Patent ID: 6739508
Filing Date: 2004-05-25
Classification: G06Q,G07C

Abstract:
An evaluation apparatus with a voting system, comprising:a voting unit which makes a plurality of voters respectively vote an evaluation of information to be evaluated in accordance with the voting system, the information to be evaluated comprising at least two or more selections and each voted evaluation comprising a selection of one of the selections; an average-evaluation calculating unit which calculates an average evaluation comprising an average of the voted evaluations of the information to be evaluated in accordance with voting results obtained by the voting unit; a voter-rank decision unit which automatically determines voter ranks, the voter ranks comprising a voter rank of each of the voters, by using deviations between the average evaluation of the information to be evaluated as calculated by the average-evaluation calculating unit and each voted evaluation of the information to be evaluated that was voted by the voters being ranked; and an overall-evaluation determining unit which determines an overall evaluation of the information to be evaluated by weighting the voting results of the voting unit according to the voter ranks calculated by the voter-rank decision unit.