Patent ID: 11902475
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 19:
20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing an image capturing apparatus to execute processing comprising:
capturing an image of a sheet on which a diagnostic image has been formed by an image forming apparatus to be diagnosed, and outputting the captured image as a sheet image;
making a diagnosis for a component of the image forming apparatus based on a position of an image deficiency in the sheet image;
outputting a diagnosis result for the component of the image forming apparatus;
obtaining direction information pertaining to a direction in which the image forming apparatus forms the diagnostic image with respect to the sheet; and
making the diagnosis for the component of the image forming apparatus using the direction information and the position of the image deficiency in the sheet image.