JP5147883B2 - Application document information creation apparatus, application document information creation method, and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an application document information creation apparatus for creating application document information.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, devices that support the creation of patent application documents have been developed (see, for example, Patent Document 1). By using such an apparatus, the user can efficiently create an application document for a patent application.

JP2003-316775A (first page, FIG. 1 etc.)

  However, in the conventional example, the process of automatically generating the necessary documents in the application document is performed by changing the order of the text of the claims inputted by the user, etc. In the application document of the patent application, Documents describing the invention were not automatically created and such documents had to be entered by the user himself. As a result, troublesome work is imposed on the user.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object thereof is to provide an application document information creation apparatus and the like that can create an application document including an explanation related to invention information that is information related to the invention.

  In order to achieve the above object, the application document information creating apparatus according to the present invention stores information relating to one or more inventions, and invention information that is information having one or more invention specifying information that is information specifying the invention is stored. Invention information storage unit, description information storage unit for storing description information, which is information indicating invention description information included in the invention information, invention information stored in the invention information storage unit, and the description information Based on the explanation information stored in the storage unit, a creation unit that creates application document information that is information relating to a document of a patent application and includes one or more embodiments relating to invention information; and And an output unit for outputting the created application document information.

  With such a configuration, it is possible to create application document information including an explanation related to the invention information. Therefore, it is not necessary for the user to input the explanation information, and the user's labor is reduced. Further, when the description information is included in the application document information, for example, it is possible to automatically create application document information that satisfies the enablement requirement. Further, by including the description information in the application document information, for example, the invention indicated by the invention information (for example, claims) can be clarified. Further, by clarifying the invention as described above, the scope of the invention can be clarified, and as a result, the scope of the invention can be widened.

  In the application document information creating apparatus according to the present invention, the invention information is information relating to one invention, and is information having two or more independent invention information that is information having one or more invention specifying information. The single invention information may be grouped into one or more groups, and the creation unit may create the application document information so that the inventions included in one group in the invention information are included in the same embodiment. .

  With such a configuration, application document information is created so as to explain each group of invention information. Therefore, for example, in the created application document information, it is not necessary for the user to change the application document information so as to explain each group of the invention information, and the user's labor can be reduced.

Further, in the application document information creating apparatus according to the present invention, the description information includes word information that is information indicating a word used in the invention specifying information, and word explanation information that is information indicating a description of the word indicated by the word information. The creation unit determines whether or not a phrase related to the phrase information is included in the invention specifying information, and if included, adds the phrase explanation information corresponding to the phrase information to the application document information. May be.
With such a configuration, it is possible to add word explanation information indicating an appropriate explanation corresponding to the invention information to the application document information.

In the application document information creation device according to the present invention, whether the invention information includes identification information that is information for identifying a configuration of the invention, and the creation unit includes a phrase related to the phrase information in the identification information. If it is determined and included, the phrase explanation information corresponding to the phrase information may be added to the application document information.
With this configuration, it is possible to add word explanation information indicating an appropriate explanation corresponding to the identification information to the application document information.

In the application document information creating apparatus according to the present invention, the phrase explanation information may include information related to means for realizing the identification information.
With such a configuration, it is possible to create application document information that includes a document that satisfies the enablement requirements for the identification information.

  Further, in the application document information creation device according to the present invention, the creation unit, when a phrase related to the phrase information is included in the identification information, explains the phrase corresponding to the phrase information so as to explain the identification information The information may be added to the application document information.

  With such a configuration, a document with an appropriate description of identification information can be added, and the completeness of application document information can be increased. As a result, for example, after the application document information is created, the number of places where the user has to change the application document information is reduced, and the user's labor can be reduced.

The application document information creation apparatus according to the present invention further includes an application document basic information storage unit that stores application document basic information that is information including a standard document that is the basis of the application document information, and the creation unit includes: Application document information based on the invention information stored in the invention information storage unit, the description information stored in the description information storage unit, and the application document basic information stored in the application document basic information storage unit You may create it.
With such a configuration, the fixed document can be included in the application document information, and the completeness of the application document information can be increased.

  Further, in the application document information creating apparatus according to the present invention, the application document basic information is application document item information which is information having information on items in the application document information and position identification information which is information for identifying a position in the application document information. And the application document description information which is information associating the position identification information with the fixed description information which is information relating to the description of the fixed form used at the position of the application document information identified by the position identification information, and the creation unit However, the fixed description information associated with the position identification information by the application document description information may be added to the position identified by the position identification information included in the application document item information.

  With such a configuration, it is possible to change only the application document item information or only the application document description information. Therefore, for example, if only the format of the application document (for example, the title name) is changed, the application document item information may be changed. If the fixed description document is to be changed, the application document description information is changed. The basic information of the application document can be maintained easily and accurately.

Also, in the application document information creation device according to the present invention, the patent information storage unit that stores patent information that is information related to the patent, the description information extraction unit that extracts the description information from the patent information, and the description information extraction unit extract A storage unit that stores the described description information in the description information storage unit.
With such a configuration, the explanation information can be automatically extracted, and the user's effort to create the explanation information can be reduced.

In the application document information creating apparatus according to the present invention, when the storage unit stores the same description information as the description information extracted by the description information extraction unit in the description information storage unit, the description information extraction It is not necessary to accumulate the explanation information extracted by the section.
With such a configuration, it is possible to prevent duplicate explanation information from being accumulated in the explanation information storage unit.

  A description information extracting apparatus according to the present invention includes a patent information storage unit that stores patent information that is information related to a patent, a description information extraction unit that extracts description information that is information indicating an explanation from the patent information, and description information Is stored, and an accumulation unit that accumulates the explanation information extracted by the explanation information extraction unit in the explanation information storage unit.

  With such a configuration, the explanation information can be automatically extracted, and the user's effort to create the explanation information can be reduced. The explanation information can be used in an application document information creation device or the like.

  According to the application document information creation apparatus and the like according to the present invention, it is possible to automatically create a document describing the invention, and to reduce the labor of the user who creates the application document.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an application document creation device according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. The flowchart which shows operation | movement of the application document preparation apparatus by the embodiment The flowchart which shows operation | movement of the application document preparation apparatus by the embodiment The flowchart which shows operation | movement of the application document preparation apparatus by the embodiment The figure which shows an example of the invention information in the embodiment The figure which shows an example of the explanatory information in the embodiment The figure which shows an example of the application document item information in the embodiment The figure which shows an example of the application document explanatory information in the embodiment The figure which shows an example of the application document information in the embodiment The figure which shows an example of the application document information in the embodiment The figure which shows an example of the invention information in the embodiment The figure which shows an example of the invention information in the embodiment The figure which shows an example of the application document item information in the embodiment The figure which shows an example of the invention information in the embodiment The figure which shows an example of the invention information in the embodiment FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an application document creation device according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention. The flowchart which shows operation | movement of the application document preparation apparatus by the embodiment The figure which shows an example of the patent information in the embodiment The figure which shows an example of the explanatory information in the embodiment The block diagram which shows the structure of the explanatory information extraction apparatus in other embodiment.

  Hereinafter, an application document information creation apparatus and the like according to the present invention will be described using embodiments. In the following embodiments, components and steps denoted by the same reference numerals are the same or equivalent, and repetitive description may be omitted.

(Embodiment 1)
An application document information creation apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an application document information creation apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment. In FIG. 1, the application document information creation device 1 includes an invention information storage unit 11, an explanation information storage unit 12, an application document basic information storage unit 13, an input reception unit 14, a creation unit 15, and an output unit 16. Is provided.

  The invention information storage unit 11 stores the invention information. Here, the invention information is information relating to one or more inventions. Invention information is information having one or more invention specifying information. The invention specifying information is information for specifying the invention. The invention specifying information is a group of documents for specifying the invention. The invention specifying information may be, for example, “a data storage unit storing ABC data”, “ABC data is audio data”, or the like. The invention information may be information having two or more pieces of independent invention information. Here, the single invention information is information relating to one invention, and is information having one or more invention specifying information. For example, one claim in the scope of claims is single invention information. The single invention information may be information indicating a difference from the other single invention information, for example, as in a claim dependent on another claim. In the present embodiment, it is assumed that the invention information is information having two or more pieces of independent invention information. Two or more pieces of independent invention information may be grouped into one or more groups. For example, for each single invention information, a number, a symbol, or the like for identifying the group to which the single invention information belongs may be set, or between one group of the single invention information and another group, Information indicating a break may be set. Any grouping method can be used as long as it is possible to know which single invention information belongs to the same group. The invention information may include identification information. Here, the identification information is information for identifying the configuration of the invention. The identification information is, for example, “ABC data storage unit”, “input receiving means”, “output step”, and the like. The invention information is, for example, text data information. Further, any invention specifying information in the invention information may be identification information itself. In the case where the invention specifying information is the identification information itself, the identification information is preferably a name including a description relating to the configuration of the invention. For example, “music information output unit”, “video information receiving step”, and the like are preferable. In addition, the invention information may be, for example, information in a table format having identification information and information indicating an explanation related to the identification information in association with each other. The invention information may be described in a markup language such as HTML or XML. When invention information is described in such a markup language, for example, identification information or the like may be separated by a tag or the like so that it can be distinguished from other information. The process of storing the invention information in the invention information storage unit 11 does not matter. For example, the invention information may be stored in the invention information storage unit 11 via a recording medium, and the invention information transmitted via a communication line or the like is stored in the invention information storage unit 11. Alternatively, the invention information input via the input device may be stored in the invention information storage unit 11. The invention information storage unit 11 can be realized by a predetermined recording medium (for example, a semiconductor memory, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, etc.). The invention information storage unit 11 may store the invention information temporarily, or may not.

  In the explanation information storage unit 12, explanation information is stored. Here, the explanation information is information indicating an explanation regarding the invention specifying information included in the invention information. The description related to the invention specifying information may be, for example, a description of a part of the invention specifying information or an entire description of the invention specifying information. The explanation information may be information for explaining a method of use, a method of manufacturing, and the like regarding the invention specifying information. The explanation information may be information that associates the phrase information with the phrase explanation information that is information indicating the explanation of the phrase indicated by the phrase information. The phrase information is information indicating a phrase used in the invention specifying information. The phrase explanation information may include information related to means for realizing the identification information included in the invention information. Here, the information on the means for realizing the identification information is information for explaining how to realize the configuration indicated by the identification information, for example, information indicating how the configuration indicated by the identification information is moved, Information indicating a method for creating the configuration indicated by the identification information, information illustrating the configuration indicated by the identification information, and the like may be used. The explanation information is, for example, text data information. The process in which the description information is stored in the description information storage unit 12 does not matter. For example, the explanation information may be stored in the explanation information storage unit 12 via a recording medium, and the explanation information transmitted via a communication line or the like is stored in the explanation information storage unit 12. Alternatively, the description information input via the input device may be stored in the description information storage unit 12. The explanation information storage unit 12 can be realized by a predetermined recording medium (for example, a semiconductor memory, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, etc.). The explanation information storage unit 12 may temporarily store the explanation information or may not be so.

  The application document basic information storage unit 13 stores application document basic information. Here, the application document basic information is information including a standard document that is the basis of the application document information. The application document basic information includes, for example, information common to a plurality of application document information such as a document headline used in the application document information and fixed phrases. The application document basic information may be information including application document item information and application document explanation information. The application document item information is information including information on items in the application document information and position identification information. The position identification information is information for identifying a position in the application document information. The application document description information is information that associates the position identification information with the fixed description information that is information related to the fixed description used at the position of the application document information identified by the position identification information. Here, “associating position identification information and fixed description information” means that fixed description information can be acquired from position identification information. Therefore, the application document basic information storage unit 13 may include a record including the position identification information and the fixed description information, or may be information that links the position identification information and the fixed description information. In the present embodiment, the former case will be described. Further, the position identification information and the fixed description information may not be directly associated with each other. For example, the third information may be associated with the position identification information, and the fixed description information may be associated with the third information. Further, the position identification information included in the application document description information and the position identification information included in the application document item information may be completely matched information, or may be associated one-to-one. For example, information that does not match may be used. In the latter case, for example, the position identification information “<12345>” included in the application document item information and the position identification information “12345” included in the application document description information correspond one-to-one. Sometimes identified. The application document information is, for example, text data information. The process in which the explanatory information is stored in the application document basic information storage unit 13 does not matter. For example, the application document basic information may be stored in the application document basic information storage unit 13 via a recording medium, and the application document basic information transmitted via a communication line or the like is stored in the application document basic information storage unit. 13 may be stored, or the application document basic information input via the input device may be stored in the application document basic information storage unit 13. The application document basic information storage unit 13 can be realized by a predetermined recording medium (for example, a semiconductor memory, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, etc.). The application document basic information storage unit 13 may temporarily store the application document basic information, or may not.

  Any two or more storage units of the invention information storage unit 11, the explanation information storage unit 12, and the application document basic information storage unit 13 may be realized by the same recording medium, or realized by separate recording media. May be. In the former case, for example, the area storing the invention information is the invention information storage unit 11, the area storing the description information is the description information storage unit 12, and the area storing the application document basic information Is the application document basic information storage unit 13.

  The input receiving unit 14 receives an input such as an instruction to start creation of application document information by the creating unit 15. For example, the input reception unit 14 may receive information input from an input device (for example, a keyboard, a mouse, a touch panel, etc.), or may receive information transmitted via a wired or wireless communication line. . Note that the input reception unit 14 may or may not include a device for reception (for example, a modem or a network card). The input receiving unit 14 may be realized by hardware, or may be realized by software such as a driver that drives a predetermined device.

  The creation unit 15 is based on the invention information stored in the invention information storage unit 11, the description information stored in the description information storage unit 12, and the application document basic information stored in the application document basic information storage unit 13. To create application document information. Here, the application document information is information relating to a patent application document. The application document information is information including one or more embodiments relating to the invention information. Here, the “embodiment” may be information including an explanation relating to the invention information, may be information described in the column of the embodiment in the so-called patent application specification, or other columns. It may be the information described in. The application document information includes information that explains the invention specifying information included in the invention information by explanation information. The application document information may be information on a document for which a patent application is filed (for example, a specification of a patent application), or a document for which a patent application is made by a user performing additional writing after the application document information creation apparatus 1 creates it. It may be the information of the document to become. The creation unit 15 may create application document information so that the inventions included in one group in the invention information are included in the same embodiment when the invention information is grouped. For example, the creation unit 15 creates application document information so that, when two pieces of single invention information are included in the same group, descriptions about the two pieces of single invention information are included in the same embodiment. May be. For example, the creation unit 15 may create application document information so that inventions included in different groups in the invention information are included in different embodiments. In addition, for example, when the description information includes the phrase information and the phrase explanation information, the creation unit 15 determines whether the phrase specifying information includes a phrase related to the phrase information. Phrase explanation information corresponding to the phrase information may be added to the application document information. Here, the phrase related to the phrase information may be a phrase indicated by the phrase information, or a phrase similar to the phrase indicated by the phrase information. In the latter case, for example, if “store” is included in the invention specifying information, the creation unit 15 determines that the storage and storage are similar, and the phrase explanation information corresponding to the phrase information “store” May be added to the application document information. Here, for example, the creation unit 15 may have similar dictionary data, and the similarity relationship may be determined using the similar dictionary data. For example, in the similar dictionary data, when “store”, “memory”, and “hold” are groups of similar words, the creation unit 15 performs “store”, “store”, and “hold”. It is determined that the words are similar to each other. In addition, when the invention information includes identification information, the creation unit 15 determines whether or not the phrase related to the phrase information is included in the identification information. If included, the creation unit 15 sets the phrase explanation information corresponding to the phrase information. You may add to application document information. The creation unit 15 adding the phrase explanation information to the application document information may be, for example, adding the phrase explanation information as it is to the application document information, or by performing predetermined processing on the phrase explanation information. It may be added to the application document information. As the latter, for example, when the phrase related to the phrase information is included in the identification information, the creation unit 15 adds the phrase explanation information corresponding to the phrase information to the application document information so that the identification information is explained. May be. That is, when the identification information “ABC data storage unit” is included in the invention information, the creation unit 15 uses the “ABC data storage unit is a volatile recording medium as word explanation information corresponding to the word information“ storage ”. The description of the identification information “ABC data storage unit” that may be a non-volatile recording medium may be added to the application document information. Further, when the application document basic information includes the application document item information and the application document description information, the creating unit 15 uses the application document description information at a position identified by the position identification information included in the application document item information. The fixed description information associated with the position identification information may be additionally written.

  The output unit 16 outputs the application document information created by the creation unit 15. Here, the output may be, for example, display on a display device (for example, a CRT or a liquid crystal display), transmission via a communication line to a predetermined device, printing by a printer, or output to a recording medium. It may be accumulated. The output unit 16 may or may not include an output device (for example, a display device or a printer). The output unit 16 may be realized by hardware, or may be realized by software such as a driver that drives these devices.

  In addition, when the input reception part 14 and the output part 16 have a device regarding communication, they may be the same means, or may be separate means.

Next, the operation of the application document information creation apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
(Step S101) The creation unit 15 determines whether to create application document information. If the application document information is to be created, the process proceeds to step S102. If not, the process of step S101 is repeated until it is determined that the application document information is to be created. For example, the creation unit 15 determines to create application document information when the input reception unit 14 receives an instruction to create application document information.

  (Step S <b> 102) The creation unit 15 includes the invention information stored in the invention information storage unit 11, the description information stored in the description information storage unit 12, and the application document basics stored in the application document basic information storage unit 13. Appropriately read out information and create application document information.

(Step S103) The output unit 16 outputs the application document information created by the creation unit 15. Then, the process returns to step S101.
In the flowchart of FIG. 2, the process is terminated by powering off or a process termination interrupt.

  Next, the operation of the application document information creation apparatus 1 according to this embodiment will be described using a specific example. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the process of step S102 in the flowchart of FIG. 2 in this specific example.

  (Step S201) The creation unit 15 refers to the invention information stored in the invention information storage unit 11 and extracts the name of the invention.

  (Step S202) The creation unit 15 refers to the invention information stored in the invention information storage unit 11, and acquires the number of embodiments. Here, the number of embodiments is the number of groups of independent invention information in the invention information.

  (Step S203) The creation unit 15 sets the counter I to “1”.

  (Step S204) The creation unit 15 creates new application document information. This application document information is blank information containing no text information.

  (Step S205) The creation unit 15 refers to the first unit of the application document item information included in the application document basic information stored in the application document basic information storage unit 13. Here, the “unit” is a unit of processing related to application document item information, and in this specific example, one paragraph (one paragraph) is a unit of processing. Therefore, the creation unit 15 refers to the first paragraph.

  (Step S206) The creation unit 15 determines whether the unit of the application document item information being referred to is position identification information. And if it is position identification information, it will progress to step S207, and if that is not right, it will progress to step S210.

  (Step S207) The creation unit 15 refers to the application document explanation information included in the application document basic information, and reads the template explanation information corresponding to the referenced position identification information. Then, the fixed form explanation information is added to the application document information.

  (Step S208) The creation unit 15 determines whether the unit of the application document item information being referred to is the last unit of the application document item information. If it is the last unit, the process ends, and the process proceeds to step S103. If not, the process proceeds to step S209.

  (Step S209) The creation unit 15 refers to the next unit of the unit of the application document item information being referred to. Then, the process returns to step S206.

  (Step S210) The creation unit 15 determines whether the unit of the application document item information being referred to is an explanation of the identification information. And when it is description of identification information, it progresses to step S211, and when that is not right, it progresses to step S212.

  (Step S211) The creating unit 15 adds the description of the identification information to the application document information. Then, the process proceeds to step S208. Details of this processing will be described later.

  (Step S212) The creation unit 15 determines whether the unit of the application document item information being referred to indicates the start of repetition in the description of the embodiment. In this specific example, the start of repetition is indicated by “/ &”. If it indicates the start of repetition, the process proceeds to step S208. If not, the process proceeds to step S213.

  (Step S213) The creation unit 15 determines whether the unit of the application document item information being referred to indicates the end of repetition in the description of the embodiment. In this specific example, the end of repetition is indicated by “& /”. If it indicates the end of repetition, the process proceeds to step S214; otherwise, the process proceeds to step S217.

  (Step S214) The creation unit 15 determines whether or not the value of the counter I is equal to the number of the embodiment acquired in Step S202. If they are equal, the process proceeds to step S208; otherwise, the process proceeds to step S215.

  (Step S215) The creation unit 15 increments the counter I by 1.

  (Step S216) The creation unit 15 refers to a unit for starting repetition in the description of the embodiment. That is, in this specific example, “/ &” is referred to.

  (Step S217) The creation unit 15 determines whether “#” is included in the unit of the application document item information being referred to. If “#” is included, the process proceeds to step S218, and if not, the process proceeds to step S219.

  (Step S218) The creation unit 15 sets the value of the counter I as “#” included in the unit of the referenced application document item information. Therefore, “#” is set to the number of the embodiment created by the creation unit 15 at that time.

  (Step S219) The creating unit 15 adds the unit of the application document item information being referred to to the application document information. Then, the process proceeds to step S208. If the value of the counter I is set to “#” in step S218, the document including the value of the counter I is added as “#” included in the document to be added.

  In step S216, the creation unit 15 may refer to the next unit of “/ &”. This is because no processing is performed for “/ &”.

Next, the process of step S211 of the flowchart of FIG. 3 will be described using the flowchart of FIG.
(Step S301) The creation unit 15 extracts identification information of the I-th group (embodiment) from the invention information stored in the invention information storage unit 11.

  (Step S302) The creation unit 15 determines the parent-child relationship of the identification information extracted in Step S301 and the name of the invention extracted in Step S210, and adds the parent-child relationship to the application document information. Here, the parent-child relationship is an inclusion relationship such as a device or a component. For example, the information processing device includes an input unit, a calculation unit, and an output unit, and the calculation unit performs the first process. And a second processing unit.

  (Step S303) The creation unit 15 sets the counter J and the counter K to “1”, respectively.

  (Step S304) Of the invention information stored in the invention information storage unit 11, the creation unit 15 obtains the K-th from the J-th single invention information (claim) corresponding to the I-th group (embodiment). The invention specifying information (paragraph) is extracted.

  (Step S305) The creation unit 15 determines whether or not the invention specifying information extracted in Step S304 is an explanation regarding identification information. And when it is the description regarding identification information, it progresses to step S306, and when that is not right, it progresses to step S311. The invention specifying information in the description related to the identification information is, for example, “the ABC data transmission unit periodically transmits ABC data” when the identification information is an ABC data transmission unit.

  (Step S306) The creation unit 15 adds the extracted invention specifying information to a corresponding portion of the document of the application document information. Here, the corresponding part is a part where the identification information included in the extracted invention specifying information is described. For example, when the invention specifying information is an explanation related to “ABC data storage unit”, it is the position next to the paragraph in which “ABC data storage unit” is described in the application document information. In addition, when the preparation part 15 cannot specify the location corresponding to the extracted invention specific information, the invention specific information may be added to the end of the document of the application document information.

  (Step S307) The creation unit 15 uses the J-th single invention information in the I-th group (embodiment) of the invention information stored in the invention information storage unit 11 as the invention specifying information extracted in Step S304. Then, it is determined whether it is the last invention specifying information. If it is the last invention specifying information, the process proceeds to step S309; otherwise, the process proceeds to step S308.

  (Step S308) The creation unit 15 increments the counter K by 1. Then, the process returns to step S304.

  (Step S309) The creation unit 15 uses the last single invention information in the I-th group (embodiment) of the invention information stored in the invention information storage unit 11 as the invention specifying information extracted in Step S304. Determine if there is. If it is the last independent invention information, the process of step S211 ends and the process proceeds to step S208. If not, the process proceeds to step S310.

  (Step S310) The creation unit 15 increments the counter J by one. Further, the counter K is set to 1. Then, the process returns to step S304.

  (Step S311) The creating unit 15 determines whether or not the invention specifying information extracted in Step S304 indicates a parent-child relationship of identification information. Then, if the parent-child relationship of the identification information is indicated, the process proceeds to step S312, and if not, the process proceeds to step S315. The invention specifying information indicating the parent-child relationship of identification information is, for example, “with an ABC data transmission unit that transmits ABC data” when the identification information is an ABC data transmission unit.

  (Step S312) The creation unit 15 converts the extracted invention specifying information so as to explain the identification information, and adds the converted information to the application document information. For example, when the invention specifying information is “ABC data transmitting unit that transmits ABC data”, the creating unit 15 sets the invention specifying information as identification information “ABC data transmitting unit” and the previous explanation “ABC data”. "(Identification information) is (description)." That is, “ABC data transmission unit transmits ABC data” is converted and added to the application document information.

  (Step S313) The creation unit 15 determines whether or not the identification information included in the extracted invention specifying information is related to any word information of the explanation information stored in the explanation information storage unit 12. And when related, it progresses to step S314, and when that is not right, it progresses to step S307.

  (Step S314) The creating unit 15 reads out the phrase explanation information corresponding to the phrase information related to the identification information included in the extracted invention specifying information from the explanation information, and adds the phrase explanation information to the application document information. At the time of this additional writing, the creating unit 15 may additionally add the phrase explanation information so as to explain the identification information included in the extracted invention specifying information. Then, the process proceeds to step S307.

  (Step S315) The creation unit 15 appends the extracted invention specifying information to the end of the document of the application document information. Then, the process proceeds to step S307.

Next, a specific example of the operation will be described using specific information.
First, the invention information stored in the invention information storage unit 11 is assumed to be the information shown in FIG. In the invention information shown in FIG. 5, each claim is a single invention information. Also, the information (group 1) described on the right side of the heading “Claim” is information for grouping the single invention information. In the invention information shown in FIG. 5, there are a group of (Embodiment 1) and a group of (Embodiment 2). Each paragraph in each claim is one invention specifying information.

  The description information stored in the description information storage unit 12 is assumed to be as shown in FIG. In FIG. 6, phrase information and phrase explanation information are associated with each other. In the word explanation information, the tag indicated by “<identification information>” indicates that the identification information is inserted at the position.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing application document item information included in the application document basic information stored in the application document basic information storage unit 13. In FIG. 7, a tag indicated by “<< the best mode header for carrying out the invention >>” or the like is position identification information.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram showing application document explanation information included in the application document basic information stored in the application document basic information storage unit 13. In FIG. 8, the position identification information and the standard description information are associated with each other. In the standard explanation information, the tag indicated by “<name of invention>” indicates that the name of the invention extracted in step S201 in the flowchart of FIG. 3 is inserted at the position.

  First, the user stores the invention information shown in FIG. 5, the explanation information shown in FIG. 6, and the application document basic information shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 on a PC (Personal Computer) as the application document information creation device 1. Assume that an application for creating application document information is launched and a “start” button for instructing creation of an application document is clicked.

  Then, the creating unit 15 determines that the creation of the application document is started (step S101), and first extracts the title of the invention with reference to the invention information shown in FIG. 5 (step S201). Specifically, in the invention information shown in FIG. 5, the noun consisting of kanji and katakana existing at the end of [Claim 1] (that is, before the punctuation of [Claim 1]) is extracted. The name “mobile phone” is extracted. Then, information indicating the name “mobile phone” of the invention is held in a recording medium (not shown) included in the creating unit 15. Here, as a method of discriminating kanji, katakana, etc., a method of discriminating whether a character is kanji, katakana, etc. with reference to a JIS code table or the like can be used. These methods are conventionally known and will not be described.

  Next, the creation unit 15 acquires all the numbers on the right side of “(Embodiment)” on the right side of [Invention 1] etc. of the invention information shown in FIG. Then, the number “2” having the largest value is acquired as the number of the embodiment (step S202), and then the creation unit 15 sets the counter I to “1” (step S203) and sets the new application document information. This new application document information does not include any application document information (step S204).

  The creating unit 15 refers to the first paragraph of the application document item information shown in FIG. 7, that is, “[Best Mode for Carrying Out the Invention]” (step S205). Since this paragraph is not position identification information or the like (steps S206, S210, S212, S213) and does not include “#”, it is added directly to the application document information (step S219). Since the paragraph is not the last paragraph of the application document item information (step S208), the creating unit 15 refers to the next paragraph “<< the best mode header for carrying out the invention >>” (step S209). ).

  Since “<< the best mode header for carrying out the invention >>” is position identification information (step S206), the creating unit 15 refers to the application document explanation information shown in FIG. Standard description information corresponding to “the best mode header for carrying out the invention” will be described using embodiments below. Is read out. Then, the name “mobile phone” of the held invention is inserted at the position of “<name of invention>” in the standard explanation information. Then, the creation unit 15 adds the fixed form explanation information in which the name of the invention is inserted to the application document information (step S207). This additional writing is made in the paragraph following “[Best Mode for Carrying Out the Invention]”.

  Thereafter, the creating unit 15 refers to the next paragraph “/ &” (steps S208 and S209). No processing is performed for this paragraph, and the process proceeds to the next paragraph “(Embodiment #)” (steps S212, S208, and S209).

  Since “(Embodiment #)” includes “#”, the creation unit 15 adds “(Embodiment #)” to the application document information as # = 1 (= value of counter I) ( Step S219). That is, “(Embodiment 1)” is added to the application document information. Then, the next paragraph “<< Explanation of Block Diagram >>” is referred to (steps S208 and S209).

  Since “<< Explanation of Block Diagram >>” is position identification information (step S206), the creation unit 15 refers to the application document explanation information shown in FIG. 8, and “<< Explanation of Block Diagram >> Is a block diagram showing a configuration of <name of invention> according to the present embodiment. Is read out. Then, the name “mobile phone” of the held invention is inserted at the position of “<name of invention>” in the standard explanation information. Then, the creation unit 15 adds the fixed form explanation information in which the name of the invention is inserted to the application document information (step S207). Then, the next paragraph “<Description of identification information>” is referred to (steps S208 and S209).

  Since “<identification information description>” is an explanation of the identification information (step S210), the creating unit 15 starts the processing of the flowchart shown in FIG. 4 (step S211). The creation unit 15 first extracts identification information from the 1 (= I) th group, that is, claims 1 and 2 corresponding to the first embodiment (step S301). This extraction is performed by extracting a noun consisting of kanji and katakana written immediately before the clue phrase, with “to” as a clue phrase. Here, the clue phrase is a phrase that is a key for extracting words, phrases, sentences, documents, and the like. From “claim 1” and “claim 2”, “phone number storage unit”, “display unit”, “accepting unit”, “communication unit”, and “erase unit” are extracted.

  Next, the creation unit 15 examines the parent-child relationship between the extracted identification information and the name of the invention. Specifically, in claims 1 and 2, it is determined in what positional relationship the extracted identification information, the clue phrase “preparation”, and the name “mobile phone” of the invention are. Then, in a document of the form “A has ...”, the name or identification information of the invention is entered in A, and the identification information and the clue phrase “to” are in the area of “...”. In the case where “(identification information)” is entered, the creating unit 15 determines that A has the identification information included in the “(identification information)”. On the other hand, in a document of the form “comprising... ˜A”, the name or identification information of the invention is entered in A, and the identification information and the clue phrase “to” are “ In the case of entering (identification information) and “”, the creation unit 15 determines that A has the identification information included in the “(identification information) and”. In this way, the creation unit 15 can know the parent-child relationship between the identification information and the name of the invention. The creation unit 15 includes “(parent) includes (child), (child),... (Child). Is generated and added to the application document information (step S302). Here, a document “The mobile phone includes a telephone number storage unit, a display unit, a reception unit, a communication unit, and an erasure unit” is added.

  Next, the creating unit 15 sets the counter J and the counter K to “1” (step S303), and the 1 (= J) th single invention information (corresponding to the 1 (= I) th embodiment ( Here, the first (= K) -th invention specifying information “a telephone number storage unit storing a plurality of telephone numbers in association with user names” is extracted from claim 1) (step S304). Since the invention specifying information ends with “to”, the creating unit 15 determines that the invention specifying information indicates the parent-child relationship of the identification information (steps S305 and S311), and the invention specifying information Identification information “telephone number storage unit” is extracted from the information, and “(extracted identification information) is (document of invention specifying information before the extracted identification information). The invention specifying information is converted so that Further, it is assumed that “above” is deleted during this conversion. In this case, the invention specifying information is converted as “the telephone number storage unit stores a plurality of telephone numbers in association with user names”. The creation unit 15 adds the converted invention specifying information to the application document information (step S312).

  Since the identification information “phone number storage unit” of the invention specifying information includes the phrase information “storage” shown in FIG. 6 (step S313), the creating unit 15 selects the phrase corresponding to the phrase information “storage”. The explanation information “<identification information> may be a non-volatile recording medium or a volatile recording medium” is read, and at the position of “<identification information>” in the word explanation information, The extracted identification information “phone number storage unit” is inserted. Then, the creation unit 15 applies the word explanation information “the telephone number storage unit may be a non-volatile recording medium or a volatile recording medium” into which the identification information is inserted. (Step S314).

  In claim 1, since the first invention specifying information is not the last invention specifying information (step S307), the creating unit 15 uses the second invention specifying information “a plurality of users stored in the telephone number storage unit”. The display section for displaying the name is extracted "(steps S308 and S304). Also in this case, conversion and addition of the invention specifying information and addition of phrase explanation information are performed, and an explanation of the identification information “display unit” is created in the application document information (steps S311 to S314). In this way, the explanation regarding the identification information “receiving unit” and the identification information “communication unit” is added to the application document information. In the following invention specifying information “a mobile phone comprising an erasure unit for erasing a plurality of telephone numbers stored in the telephone number storage unit when the communication unit receives an erasure command”. Since none of the word information shown in FIG. 6 is included in the identification information “erase portion” (step S313), the word explanation information is not added.

  In claim 1, the fifth invention specifying information is the last invention specifying information (step S307), but since claim 1 is not the last claim of the first embodiment (step S309), the creation unit 15 increments the counter J by 1 and sets the counter K to 1 (step S310). The 2 (= J) th single invention information corresponding to the 1 (= I) th embodiment (here, From (2), 1 (= K) th invention specifying information “When the communication unit receives an erasure command, the erasure unit stores a plurality of telephone numbers stored in the telephone number storage unit and The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the user name corresponding to the telephone number is deleted is extracted (step S304).

  Since the invention specifying information has a format of “(identification information) is...”, The creating unit 15 determines that the invention specifying information is an explanation regarding the identification information (step S305). Then, the creation unit 15 deletes “the above” and the document below “claim” from the invention specifying information, that is, “mobile phone according to claim 1”, and uses the last reading of this sentence as a punctuation mark. The document “erasure unit erases a plurality of telephone numbers stored in the telephone number storage unit and a user name corresponding to the telephone number when the communication unit receives an erasure command”. Is added to the corresponding part of the application document information, that is, after the paragraph starting with “Erase part” (step S306). In this case, since the explanation of the erasure unit is described at the end of the application document information, “the erasure unit stores the phone number storage unit when the communication unit receives the erasure command. Deletes a plurality of telephone numbers and user names corresponding to the telephone numbers. " In addition, in the case where the invention specifying information in the description related to the identification information is added to the application document information as described above, if the last sentence is not a closing form such as “~”, the creating unit 15 It is assumed that the end of is converted to an end form and a punctuation mark such as “to do”. Here, for example, the conversion may be performed by converting the end of one sentence into an end form using a conversion table indicating the correspondence of conversion, such as “to do” and “to do”. Or, by using language processing techniques such as morphological analysis, determine the usage form of the verb at the end of the sentence, and if it is not a terminal form, convert it to a terminal form and add a punctuation after the terminal form. Also good.

  Since this invention specifying information is the last invention specifying information of the first embodiment, the creating unit 15 finishes the process of appending the description of the identification information, and the next paragraph “of the application document item information shown in FIG. << Flowchart explanation >> "is referred to (steps S208 and S209). In this way, when the document of the first embodiment is added to the application document information and finally the “embodiment footer” is added, the application document information is as shown in FIG.

  Next, the creation unit 15 refers to “& /” in the next paragraph (step S213), and the value of the counter I is “1”, which is not equal to the number “2” in the embodiment (step S214). The counter I is incremented by 1 (step S215). Then, the creating unit 15 refers to “/ &” in the application document item information shown in FIG. 7 (step S216). As in the case of the first embodiment, also in the second embodiment, a document is added to the application document information and the creation of the application document information is continued (steps S206 to S219). The claim corresponding to the second embodiment, for example, claim 3 includes invention specifying information that is neither an explanation about identification information nor a parent-child relationship of identification information. Is included, and in this case, the creating unit 15 deletes “the” from the invention specifying information and sets the end of the sentence as an end form and a punctuation mark. It is changed to “Included” so that it can end with “”, and is added to the end of the document of the application document information. In this way, as shown in FIG. 10, application document information for the second and subsequent embodiments is created. When the creation unit 15 adds the template explanation information corresponding to the position identification information “<< the best form footer for carrying out the invention >>” of the application document item information shown in FIG. 7 to the application document information, Since the position identification information is the last reference unit of the application document item information, the creation unit 15 finishes creating the application document information (step S208), and passes the created application document information to the output unit 16. The output unit 16 displays the received application document information on the display of the PC (step S103). The user confirms the output application document information, and inputs an instruction to add or change a document via an input device such as a keyboard (not shown). The instruction is received by the input receiving unit 14 and reflected in the application document information. In this way, the application document information is finally completed. Note that the processing performed by the user is the same as that of a normal word processor or the like, and a description thereof is omitted.

  In this specific example, the case where the invention information is as shown in FIG. 5 has been described, but it goes without saying that the invention information is not limited to that shown in FIG. For example, the invention information may be grouped using “(1)” or “(2)” as shown in FIG. In the invention information shown in FIG. 11, “(1)” to “(2)” is one group, and the next “(2)” to the last is one group. Further, the invention information does not have to be described for each claim as shown in FIGS. For example, as shown in FIG. 12, description of identification information or the like may be described for each paragraph. That is, the invention information may not be divided for each individual invention information. In FIG. 12, in the paragraph of the invention specifying information indicating the parent-child relationship of the identification information, a blank is inserted at the beginning of the paragraph. Information indicating the parent of the parent-child relationship is indicated by a paragraph “(parent):”. In FIG. 12, the first embodiment and the second embodiment are grouped, but the grouping may not be performed.

  Further, in this specific example, the case where the application document information corresponding to the embodiment is created has been described. However, the application document information created by the application document information creating apparatus 1 includes the description of the name of the invention, the technical field, and the like. It may correspond to the specification including. In that case, for example, the application document item information shown in FIG. 13 can be used. By using the application document item information shown in FIG. 13, the application document information describing the name of the invention and the embodiment is created. The user can complete the patent application specification by adding necessary information to the created application document information by manual input or the like. Although FIG. 13 shows a case where the standard document is already included in the application document item information, these are also included in the application document description information as the standard description information associated with the position identification information. May be. Needless to say, the scope of the claims may be included in the application document information. The claims included in the application document information can be created from the invention information, for example. If the invention information is as shown in FIG. 5, for example, the description of the scope of claims can be created by deleting “(Embodiment 1)” from the invention information.

  Also, in this specific example, the case where the identification information is extracted using a clue phrase such as “to” has been described, but the identification information is indicated in the invention information as to which is the identification information. May be easily extracted. For example, as shown in FIG. 14, in the invention specifying information, identification information indicating a parent-child relationship may be enclosed by a tag “<C>” and a tag “</ C>”. It should be noted that the identification information is specified by using the tag is an example, and it goes without saying that the identification information may be specified by using other information. For example, the range surrounded by “$” may be determined as the identification information. Specifically, in the invention specifying information “$ storage unit $ storing data”, “storage unit” is the identification information.

  The invention information may include annotation information. Here, the annotation information is annotation information relating to a phrase included in the invention specifying information. When the invention information includes annotation information, the creating unit 15 may use the annotation information as explanation of the invention specifying information. That is, the creation unit 15 may create application document information including annotation information. FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating an example of annotation information. In FIG. 15, the annotation information is indicated as “<annotation: (annotation information)>”. When the invention information is shown in FIG. 15, the creation unit 15 adds the description of the second invention specifying information in claim 1 to the application document information, and adds the annotation information “This display unit is a liquid crystal display. There may be other displays. " Needless to say, the form of the annotation information is not limited to that shown in FIG.

  Further, in this specific example, a case has been described in which the explanation information is an explanation about identification information, but the explanation information may be an explanation about words included in the invention specifying information other than the identification information. For example, the explanation information may include nouns such as “video data” and “audio data”, and phrase explanation information corresponding to verb phrases such as “associate” and “match”. In this case, when the invention specifying information other than the identification information includes a word / phrase related to the word / phrase information, the creating unit 15 may additionally add word / phrase explanation information corresponding to the word / phrase information.

  Further, in this specific example, the case has been described in which the description information is information that associates the phrase information with the phrase description information, but the description information may not be such information. For example, the explanation information is information that “output may be printing by a printer, voice output by a speaker, or transmission by a communication means”, and the creation unit 15 may include “ When the word before “” (“output” in the above example) is included in the identification information or the like, the explanation information may be added to the application document information.

  Also, in this specific example, it has been described that the phrase description information is not added when none of the phrase information is included in the identification information. However, the identification information does not include any of the phrase information. Even if it exists, you may add a phrase description information. For example, phrase explanation information (which will be referred to as other phrase explanation information) that is explanation information related to identification information that does not include any of the phrase information is set in the explanation information, and the creation unit 15 includes the phrase in the identification information. If none of the information is included, other word explanation information may be added to the application document information. On the other hand, phrase description information to be added to the application document information when any phrase information is included in the identification information may be prepared. In that case, common word explanation information is described corresponding to two or more kinds of word information in the application document information.

  As described above, according to the application document information creating apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment, application document information can be created based on the invention information, the explanation information, and the application document basic information. In the application document information, the explanation of the word included in the invention specifying information of the invention information is described using the word explanation information included in the explanation information, so that the explanation document relating to the invention is automatically created. become. Further, the document describing the invention can be a document satisfying the feasible requirements as it is or by being added by the user. As described above, the application document information creating apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment can reduce the effort of the user to create the application document information, and can further assist the creation of the application document information that satisfies the enablement requirement. it can. In addition, even if the user who creates the application document does not know that the enablement requirement is necessary, a description for satisfying the enablement requirement is added to the application document information, so that it is based on the application document information. The likelihood that the application will be rejected because it does not meet the enablement requirement may be reduced. In the past, when the user created the application document information, if an explanation was added unexpectedly, the description of important explanation could be inadvertently forgotten. Such a situation can be avoided by adding the description to the application document information.

  In the present embodiment, the case where the application document basic information is composed of the application document item information and the application document explanation information has been described. However, this need not be the case. For example, the application document is created using the application document basic information in which the fixed description information corresponding to the application document description information shown in FIG. 8 is inserted at the position of each position identification information of the application document item information shown in FIG. You may go. In such a case, for example, the creation unit 15 does not create application document information by adding descriptions to blank application document information, but instead forms application documents in which fixed descriptions are described. Application document information may be created by adding a description or the like to the basic information.

(Embodiment 2)
An application document information creation apparatus according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The application document creation apparatus according to the present embodiment extracts explanation information from patent information.

  FIG. 16 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the application document information creation device 2 according to this embodiment. In FIG. 16, the application document information creation device 2 according to the present embodiment includes an invention information storage unit 11, an explanation information storage unit 12, an application document basic information storage unit 13, an input reception unit 14, and a creation unit 15. , An output unit 16, a patent information storage unit 21, an explanation information extraction unit 22, and a storage unit 23. Configurations and operations other than the patent information storage unit 21, the description information extraction unit 22, and the storage unit 23 are the same as those in the first embodiment except that the input reception unit 14 also receives an instruction to extract the description information. Description is omitted.

  The patent information storage unit 21 stores patent information. Here, the patent information is information relating to a patent, and is, for example, a patent publication, a patent publication, a public technical report, or the like. As long as patent information is information from which text data can be extracted, the format of the information is not limited. For example, the patent information may be a text file, an HTML file, or an image file. In the case of an image file, it must be convertible into text data by performing text recognition using software such as OCR. The process in which patent information is stored in the patent information storage unit 21 does not matter. For example, patent information may be stored in the patent information storage unit 21 via a recording medium, and patent information transmitted via a communication line or the like is stored in the patent information storage unit 21. May be. The patent information storage unit 21 can be realized by a predetermined recording medium (for example, a semiconductor memory, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, etc.). The patent information storage unit 21 may store the patent information temporarily, or may not.

  The explanation information extraction unit 22 extracts explanation information from the patent information stored in the patent information storage unit 21. Here, the explanation information is the same as that explained in the first embodiment. The explanation information extraction unit 22 acquires the explanation information using a clue phrase, for example. For example, the clue phrases “part is” and “means are” are used, and in the patent information, “part is” and “means are” in a sentence including “part is” before “means is” A single sentence in which a series of characters consisting of kanji and katakana is extracted as “phrase information” and the previous characters including “part” and “means” are replaced with <identification information> May be extracted as “word explanation information”. Note that in the clue phrases “part is” and “means is”, a code of identification information (for example, “101” in the storage unit 101) is included between “part” and “wa”. Good. For example, when the patent information includes a sentence “the storage unit 101 may be a non-volatile recording medium or a volatile recording medium”, the creating unit 15 Extracts “memory” as word information, and “<identification information> as word explanation information may be a non-volatile recording medium or a volatile recording medium. ] May be extracted. When the explanation information is information that does not include the phrase information and the phrase explanation information, the explanation information extraction unit 22 may extract one sentence including the clue phrase “part is” or the like as it is. In addition, use of the clue phrase “part is” is an example, and it is needless to say that other clue phrases may be used.

  The accumulating unit 23 accumulates the explanation information extracted by the explanation information extracting unit 22 in the explanation information storage unit 12.

  Next, the operation of the application document information creation apparatus 2 according to this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. Note that the processing in steps S101 to S103 is the same as that in the flowchart of FIG. 2 of the first embodiment, and a description thereof will be omitted.

  (Step S401) The explanation information extraction unit 22 determines whether or not the explanation information is to be extracted. If the description information is to be extracted, the process proceeds to step S402. If not, the process returns to step S101. The explanation information extraction unit 22 determines to extract the explanation information when the input reception unit 14 receives an instruction to extract the explanation information, for example.

  (Step S402) The explanation information extraction unit 22 reads patent information from the patent information storage unit 21. Here, the data to be read is text data. Therefore, when the patent information is image data, the image data is converted to text data by using OCR software or the like.

  (Step S403) The explanation information extraction unit 22 extracts explanation information from the read patent information.

  (Step S <b> 404) The storage unit 23 stores the description information extracted by the description information extraction unit 22 in the description information storage unit 12. Then, the process returns to step S101.

  In the flowchart of FIG. 17, the process ends when the power is turned off or the process ends.

  Next, the operation of the application document information creation apparatus 2 according to this embodiment will be described using a specific example. In this specific example, only the operation of extracting explanation information will be described.

  Assume that the patent information storage unit 21 stores the patent information shown in FIG. When the user inputs an instruction to extract explanation information to the input device, the instruction is accepted by the input accepting unit 14, and the explanation information extracting unit 22 starts extracting the explanation information (step S401). First, the explanation information extraction unit 22 reads the patent information shown in FIG. 18 from the patent information storage unit 21 (step S402), and searches the patent information for a clue phrase “part is” and “means”. . Then, when the clue phrase “part is” is searched, a sentence including the phrase is acquired, and phrase information and phrase explanation information are extracted from the sentence. As the phrase information, “output” is extracted. As the phrase explanation information, “<identification information> outputs the calculation result by the calculation unit. ], “<Identification information> may be a display, a printer, a transmission unit, or the like. Are extracted (step S403).

  The accumulation unit 23 accumulates the extracted explanation information in the explanation information storage unit 12. FIG. 19 is a diagram showing an example of the explanation information accumulated in this way.

  The phrase explanation information “<identification information>” may be a display, a printer, a transmission unit, or the like. ] Is information to be held as explanation information, but the phrase explanation information “<identification information> outputs the calculation result by the calculation unit. "Is unnecessary information as explanation information. Therefore, the user may delete unnecessary explanation information by referring to the explanation information stored in the explanation information storage unit 12.

  In addition, the description information extraction unit 22 may use an appropriate clue phrase when extracting the description information so that the description information extraction unit 22 is less likely to extract unnecessary description information. For example, in the case of the specific example described above, the explanation information extraction unit 22 includes a sentence including the clue phrase “part is” and “means is” and includes the clue phrase “may be” at the end of the sentence. You may make it extract.

  As described above, according to the application document information creation device 2 according to the present embodiment, it is possible to automatically extract and store the explanation information from the patent information, and use the past patent information to store the application document information. The content of the explanation information used for creation can be enriched, and the user's labor can be reduced compared to the case where the user himself inputs the explanation information.

  In the application document information creation device 2 according to the present embodiment, the case where the application document information creation device 1 according to the first embodiment includes the patent information storage unit 21 and the like has been described. An apparatus may be configured. For example, as illustrated in FIG. 20, the explanation information extraction device 3 includes a patent information storage unit 21, a description information extraction unit 22, a storage unit 23, and a description information storage unit 12, and is extracted from patent information. The explanation information may be accumulated in the explanation information storage unit 12. The accumulated explanation information may be used in the application document information creation apparatus 1 according to the first embodiment.

  In addition, when the same explanation information as the explanation information extracted by the explanation information extraction unit 22 is stored in the explanation information storage unit 12, the accumulation unit 23 accumulates the explanation information extracted by the explanation information extraction unit 22. You don't have to. This is to avoid a situation in which duplicate explanation information is stored in the explanation information storage unit 12. Here, the description information extracted by the description information extraction unit 22 and the description information stored in the description information storage unit 12 may be the same, for example, or It may be a case of approximation. For example, in the explanation information of both, only the noun is extracted by performing morphological analysis, and the explanation information may not be accumulated assuming that the noun is, for example, approximately equal to 80% or more. Further, even when the order of nouns extracted by morphological analysis is different, the two pieces of explanatory information may be determined to be the same. For example, the phrase explanation information “<identification information> may be a display, a printer, or a transmission unit. ”And the word explanation information“ <identification information> ”may be a printer, a display, a transmission unit, or the like. ] May be determined to be the same.

  Further, although cases have been described with the above embodiments where the invention indicated by the invention information is an apparatus invention, it goes without saying that the invention can also be applied to a method invention. Note that the explanation information shown in FIG. 6 relates to the invention of the apparatus, and may further include explanation information related to the invention of the method. For example, in the phrase information “acceptance” and the phrase explanation information “<identification information>”, the information input from the input device may be received, the transmitted information may be received, and the explanation information may be read from the recording medium. The issued information may be accepted. ] May be associated with each other. Here, for example, the creation unit 15 adds the phrase explanation information in which “acceptance step”, “acceptance process”, and the like are inserted into “<identification information>” included in the phrase explanation information corresponding to “acceptance”. It will be added to the information.

  In each of the above embodiments, application document information is created using application document basic information. However, application document information may be created without using application document basic information. For example, based on the invention information and the description information, the creation unit 15 performs the process of adding the description of the identification information described in the first embodiment (step S211 in FIG. 2) and includes the description of the identification information. Information may be created. In such a case, the application document information creation device may not include the application document basic information storage unit 13.

  In each of the above embodiments, the application document information may be created interactively (bidirectionally). For example, when the creation unit 15 additionally writes the phrase explanation information, whether or not the phrase explanation information may be added is displayed on the display, and the phrase explanation information is applied to the application document information according to a response from the user to the display. You may decide whether or not to add to.

  The application document creation device in each of the above embodiments may be, for example, a stand-alone device or a server device in a server / client system. In the latter case, for example, the application document information may be created as an ASP (Application Service Provider).

  In each of the above embodiments, each processing or each function may be realized by centralized processing by a single device or a single system, or distributed processing by a plurality of devices or a plurality of systems. May be realized.

  In each of the above embodiments, each component may be configured by dedicated hardware, or a component that can be realized by software may be realized by executing a program. For example, each component can be realized by a program execution unit such as a CPU reading and executing a software program recorded on a recording medium such as a hard disk or a semiconductor memory. The software that realizes the application document information creation apparatus in the above embodiment is the following program. In other words, the program stores the invention information from the invention information storage unit in which the invention information, which is information having one or more invention specifying information that is information specifying one or more inventions, is stored in the computer. Reading and adding the invention information to the application document information, which is information relating to the patent application document, and reading the invention information from the invention information storage unit, and specifying the invention included in the invention information in the invention information A determination step for determining whether or not there is a word / phrase related to the word / phrase included in the description information stored in the description information storage unit in which the description information, which is information indicating the information, is stored; When it is determined that there is a phrase related to the phrase contained in the invention information, an explanation regarding the phrase contained in the explanation information is given. Reads to information from the instruction information storing unit is for executing the described additional recording step of appending information indicating the described application document information, and outputting the application document information.

  Further, in this program, the application document basic information is read from the application document basic information storage unit in which the application document basic information, which is information including a standard document as the basis of the application document information, is stored in the computer, and the application document information is converted into the application document information. A basic information appending step for appending information on a standard document may be further executed.

  In this program, the computer reads out the patent information from the patent information storage unit stored in the patent information that is information relating to the patent, and extracts the explanation information from the patent information, and the explanation information extraction An accumulation step of accumulating the explanation information extracted in the step in the explanation information storage unit may be further executed.

  Moreover, the software which implement | achieves the explanatory information extraction apparatus in the said embodiment is the following programs. In other words, this program reads out patent information from the patent information storage unit stored in the computer as patent information, which is information related to the patent, and extracts explanation information that is information indicating the description of the invention from the patent information. An information extraction step and an accumulation step of accumulating the explanation information extracted in the explanation information extraction step in the explanation information storage unit in which the explanation information is stored are executed.

  In the above program, the transmission step for transmitting information, the reception step for receiving information, etc. include at least processing performed only by hardware, for example, processing performed by a modem or an interface card in the transmission step. Absent.

  Further, this program may be executed by being downloaded from a server or the like, and a program recorded on a predetermined recording medium (for example, an optical disk such as a CD-ROM, a magnetic disk, a semiconductor memory, or the like) is read out. May be executed by

  Further, the computer that executes this program may be singular or plural. That is, centralized processing may be performed, or distributed processing may be performed.

  Further, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications are possible, and it goes without saying that these are also included in the scope of the present invention.

  As described above, according to the application document creation apparatus and the like according to the present invention, it is possible to create application document information related to a patent application document. For example, a PC that creates application document information, or a dedicated hardware that creates application document information. This is useful in wear equipment and the like.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Application document information creation apparatus 2 Application document information creation apparatus 3 Description information extraction apparatus 11 Invention information storage part 12 Description information storage part 13 Application document basic information storage part 14 Input reception part 15 Creation part 16 Output part 21 Patent information storage part 22 Explanation information extractor 23 Accumulator

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Information relating to one invention, information having two or more single invention information that is information having one or more invention specifying information for specifying the invention, and identifying information of the invention and included in the invention specifying information An invention information storage unit that stores invention information that is information including certain identification information;
The phrase information, which is information indicating the phrase used in the invention specifying information, is associated with the phrase description information, which is information indicating the description of the phrase indicated by the phrase information and includes information regarding the means for realizing the identification information. A description information storage unit that stores description information that is information;
In the invention information stored in the invention information storage unit, the identification information immediately before the clue phrase is specified using a clue phrase, and it is determined whether the specified identification information includes a phrase indicated by the phrase information, If it is included, the phrase explanation information corresponding to the phrase information is information related to the patent application document, and is added to the application document information that is information including one or more embodiments related to the invention information. A creation section for creating application document information;
An output unit that outputs application document information created by the creation unit, and
In the invention information, two or more independent invention information are grouped into one or more groups,
The creation unit creates application document information so that word explanation information corresponding to single invention information included in one group in the invention information is included in the same embodiment. 2. The application document information creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein grouping of single invention information in the invention information is performed by an identifier for identifying a group set for each single invention information. 2. The application document information creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the grouping of the single invention information in the invention information is performed by setting information indicating a delimiter set between one group and another group in the single invention information. . Information relating to one invention, information having two or more single invention information that is information having one or more invention specifying information for specifying the invention, and identifying information of the invention and included in the invention specifying information Invention information storage unit for storing invention information which is information including certain identification information, phrase information which is information indicating a phrase used in the invention specifying information, and information indicating an explanation about the phrase indicated by the phrase information And is processed using an explanation information storage unit that stores explanation information that is information that associates phrase explanation information that is information including information related to means for realizing identification information, a creation unit, and an output unit An application document information creation method comprising:
In the invention information stored in the invention information storage unit, the creating unit specifies identification information immediately before the clue phrase using a clue phrase, and the specified identification information includes a phrase indicated by the phrase information If it is included, the word explanation information corresponding to the word information is added to the application document information, which is information relating to the patent application document and includes one or more embodiments relating to the invention information. To create the application document information,
The output unit includes an output step of outputting the application document information created in the creation step;
In the invention information, two or more independent invention information are grouped into one or more groups,
In the creation step, the application document information creation method creates the application document information so that the phrase explanation information corresponding to the single invention information included in one group in the invention information is included in the same embodiment. Information relating to one invention, information having two or more single invention information that is information having one or more invention specifying information for specifying the invention, and identifying information of the invention and included in the invention specifying information Invention information storage unit for storing invention information which is information including certain identification information, phrase information which is information indicating a phrase used in the invention specifying information, and information indicating an explanation about the phrase indicated by the phrase information And a computer accessible to an explanation information storage unit in which explanation information that is information that associates phrase explanation information that is information including information related to means for realizing identification information is stored.
In the invention information stored in the invention information storage unit, the identification information immediately before the clue phrase is specified using a clue phrase, and it is determined whether the specified identification information includes a phrase indicated by the phrase information, If it is included, the phrase explanation information corresponding to the phrase information is information related to the patent application document, and is added to the application document information that is information including one or more embodiments related to the invention information. Creation section for creating application document information,
Function as an output unit that outputs application document information created by the creation unit;
In the invention information, two or more independent invention information are grouped into one or more groups,
The creation unit creates application document information so that word explanation information corresponding to single invention information included in one group in the invention information is included in the same embodiment.

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