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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
May. 16, 2023
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Kenichirou Haruta, Chiba, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides an image processing apparatus that inspects an image formed on a printing medium. The image processing apparatus reads an image formed on a printing medium and obtains a target image to be inspected, and corrects a position of control point among control points disposed on the target image, at or near an edge of the printing medium, and performs alignment using the corrected position of the control point so as to align the target image to a reference image using a non-rigid-body alignment, and inspects for a defect in the target image on a basis of the aligned target image and the reference image. In the correcting, a position of a control point at or near the edge is corrected on a basis of an interval between adjacent control points at or near the edge.