# US 12,192,416 B2 · Image processing system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,192,416 B2 - Document ID: US12192416B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/503,605 - Filed: 2023-11-07 - Published: 2024-05-16 - Granted: 2025-01-07 - Earliest claimed: 2022-11-15 - Assignees: Konica Minolta, Inc. - Applicants: Konica Minolta, Inc. - Inventors: Hiromu Nagato - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12192416B2 ## CPC - H04N 1/00082: {Adjusting or controlling (interrupting an operation H04N1/00915; inhibiting an operation H04N1/00925)} - B41M 7/0027: {using protective coatings or layers by lamination or by fusion of the coatings or layers} - G03G 15/6582: {Special processing for irreversibly adding or changing the sheet copy material characteristics or its appearance, e.g. stamping, annotation printing, punching} - G06T 7/001: {using an image reference approach} - H04N 1/00037: {Detecting, i.e. determining the occurrence of a predetermined state (H04N1/00031 takes precedence)} - H04N 1/00633: {selectively to one of a plurality of output trays (H04N1/00641 takes precedence)} - H04N 1/6097: {depending on the characteristics of the output medium, e.g. glossy paper, matt paper, transparency or fabrics} - G06T 2207/10024: Color image - G06T 2207/30144: Printing quality - G06T 2207/30168: Image quality inspection - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - B41M: PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING, (correction of typographical errors B41J; processes for applying transfer pictures or the like B44C1/16; fluid media for correction of typographical errors by coating C09D10/00; printing textiles D06P) - G03G: ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY - G06T: IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL ## Abstract An image processing system includes: a laminator that laminates an image surface of paper on which an image is formed, and an image reader that is disposed downstream of the laminator in a paper transport direction and reads the image surface of the paper after the lamination by the laminator. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An image processing system comprising: an image former that is disposed upstream of a laminator in the paper transport direction and forms an image on paper, the laminator that laminates by superimposing a film on an image surface of the paper on which the image has been formed, an image reader that is disposed downstream of the laminator in the paper transport direction and reads the image surface of the paper after the lamination by the laminator, a first hardware processor that corrects a color of the image formed by the image former based on the image read by the image reader before and after the lamination. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The image processing system according to claim 1, wherein the image reader reads an image at a predetermined position on the paper before the lamination by the laminator, and reads the image at the predetermined position on the paper after the lamination by the laminator. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The image processing system according to claim 2, wherein the predetermined position is each of two or more arbitrary positions on the paper. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The image processing system according to claim 2, wherein the predetermined position includes no image formed thereat. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The image processing system according to claim 1, further comprising another image reader that is disposed upstream of the laminator in the paper transport direction and reads the image surface of the paper before the lamination by the laminator. ### Claim 6 (depends on 2) An image processing system according to claim 2, further comprising: an image former that is disposed upstream of a laminator in the paper transport direction and forms an image on paper; and a laminator that laminates by superimposing a film on an image surface of paper on which the image has been formed, an image reader that is disposed downstream of the laminator in the paper transport direction and reads the image surface of the paper after the lamination by the laminator, a second hardware processor that determines whether or not a defect based on the image read by the image reader. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) The image processing system of claim 5, wherein the second hardware processor that compares the image read by the image reader after the lamination with print data or an image read by the image reader in advance to detect a defect of the image. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The image processing system of claim 7, further comprising a third hardware processor, wherein the third hardware processor corrects a laminating condition based on the detected defect of the image so that occurrence of the defect is suppressed. ### Claim 9 (depends on 6) The image processing system according to claim 6, further comprising: a plurality of paper ejection trays that are disposed downstream of the image reader in the paper transport direction and serve as discharge destinations of the paper, and a fourth hardware processor that switches a discharge destination of the paper among the discharge destinations of the paper based on the image read by the image reader. ### Claim 10 (depends on 6) The image processing system according to claim 6, further comprising another image reader that is disposed upstream of the laminator in the paper transport direction and reads the image surface of the paper before the lamination by the laminator.