Patent ID: 11895284
Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. An information processing apparatus comprising:
processing circuitry configured to
acquire color information data generated by reading, by an image reading apparatus, a color chart output from an image forming apparatus, the color chart including
identification information of the image forming apparatus to which color adjustment is to be applied, the identification information included in a color code including
a plurality of first color patches of a plurality of colors, and
second color patches of fixed colors at both ends of the color code in a color patch arrangement direction,

a color adjustment patch including a plurality of third color patches for performing color adjustment on the image forming apparatus, and
a plurality of determination patches arranged in a plane of the color chart, each of the plurality of determination patches including a color patch for determining presence or absence of in-plane unevenness in the color chart and each determination patch being adjacent to neither a portion of white paper of the color chart nor a white color patch, the color adjustment patch and each of the plurality of determination patches being arranged at mutually independent positions;

identify the image forming apparatus from the identification information included in the color information data; and
generate a profile to be applied to the image forming apparatus, based on a color measurement value of the color adjustment patch included in the color information data.