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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2020
Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Nagamasa Misu, Kanagawa, JP;
Seiji Shiraki, Kanagawa, JP;
Ryosuke Tsuji, Kanagawa, JP;
Yushiro Tanaka, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a memory, and a processor configured to: read a first image of a sheet in a state in which the sheet is held on a sheet holding unit, the sheet being a sheet on which an image has been formed; detect a symbol from the first image of the sheet which has been read, the symbol indicating an orientation of the first image; and, when the orientation of the first image indicated by the detected symbol is different from an orientation of a second image that is to be formed on the sheet, perform a correction process of matching the orientation of the first image with the orientation of the second image that is to be formed on the sheet, the orientation of the first image being indicated by the detected symbol.