The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1993
Filed:
May. 21, 1991
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A digital computing apparatus for preparing document text includes a sentence significance decision section for calculating a significance value of each sentence of document data according to a relation between each sentence and other sentences of the document data. The apparatus can also include a topic extraction section for extracting a topic for each sentence of the document data. A format structure extraction section extracts format structure from document data according to predetermined rules. The format structure, corresponding sentence significance values and topics are sent to an output section. The output section displays this information to the user. The sentence retrieval section retrieves sentences including a user inputted reference word from document data. Then the sentence retrieval section selects a sentence which is related to the reference word from retrieved sentences according to the sentence significance value or the topic. The output section displays only the selected sentence to user.