US 12,112,219 B2
Image-forming system for image inspection
Takahiro Suzuki, Chiba (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/324,503.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-095222 (JP), filed on Jun. 13, 2022; and application No. 2023-046969 (JP), filed on Mar. 23, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2023/0401406 A1, Dec. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. G06K 15/02 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01)
CPC G06K 15/027 (2013.01) [G03G 15/55 (2013.01); G06T 7/001 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10008 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30144 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image-forming system comprising:
an image-forming apparatus configured to form an image on a sheet;
a reading apparatus configured to read, via a transparent member, an image formed on a sheet conveyed from the image-forming apparatus to obtain read image data; and
at least one processor configured to:
(1) control the image-forming apparatus to form a test chart that is a predetermined image on a first sheet,
(2) calibrate, using first read image data obtained by the reading apparatus reading the test chart on the first sheet, second read image data that is obtained by the reading apparatus reading an inspection target image formed by the image-forming apparatus on a second sheet based on RIP data, and
(3) inspect the inspection target image based on the calibrated second read image data and the RIP data,
wherein the test chart includes (a) a patch arrangement with a plurality of patches and (b) a low brightness region that at least partially surrounds the patch arrangement, and
wherein a size of a periphery patch located at a periphery of the patch arrangement is smaller than a size of an interior patch located further inside than the periphery patch.