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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2000
Filed:
May. 29, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shogo Shibata, Kawasaki, JP;
Minoru Fujita, Yokohama, JP;
Yuji Ikeda, Yokohama, JP;
Takaya Ueda, Kawasaki, JP;
Fumiaki Itoh, Yokohama, JP;
Makoto Hirota, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
704-4 ; 704-5 ; 704-7 ; 707536 ; 707-4 ;
Abstract
A document processing apparatus and method extracts, from document data, both a first word, whose translation is to be determined, and a second word that is either the preceding word or the subsequent word of the first word. Then a keyword is extracted based on the frequency of occurrence of the first word and the keyword is translated into a predetermined language by referring to a dictionary in a process that considers a meaning of the first and second words existing together in the document data.