detailed address information, the address prompting device presets a single Chinese character" number "for matching and comparison, and three Chinese character phrases of" Beijing City "," West district ", and" Yumin way ", so that the address prompting device can divide the target character group of the Chinese character into three Chinese character phrases of" Beijing City "," West district ", and" Yumin way "and a single Chinese character" number "according to the preset single Chinese character and Chinese character phrase, wherein" X "represents a specific number, and thus the specific number can be directly matched according to the number in the preset detailed address information.

Preferably, the character set is a pinyin character set;

aiming at a character group, the address prompt equipment divides the character group into pinyin tokens according to a maximum matching division principle, wherein the pinyin tokens obtained after division are independent pinyin capable of being retrieved.

Preferably, for a character set, the splitting of the character set into pinyin tokens according to the maximum matching splitting principle by the address includes:

aiming at a character group, the address prompt equipment intercepts characters to be recognized from the initial position of the character group to form a target character group, and determines whether the target character group is a pinyin token or not;

if the target character group is determined to be the pinyin token and the last intercepted character is not the last character in the character group, adding at least one character which is adjacent to the last intercepted character and is positioned behind the last intercepted character in the character group into the target character group, and returning to the step of determining whether the target character group is the pinyin token;

and if the target character group is determined not to be the pinyin token, taking the character in the target character group which is determined to be the pinyin token most recently as the pinyin token.

When the character group includes a chinese character and a pinyin character group, the process of the address hint device splitting the character group into individual characters is described in detail by listing specific examples below.

1. Firstly, the address prompting device groups Chinese characters and pinyin characters in a received target character group respectively to form a Chinese character group and a pinyin character group, such as 'xi chengqu' in Beijing, which can be decomposed into two groups of 'xi chengqu' (Chinese character group) and 'xi chengqu' (pinyin character group);

2. secondly, the address prompting device decomposes the pinyin character group into independent pinyin tokens according to a maximum matching and splitting principle, for example, the 'xichengqu' is decomposed into 'xi', 'cheng', 'qu', namely, the pinyin character group is decomposed into independent characters capable of being retrieved;

firstly, the address prompting equipment establishes a pinyin information base according to a basic pinyin table of China, wherein the pinyin information base comprises all Chinese character full-pinyin information such as 'a', 'ai', 'an', 'ang', 'ba', 'be' and the like, and also comprises initial pinyin information such as 'b', 'ch', 'zh', 'sh' and the like;

secondly, the address prompting device intercepts the received pinyin stream in the target character group from the initial position with gradually increased length, checks whether the received pinyin stream can be matched with a basic pinyin table stored in a pinyin information base, and independently uses the longest matched pinyin as a pinyin token, such as 'xi', 'cheng', 'qu', and the rest, and continuously uses the method to continuously split the pinyin until all pinyins form the pinyin token;

3. and finally, using the single Chinese character and the pinyin token in the sequence obtained by splitting the target character group as independent characters capable of being retrieved, forming address query information, and performing matching retrieval on the reverse-order index in the address library.

Preferably, the character set is an initial character set;

for a character group, the address presentation device takes each letter in the character group as the first letter of a Chinese character that can be retrieved.

For example, when the target character group input by the user includes the first character "bjsh" (where the input alphabetic character may be a capital letter or a small letter, and the address prompting device can recognize both), if the address database has address detail information corresponding to the first character, the address prompting device may preset the address detail information corresponding to the first character "bjsh" for matching as the address information of "beijing city" or other first characters as "bjsh", so that the address prompting device may use each letter in the first character "bjsh" as the first letter of the searchable chinese character, and determine the address detail information corresponding to the input first character "bjsh" as "beijing city" according to the searchable chinese character corresponding to each preset letter.

Preferably, the character set is a foreign character set;

aiming at a character group, the address prompt equipment determines a foreign language type corresponding to the character group;

the address prompting equipment determines a splitting rule of the foreign language type corresponding to the character set according to the corresponding relation between the foreign language type and the splitting rule;

and the address prompting equipment splits the character group into independent characters capable of being retrieved according to the determined splitting rule.

In the implementation, a user can input foreign language symbols such as Japanese, Korean and the like as required to form a foreign language character group, the address prompt equipment determines the foreign language character types of the characters in the character group according to the input target character group, and splits the input foreign language character group according to each foreign language and different splitting rules thereof, so as to split the foreign language character group into independent characters capable of being retrieved. Since the splitting rules of various foreign language characters are different, this is not an example, and in the embodiment of the present invention, splitting is performed according to the splitting rule corresponding to the input foreign language in the prior art.

In the prior art, although the address input method for prompting the input detailed address can be realized through the modes of historical address memory and prompt, address retrieval, full-text address retrieval and the like, the input of the non-historical address which is not input can not be provided in a simpler, convenient and correct mode, but the address input method provided by the embodiment of the invention can not only prompt a user to input the historical address when the user inputs the address, but also prompt the user to input the non-historical address which is not input.

Based on the same inventive concept, the embodiment of the invention also provides an address prompting device and an address input device for address input, and an address input method.

As shown in fig. 3, the address prompting device for address input according to the embodiment of the present invention includes: a first receiving module 100, a prompting module 110 and a first sending module 120.

The first receiving module 100 is configured to receive a target character set sent by an address input device, where the target character set is determined by the address input device according to information in a pinyin input box of an input tool;

the prompting module 110 is configured to form a candidate address set according to all address information matched with the received target character set queried by the address base;

a first sending module 120, configured to send the candidate address set to the address input device.

Preferably, the prompt module 110 is specifically configured to:

splitting the target character group to form an independent character capable of being retrieved; and forming a candidate address set according to all detailed address information matched with the formed independent characters queried by the address library.

Preferably, the prompt module 110 is specifically configured to:

dividing characters in the target character group into character groups according to character types; respectively splitting each character group into independent characters capable of being retrieved; forming address query information by the independent characters obtained after splitting; matching the obtained address query information with all address query information stored in an address base, and selecting the address query information from the address base according to a matching result; and determining the address detailed information corresponding to the selected address query information according to the corresponding relation between the address query information and the address detailed information in the address library, and forming a candidate address set by all the determined address detailed information.

Preferably, the prompt module 110 is specifically configured to:

and dividing the characters of the same type in the target character group according to the positions in the target character group.

Preferably, the prompt module 110 is specifically configured to:

determining the matching degree corresponding to the selected address query information according to the matching result, and taking the matching degree corresponding to the address query information as the matching degree of the address detailed information corresponding to the address query information; and according to the matching degree of the address detail information, forming the determined address detail information into a candidate address set from big to small.

aiming at a character type, converting address detailed information collected in advance into address query information corresponding to the character type; forming address query information corresponding to the address detailed information by using address query information corresponding to all character types of the address detailed information; and storing all the address detailed information and the address query information corresponding to each address detailed information in a database.

if the address base needs to add new address detailed information, aiming at one character type, converting the added new address detailed information into address query information corresponding to the character type; the address query information corresponding to all character types of the added new address detailed information is combined into the address query information corresponding to the added new address detailed information; storing all the added new address detailed information and the address query information corresponding to each added new address detailed information in a database;

if the address library needs to replace the address detailed information in the address library, converting the address detailed information used for replacement into address query information corresponding to a character type aiming at one character type; address query information corresponding to all character types of the address detail information used for replacement is combined into address query information corresponding to the address detail information used for replacement; and replacing all the address detailed information to be replaced and the address query information corresponding to each address detailed information to be replaced in the database with all the address detailed information for replacement and the address query information corresponding to each address detailed information for replacement.

Preferably, the prompt module 110 is specifically configured to:

when the character group is a Chinese character group, matching the character group with the set Chinese character aiming at one character group, and splitting the character group into single Chinese characters capable of being retrieved according to a matching result; and/or

And aiming at one character group, matching the character group with the set Chinese character phrase, and dividing the character group into the Chinese character phrases capable of being retrieved according to a matching result.

Preferably, the prompt module 110 is specifically configured to:

when the character group is a pinyin character group, the character group is split into pinyin tokens according to a maximum matching splitting principle for one character group, wherein the pinyin tokens obtained after splitting are independent pinyin capable of being retrieved.

Preferably, the prompt module 110 is specifically configured to:

for a character group, intercepting characters to be recognized from the initial position of the character group to form a target character group, and determining whether the target character group is a pinyin token;

Preferably, the prompt module 110 is specifically configured to:

when the character group is an initial character group, each letter in the character group is taken as the initial of the Chinese character which can be searched for aiming at one character group.

Preferably, the prompt module 110 is specifically configured to:

when the character group is a foreign language character group, determining a foreign language type corresponding to the character group aiming at one character group; determining a splitting rule of the foreign language type corresponding to the character set according to the corresponding relation between the foreign language type and the splitting rule; and according to the determined splitting rule, splitting the character group into independent characters capable of being retrieved.

As shown in fig. 4, the address input device for address input according to the embodiment of the present invention includes: a determination module 200, a second sending module 210, and a second receiving module 220.

A determining module 200, configured to determine a target character group according to information in a pinyin input box of an input tool;

a second sending module 210, configured to send the determined target character group to an address prompting device;

the second receiving module 220 is configured to receive a candidate address set containing address details sent by the address prompting device, and display the candidate address set in a character selection box of the input tool.

Preferably, the determining module 200 is specifically configured to:

and determining a target character group after detecting that the information in the pinyin input box of the input tool changes and/or the number of characters in the pinyin input box of the input tool reaches a set threshold value.

Preferably, the second receiving module 220 is specifically configured to:

and displaying the address detailed information in the candidate address set in a character selection box of the input tool according to the order of the address detailed information in the candidate address set.

In implementation, the address prompting device in fig. 3 may make address input. The address input device in fig. 4 may also perform address input, so the functions of the address prompting device and the address input device may be combined in one entity (i.e. the modules of the address prompting device and the address input device are in one entity), and the functions of the address prompting device or the functions of the address input device are selectively used according to needs.

As shown in fig. 5, the method for inputting an address by an address prompting device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the following steps:

step 501, the address prompt device receives a target character group sent by the address input device, wherein the target character group is determined by the address input device according to information in a pinyin input box of an input tool;

step 502, the address prompt device queries all address information matched with the received target character set according to an address library to form a candidate address set;

step 503, the address prompting device sends the candidate address set to the address input device.

Preferably, the character group is a Chinese character group;

Preferably, the character set is a pinyin character set;

Preferably, the character set is an initial character set;

Preferably, the character set is a foreign character set;

As shown in fig. 6, the method for inputting an address by an address input device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the following steps:

601, the address input equipment determines a target character group according to the information in the pinyin input box of the input tool;

step 602, the address input device sends the determined target character group to the address prompt device;

step 603, the address input device receives the candidate address set containing the address detail information sent by the address prompt device, and displays the candidate address set in the character selection box of the input tool.

Preferably, the address input device displays the candidate address set in a character selection box of the input tool, and comprises:

Fig. 5 and fig. 6 may be combined into a flow to form a new connection method, and the sequence of the executed steps includes step 601, step 602, step 501, step 502, step 503, and step 603.

According to the above description of the address input method of the embodiment of the present invention, a general flowchart of the method is summarized, as shown in fig. 7, the general flowchart of the address input method for the character groups of the chinese character group and the pinyin character group provided by the embodiment of the present invention includes the following steps:

701, the address input equipment determines a target character group according to information in a pinyin input box of an input tool;

step 702, whether the information in the pinyin input box of the input tool changes and/or whether the number of characters in the pinyin input box reaches a set threshold value, if so, executing step 703, otherwise, skipping out of the process;

step 703, the address input device sends the determined target character group to the address prompt device, and executes step 704;

step 704, the address prompt device receives the target character set sent by the address input device;

705, dividing the character groups of the same type in the target character group according to the positions in the target character group by the address prompting equipment, if the character groups are Chinese character groups, executing step 706, and if the character groups are pinyin character groups, executing step 707;

step 706, when the character group is a Chinese character group, the address prompt device matches the character group with the set Chinese character and/or Chinese character phrase for one character group, splits the character group into independent single Chinese character and/or Chinese character phrase capable of being retrieved according to the matching result, and executes step 711;

707, the character group is a pinyin character group, and for one character group, the address prompt device intercepts the character to be recognized from the initial position of the character group to form a target character group;

step 708, determining whether the target character set is a pinyin token, if so, executing step 710, otherwise, executing step 709;

709, determining that the target character group is not the pinyin token, taking the character in the target character group which is determined to be the pinyin token most recently as the pinyin token, namely an independent character, and executing 711;

step 710, determining that the target character group is a pinyin token and the last intercepted character is not the last character in the character group, adding at least one character which is adjacent to the last intercepted character and is positioned behind the last intercepted character in the character group into the target character group, and executing step 708;

711, the address prompting device makes up the separated independent characters into address query information, matches the obtained address query information with all address query information stored in an address base, and selects the address query information from the address base according to a matching result;

step 712, the address prompting device determines the address detail information corresponding to the selected address query information according to the corresponding relationship between the address query information and the address detail information in the address library;

step 713, the address prompting device makes the determined address detailed information into a candidate address set according to the matching degree of the address detailed information in the matching result and the sequence from big to small;

step 714, the address prompting device sends the candidate address set to the address input device;

and 715, the address input device receives the candidate address set containing the detailed address information sent by the address prompt device, and displays the candidate address set in a character selection box of the input tool according to the order of the address detailed information in the candidate address set.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present invention may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

The present invention is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

While preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described, additional variations and modifications in those embodiments may occur to those skilled in the art once they learn of the basic inventive concepts. Therefore, it is intended that the appended claims be interpreted as including preferred embodiments and all such alterations and modifications as fall within the scope of the invention.

Claims

1. A method of address entry, the method comprising:

the address prompting equipment divides characters in the target character group into character groups according to character types;

the address prompting device forms address query information by the independent characters obtained after splitting;

the address prompting device determines address detailed information corresponding to the selected address query information according to the corresponding relation between the address query information and the address detailed information in the address library, and forms all the determined address detailed information into a candidate address set; the address library comprises address detailed information and address query information of multiple character types corresponding to the address detailed information;

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the address hint device divides the characters in the target character group into character groups according to character type, comprising:

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the address prompting device groups all determined address details into a candidate address set, comprising:

and the address prompting equipment forms the determined address detailed information into a candidate address set according to the matching degree of the address detailed information and the sequence from large to small.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the address hinting apparatus generates the address library according to:

aiming at a character type, the address prompting equipment converts address detailed information collected in advance into address query information corresponding to the character type;

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the address hinting device updates the address repository according to:

if the address base needs to add new address detailed information, aiming at a character type, the address prompting equipment converts the added new address detailed information into address query information corresponding to the character type; the address query information corresponding to all character types of the added new address detailed information is combined into the address query information corresponding to the added new address detailed information; storing all the added new address detailed information and the address query information corresponding to each added new address detailed information in a database;

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the character set is a hanzi character set;

aiming at a character group, the address prompt equipment matches the character group with the set Chinese characters, and splits the character group into single Chinese characters capable of being retrieved according to the matching result; and/or

Aiming at a character group, the address prompt equipment matches the character group with the set Chinese character phrase, and divides the character group into the Chinese character phrases capable of being retrieved according to the matching result.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the character set is a pinyin character set;

and aiming at a character group, the address prompting equipment divides the character group into pinyin tokens according to a maximum matching division principle, wherein the pinyin tokens obtained after division are independent pinyin capable of being retrieved.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the splitting of the character group into pinyin tokens by the address according to a maximum match split principle for a character group comprises:

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the character set is an initial character set;

for a character group, the address prompt apparatus takes each letter in the character group as the first letter of a Chinese character that can be retrieved.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the character set is a foreign character set;

11. A method of address entry, the method comprising:

the address input device sends the determined target character set to an address prompting device so that the address prompting device: dividing characters in the target character group into character groups according to character types; respectively splitting each character group into independent characters capable of being retrieved; forming address query information by the independent characters obtained after splitting; matching the obtained address query information with all address query information stored in an address base, and selecting the address query information from the address base according to a matching result; according to the corresponding relation between the address query information and the address detailed information in the address library, determining the address detailed information corresponding to the selected address query information, and forming a candidate address set by all the determined address detailed information; the address library comprises address detailed information and address query information of multiple character types corresponding to the address detailed information;

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the address input device determines a target character set, comprising:

and the address input equipment determines a target character group after detecting that the information in the pinyin input box of the input tool changes and/or the number of characters in the pinyin input box of the input tool reaches a set threshold value.

13. The method of claim 11 or 12, wherein the address input device displays the set of candidate addresses in a checkbox of an input tool, comprising:

and the address input equipment displays the address detailed information in the candidate address set in a character selection box of an input tool according to the sequence of the address detailed information in the candidate address set.

14. An address prompting apparatus for address input, the apparatus comprising:

the prompting module is used for dividing the characters in the target character group into character groups according to character types; respectively splitting each character group into independent characters capable of being retrieved; forming address query information by the independent characters obtained after splitting; matching the obtained address query information with all address query information stored in an address base, and selecting the address query information from the address base according to a matching result; according to the corresponding relation between the address query information and the address detailed information in the address library, determining the address detailed information corresponding to the selected address query information, and forming a candidate address set by all the determined address detailed information; the address library comprises address detailed information and address query information of multiple character types corresponding to the address detailed information;

15. The device of claim 14, wherein the prompt module is specifically configured to:

when the character group is a Chinese character group, matching the character group with the set Chinese characters aiming at one character group, and splitting the character group into single Chinese characters capable of being retrieved according to a matching result; and/or aiming at one character group, matching the character group with the set Chinese character phrase, and dividing the character group into the Chinese character phrases capable of being retrieved according to the matching result;

when the character group is a pinyin character group, splitting the character group into pinyin tokens according to a maximum matching splitting principle aiming at one character group, wherein the pinyin tokens obtained after splitting are independent pinyin capable of being retrieved;

for a character group, intercepting characters to be recognized from the initial position of the character group to form a target character group, and determining whether the target character group is a pinyin token; if the target character group is determined to be the pinyin token and the last intercepted character is not the last character in the character group, adding at least one character which is adjacent to the last intercepted character and is positioned behind the last intercepted character in the character group into the target character group, and returning to the step of determining whether the target character group is the pinyin token; and if the target character group is determined not to be the pinyin token, taking the character in the target character group which is determined to be the pinyin token most recently as the pinyin token.

16. An address input apparatus, comprising:

a second sending module, configured to send the determined target character group to an address prompting device, so that the address prompting device: dividing characters in the target character group into character groups according to character types; respectively splitting each character group into independent characters capable of being retrieved; forming address query information by the independent characters obtained after splitting; matching the obtained address query information with all address query information stored in an address base, and selecting the address query information from the address base according to a matching result; according to the corresponding relation between the address query information and the address detailed information in the address library, determining the address detailed information corresponding to the selected address query information, and forming a candidate address set by all the determined address detailed information; the address library comprises address detailed information and address query information of multiple character types corresponding to the address detailed information;