US 11,457,113 B2Granted

Image processing apparatus configured to instruct execution of calibration using test chart, and image forming apparatus configured to execute calibration using test chart

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorHiroshi Tomii

Life of this patent

Estimating the term…

Loading patent…

Abstract

An information processing apparatus is configured to communicate with an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a document feeder configured to convey, in order to read an original on an original tray, the original on the tray. The image forming apparatus is configured to form an image on a sheet based on a result of reading the original. The information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire user instruction information about types of calibration selected from among a plurality of types of calibration for adjusting a quality of an image to be formed by the image forming apparatus; and a controller configured to determine test charts to be created by the image forming apparatus based on the user instruction information; receive an execution instruction that instructs to create the test charts in succession.

Claims13

Dependent claims

An information processing apparatus that communicates with an image forming apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising:

an operating unit configured to acquire a command to perform calibration for the image forming apparatus;
and
a controller configured to:
control a display to display a screen for selecting a calibration setting in which a first calibration in which a first type of sheet is used and a second calibration in which a second type of sheet is used are performed together, wherein the first type of sheet is different from the second type of sheet;
receive the calibration setting;
control, in a case where the command is acquired by the operating unit, the image forming apparatus based on the calibration setting to form a first test chart for the first calibration on a first sheet of which the first type and to form a second test chart for the second calibration on a second sheet of which the second type;
control the image forming apparatus to perform the first calibration and the second calibration based on reading data related to the first test chart and the second test chart, the reading data outputting by a reading device.

4 more elements

An image forming apparatus comprising:

a reader configured to convey a sheet, and read image of the sheet during conveying the sheet;
an image forming unit configured to form an image;
an operating unit configured to acquire a command to perform calibration;
and
a controller configured to:
control a display to display a screen for selecting a calibration setting in which a first calibration in which a first type of sheet is used and a second calibration in which a second type of sheet is used are performed together, wherein the first type of sheet is different from the second type of sheet;
receive the calibration setting;
control, in a case where the command is acquired by the operating unit, the image forming unit based on the calibration setting to form a first test chart for the first calibration on a first sheet of which the first type and to form a second test chart for the second calibration on a second sheet of which the second type;
control the reader to read the first test chart and the second test chart;
and
perform the first calibration and the second calibration based on reading results of the first test chart and the second test chart.

8 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/116,317Filed 9 Dec 2020
Priority: JP JP2019-22347311 Dec 2019
Published: US 2021/0185181 A117 Jun 2021
Granted: 27 Sep 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04N 1/00087
Adjusting or controlling: setting or calibrating
G06F 3/1208
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in improved quality of the output result, e.g. print layout, colours,…
G06F 3/1229
Specifically adapted to use a particular technique: printer resources management or printer maintenance, e.g. device status, power levels
G06F 3/1285
Specifically adapted to adopt a particular infrastructure: remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server