Patent Document ID: 20090125453
Application ID: 12294172
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A stock name search device, comprising: handwritten segment transition information generation means for generating a segment transition information item representing a stock price transition within each of a predetermined number of segments included in a target period based on handwritten data representing a stock price transition handwritten-inputted by a user; stock name segment transition information storage means for storing a segment transition information item representing a stock price transition within each of the predetermined number of segments included in the target period, which is generated based on stock price chart data representing each of stock price transitions of a plurality of stock names; similarity calculation means for reading segment transition information items on the respective segments, which are stored in the stock name segment transition information storage means, by each of the stock names, and calculating similarities between the handwritten-inputted stock price transition and the stock price transitions of the stock names for all stock names to be targets, based on the read segment transition information items on the respective segments and segment transition information items on the respective segments which are generated by the handwritten segment transition information generation means; stock name selection means for selecting some of the plurality of stock names based on the similarities; and stock information output means for outputting information concerning the selected some of the stock names.