Patent ID: 8547610

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an output unit that outputs a tone-correction-parameter generation sheet and a scanner-profile generation sheet, patch columns being formed on each of the tone-correction-parameter generation sheet and the scanner-profile generation sheet, each of the patch columns containing a plurality of patches of different tone values and arranged in a predetermined direction, the tone-correction-parameter generation sheet and the scanner-profile generation sheet being identical in layout of the patch columns; a readout unit that reads out the patches of any one of the tone-correction-parameter generation sheet and the scanner-profile generation sheet placed on a platen at each of positions on the platen; a scanner-profile creating unit that creates a scanner profile for each of the scanner positions, the scanner profile specifying a relationship between readout values and first color measurement values, the readout values being obtained by reading out at least two patches of different tone values on the scanner-profile generation sheet at each of the positions on the platen, the first color measurement values being obtained by a colorimeter by measuring the at least two patches; a color-measurement-value deriving unit that obtains the first color measurement values of the patches, based on readout values obtained by reading out the patches on the tone-correction-parameter generation sheet and the scanner profiles that corresponds to the positions on the platen when the patches on the tone-correction-parameter generation sheet are being read out; and a calculating unit that calculates a tone correction parameter for use in correcting differences between second color measurement values and the first color measurement values, the second color measurement values being target color measurement values for the patches on the tone-correction-parameter generation sheet, wherein the scanner profile specifies a relationship between readout values and first color measurement values, the readout values being obtained by reading out at least two patches of different tone values and adjacent to each other on the scanner-profile generation sheet at each of the scanner positions on the platen, the first color measurement values being obtained by the colorimeter by measuring the at least two patches.