Patent ID: 7116802

Claim:
A method for quantifying a measure of quality of a document, comprising: (a) measuring a balance of objects in the document, and (b) quantizing the measured balance of object in the document wherein the quantized balance of objects in the document is equal to 1−[(((x m −x c )/d x ) 2 +((y m −y c )/d y ) 2 )/2] 1/2 wherein X m is a first directional position value of the center of visual weight for a page of the document, Y m is a second directional position value of the center of visual weight for a page of the document, x c is the first directional position value of the visual center of the page of the document, yc is the second directional position value of the visual center of the page of the document, d x is a maximum first directional distance an object can be from the visual center, and d y is a maximum second directional distance an object can be from the visual center.