Image forming system and inspection apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTAKESHI SHINYA
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Abstract
An image forming system comprises an image forming apparatus and an inspection apparatus, and the image forming apparatus forms, on a recording medium, an image to which a predetermined image is attached to create a printed material, and provides the inspection apparatus with information regarding the predetermined image. The inspection apparatus obtains a read image by reading the printed material created by the image forming apparatus, inspects an image of the printed material by collating the read image and a reference image, and attaches the predetermined image to the reference image before the inspection on the image of the printed material based on the information.
Claims17
An image forming system comprising an image forming apparatus and an inspection apparatus,
- the image forming apparatus having one or more first controllers including one or more first processors and one or more first memories, wherein the one or more first controllers configured to:
- form, on a recording medium, an image to which a predetermined image is attached to create a printed material;
- and
- provide the inspection apparatus with information regarding the predetermined image, and
- the inspection apparatus having one or more second controllers including one or more second processors and one or more second memories, wherein the one or more second controllers configured to:
- obtain a read image by reading the printed material created by the image forming apparatus;
- inspect an image of the printed material by collating the read image and a reference image;
- and
- based on the information, attach the predetermined image to the reference image before the inspection on the image of the printed material.
An inspection apparatus that inspects a printed material formed by an image forming apparatus, the inspection apparatus comprising
- one or more controllers including one or more processors and one or more memories, wherein the one or more controllers are configured to:
- obtain a read image by reading a printed material formed by the image forming apparatus;
- inspect an image of the printed material by collating the read image and a reference image;
- and
- attach, based on information regarding a predetermined image attached to the printed material, the predetermined image to the reference image before the inspection of the image of the printed material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.