US 11,736,625 B1
Image forming apparatus and reading apparatus using information added to a recording medium to control output of a reading result of a diagnostic image formed thereon
Shinsuke Sugi, Kanagawa (JP); Shinya Miyamori, Kanagawa (JP); Masashi Morimoto, Kanagawa (JP); Yuki Tanaka, Kanagawa (JP); Junichiro Mori, Kanagawa (JP); Kyotaro Tomoda, Kanagawa (JP); and Takashi Murakami, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/901,125.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-052642 (JP), filed on Mar. 28, 2022.
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/32 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00029 (2013.01) [H04N 1/00015 (2013.01); H04N 1/00045 (2013.01); H04N 1/00079 (2013.01); H04N 1/00082 (2013.01); H04N 1/00244 (2013.01); H04N 1/32133 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0091 (2013.01); H04N 2201/3205 (2013.01); H04N 2201/3243 (2013.01); H04N 2201/3269 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording medium, comprising:
an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium and is capable of forming an image for diagnosis, which is an image used for diagnosis of the image forming apparatus; and
an adding unit that adds, to a recording medium on which the image for diagnosis has been formed by the image forming unit, information for control used to control output of a reading result from an apparatus used to read the recording medium, the reading result being obtained by reading the recording medium by the apparatus.