Inspection apparatus, control method, inspection system, and storage medium for performing inspection of a printed sheet
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorJun Miyajima
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Abstract
An inspection apparatus includes a controller configured to register image data upon receiving the image data, receive information about an arrangement location of the image data, wherein the arrangement location is obtained based on the image data and a print setting, register a reference image obtained by rearranging the registered image data based on the information about the arrangement location, and inspect a printed material on which the image data is printed, upon receiving a scanned image obtained by scanning the printed material, based on the scanned image and the reference image, wherein the arrangement location of the image data includes information indicating whether to perform the inspection.
Claims15
An inspection apparatus comprising:
- a controller configured to:
- register image data upon receiving the image data;
- receive arrangement location information that is generated on a basis of the registered image data and a print setting, the arrangement location information including, for every page of the image data, (a) a first flag indicating whether a page is to be scanned, and (b) a second flag indicating whether a page is to be inspected;
- register a reference image obtained by re-arranging the registered image data in an order corresponding to a sheet transport sequence indicated by the arrangement location information and by excluding any page whose second flag indicates that inspection is not to be performed;
- in a case where the arrangement location information is changed, update the reference image by re-arranging the registered image data without re-registering the image data;
- and
- perform an inspection on a printed material on which the image data is printed, upon receiving a scanned image obtained by scanning the printed material, based on the scanned image and the reference image,
- wherein the arrangement location information including the first flag and the second flag enables the controller to determine at least whether to perform the scanning and/or the inspection for each page.
A control method for an inspection apparatus, comprising:
- registering image data upon receiving the image data;
- receiving arrangement location information that is generated on a basis of the registered image data and a print setting, the arrangement location information including, for every page of the image data, (a) a first flag indicating whether a page is to be scanned, and (b) a second flag indicating whether a page is to be inspected;
- registering a reference image obtained by re-arranging the registered image data in an order corresponding to a sheet transport sequence indicated by the arrangement location information and by excluding any page whose second flag indicates that inspection is not to be performed;
- in a case where the arrangement location information is changed, updating the reference image by re-arranging the registered image data without re-registering the image data;
- and
- performing an inspection on a printed material on which the image data is printed, upon receiving a scanned image obtained by scanning the printed material, based on the scanned image and the reference image,
- wherein the arrangement location information including the first flag and the second flag enables the inspection apparatus to determine at least whether to perform the scanning and/or the inspection for each page.
An inspection system including a printing apparatus, an inspection apparatus, and an image diagnosis unit configured to identify a malfunctioning portion in the inspection system based on a diagnostic chart inserted into a printed material, wherein the inspection system includes a controller configured to:
- generate arrangement location information of image data and a print setting, the arrangement location information including a scan-required flag and an inspect-required flag for each page;
- and
- perform an inspection on the printed material on which the image data is printed, upon receiving a scanned image obtained by scanning the printed material, based on the scanned image and a reference image generated by re-arranging the image data according to the arrangement location information while excluding pages not to be inspected,
- wherein, in generating the arrangement location information, information indicating that the inspection is not performed is added to the arrangement location information corresponding to the diagnostic chart.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.