Patent ID: 7865130
Filing Date: 2011-01-04
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
1. A material processing apparatus comprising: a reading unit that reads image data of a material, the material having answer fields and distributed point information items on points distributed to the answer fields; a layout analyzing unit that divides the image data read by the reading unit into a plurality of regions in accordance with at least one of an image object representing a separator in the image data and a white band region in the image data; an answer/distributed point associating unit that associates, for each of the regions, one of the distributed point information items with at least one of the answer fields that exists in the same divided region; a storage unit that stores a result recognized by the answer/distributed point associating unit as answer/distributed point correspondence information; a correct/incorrect answer determination recognizing unit that recognizes correct/incorrect answer determining contents including an affirmative figure and a negative figure from the image data read by the reading unit, the affirmative figure indicating that an answer is correct and the negative figure indicating that an answer is incorrect, the affirmative figure and the negative figure being different in shape; and a point totaling unit that performs point totaling on the correct/incorrect answer determining contents based on the answer/distributed point correspondence information.