Word block searcher for word processing equipment and searching method therefor
First Claim
1. A method of searching for a prescribed word block having a head portion at its beginning and a tail portion at its end, said head portion and said tail portion constituting less than the entirety of said word block, said searching being performed within a document that is stored in a memory of word processing equipment, comprising the steps of:
- inputting to the word processing equipment a leading word which serves to define a head portion of a word block desired to be located;
inputting to the word processing equipment a trailing word which serves to define a tail portion of the word block desired to be located; and
searching the document for a word block with a head portion that corresponds to said leading word, and a tail portion that corresponds to said trailing word.
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Abstract
A word block searching method searches for a specific designated word block (a one-sentence word block). Instead of designating it by a cursor operation from the head position to the tail position of the word block, portions of the head and tail portions are designated. A word block searcher of the invention has a CPU for performing head and tail portion searching of word block data in a document memory based on partial head and tail position designation. The CPU is also for reading out a word block defined by the found head and tail positions and displaying the readout word block.
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28 Claims
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1. A method of searching for a prescribed word block having a head portion at its beginning and a tail portion at its end, said head portion and said tail portion constituting less than the entirety of said word block, said searching being performed within a document that is stored in a memory of word processing equipment, comprising the steps of:
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inputting to the word processing equipment a leading word which serves to define a head portion of a word block desired to be located; inputting to the word processing equipment a trailing word which serves to define a tail portion of the word block desired to be located; and searching the document for a word block with a head portion that corresponds to said leading word, and a tail portion that corresponds to said trailing word. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 16, 17, 18, 19, 28)
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5. A method for searching for a prescribed word block having a head portion at its beginning and a tail portion at its end, said head portion and said tail portion constituting less than the entirety of said word block, said searching being performed within a document that is stored in a memory of word processing equipment, comprising the steps of:
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inputting to the word processing equipment a leading word which serves to define a head portion of a word block desired to be located; searching the document for a first word corresponding to said leading word; inputting to the word processing equipment a trailing word which serves to define a tail portion of the word block desired to be located; searching the document for a second word corresponding to said trailing word; and displaying a word block that is defined between said first word corresponding to said leading word, and said second word corresponding to said trailing word. - View Dependent Claims (6, 20, 21)
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7. A word block searcher for word processing equipment, which searches for a word block having a head portion at its beginning and a tail portion at its end, said head portion and said tail portion constituting less than the entirety of said word block, said searcher comprising:
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means for inputting to the word processing equipment a leading word which serves to define a head portion of a word block desired to be searched and a trailing word which serves to define a tail portion of said word block to be searched; and means for searching a document for a word block whose head portion corresponds to said leading word, and whose tail portion corresponds to said trailing word. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A word block searcher according to claim wherein said searching means includes:
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first memory means for storing said head portion; and second memory means for storing said tail portion. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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22. A word processing equipment comprising:
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storing means for storing a document data drafted by a user using the word processing equipment; inputting means for inputting to the word processing equipment a leading word and a trailing word; and processing means for searching the document for a word block having a head portion at its beginning which corresponds to said leading word and having a tail portion at its end which corresponds to said trailing word, said head portion and said tail portion constituting less than the entirety of said word block. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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Specification