Patent ID: 11949820
Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. An information processing apparatus communicably connected to a plurality of image forming apparatuses each comprising an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium and an image reading device that reads the image to obtain read image data, the information processing apparatus comprising:
a processing controller that:
acquires inspection source data based on the read image data obtained from at least one of the image forming apparatuses, and
detects in the inspection source data image unevenness periodically occurring at a new cycle other than specific cycles of a predetermined inspection item including image unevenness, the new cycle commonly occurring in a plurality of pieces of inspection source data based on read image data acquired from at least two of the image forming apparatuses.