JPH11184864A - Deformed address retrieval system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically register a regular deformed address through the use of a special character referred to as the deformed address which is previously set, to improve the recognition ability of the deformed address and to avoid repetive registration. SOLUTION: An address retrieval means 21 retrieves an address stored in a delivery ledger data 31 with an address word inputted from a manual operation input device 1 as a key. When an automatic deformed address registration mode is started, a deformed address retrieval means 22 takes out the registered address word from the delivery ledger data base 21 and retrieves whether the special character stored in a deformed pattern storage part 32 exits or not in the address word. When it exits, at least a part of the address word is substituted for the special character and a deformed address word is generated.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a modified address search system which is used in a general delivery information system such as a post office and is used for automatically searching for and registering a modified address different from a regular one.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, address information is stored in a database by registering a character string of an address on a family register input from an input device, or by referring to and quoting a necessary part from another address database. In general, the presence of a modified address is not considered a problem. The transformed address is an address in which a different notation is given to the same address, and is composed of a transformed prefecture name, a transformed city, a county name, a transformed town and village name, etc. according to a hierarchical level of the transformed address. For example, “Midorugaoka, Meguro-ku, Tokyo” does not have a deformed address in the city name “Tokyo” and the ward name “Meguro-ku”, but “Midorigaoka” or “Midorioka” exists in the town name “Midorioka”. In addition, it is customarily used in actual postal contents.

[0003] On the other hand, with the spread of OCR technology and higher performance, devices such as new sorters and the like which attempt to recognize written contents of mails by comparing them with address words registered in an address database have been provided. I have. The address database is created by directly digitizing the address notation described in the reference material based on a postal code book or the like issued by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Further, it is a very important task to clearly form a database as to what patterns are present as the deformed addresses in order to improve the recognition performance, that is, to improve the accuracy of sorting mail items for each address. In general, in order to register a modified address for one address in the address database, each modified address is generally manually operated by an operator.

[0004]

However, in such a conventional mail sorting system using an address database, a modified address has not been considered at all, and thus a modified address cannot be searched. There were problems such as sorting and delaying the sorting work. Further, even if all the transformed addresses are registered in the database, there is a high possibility that errors such as omission of registration and duplication of registration are likely to occur as long as sorting of transformed addresses is performed manually.

The present invention solves the above-described problem. Even if an address input as Japanese kanji is a modified address, the special character referred to as a preset modified address is used by using a special character set in advance. It is an object of the present invention to obtain a modified address search system that can automatically output or register a modified address as a regular modified address, improve recognition performance of modified addresses that are successively input, and avoid duplicate registration.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, a modified address search system according to the first aspect of the present invention uses a character string consisting of Japanese kanji as a headword of an address, the name of a householder corresponding to the headword, and the like. A delivery master database that stores family names and the like as address information and a modified pattern storage unit that stores special characters and character strings used as modified addresses are provided. Using the address word input from the device as a key, an address stored in the delivery master database is searched, and when the modified address automatic registration mode is activated, the modified address search means is registered in the delivery master database from the delivery master database. An address word is taken out, a search is made for whether or not a special character stored in the deformed pattern storage unit is present in the address word. And replace at least part of a word at its special characters, is obtained so as to produce a modified address words.

The modified address search system according to the second aspect of the present invention is provided with a modified delivery address database with a modified address, in which the modified address word generated by the modified address search means is automatically registered. is there.

A modified address search system according to a third aspect of the present invention provides the modified original address search system wherein the address search means registers an address word input from the manual input device in the address word input mode in the original delivery database. Editing means.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a modified address search system according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a manual input device such as a keyboard, which is used to register a regular address to be registered in a delivery register in an address word input mode. It is used for inputting or instructing a modified address automatic registration in the modified address automatic registration mode. Reference numeral 2 denotes a data processing device which operates under program control, 3 denotes a storage device for storing various information, and 4 denotes an output device such as a display device or a printing device. , A modified pattern storage unit 32, and a modified delivery address book database 33.

In the delivery master database 31, a character string composed of Japanese kanji is used as a headword of an address, and the name of the householder, family name, delivery order, and the like corresponding to the heading are used as address information. It is stored in advance through the ledger editing means. Further, the modified pattern storage unit 32 stores in advance special characters and character strings used as changing characters in the modified address. Examples of special characters are “ga”, “ga”,
There are "ga", "no", "no", "no", "no" and the like. Further, the data processing device 2 includes a delivery original book editing means 21 and a modified address search means 22 as address search means. Of these, the delivery master record editing means 21 searches for an address word stored in the delivery master database 31 using the address word in the input character string provided from the manual input device 1 as a key.

On the other hand, when the modified original address search means 22 receives an automatic modified address registration instruction from the delivery original document editing means 21, for example, when the delivery original document editing means 21 fails to search for an address word, the modified original address search means 22 executes It is checked whether or not the address character matches any of the various modified address candidate characters stored in the modified pattern storage unit. If a match is detected, the fact is displayed on the output device 4, and The function is such that the transformed address character in the input character string is replaced with the transformed character stored in the transformed pattern storage unit 32. On the other hand, if no match is detected, the modified address search means 22 does not recognize the input character string as an address having a modified address, and the output device 4
And output a message indicating that search is impossible.

Next, the operation will be described in detail. There are two operation modes of this system, an address word input mode and a modified address automatic registration mode. The address word input mode is used at the start of operation, and the modified address automatic registration mode is used at the time of periodic maintenance. The mode is switched by a command input from the manual operation input device 1. First, the address word input mode at the start of operation will be described. In this address word input mode, no data is registered in the delivery master database 31. Therefore, the input character string of the address word given from the manual input device 1 is supplied to the delivery master editor 21 and delivered as it is. It is stored in the original database 31. The address word is a formal name registered as a family register, and therefore, a modified address such as "Midorigaoka" is not registered. By repeating this operation for the number of addresses, the delivery original database 31 that is initially registered is constructed.

Next, the modified address automatic registration mode will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. When there is a modified address automatic registration instruction from the manual input device 1, the delivery master record editing means 21 converts this instruction into a modified address search means 22.
Tell The modified address search means 22 extracts the address words registered in the delivery original database 31 one by one (step S1), and stores the special characters stored in the modified pattern storage unit 32 in the character string. It is checked whether or not a modified character or a modified character string exists (step S2). If there is no modified character or modified character string stored in the modified pattern storage unit 32 in the character string extracted from the delivery master database 31 (step S
3) Recognize that there is no deformed address of the extracted address word, and shift the control to an operation of extracting the next address word.

On the other hand, if a character string extracted from the delivery original database 31 includes a modified character or a modified character string stored in the modified pattern storage unit 32, the corresponding character is stored in the modified pattern storage unit. 32 to obtain a modified address word (step S4), which is output and displayed on the output device 4 (step S5). A message asking whether to register a word is displayed (step S6). If it is determined that it is appropriate to register the displayed character string as a modified address, the worker in operation makes the modified address search unit 22 issue a registration instruction through the manual operation input device 1 to change the modified address. It is registered in the attached delivery master database 33 (step S7), and if inappropriate, no registration instruction is issued.

Then, the modified address search means 22 receiving the registration instruction registers the same character string as the modified address displayed on the output device 4 in the modified original delivery delivery database 33,
A similar search is performed for the next deformation pattern. If another deformation pattern is present, the pattern is displayed on the output device 4 again and the operator is asked for a registration instruction. By repeating these processes, the necessary modified address database can be automatically stored in the delivery master database with modified address database 33.

[0016]

As described above, according to the present invention, the address search means is made to search for the address stored in the delivery original database using the address word input from the manual input device as a key, and the transformed address automatic At the time of starting the registration mode, the modified address search means is caused to retrieve an address word registered in the delivery master database and special characters stored in the modified pattern storage section are present in the address word. To search for, and if present, replace at least a part of the address word with the special character to generate a modified address word. Even if it is an address, it can be automatically output or registered as a regular deformed address using special characters that are referred to as a preset deformed address, and input one after another Effect that improves the recognition performance of the modified address, and can be realized to avoid duplicate registration to be.
Therefore, the pattern to be transformed as a transformed address is shared,
By searching the database using the pattern as a key, the word can be registered without depending on the experience and knowledge of the worker. Therefore, one type of address word is stored for one address. Thus, the effect that various modified addresses can be automatically searched can be obtained.

Further, according to the present invention, the modified delivery address database with the modified address is provided, and the modified address word generated by the modified address search means is automatically registered in the database. By utilizing the modified delivery master database with the modified address, it is possible to obtain the effect that the address management based on the modified address described in the postal matter and the sorting and sorting of the postal matter can be automated and speeded up.

Further, according to the present invention, the address search means is configured to be a delivery master data editing means for registering an address word input from the manual input device in the delivery master data base in the address word input mode. As a result, the address search means can perform both functions of address search and registration of an address word, and the effect of contributing to simplification of the system can be obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a modified address search system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation of a modified address automatic registration mode in the modified address search system of FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Manual input device 21 Delivery original book editing means (address search means) 22 Modified address search means 31 Delivery original database 32 Modified pattern storage unit 33 Delivery original database with modified address

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A delivery ledger database in which a character string consisting of Japanese kanji is used as an address entry word, and the name of the householder and family corresponding to the address word are stored as address information; A modified pattern storage unit that stores various characters and character strings, and an address word input from a manual input device
Address search means for searching for and outputting an address stored in the delivery master database; extracting an address word registered in the delivery master database from the delivery master database when the modified address automatic registration mode is activated; A search is made for the presence or absence of the special character stored in the modified pattern storage unit, and if so, at least a portion of the address word is replaced with the special character to generate a modified address word And a modified address search means. 2. The modified address search system according to claim 1, further comprising a modified delivery address database with a modified address for automatically registering the modified address word generated by the modified address search means. 3. The delivery register editing means for registering the address word input from the manual input device in the delivery word database in the address word input mode. The modified address search system described.