US Patent Issued to Fuji Xerox on Dec. 14 for "Material Processing Apparatus, Material Processing Method and Material Processing Program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 19 -- United States Patent no. 7,853,194, issued on Dec. 14, was assigned to Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Material Processing Apparatus, Material Processing Method and Material Processing Program" was invented by Toshiya Koyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract released by the U.

S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A material processing apparatus includes: a reading unit configured to obtain image data from material; a correct/incorrect determination recognizing unit that extracts entry contents of correct/incorrect determinations for answers to the answer fields from the image data; a distributed point information extracting unit that extracts the distributed point information from the image data; a distributed point acquiring unit that correlates extraction results by the correct/incorrect determination recognizing unit and the distributed point information extracting unit; and a point totaling unit that totals points on the correct/incorrect determinations entered into the material according to the extraction results by the correct/incorrect determination recognizing unit and the distributed point information extracting unit, and the result of the correlation."

The patent was filed on Sept. 14, 2005, under Application No. 11/225,133.

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