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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 1995
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1994
Mitsuru Akizawa, Hachioji, JP;
Hisamitsu Kawaguchi, Hachioji, JP;
Kanji Kato, Tokorozawa, JP;
Atsushi Hatakeyama, Kokubunji, JP;
Kouki Noguchi, Kokubunji, JP;
Hiromichi Fujisawa, Tokorozawa, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Maxell, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A parallel comparator for performing a parallel and high-speed processing for collation of partial character strings which are partially taken out of a plurality of character strings of interest to be searched out with a character string to be searched in which document data to be searched is arranged sequentially from a leading character, is provided in a front stage of an automaton executing device. Only when a part of the character string to be searched coincides with the partial character string set in the comparator, the collation of the remaining portion of the character string to be searched is performed by the automaton executing device. Also, it is possible to set 'don't care' in which a character at any position in the partial character string is ignored at the time of comparison by the comparator and to set a negation condition in which the comparison by the comparator is made taking the negation of a character at any position in the partial character string.