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AssigneeAisin Aw Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroshi Kawauchi
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Search devices, methods, and programs accept an input of a first character string for searching for a search object and store second character strings. The devices, methods, and programs search among the stored second character strings for a second character string who's beginning matches the input first character string. The devices, methods, and programs display the found second character string, excluding from the display any of the found second character string for which a number of subsequent input operations that equals the difference between the number of characters in the found second character string and the number of characters in the input first character string is less than or equal to a number of operations to select the found second character string. When one of the displayed second character strings is selected, the devices, methods, and programs a display a search object that corresponds to the selected second character string.
A search device, comprising:
A search method, comprising:
A computer-readable storage medium that stores computer-executable instructions comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.