US Patent Issued to Fuji Xerox on Jan. 4 for "Material Processing Apparatus, Material Processing Method, and Material Processing Program Product" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- United States Patent no. 7,865,130, issued on Jan. 4, was assigned to Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Material Processing Apparatus, Material Processing Method, and Material Processing Program Product" was invented by Toshiya Koyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuhiro Nozaki (Tokyo) and Ichiro Shimomura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract released by the U.

S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A material processing method has a process of reading image data of a material. The material has answer fields and information items on points distributed to the answer fields. The method also has extracting the distributed point information items based on the image data, associating the distributed point information items with answer fields to recognize the points distributed to each answer field, storing a result recognized the points distributed to each answer field as answer/distributed point correspondence information, recognizing correct/incorrect answer determining contents from the image data, and performing point totaling on the correct/incorrect answer determining contents based on the answer/distributed point correspondence information."

The patent was filed on Sept. 14, 2005, under Application No. 11/225,131.

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