Information processing and image analysis technique to inspect read image data of a formed image and detect a cycle of image defects or unevenness
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorDaisuke Genda
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus is communicably connected to one or more image forming apparatuses each including: an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium; an image reading device that reads the image to obtain read image data; and an image forming controller that executes a first inspection and detects in the read image data an image defect corresponding to a predetermined inspection item at a first cycle, the information processing apparatus including: a processing controller that: acquires inspection source data based on the read image data obtained from at least one of the image forming apparatuses, and executes a second inspection to inspect the inspection source data.
Claims26
An information processing apparatus communicably connected to one or more image forming apparatuses each comprising:
- an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium;
- an image reading device that reads the image to obtain read image data;
- and an image forming controller that executes a first inspection and detects in the read image data an image defect corresponding to a predetermined inspection item at a first cycle, the information processing apparatus comprising:
- a processing controller that:
- acquires inspection source data based on the read image data obtained from at least one of the image forming apparatuses, and
- executes a second inspection to inspect the inspection source data.
An information processing apparatus communicably connected to a plurality of image forming apparatuses each comprising an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium and an image reading device that reads the image to obtain read image data, the information processing apparatus comprising:
- a processing controller that:
- acquires inspection source data based on the read image data obtained from at least one of the image forming apparatuses, and
- detects in the inspection source data image unevenness periodically occurring at a new cycle other than specific cycles of a predetermined inspection item including image unevenness, the new cycle commonly occurring in a plurality of pieces of inspection source data based on read image data acquired from at least two of the image forming apparatuses.
An image analysis method executed by an information processing apparatus communicably connected to one or more image forming apparatuses each comprising:
- an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium;
- an image reading device that reads the image to obtain read image data;
- and an image forming controller that executes a first inspection and detects in the read image data an image defect corresponding to a predetermined inspection item at a first cycle, the image analysis method comprising:
- acquiring inspection source data based on the read image data obtained from at least one of the image forming apparatuses;
- and
- executing a second inspection to inspect the inspection source data.
An image analysis method executed by an information processing apparatus communicably connected to a plurality of image forming apparatuses each comprising an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium and an image reading device that reads the image to obtain read image data, the method comprising:
- acquiring inspection source data based on the read image data obtained from at least one of the image forming apparatuses;
- and
- detecting, on the inspection source data, image unevenness periodically occurring at a new cycle other than specific cycles of a predetermined inspection item including image unevenness, the new cycle commonly occurring in a plurality of pieces of the inspection source data based on read image data acquired from at least two of the image forming apparatuses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.