JPH0981586A - Excerpt output system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the excerpt output system which enables a user to recognize a part to be noticed at sight at the time of outputting an excerpt sheet by discriminating and specifying the part to be noticed and outputting it in distinction from other parts. SOLUTION: The part to be noticed, for example, the part of an independent item in claim or claims for patent out of character data taken in from public information in a CD-ROM or the like is discriminated, and character strings in this part is so emphasized that it can be distinguished from other parts when they are outputted to the excerpt sheet, thereby enabling the user to recognize the part to be noticed on the outputted excerpt sheet at sight. With respect to the manner in which this part is distinguished from other parts, the Gothic style or the italic style is adopted or characters are underlined or the color is changed to emphasize this part at the time of output to the sheet or display on a display device. The emphasizing manner may be changed in accordance with the degree of importance of the part to be noticed so that character strings of the independent item stand out against the summary.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system for outputting a patent abstract, and to a display / output method for understanding the contents of the abstract at a glance.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, an abstract sheet of an open patent has bibliographic items, abstracts, claims, examples, drawings, etc., but in the past, these have the same pattern (letter, thickness, size). And so on). With this,
There was a problem that I could not understand the important points unless I read all the abstracts.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide an abstract output system in which a user can tell at a glance what the user should pay attention to when an abstract sheet is output.

[0004]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention identifies and specifies a notable portion in order to create an abstract sheet from a publication such as a CD-ROM. The noticeable parts are output separately from other parts. At this time, the distinction is highlighted by a color, a font, a thickness of a character, an underline, or the like.

[0005]

In the character data fetched from a publication such as a CD-ROM, a noteworthy portion, for example, a portion of an independent claim in the claims is identified, and the character string is output to an abstract sheet. By emphasizing the output so that they can be distinguished, the notable places on the output abstract sheet can be distinguished at a glance.

[0006]

EXAMPLES The present invention will be described by taking the output of the published patent abstract sheet from the published patent publication (CD-ROM) as an example. As described above, the bibliographic items, abstracts, claims, examples, and drawings are output to the abstract sheet, but the points that should be changed (notable) in terms of content are, for example, the abstract. In other words, it is the purpose and structure, and can be said to be an independent claim in the scope of claims. The abstract can specify the character string by identifying the [purpose] and [configuration] attached as tags when data is taken from the CD-ROM. Also, the independent claim is a character string “in claim i” in the character string divided by the tag [claim n] in the tag [claim] (where i is the claim number). is there)
It can be identified by whether there is.

In this way, the character string in which the notable portion is specified is output to the abstract sheet so that it can be distinguished from others. As a way to distinguish from others, when outputting to a sheet or displaying on a display, etc., the font is Gothic, italic, underlined,
Alternatively, the color is changed and the emphasized output and display are performed. Also, the emphasis method can be changed depending on the degree of attention. For example, the character string of the independent term can be made to stand out rather than the abstract.

[0008]

According to the abstract output system of the present invention, when looking at the output abstract sheet, it becomes possible to see at a glance what is the point of interest, which speeds up the understanding of the contents of the abstract sheet and makes it an important patent. It can exert great power in selecting whether or not.

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Keiyoshi Yoshi, 1-3-3 Nakamagome, Ota-ku, Tokyo Within Ricoh Co., Ltd. (72) Atsushi Iizawa 1-3-6 Nakamagome, Ota-ku, Tokyo No. Shares in Reco Ltd. (72) Inventor Koichiro Kai 1-3-3 Nakamagome, Ota-ku, Tokyo Shares Incorporated (72) Takayuki Honda No. 3-6 Nakamagome, Ota-ku, Tokyo Shares Company Rico

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An abstract output system for creating an abstract sheet from a patent publication, wherein a noteworthy portion is identified from the patent publication, and the noteworthy portion is output so as to be distinguishable from the other. An abstract output system characterized by. 2. The abstract output system according to claim 1, wherein the notable points are independent claims of the claims. 3. The abstract system according to claim 2, wherein whether or not the claim is an independent claim is determined by whether or not there is a dependent claim. 4. The abstract system according to claim 1, wherein a priority is given to the notable portion and a method of identification is changed according to the priority.