US 12,112,079 B2
Image processing apparatus and image processing system
Nobuaki Miyahara, Ibaraki (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/677,796.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-030075 (JP), filed on Feb. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0276813 A1, Sep. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1208 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1242 (2013.01); G06F 3/1256 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image inspection system including a printing apparatus and an inspection apparatus,
wherein the printing apparatus is configured to print a print image on a print medium based on a print setting, generate a reference image by layout processing on the print image, and transmit the generated reference image to the inspection apparatus, the printing apparatus including first one or more first processors,
wherein the inspection apparatus is configured to determine whether the print image is defective based on the reference image and an image obtained by reading the print image printed on the print medium, the inspection apparatus including one or more second processors,
wherein the inspection apparatus determines that the reference image and the print image printed on the print medium are different, thereby determining that the print medium is defective, and
wherein the inspection apparatus determines that the reference image and the print image printed on the print medium are the same, thereby determining that the print medium is normal.