# US 12,764,237 B2 · Printed material inspection system and non-transitory computer readable medium > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,764,237 B2 - Document ID: US12764237B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/300,816 - Filed: 2023-04-14 - Published: 2024-05-16 - Granted: 2026-10-13 - Earliest claimed: 2022-11-11 - Assignees: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. - Applicants: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. - Inventors: Shogo Ishikawa; Takashi Kikumoto; Yoshie Ohira - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12764237B2 ## CPC - H04N 1/00037: {Detecting, i.e. determining the occurrence of a predetermined state (H04N1/00031 takes precedence)} - H04N 1/00005: {relating to image data} - H04N 1/00082: {Adjusting or controlling (interrupting an operation H04N1/00915; inhibiting an operation H04N1/00925)} - B41J 29/46: Applications of alarms, e.g. responsive to approach of end of line - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - B41J: TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS ## Abstract A printed material inspection system includes a display and a processor configured to: acquire, as a defect corresponding to a defect criterion, a difference that satisfies the defect criterion among differences between a scanned image obtained by scanning a printed material of an inspection target page among pages configuring a job and a reference image of the inspection target page; highlight the defect in the scanned image on the display and provide defect criterion display that is display for receiving setting for a defect criterion to be applied to the inspection target page on the display; and when a user operation for one of the highlighting of the defect and the providing of the defect criterion display is received, change a display mode of another one of the highlighting of the defect and the providing of the defect criterion display. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A printed material inspection system comprising: a display; and a processor configured to: acquire, as a defect corresponding to a defect criterion, a difference that satisfies the defect criterion among differences between a scanned image obtained by scanning a printed material of an inspection target page among pages configuring a job and a reference image of the inspection target page; display on the display, a screen including the scanned image and a defect criterion display, the defect criterion display being a display of receiving setting for a defect criterion to be applied to the scanned image; highlight the defect in the scanned image in the screen, the highlighted defect corresponding to the defect criterion to be applied to the scanned image; when a user operation for the highlighting of the defect is received, change the display of the defect criterion display; and when a user operation for the defect criterion display is received, change the display of the highlighting of the defect. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The printed material inspection system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to, when the defect displayed on the display is selected by a user, highlight a region corresponding to the defect criterion corresponding to the defect in the defect criterion display. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The printed material inspection system according to claim 2, wherein the defect criterion is a threshold for at least one of color difference, size, and shape of the difference. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The printed material inspection system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to, when a region corresponding to the defect criterion in the defect criterion display is selected by a user, highlight the defect corresponding to the defect criterion. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The printed material inspection system according to claim 4, wherein the defect criterion is a threshold for at least one of color difference, size, and shape of the difference. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The printed material inspection system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to, when the defect criterion is changed by a user, highlight a difference that becomes regarded as a defect after the defect criterion is changed, among the differences. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The printed material inspection system according to claim 6, wherein the defect criterion is a threshold for at least one of color difference, size, and shape of the difference. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The printed material inspection system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to change a display mode of a difference that is regarded as a defect before the defect criterion is changed but is not regarded as a defect after the defect criterion is changed, among the differences. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The printed material inspection system according to claim 8, wherein the processor is configured to display a difference that is regarded as a defect before the defect criterion is changed but is not regarded as a defect after the defect criterion is changed, among the differences, relatively less noticeable than before the defect criterion is changed. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The printed material inspection system according to claim 8, wherein the defect criterion is a threshold for at least one of color difference, size, and shape of the difference. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The printed material inspection system according to claim 9, wherein the defect criterion is a threshold for at least one of color difference, size, and shape of the difference. ### Claim 12 (depends on 8) The printed material inspection system according to claim 8, wherein the processor is configured to highlight a difference that is regarded as a defect before the defect criterion is changed but is not regarded as a defect after the defect criterion is changed, among the differences, in a color different from a color used before the defect criterion is changed. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The printed material inspection system according to claim 12, wherein the defect criterion is a threshold for at least one of color difference, size, and shape of the difference. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The printed material inspection system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to highlight a difference that is regarded as a defect according to the defect criterion and a difference that is not regarded as a defect according to the defect criterion in different modes. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The printed material inspection system according to claim 14, wherein the defect criterion is a threshold for at least one of color difference, size, and shape of the difference. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The printed material inspection system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to be capable of performing setting in such a manner that a defect criterion for the inspection target page is applied to a page different from the inspection target page among the pages configuring the job. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The printed material inspection system according to claim 16, wherein the processor is configured to, in a case where the defect criterion is changed, notify a user of a page in which a difference that is regarded as a defect is changed. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The printed material inspection system according to claim 1, wherein the defect criterion is a threshold for at least one of color difference, size, and shape of the difference. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The printed material inspection system according to claim 18, wherein the defect criterion is a threshold for color difference and size of the difference, and wherein the processor is configured to provide the defect criterion display as a two-dimensional matrix regarding the color difference and the size. ### Claim 20 A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process comprising: acquiring, as a defect corresponding to a defect criterion, a difference that satisfies the defect criterion among differences between a scanned image obtained by scanning a printed material of an inspection target page among pages configuring a job and a reference image of the inspection target page; displaying on a display a screen including the scanned image and a defect criterion display, the defect criterion display being a display of receiving setting for a defect criterion to be applied to the scanned image; highlighting the defect in the scanned image in the screen the highlighted defect corresponding to the defect criterion to be applied to the scanned; when a user operation for the highlighting of the defect is received, changing the display of the defect criterion display, and when a user operation for the defect criterion display is received, changing the display of the highlighting of the defect.