JPH05324735A - Data retrieving device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To judge which retrieval word is wrong when no corresponding item is found by providing an electronic book, which retrieves dictionary information stored on a compact disk, with a relative item display function which displays title data relating to a retrieval item when the retrieval item is inputted. CONSTITUTION:When characters are inputted to an item where a cursor indicates on a retrieval word input screen, retrieval is started and when retrieval regarding the input character string ends, a display button 31 is displayed on an input screen for condition retrieval. When the display button 31 is pressed, the corresponding item is displayed according to the retrieval result and when there is the corresponding item, a corresponding item display screen is displayed, but when not, that is displayed. When a reset button 33 is pressed, the condition retrieval input screen is displayed again and if there is an error in the retrieval word, the retrieval word is corrected. When a retrieval button 34 is pressed, the corresponding item of the inputted retrieval word is ANDed to retrieve all corresponding items.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data retrieving apparatus for retrieving data in an electronic dictionary using a compact disk as a dictionary medium and displaying the content of the text of the dictionary as a retrieval result on a display device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 4 shows a display screen of a conventional data search device. In FIG. 4, the contents of a document file 41 called an electronic book using a compact disk as a medium include a body data 43 which is the contents of a dictionary displayed as a search result, and a document management block 42 which manages the entire document file. Various indexes 44 for searching by keywords input by the user, menu data 45 for searching according to predetermined classification contents, viewpoint management block 46 defining a plurality of search conditions, and unique characters used in the literature It consists of external character font 47 for data. In the conventional electronic book player for searching such an electronic book, any of the predetermined search order in the various indexes 44, the menu data 45, and the viewpoint management block 46 and the search word input by the user or the selection by the user. Text data that is uniquely determined according to
The character data in is displayed on the display device.

[0003]

In the above-described conventional data search device, when a search word is input, the item corresponding to the search word is selected as the corresponding item when the number of input condition items is one. You can see, but if there are two or more items, press the search key and the AN of each applicable item will be displayed.
Since D is taken and the result is displayed as a list of applicable items, it is not possible to see the applicable items for each item. Therefore, even if one of the entered items is misspelled, the item of other meaning is selected. When there is a corresponding item or there is no corresponding item, there is a problem that it is not possible to find out which of the entered search terms is bad because the search result may be another item or there is no corresponding item. The present invention solves the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a data search device capable of checking bad input search words.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention is provided with means for displaying a corresponding item for each input search term.

[0005]

With the above structure, the present invention makes it possible to check whether the search word is correct from the contents of the title data of the corresponding item and to check which search word is bad among the input search words.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows the configuration of a data search device according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 11 is a CPU that performs logical judgments and calculations, 12 is a main memory, 13 is a read-only memory (ROM) having an area for storing a control program and a search program, and 14 is an operator input from a keyboard 15. A keyboard management unit that acquires instructions and key input information, 16 is a display device, and 17 is a display memory
A display control unit for displaying the display data stored in 18 on the display device 16, 19 a CD mechanical unit including a motor for rotating a compact disk (CD), 20 a rotation control of the CD mechanical unit 19 and a CD CD mechanical control unit for managing reading of data, 21 is a CD transferred from the CD mechanical unit
A data decoding unit for inputting data and converting it into data in a format that can be processed by the CPU 11, and 22 is a bus for transferring data between the above devices.

The operation of the above embodiment will be described with reference to the flow chart of the display image creating process shown in FIG. 2 and the display example of the data search apparatus in one embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG.
In the search word input screen of the conditional search of FIG. 3 (a), it is checked in step 1 (S1) of FIG. 2 whether or not a character is input to the item where the cursor is. If a character is input, S2 is selected. When the advanced search is started, it is checked whether or not the search is completed in S3. If the search is completed for the input character string, the advanced button is displayed in the input screen of the conditional search in S4 and displayed in S5. When the button 31 is pressed, the corresponding item is displayed according to the search result in S6. If there is a corresponding item, for example, the search term is "SHI
When "P" is input, the corresponding item display screen of FIG. 3 (b) is displayed. When there is no corresponding item, for example, "H" is added to the search term.
When "ARBER" is input, "There is no corresponding item." Is displayed on the corresponding item display screen, so if you look at the content of the title data of the corresponding item displayed in S7, the entered search word is incorrect. You can check if there is. When the return button is pressed in S8, the screen returns to the conditional search input screen of FIG. 3 (a), and if the search word is incorrect, the search word is corrected here. In S5, when the cursor is moved up and down to input another search word, the same processing is performed from S1 to S5, and when the search button 34 is pressed in S5, the search word input in S9 A for the item
ND processing is performed to search for all applicable items. If there is no corresponding item here, the corresponding item display screen of "There is no corresponding item." Is displayed in S10. When the return button is pressed in S11 in order to know which search word is wrong, By returning to the conditional search input screen of (a), it is possible to check which search word has an error by the processing from S5. In this embodiment, when it is desired to perform a conditional search using the words ship and port, the input of "SHIP" for a ship and "HARBOR" for a port is equivalent to "HAR".
If "BER" is entered, the corresponding item display screen of FIG. 3 (b) displaying the search word "SHIP" will be displayed after S5. Since this corresponding item is likely to be correct, next,
When the search word "HABER" is displayed, the corresponding item display screen of "There is no corresponding item." Is displayed. Since there is no corresponding item in this search word "HABER", it is understood that this search word is the cause that there is no corresponding item in the search result of the conditional search in S10. When you re-enter "HARBOR", the correct relevant item is displayed. In the traditional way,
I found out which item had an error because only the corresponding item was not displayed as a result of the conditional search.

[0008]

As is apparent from the above-described embodiment, the present invention displays title data of a corresponding search item by search word when a search item is input. In addition, it is possible to know whether there is a search word that searched for a corresponding item with a different meaning due to a misspelling or spelling, and whether there is a search word that does not have the corresponding item. It is possible to improve the efficiency of the search by avoiding the result that the search result does not have the corresponding item because the search word or the search word having no corresponding item has the search item.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a circuit block of a data search device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a display screen creation process of a corresponding item for each input search word of the conditional search in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a display screen view of the data search device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a display screen view of a conventional data search device.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 ... CPU, 12 ... Main memory, 13 ... Read-only memory (ROM), 14 ... Keyboard management unit, 15 ... Keyboard, 16 ... Display device, 17 ... Display control unit, 18 ... Display memory, 19 ... CD mechanical unit, 20 ... CD mechanical control unit,
21 ... Data decoding section, 22 ... Bus, 31 ... Display button, 32 ... Delete button, 33 ... Return button, 34 ... Search button, 35 ... Input mode button, 36 ... Previous page button,
37 ... Next page button, 41 ... Literature file, 42 ... Literature management block, 43 ... Body data, 44 ... Various indexes, 45 ... Menu data, 46 ... Viewpoint management block,
47 ... Gaiji font.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In an electronic book for searching dictionary information stored on a compact disc, when performing a condition search, when inputting a plurality of conditions for narrowing down corresponding items, even if the meaning is the same, the difference in notation, Data that features a related title display function that displays title data related to a search item when it is entered in order to search for different corresponding items due to misspellings and to avoid inconsistencies in the corresponding items Search device.