Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hiroyoshi Saito

Kimihito Takeda

Tsutomu Kawada

Tatsuji Kusumoto

Shigemi Nakasato

Syoji Takagi

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.

Word block searcher for word processing equipment and searching method

An input processing system inputs character string data including kanji characters and corresponding to phonetic data by entering phonetic data. An input device sequentially inputs phonetic data and sentence end data. A conversion section includes a conversion processor, a syntactic analyzer, and a priority order alterator. The conversion processor sequentially converts character string data in a predetermined conversion unit. If single phonetic data includes a plurality of conversion possibilities in the predetermined conversion unit, character string data is selected according to a predetermined priority order, thereby obtaining character string data (including kanji characters) corresponding to input phonetic data. The syntactic analyzer performs syntactic analysis of a sentence consisting of the character string data in response to sentence end data. The priority alterator alters the priority orders of the conversion possibilities corresponding to identical phonetic data for the conversion processor according to syntactic analysis results, and alters the already selected possibilities as needed. The character string data from the conversion processor in the conversion section is displayed on a diplay.

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Yokohama, Japan

Hiroyoshi Saito