DESIGN DATA MERGING APPARATUS AND DESIGN DATA MERGING METHOD

• US 20100262270A1
• Filed: 04/12/2010
• Published: 10/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Takagi, Miki, Taira, Junko, Nakamura, Takeo
• Granted Patent: US 8,315,846 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/97
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2111/08 Probabilistic or stochastic CAD
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/00 Computer-aided design [CAD]

Abstract

A design data merging apparatus includes a merging determining unit that determines, for a plurality of design data of which each has product name information and has a same identifier for uniquely identifying a product, whether the product name information given to the plurality of design data are the same, and a merged data creating unit that merges the plurality of design data when it is determined by the merging determining unit that the product name information given to the plurality of design data are the same, and creates merged data obtained by merging a plurality of design data.

Claims

1. A design data merging apparatus comprising:

a merging determining unit that determines, for a plurality of design data of which each has product name information and has a same identifier for uniquely identifying a product, whether the product name information given to the plurality of design data are the same; and

a merged data creating unit that merges the plurality of design data when it is determined by the merging determining unit that the product name information given to the plurality of design data are the same, and creates merged data obtained by merging a plurality of design data.

2. The design data merging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the merged data creating unit merges, when it is determined by the merging determining unit that the product name information given to the plurality of design data are not the same, design data that have most frequent product name information among the product name information given to the plurality of design data and creates the merged data.

3. The design data merging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the merging determining unit determines, when the design data has an identifier which is different from any of the identifiers of other design data, whether design data having same product name information as that of the design data exists, and

the merged data creating unit merges, when it is determined by the merging determining unit that design data having the same product name information exists, the design data having the same product name information and creates merged data obtained by merging a plurality of design data.

4. The design data merging apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a correlation computing unit that computes a correlation value indicative of a probability by which these design data are design data related to the same product by using the product name information given to the design data, wherein

the merged data creating unit merges design data that have a highest correlation value of the product name information computed by the correlation computing unit and creates the merged data.

5. The design data merging apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a merging instruction receiving unit that receives, when there is a plurality of design data of which identifiers are not identical to one another and product name information are identical to one another, a merging instruction that indicates which design data to be merged, wherein

the merged data creating unit merges, when the merging instruction is received by the correlation computing unit, the design data in accordance with the merging instruction and creates merged data obtained by merging a plurality of design data.

6. A design data merging method comprising:

determining, for a plurality of design data of which each has product name information and has a same identifier for uniquely identifying a product, whether the product name information given to the plurality of design data are the same; and

merging the plurality of design data when it is determined in the determining that the product name information given to the plurality of design data are the same, and creating merged data obtained by merging a plurality of design data.

7. A computer readable storage medium having stored therein a design data merging program which causes a computer to execute a process comprising:

determining, for a plurality of design data of which each has product name information and has a same identifier for uniquely identifying a product, whether the product name information given to the plurality of design data are the same; and

merging the plurality of design data when it is determined in the determining that the product name information given to the plurality of design data are the same, and creates merged data obtained by merging a plurality of design data.