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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 1976
Filed:
May. 19, 1975
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JA;
Abstract
An information retrieving apparatus comprises a memory having a plurality of records stored therein which are formed with weights attached to items of information, a reader for reading the stored information out from the memory, input means for entering an interrogation to be checked with the information in the memory, comparing means for detecting coincidence between the information read out by the reader and the signal, discrimination means for determining, in accordance with the coincidence detected by the comparing means, the weight of the information read out by the reader which is coincident with the interrogation, and selector means for selecting, in accordance with the weight decided by the discrimination means, a certain item of information from the record to which the information coincident with the interrogation appertains.