JP2002092018A - Retrieval system including katakana and hiragana - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a retrieval system for simultaneously retrieving not only Chinese characters but also Hiragana (cursive form of Japanese syllabary) and Katakana (square form of Japanese syllabary). SOLUTION: A hiragana/katakana retrieval SW 12 is turned on, and input characters 'Maguro (example of the name of fish)' are inputted to a retrieval character inputting and outputting part 10, and transmitted to a Chinese character converting part 11. The Chinese character converting part 11 converts the input characters into Chinese characters by an input character/Chinese character converting part 111, and converts the input characters into hiragana and katakana by a hiragana/katakana converting part 113. The converted hiragana and katakana are stored in a hiragana/katakana storing part 112. Afterwards, when starting retrieval by a character retrieving part 20, the three kinds of characters, that is, Chinese characters, hiragana, and katakana are retrieved, and displayed at a retrieved result display part 30 as retrieved result characters.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a search system including Katakana and Hiragana, and more particularly to a search system including Katakana and Hiragana for simultaneously searching Hiragana and Katakana in addition to Kanji.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, this type of search system includes a logical sum (OR) search using symbols (operators). To search for kanji characters and their hiragana and katakana characters using this system, you need to specify: A kanji to be searched and its hiragana and katakana characters were entered, and a symbol (operator) such as "+" was entered between them.

A conventional information retrieval system of this type is described in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Sho 60-57432. This conventional information retrieval device uses a kanji code converted by kanji conversion means. And Kana or Romaji input from the input means, are used as information search keywords. Kanji codes and Kana or Kanji codes and Romaji are used as search keywords as search characters.

[0004]

In this type of conventional retrieval system, it is necessary to input a kanji character and its hiragana and katakana characters in order to retrieve the same reading character.

Further, this conventional technique has another problem that it is necessary to input each of hiragana and katakana in order to simultaneously search for katakana and hiragana during search.

[0006]

The embodiments of the present invention are as follows.
In a search system for searching for kanji, there is provided a search system including katakana and hiragana, which is characterized by simultaneously searching for hiragana and katakana in addition to the kanji obtained by converting input characters and the kanji.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, at the time of kanji conversion for converting input characters into kanji, the input characters are converted into hiragana and katakana,
2. A search system including Katakana and Hiragana according to claim 1, wherein a logical sum search is performed simultaneously on Kanji and Hiragana and Katakana during the search.

[0008] An embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that at the time of kanji conversion, it is converted into hiragana and katakana, the hiragana and katakana are stored, and at the time of retrieval, kanji and the stored hiragana and katakana are logically searched at the same time. Claim 2
Provide a search system that includes the katakana and hiragana characters described.

An embodiment of the present invention includes a search character input / output unit for inputting a search character, a kanji conversion unit for converting input characters into kanji and converting them into hiragana and katakana, and determining whether to search for hiragana and katakana of input characters. 2. A hiragana and katakana search switch for designating a character, a character search unit for searching including the converted kanji and hiragana and kana, and a search result display unit for displaying a search result. Provides a search system that includes Katakana and Hiragana.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the kanji conversion section includes an input character kanji conversion section for converting an input character into kanji, and converts the input character into hiragana and katakana when the input character kanji conversion section converts the input character into kanji. 5. A hiragana / kana / kana conversion unit for converting to a hiragana / kana / kana conversion unit, and a hiragana / kana / kana / kana storage unit for storing hiragana / kana / kana as a conversion result of the hiragana / kana / kana conversion unit
Provide a search system that includes the katakana and hiragana characters described.

[0011] In the embodiment of the present invention, at the end of the search,
6. A search system including a katakana / hiragana system according to claim 5, wherein the contents of the hiragana / kana / gana storage unit are cleared.

[0012]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 shows a flowchart of the embodiment of the present invention. Figure 1
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a search character input / output unit 10 for inputting a search character, a kanji conversion unit 11 for converting input characters into kanji and converting them into hiragana and katakana, and searching for hiragana and katakana of input characters It includes a hiragana and katakana search switch (SW) 12 for designating whether or not the search is performed, a character search unit 20 for searching including the converted kanji and hiragana and kana, and a search result display unit 30 for displaying a search result. The kanji conversion unit 11 of this embodiment includes an input character kanji conversion unit 111 that converts input characters into kanji, and a hiragana katakana that converts input characters into hiragana and katakana when the input characters are converted into kanji by the input character kanji conversion unit 111. It has a conversion unit 113 and a Hiragana / Kana storage unit 112 for storing the Hiragana / Kana characters resulting from the conversion. The kanji conversion unit 11 has a function of outputting conversion results of kanji and hiragana and katakana to the search character input / output unit 10.

In this embodiment, characters are input to the search character input / output unit 10 from a keyboard or the like. The kanji conversion unit 11
When the hiragana / kana kana search SW 12 is ON, when the input character / kanji conversion unit 111 converts the input character into kanji, the hiragana / katakana conversion unit 113 converts the hiragana / kana kana of the input character,
The result is stored in the Hiragana / Kana / Kana storage unit 112, and the conversion result in the input character / kanji conversion unit 111 is stored in the search character input / output unit 1
Output to 0.

Thereafter, at the time of character search, the character search unit 20 performs a logical OR (OR) search on the kanji character converted by the input character kanji conversion unit 111 and the hiragana katakana stored in the hiragana katakana storage unit 112. The search result is displayed on the search result display unit 30. At the end of the search, the contents of the Hiragana and Katakana storage unit 112 are cleared.

Next, the overall operation of the embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. First, a character to be converted into kanji is input to the search character input / output unit 10 (S20 in FIG. 2).
1). Then, the search character input / output unit 10 sends the character to the kanji conversion unit 11, and the input character / kanji conversion unit 111 converts the character into kanji (S201). After that, Hiragana Katakana Search S
Check if W12 is ON (S203), and
In the case of N, the input character is converted into Hiragana and Katakana by the Hiragana and Katakana conversion section 113 (S204), and the result is stored in the Hiragana and Katakana storage section 112 (S205). The converted kanji is output to the search character input / output unit 10 (S20).
6).

Further, the kanji is searched (S207).
At this time, it is checked whether or not the hiragana and katakana search SW 12 is turned on (S208). If it is on, the hiragana and katakana of the input character are called from the hiragana and katakana storage unit 112 and added to the search character as an OR search character (S20).
9).

Thereafter, the character search unit 20 performs a search using the logical sum (OR) of the search characters, that is, the kanji character, the hiragana character, and the katakana character (S210), and displays the search result on the search result display unit 30. (S211).

Next, using a specific example, the hiragana and katakana search SW 12 is turned on, the input character is input to the input / output unit 10 as “tuna”, and is transmitted to the kanji conversion unit 11.
The kanji conversion unit 11 converts the input character into a kanji “tuna” in the input character kanji conversion unit 111, and the hiragana and katakana conversion unit 113 converts the input character “tuna” into hiragana “tuna” and katakana “tuna”. . The hiragana and katakana storage unit 112 stores the converted hiragana and the katakana tuna. Thereafter, when a search is started in the character search unit 30, three types of characters “tuna”, “tuna”, and “tuna” are extracted as search result characters, and displayed on the search result display unit 30.

In the embodiment of the present invention, hiragana and katakana are used as input characters, but the same effect can be obtained by using Roman characters as input characters.

[0021]

As described above, according to the present invention, since the kanji character to be searched and the hiragana katakana of this kanji are simultaneously OR-searched, the user can simultaneously extract the search for the hiragana katakana at the time of the kanji character search. .

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a flowchart in one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Search character input / output part 11 Kanji conversion part 12 Hiragana katakana search SW 20 Character search part 30 Search result display part 111 Input character kanji conversion part 112 Hiragana katakana storage part 113 Hiragana katakana conversion part

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Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A search system for searching for kanji,
A search system that also includes katakana and hiragana, wherein the kanji obtained by converting the input characters and the hiragana and katakana are searched simultaneously in addition to the kanji. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the input characters are converted into kanji, and the input characters are converted into hiragana and katakana, and the kanji and hiragana and katakana are simultaneously OR-searched during search. Search system. 3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising the steps of: converting kanji to hiragana and katakana, storing the hiragana and katakana at the time of kanji conversion, and performing a logical sum search of the kanji and the stored hiragana and katakana simultaneously at the time of search. Search system including Katakana and Hiragana. 4. A search character input / output unit for inputting search characters, a kanji conversion unit for converting input characters into kanji and converting them into hiragana and katakana, and a hiragana and katakana for designating whether or not to search for hiragana and katakana of the input characters. 2. A search including Katakana Hiragana according to claim 1, further comprising a search switch, a character search unit for searching including the converted kanji and Hiragana and Katakana, and a search result display unit for displaying search results. system. 5. A kanji conversion unit, comprising: an input character kanji conversion unit for converting an input character into a kanji; and a hiragana katakana conversion for converting the input character into a hiragana-kana kana when the input character kanji conversion unit converts the input character into a kanji. 5. The retrieval system according to claim 4, further comprising a storage unit for storing a conversion result of the hiragana / kana-kana conversion unit. 6. The search system according to claim 5, wherein the contents of the Hiragana and Katakana storage unit are cleared when the search is completed.