JPH05274314A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily discriminate each of retrieved words by outputting plural retrieval words as an emphatic form being different at every set for constituting a retrieval condition. CONSTITUTION:The document processor 1000 has a retrieval function for generating a retrieval condition by combining plural set bodies consisting of retrieval words, extracting and outputting document information conforming to the generated retrieval condition by retrieving it from in a document file, and also, emphasizing a word conforming to the retrieval word in the outputted document information. Also, a discriminating means 110 for discriminating to which set body the retrieval word conforming to the word of an emphatic object belongs is provided, and by an output control means 1200, different emphatic patterns are allocated in advance to each of the set bodies, and the word of the emphatic object is emphasized by the emphatic pattern corresponding to the discriminated set body. Accordingly, the word of the emphatic object, that is, the set body to which the retrieval word belongs can be discriminated easily.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing apparatus having a function of searching a document for a plurality of words or search words of sentences.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in a document processing apparatus, a document search function often displays a searched word or a page portion in which a sentence (hereinafter referred to as a search word) is described. This is because the searcher wants to read the document focusing on the part of the document in which the search word used for the search is described. Further, when a document is displayed, the search word is emphasized, for example, inverted or reduced so that the searcher can easily find the search word in the document.

[0003]

However, in the conventional apparatus of this type, when there is a set of a plurality of search terms constituting a search condition, the retrieved plurality of search terms are emphasized by the same emphasizing method. Therefore, there is a drawback that it is difficult to find a specific search word without distinguishing which set the search word belongs to.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks and to provide a document processing apparatus in which an operator can easily identify each of a plurality of retrieved words.

[0005]

In order to achieve such an object, the present invention creates a search condition by combining a plurality of aggregates composed of one or more search terms, and adds the search condition to the created search condition. A matching document information is extracted from a document file by a search, the extracted document information is output, and a search function for emphasizing a word matching each search word in the output document information is provided. In the document processing device, a discrimination unit that discriminates to which of the groups the search word that matches the word to be emphasized belongs, and a different emphasis pattern is previously allocated to each of the plurality of groups, and the judgment is performed. And an output control means for emphasizing the word to be emphasized with an emphasizing pattern corresponding to the aggregate.

[0006]

According to the present invention, the word to be emphasized has a different emphasis pattern for each group to which the word belongs. Therefore, the operator can easily identify the word to be emphasized, that is, the group to which the search word belongs. ..

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the basic construction of an embodiment of the present invention.

The document processing apparatus 1000 according to the present embodiment creates a search condition by combining a plurality of aggregates each including one or more search words, and obtains document information matching the created search condition from a document file. The document processing device has a search function of extracting by extraction, outputting the extracted document information, and emphasizing a word that matches each of the search words in the output document information.

Reference numeral 1100 is a discriminating means for discriminating to which of the groups the search word that matches the word to be emphasized belongs.

Reference numeral 1200 is an output control means for preliminarily assigning different emphasis patterns to each of the plurality of aggregates and emphasizing the words to be emphasized with the enhancement patterns corresponding to the determined aggregates.

FIG. 2 shows a concrete circuit configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. Here, 21 is a control memory, which stores a control program according to the control procedure shown in the flowchart of FIG. Reference numeral 22 is a central processing unit such as a CPU for making judgments and calculations according to the control procedure stored in the control memory 21. Reference numeral 23 denotes a memory, which has a region WB holding a search word, a region CB holding a search condition, and a region RB holding a search result. Reference numeral 24 denotes a disk device, which has an area TB for holding a document to be searched. Two
A display (display device) 5 displays a partial document storing the search result. A keyboard 26 is used to input instruction information for the central processing unit 22, such as a search word.

The display processing of the search result according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In the present embodiment, when a document name containing the same word as a plurality of search words is searched from a plurality of documents stored in the disk device 24, and a document having this document name is displayed Will be described as an example.

The operator uses the keyboard 2 to execute the search function.
6, and then input a plurality of search terms and search conditions (S1 in FIG. 3). The central processing unit 22 displays a plurality of search terms and search conditions for each aggregate on the display 25 to confirm the input information (S2). FIG. 4 shows a display example of the search word. This example shows that the synonymous words "AAAA" and "BBBB" are treated as the first set of search words.

It also shows that the words "CCCC" and "DDDD" are treated as a second set of search words. When the search condition is, for example, an OR condition, a document having words included in the first set or the second set is searched. The plurality of search word groups input in this way are stored in the search word holding area WB for each aggregate, and the search conditions are stored in the search condition holding unit CB.

In response to a search execution instruction from the keyboard 26, the central processing unit 22 searches for a document having the same search word as the search word group stored in the search word holding area WB in the search condition holding area CB. The search target holding area TB of the disk device 24 is searched according to.

More specifically, when a document search for the first search word group (see FIG. 4) is performed and a document in which the first search word group is described is detected by a processing procedure similar to the conventional one,
The central processing unit 22 provides the detected document name, the document position of the search word, and color information indicating the display color assigned to the search word, for example,
It is stored in the search result holding area RB in association with the first search word group by the word group number or the like (S5, S6).

Thereafter, the central processing unit 22 repeatedly executes the loop processing of S4 to S6, and also searches for the remaining search word groups.

The central processing unit 22 counts the number of aggregates of the search word group stored in the search word holding area WB,
A display color is assigned to the count of search words. In the case of this example, since there are two types of search words, red is assigned to the first search word group (set) and blue is assigned to the second search word group. The display colors are assigned as follows.
In this example, the color information according to the search word order is shown in FIG. 6 such that the first search order is red, the second is blue, and the third is yellow.
It is stored in the control memory 21 in the table form shown in FIG.
Next, when the display color information of the search word is stored in the search result holding area RB together with the search result, the central processing unit 22 creates the color information corresponding to the search word by the color table of FIG. When the search is completed for all the search word groups, the central processing unit 22 displays the document name stored in the search result holding area RB on the display 25 as shown in FIG. 5 (S7).

The operator designates the displayed document by the number from the keyboard 26 (S8). The central processing unit 22 reads out the document corresponding to the specified document name from the search target document holding area TB and displays it on the display 25 (S1).
0). At the time of this display, each search term is displayed in the assigned color to emphasize each group. The display control processing of the central processing unit 22 for this purpose is shown in FIG.
Will be described later.

After the display of the designated document is completed, the central processing unit 2
The execution procedure of 2 returns to the document name display processing of the search result of S7. Hereinafter, when the operator gives an instruction to display another document name, the instruction document is displayed as described above. Further, when the operator gives an instruction to end the search process (affirmative determination in S9)
Ends this control procedure.

Next, the display by color after the search will be described.

In FIG. 7, the central processing unit 22 reads character information from the first character position of the document on the search target document area TB designated as the display target (S100 to S10).
5).

Next, the document position information of the word that matches each search word in the search result holding area RB is compared with the above-mentioned read character information, and the position of the read character information is determined for each search word. If it is included in the document position (word position) of, that is, if the read character is a character forming the search word, the character color information to be transmitted to the display 25 is set based on the display color information corresponding to the search word To do. When the read character information does not become a character that constitutes the search word, the display 2 which is preset in advance, for example, black is used.
The character color information of 5 is set. After performing the character color setting process (S110 to S130) for each character, the central processing unit 22 transmits the read character information and the set character color information to the display 25. As a result, the display 25 displays the received character information in the designated character color.

Thereafter, the central processing unit updates the read character position in the designated document and repeats the above procedure.

By executing such processing,
As shown in FIG. 8, “AAA” included in the first aggregate.
Search words "A" and "BBBB" are displayed in red, search words "CCCC" included in the second group are displayed in blue, and other words are displayed in black.

As described above, in the present embodiment, since the search words are displayed in different colors for each type of the collection of search words constituting the search condition, the collection to which the search words belong is discriminated by the operator. It will be easier.

[Other Embodiments] (1) In the above embodiment, a case has been described in which a plurality of search terms are output in different colors with different emphasis patterns for each set, but the present invention is not limited to this. However, different types of halftone patterns may be used, or other emphasis forms such as background display of different colors may be used.

(2) In the above embodiment, the case where the searcher can specify the document to be displayed has been described.
The present invention is not limited to this, and all retrieved documents may be automatically output (suppressed).

(3) In the above embodiment, the case where the title of the document is used as the search result has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and any information regarding the document such as the head portion of the document may be used.

(4) In the above-described embodiment, the case where the document to be displayed is designated by 1 by inputting the number of the search result has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and a part of the document or a plurality of documents can be displayed. Any range such as a document may be specified.

(5) In the above embodiment, the case where the search result is output and the search document is output after the search processing for all the documents held in the search target document holding unit (disk device 24) is completed As described above, the present invention is not limited to this, and the search result and the search document may be output during the search process.

(6) In the above embodiment, the case where the information for fixing the document is held in the search result holding area and the document is taken out from the search target document holding area based on this information and displayed is output. The present invention is not limited to this, and a document may be held in the search result holding area and this document may be displayed and output.

(7) In the above embodiment, the case where a set of synonyms is used as a set of search words held in the search word holding area has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this.
A combination of arbitrary sets such as a set having one element may be used.

(8) In the above embodiment, the case where the search processing unit performs processing in units of documents represented by document names has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and blocks in the disk device 25 are used as units. Other units such as

(9) In the above embodiment, the case where the search target document holding area is realized by the disk device and the search word holding area, the search condition holding area, and the search result holding area are realized by the memory has been described. However, other storage devices such as a magneto-optical disk device can also be used.

(10) In the above embodiment, the case where the output of the retrieval result is output on the display has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and another output device such as a printer may be used.

(11) In the above embodiment, the case where the instructions to the central processing unit are realized by the keyboard has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and other input devices such as a mouse may be used.

(12) In the above embodiment, when the input search word is displayed, if the color display is performed for each aggregate similarly to the display of the search result, the search word matches the search word in the document. Correspondence with words becomes clearer.

[0040]

As described above, according to the present invention,
In the output of the retrieved document, a plurality of search terms are output in different emphasized forms for each set, so that the plurality of search terms can be distinguished and each of the search terms can be easily searched. can get.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a basic configuration of a document processing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a specific system configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of a central processing unit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing contents of input search words according to the embodiment of this invention.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an output example of search results according to the embodiment of this invention.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a color table used in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing details of display processing of the search document of FIG.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing an output example of a search document according to the embodiment of this invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 21 control memory 22 central processing unit 23 memory 24 disk unit 25 display 26 keyboard 27 bus

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of aggregates each comprising one or more search terms,
A search condition is created in combination, the document information that matches the created search condition is extracted from the document file by a search, the extracted document information is output, and at the same time, in the output document information, In a document processing device having a search function for emphasizing a word that matches each of the search words, a determining unit that determines to which of the groups the search word that matches the word to be emphasized belongs, A document processing apparatus, comprising: output control means for assigning a different emphasis pattern to each of the above in advance, and emphasizing the word to be emphasized with the emphasis pattern corresponding to the determined aggregate.