Image processing apparatus, method, and computer program product excludes specific anomalies among detected anomalies

    公开(公告)号:US11503167B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-15

    申请号:US17563381

    申请日:2021-12-28

    IPC分类号: H04N1/00 H04N1/409

    摘要: The image processing apparatus includes: an abnormality detection unit configured to detect one or more abnormalities included in a target image and an abnormality exclusion processing unit configured to exclude a specific abnormality from the detected one or more abnormalities. In a case in which a detection area of a certain abnormality among the detected one or more abnormalities and a detection area of another abnormality overlap with each other and a type of the certain abnormality and a type of the another abnormality are different from each other, when brightness information of one of the certain abnormality and the another abnormality satisfies a specific condition, the abnormality exclusion processing unit excludes the one of the certain abnormality and the another abnormality from the detected one or more abnormalities.

    IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20220210293A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-30

    申请号:US17558250

    申请日:2021-12-21

    IPC分类号: H04N1/60 H04N1/00

    摘要: A processor identifies a specific part composed of a plurality of significant pixels in a mixed-color test image. Furthermore, the processor identifies a color vector. The color vector represents a vector in a color space from one of a color of the specific part in the mixed-color test image and a color of a reference area including a periphery of the specific part to the other. Furthermore, the processor determines which of a plurality of image creating portions of an image forming device corresponding to a plurality of developing colors, is a cause of an image defect, based on the color vector identified from the mixed-color test image.

    IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20220207704A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-30

    申请号:US17558461

    申请日:2021-12-21

    摘要: A processor identifies an original drawing part that is originally drawn in a test image. Furthermore, the processor identifies a noise point in the test image. Furthermore, the processor determines which of predetermined two types of cause candidates is a cause of the noise point by determining a degree of overlapping between the original drawing part and the noise point. The two types of cause candidates are: waste toner dropping in which waste toner that has adhered to a transfer body that transfers a toner image to a sheet, is transferred to the sheet in the image forming device; and carrier developing in which magnetic carrier that has been mixed with toner is transferred to a sheet.

    IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20220207701A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-30

    申请号:US17558343

    申请日:2021-12-21

    IPC分类号: G06T7/00 G06T7/13 G06V10/36

    摘要: A processor determines an image defect in a test image obtained through an image reading process performed on an output sheet output by an image forming apparatus. The processor creates an image to be processed including a horizontal line, extending in a horizontal direction, extracted from the test image. Furthermore, the processor determines the presence or absence of at least one periodicity set in advance in a vertical direction in the image to be processed and determines the cause of the horizontal line according to the determination result on the periodicity.

    Removable unit and image forming apparatus therewith

    公开(公告)号:US09927766B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-27

    申请号:US15648952

    申请日:2017-07-13

    发明人: Takuya Miyamoto

    IPC分类号: G03G21/18

    CPC分类号: G03G21/1803 G03G21/08

    摘要: A removable unit has a first unit removably attached to an image forming apparatus, a second unit held by being removably attached to the first unit, and a cover member. The cover member is supported pivotably on the first unit, and can be located selectively either in a first position overlapping, or a second position not overlapping, the attachment/removal path of the second unit. When the cover member pivots from the first position to a third position pivoted through a predetermined angle from the first position toward the second position, from the first unit a reaction force acts on the cover member to restrict its pivoting toward the second position and, when the cover member pivots from the second position to the third position, from the first unit a reaction force acts on the cover member to restrict its pivoting toward the first position.

    Unit detachable along an insertion/removal trajectory formed in an image forming apparatus main body, and image forming apparatus therewith

    公开(公告)号:US09921545B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-20

    申请号:US15419324

    申请日:2017-01-30

    发明人: Takuya Miyamoto

    IPC分类号: G03G21/18

    摘要: A detachable unit has a unit housing and a grip portion thereon. The detachable unit is insertable and removal along an insertion/removal trajectory formed inside the body of an image forming apparatus and forming a depression angle as seen from the removal direction. The grip portion has a pressed face facing the upstream side of the unit housing in its removal direction and substantially perpendicular to the insertion/removal trajectory, a first side extending along the lower-end edge of the pressed face, and a second side extending along the upper-end edge of the pressed face. No face extending on the upstream side of the unit housing in the removal direction connects to the first side, and a finger insertion portion into which a finger can be inserted from the side of the first side along the pressed face is formed in the first side.