JP2761536B2 - Address generation system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an address generation system capable of easily and accurately inputting an address for creating a customer list, for example.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Heretofore, in a company or the like that sends documents or packages to customers by mail or courier service, an operator inputs a large number of addresses of customers by computer to create a customer list.

[0003]

However, inputting an address for preparing such a conventional customer list requires a great deal of labor and cost. In particular, in the postal code, prefecture, city, county, town name, chome, and street address constituting the address, inputting the city, town and county and town name often requires a lot of trouble. This is because municipalities and town names have many complicated and difficult characters. In addition, there are many cases where the address data for input has erroneous characters and omissions, and the operator must check correct characters by himself. In addition, it is often the case that the address data for input is only entered from the ward or town name and the operator has to check the city / ward / county name by himself.

[0004] The present invention has been made in view of such problems of the prior art. In particular, the present invention makes it possible to easily and accurately input and record data of postal code, city, county, and town name, and to provide an address. The present invention relates to an address generation system capable of improving the efficiency of an input operation.

[0005]

An address generation system according to the present invention comprises at least a postal code, a city of an address,
The street name of the address and the address master file recorded in association with each other, input means for inputting the postal code and the street name of the address, and the postal code and the street name of the address from the input means and the data of the address master file, Address generation means for generating an address including at least a city, a county, and a town name. In this specification, “address” means at least “city, city, county, town name” in “postal code, prefecture, city, county, town name, street, and street address”. Further, in this specification, "after town name" is used to mean at least "town name" in "town name, chome, and street address" constituting an address (the same applies hereinafter).

Further, the system of the present invention comprises at least a city and a county of an address, a part of the city and a county of the address, a town name of the address,
And an input means for inputting a part of the city and county of the address and the street name of the address, and a part of the city and county of the address and the street name of the address from the input means. Address generation means for generating an address including at least a city, a county and a town name from the data of the address master file.

[0007] The system of the present invention preferably further comprises means for recording the kanji data and the kana data of the municipalities or the kanji data of the town and the kana data in association with each other.

The present invention includes an address master file in which data such as a city name, a town name, and the like are recorded in association with each other, and based on input of data indicating "part of an address", a city name, a town name, and a town name are input. In an address generation system that can generate data of a "complete address" including a city and county name and the number of characters thereof are recorded in association with each other,
A recording unit that records a town name and the number of characters in association with each other, and the data of the generated “complete address” based on the number of characters of a city name or a town name recorded in the recording unit. Between the name of the prefecture and city, the name of the city and city, or between the name of the town and street number,
It is provided with a data processing means for performing data processing such as inserting and displaying one or a plurality of spaces or displaying without inserting any space.

[0009]

In the address generation system according to the present invention, the operator inputs the postal code and the street name of the address by the input means. Then, the address generating means generates an address including the city, district and town from the input postal code and street name and the address master file.

[0010] In the address generation system according to the present invention, the operator inputs a part of a city, a ward and a county and a town name of an address by the input means. In this case, "part of city"
For example, the abbreviation of city / county. Then, the address generating means generates an address including the entire city, ward and county and the town name from the input part of the city and ward county and the town name and the address master file.

In the system of the present invention, kanji data and kana data of a municipal district or kanji data of a town name and kana data are recorded in association with each other.
The kana data can be displayed in place of the kanji data of the city, district, or town name, or together with the kanji data of the city, district, or town name.

Further, in the system of the present invention, since the names of cities and districts and the number of characters or the names of towns and the number of characters are recorded in association with each other, a space or the like is inserted before and after the name of the city or district or town. Such data processing can be performed.

[0013]

【Example】

Embodiment 1 FIG. Hereinafter, an address generation system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the present embodiment. In this embodiment, a CPU (central processing unit) 1 and a hard disk drive (HD) as a recording unit connected to the CPU 1
D) 2, a floppy disk device (FDD) 6, a magnetic tape (MT) device 7, a keyboard 3 as input means, a display 4 as display means, and a printer 5 as hard copy output means. . The hard disk drive 2 records an address master file to be described later and a customer list database file created by inputting an address by an operator. In addition, the above-mentioned floppy disk drive (FDD)
6, and a magnetic tape (MT) device 7, an address master file to be described later and a customer list database file created by inputting an address by an operator can be recorded.

Next, FIGS. 2 and 3 are views for explaining the address master file recorded on the hard disk of the hard disk drive 2. FIG. First, data forming the "address" will be described with reference to FIG. In this specification, an address is composed of a prefecture, a city, a county, a town name, a street, and an address. In this specification, “city” is a city name such as “Nagasaki City” as shown in FIG.
Combination of city name and ward name, such as "Chuo-ku, Fukuoka", "Shinjuku-ku"
And the combination of a county name such as "Nishitama-gun Mizuho-cho" and a town name (village name). Further, in this specification, the “town name” is an area name at a lower level than the city / ward county, as shown in FIG. 2, and the “Tonga-cho” and “Fukuoka-shi Chuo-ku” "Watanabe Dori",
"Yotsuya" below "Shinjuku-ku" and "Mizuho-machi, Nishitama-gun"
"Nagaoka", etc., which is the lower order. In this specification, "after town name" means a combination of a town name such as "Tonzacho 14-4" and a street and an address, and a connection between a town name such as "Tonzacho 14" and a street. And those with only the street name, such as "Tonga-cho".

Next, the contents of the address master file will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in 1 to 5 in FIG. 3, each address data including a zip code, a prefecture name, a city, a ward, a county, and a town name is recorded in the address master file. As shown in FIGS. 3A to 3C, each of the address data includes a postal code, a prefecture name, kana data of a prefecture name, the number of characters (digits) of the prefecture name, a city name, a city name, and a city name. Kana data,
For each item, such as the number of characters (number of digits) of city and county name, abbreviation of city and county, kana data of abbreviation of city and county, town name, kana data of town name, and character number (number of digits) of town name Are recorded in association with each other.

In this specification, the meaning of the above-mentioned "shortening of city / ward / county (form)" is as follows. For example, when the city or district is composed of one name such as “Nagasaki City”, the leading character “Length” is abbreviated. Similarly, in the case of "Shinjuku Ward", "New" is the short form. In addition, for example, when the municipal county is composed of two names, Fukuoka City and Chuo Ward, such as “Fukuoka City Chuo Ward”, the first characters of each name are “Fuku” and “Middle”.
"Fukunaka" is a short form. Similarly,
In the case of "Mizuho-machi, Nishitama-gun", "Nishizu", which is a combination of the first character "Nishi" of Nishitama-gun and the first character "Mizu" of Mizuho-cho, is a shortened form.

Next, a method for generating an address according to this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. Here, the explanation will be made mainly on the input operation of the address data and the like when the operator creates the customer list database file on the hard disk using the system shown in FIG. 1 while looking at the address written on paper, for example. I do.

First, a method of inputting and generating a kanji address when the postal code is known will be described with reference to FIG. When the address shown in FIG. 4 (a) is to be recorded in the database file, as shown in FIG. 4 (b), the operator operates as shown in FIG.
"1-10" is input using the keyboard 3. Then, the CPU 1 is required to generate a complete address from the address master file using the input postal code “810” and the name of the town “Watanabe-dori” as keys, and is input by the operator. To search for the data "Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture". And CPU
As shown in FIG. 4 (c), reference numeral 1 denotes the postal code "810" input by the operator and "Watanabe 2-
1-10 "is added to and combined with the search data" Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture "
A complete address "810-10 Watanabe-dori, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture" is generated and recorded in the customer list database file on the hard disk.

In this case, instead of inputting "Watanabe-dori 2-1-10" after the street name shown in FIG. 4 (b), the postal code (without inputting "2-1-10" of the street address) is used. And just entering the street name "Watanabe-dori", the CPU 1
The entered postal code "810" and "Watanabe Dori"
With the town name as a key, "Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka", which has not been input by the operator, can be corrected (added) from the address master file (see FIG. 3).
Then, if the operator inputs the address "2-1-10", a complete address is generated. That is, the street address may be input at the stage shown in FIG. 4B, or may be input after the prefecture name or the municipal district that has not been input by the CPU 1 is corrected (added). . In addition, it is a matter of course that the address generated in this case may not include a prefecture name such as “Fukuoka Prefecture” or a postal code.

Therefore, according to the present embodiment, the prefecture name and the city / county / county are automatically corrected (added) only by inputting only the postal code and the town name (or the town name or later). The input work is greatly reduced.

Next, a method of inputting and generating a pseudonym address when the postal code is known will be described with reference to FIG. When the address shown in FIG. 5A is to be recorded in the database file, as shown in FIG. 5B, the operator operates as shown in FIG. 5B, where the postal code is “810” and “Watanabe Dori 2-1-10” after the street name. ". Then, the CP
U1 uses the input postal code “810” and the name of the town “Watanabedoori” as keys to read “Fukuokaken” from the address master file (see FIG. 3).
The data (data not entered by the operator) is searched for. And
The retrieved data is added to the input data to generate a complete address as shown in FIG.
In this case, at the input stage in FIG. 5B, the operator may input only the postal code “810” and the street name “Watanabe Dori” without inputting the street address “2-1-10”. , The CPU 1 receives the input “81
Using the postal code of "0" and the town name of "Watanabe doori" as keys, "Fukuokaken Fukuokashi Chuoku" can be searched from the address master file and added, as in the description of FIG. (This is exactly the same in the description of the following drawings, so that the description of the following drawings is omitted.)

Next, a method of inputting and generating an address when the postal code of the address to be recorded in the database file is not known will be described with reference to FIGS. First, FIG.
As shown in FIG. 6A, when the postal code is not known and the city or district generates an address composed of only one name, such as "Nagasaki City", the operator needs to enter the address shown in FIG. As shown in the figure, "Cho", which is an abbreviation of "Nagasaki City", and "Tonzacho 14-4" after the name of the town are input. Then, the C
PU1 searches the address master file (see FIG. 3) for a zip code, a prefecture name, and a city / ward / county using the abbreviation of the city / ward / country of “cho” and the town name of “Tonga-cho” as keys. The searched data is added to the input data, and the two are combined to generate a complete address including “zip code, prefecture name, city, county, town name” as shown in FIG. ,
This is recorded in the database file.

As shown in FIG. 7 (a), the postal code is not known, and the municipal county has two names of "Fukuoka City" and "Chuo Ward" such as "Chuo Ward of Fukuoka City". In such a case, as shown in FIG. 7 (b), the operator, as shown in FIG. 7 (b), obtains “Fukunaka” which is a short form of “Chuo-ku, Fukuoka” and “2-1-10 Watanabe-dori” after the town name. Enter Then
The CPU 1 uses the abbreviation of the city, ward and county of “Fukunaka” and the name of the town of “Watanabe-dori” as keys, and retrieves the postal code, prefecture name, and city and ward from the address master file (see FIG. 3). Search for data. Then, the CPU 1 combines the retrieved data with the input data to generate a complete address as shown in FIG. 7C, and records this in the database file.

In this case, the municipal district is “が 〇〇 〇〇”
In the case where two names of "〇〇 city" and "〇〇 ward" are combined as in
In addition, even if you do not know “〇〇” which is a part of the city, you can generate a complete address as follows. That is, for example, although the city of the address is actually “Chuo-ku, Fukuoka”, as shown in FIG. 8A, the part “Fukuoka-shi” is not known, and only the part after “Chuo-ku” is known. If there is no (i.e., only "Chuo-ku" in "Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi" of the municipality is known), the operator proceeds to FIG.
As shown in (b), "chu" which is a shortened form of "Chuo-ku" of this known part and "Watanabe-dori 2-1" after the street name
-10 "only. Then, the CPU 1
Using the input abbreviation of the city, ward and county of “Middle” and the name of the town of “Watanabe-dori” as a key, the address master file of FIG. 3 (in this address master file, the address data in the third row of FIG. In addition, "Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City" and "Medium" as its abbreviation are recorded in association with each other), and the corresponding data of the postal code, prefecture name, and city / county are searched. Then, the CPU 1 combines the retrieved data with the data after the input town name to generate a complete address as shown in FIG. 8C and records it in the customer list database file. .

Further, as shown in FIG. 9A, when the postal code is not known and the city / ward county is constituted only by a special ward name such as "Shinjuku ward", the operator needs to enter the name shown in FIG. b)
As shown in FIG. 6, "short" of "Shinjuku Ward" is abbreviated and "Yotsuya 1-2-8" after the street name is input. Then, the CPU 1 uses the abbreviation of the city, ward and county of “new” and the name of the town of “Yotsuya” as keys to retrieve the corresponding postal code, prefecture name, and city and city from the address master file (see FIG. 3). Search each county data. Then, the CPU 1 combines the retrieved data with the input data to generate a complete address as shown in FIG. 9C, and records this in the database file.

Next, a method of inputting and generating a kanji address in the case where the address is of the "@ gun @ machi" type and the postal code is not known will be described with reference to FIG. For example,
As shown in FIG. 10 (a), when the municipal county is “Nishitama-gun Mizuho-cho” and the zip code is unknown, the operator may use the method shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 0 (b), the user inputs "Nishizu", which is a short form of the city and ward, and "Nagaoka 1-2-50" after the town name. Then, the CPU 1 determines that the input “Nishi Rui”
Using the abbreviation of the city, ward and county and the town name of "Nagaoka" as a key, the address master file is searched for the corresponding postal code, prefecture name, and city, ward and county data. And
The CPU 1 combines the retrieved data and the input data to generate a complete address as shown in FIG. 10C, and records this in the database file.

Next, a method of inputting and generating a pseudonymous address when the address is of the "@city" type and the postal code is unknown will be described with reference to FIG. In the present embodiment, as shown in the item (A) in the address master file of FIG.
The characters are abbreviated. In this case, since the cloud point is also one character, in the case of "Nagasaki", "Naka" is the short form. Now, for example, as shown in FIG. 11A, if the postal code is not known and the city and district of "Nagasaki" and the name of the town of "Douzamachi" are known, the operator will be shown in FIG. 11B. So, "Naka", a short form of "Nagasaki", and "Dozamachi 14-4" after the street name
Enter Then, the CPU 1 searches the address master file for data such as the corresponding postal code, prefecture name, and the like, using the input abbreviation of "Naka" and the name of the town "Douzamachi" as keys. And C
The PU1 combines the searched data and the input data (by rearranging and the like), and obtains the data shown in FIG.
Generate and record a complete address as shown in (c).

Next, a method of inputting and generating a pseudonym address in the case where the address is of the "@ city @ ku" type and the postal code is unknown is described with reference to FIG. In this embodiment,
The abbreviation of the “〇〇shiku” type municipal county is constructed by combining the first two characters of “〇〇shi” and “〇〇ku”, which constitute it. Therefore, for example, the shortened form of "Fukuokachuooku" is "Fukuchiyu" which combines "Fuku" and "Chiyu". Now, for example, as shown in FIG. 12 (a), if the postal code is not known and the “Fukuokashi Chuoku” of the city / county is known, the operator sets the city / ward as shown in FIG. 12 (b). Enter the abbreviation "Fukuchiyu" of the county and "Watanabe Dori 2-1-10" after the street name. Then, the CPU 1
Searches the address master file for data such as the corresponding postal code and prefecture name, using the inputted abbreviation "Fukuchiyu" and the name of the town "Watanabe Dori" as keys. Then, the CPU 1 combines the searched data and the inputted data (performs rearrangement and the like) to generate and record a complete address as shown in FIG. 12C.

In this case, if the city / county is an address of the “〇〇 市 〇〇 区” type and “〇〇 Prefecture / 〇〇 City” is unknown, that is, if the city / county is “〇〇 With reference to FIG. 13, a description will be given of an address generation method in the case where “〇〇-ku” is not known but only “〇〇-ku” is known.
For example, as shown in FIG.
Only Watanabe Dori 2-1-10 "is known,
If the zip code, the 〇〇 prefecture, and the オ ペ レ ー タ city are not known, the operator, as shown in FIG. 13B, “Chiyu”, which is one of the abbreviations of the municipalities called “Fukuokashi Chuoku”.
(Refer to the data of the item in the third line of the figure in the address master file in FIG. 3) and "Watanabe Dori 2-1" after the town name
Enter "10". Then, the CPU 1 refers to the address master file by using the inputted abbreviation "Chiyu" and the name of the town "Watanabe Dori" as a key, and retrieves the data of the corresponding postal code, prefecture name and city / ward county. Search for. Then, the searched data and the input data are appropriately combined, as shown in FIG.
Generate and record a complete address as shown in. In addition, the above operation is performed when the address master file of the present embodiment is
As shown in Fig. 3, not only "Fukunaka" and "Fukuchiyu" but also "Medium" and "Chiyu" are recorded as abbreviations of the municipal county "Chuo-ku" in Fukuoka City. It becomes possible.

Next, a method of inputting and generating a pseudonym address in the case where the address is of the "@ ward" type and the postal code is unknown will be described with reference to FIG. In the present embodiment,
The abbreviation of the municipal county consists of the first two characters of "@". Therefore, for example, the short form of “Shinjukuku” is “Shin”. Now, for example, as shown in FIG. 14 (a), if the postal code is not known and “Shinjukuku Yotsuya” in the city or district is known, the operator can use FIG.
As shown in FIG. 4 (b), the user inputs "Shin", which is a short form of the city and district, and "Jotsuya 1-2-8" after the town name. Then, the CPU 1 searches the address master file for each data such as the corresponding postal code and prefecture name, using the inputted abbreviation of “Shin” and the name of the street of “Yotsuya” as keys. Then, the CPU 1 combines the searched data and the inputted data (performs rearrangement and the like) to generate and record a complete address as shown in FIG. 14C.

Next, the address is "〇〇-gun-machi (〇〇-mura)".
A method of inputting and generating a pseudonym address when the postal code is unknown in the case of the type will be described with reference to FIG. In the present embodiment, the abbreviation of the “〇〇gun〇〇machi” type city is
It is configured by combining the first two characters of "@gun" and "@machi". Therefore, for example, the shortened form of “Nishitama Magnus Mimachi” is “Nishimis”. Now, for example, as shown in FIG. 15 (a), if the postal code is not known, but it is known that “Nishita Magun Mizuhomachi” of the city or district is located after the name of the city, the operator moves to FIG. 15 (b). As shown, the abbreviation "Nishimis" of the municipalities and "Nagaoka 1-2-50" after the street name
Enter Then, the CPU 1 searches the address master file for data such as the corresponding postal code, prefecture name, and the like, using the inputted abbreviation “Nishimis” and the inputted town name “Nagaoka” as keys. And
The CPU 1 combines the searched data with the inputted data (performs rearrangement and the like) to generate and record a complete address as shown in FIG. 15C.

Next, FIG. 16 is a view for explaining the processing in this embodiment when there is an error in the input contents by the operator. First, when a combination of a postal code and a street name or a combination of a short form and a street name of a city is input by the operator, the CPU 1 refers to the address master file (see FIG. 3) and reads the operator. Are checked to see if the elements of the combination (postal code and town name, or abbreviation and city name of city / ward / county) correspond exactly to each other. As a result, if there is a match, as described above, the corresponding address data is retrieved as it is, and combined with the input data (such as rearrangement) to generate a complete address. On the other hand, as a result of the comparison, if they do not coincide with each other, a predetermined warning display indicating an error is displayed via the display 4. For example, FIG.
Although the data shown in (a) is a correct address, FIG.
As shown in FIG.
When a town name is erroneously input as in (c), a warning is displayed by the CPU 1.

Next, FIG. 17 is for explaining a method of recording or outputting an address and an address code in association with each other in this embodiment. In this embodiment,
Although not shown in FIG. 3, in the address master file,
Each address code is recorded in association with each address. Therefore, in the present embodiment, when the operator issues a predetermined command, for example, when the address shown in FIG. 17A is generated, only the zip code and the street name are input as shown in FIG. 17B. Thus, as shown in FIG. 17C, it is possible to record data including a complete address including a city and a county and an address code, or to output the data on the display 4 and the printer 5.

Next, FIG. 18 is a diagram showing a method of processing address data in this embodiment. In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3, the number of characters (number of digits) of each data such as a prefecture name, a city, a county, and a town name recorded in the address master file is as follows.
Each is recorded in association with each data. Therefore, now, as shown in FIG.
When an address having no space between the street address and the address is output on the display 4 or the like, a predetermined command is issued to the CPU 1 (for example, insert only one space after each data of city, district and town, 18), and for example, as shown in FIG. 18 (b), it is possible to output (or record) a file in which one space or several spaces are inserted between the city, town, and street address. Become. Further, as shown in FIG. 18C, it is possible to display without a space between a city and a district and a town name, and to provide one space or several spaces between the town name and the street address. .

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3, the address master file contains the kanji data of the prefecture name and the kana data, the kanji data of the city and district, the kana data, and the kanji of the town name. The data and the kana data are recorded in association with each other. Therefore, according to the present embodiment, by giving a predetermined command to the CPU 1 (for example, display kana data under kanji data, etc.), in addition to the kanji data of the address, the kana data of the address is also output. Or it can be recorded. For example, for a postal address as shown in FIG. 19 (a), a zip code as shown in FIG.
Can be output or recorded together with kana data under kanji data of a complete address as shown in FIG. Similarly, in addition to the kana data of the address, kanji data can also be output or recorded side by side. For example,
The postal code and the pseudonym data after the street name are input as shown in FIG. 20 (b), and the pseudonym data of the complete address as shown in FIG. 20 (c). And kanji data can be output or recorded side by side.

In the above embodiment, the keyboard 3 is used as the input means. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, a voice input device and a voice for recognizing the input voice may be used. Using a recognition device, OCR (optical character reader), etc.
You may make it input each data, such as the abbreviation of a city, a county, and a town name. Also, in the present embodiment, FIGS.
As shown in FIGS. 2 to 15 and FIGS. 19 to 20, the display of katakana is used as the data of the kana address. However, the present invention is not limited to this. At the same time, the display of hiragana may be adopted. That is, not only the kana data in katakana display but also the kana data in hiragana display may be recorded in the address master file shown in FIG.

[0037]

In the address generating system according to the present invention, the operator can generate a complete address including the city, district and town by simply inputting the postal code and the street name of the address using the input means. Therefore, the operation of inputting the address is greatly simplified and made more efficient.

In the address generation system according to the present invention,
The operator can generate a complete address including the postal code and the city / county by simply inputting a part of the city / county and the town name of the address by using the input means. It becomes simpler and more efficient.

Further, in the system of the present invention, the kanji data and the kana data of the city or district, or the kanji data of the town and the kana data are recorded in association with each other. Kana data can be output or recorded together with the kanji data of the city, district or town name.

Further, in the system of the present invention, since the municipal county and the number of characters of the address or the town name and the number of characters are recorded in association with each other, a space or the like is inserted before and after the municipal county or the town name. It becomes possible to process address data such as

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating components of an “address” in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an address master file according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining an address input generation method according to the embodiment;

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining an address input generation method according to the embodiment;

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining an address input generation method according to the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining an address input generation method according to the embodiment;

FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining an address input generation method according to the embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining an address input generation method according to the embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining an address input generation method according to the embodiment;

FIG. 11 is a diagram for explaining an address input generation method according to the embodiment;

FIG. 12 is a diagram for explaining an address input generation method according to the embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a diagram for explaining an address input generation method according to the embodiment.

FIG. 14 is a diagram for explaining an address input generation method according to the embodiment;

FIG. 15 is a diagram for explaining an address input generation method according to the embodiment;

FIG. 16 is a diagram for describing processing when an input error occurs in the present embodiment.

FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating an operation of adding an address code to address data in the present embodiment.

FIG. 18 is a diagram for explaining an operation of processing address data in the present embodiment.

FIG. 19 is a diagram for explaining an operation of adding kana address data to kanji address data in the present embodiment.

FIG. 20 is a diagram illustrating an operation of adding kanji address data to kana address data in the present embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 CPU 2 Hard Disk Drive 3 Keyboard 4 Display 5 Printer

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(57) [Claims] 1. An address master file in which data such as a municipal county name and a town name are recorded in association with each other, and a municipal county name and a town name are included based on input of data indicating "part of an address". In an address generation system capable of generating "complete address" data, a city and district name and the number of characters are recorded in association with each other, and a town name and the number of characters are recorded in association with each other. Means, based on the number of characters of the city or district name or the number of characters of the town name recorded in the recording means, for the generated "complete address", between the prefecture name and the city, district and city name; A data processing means for performing data processing such as displaying one or more spaces between a county name and a town name, or between the town name and a street address, or displaying without inserting any space. And with And an address generation system.