Patent ID: 8792140

Claim:
An image information processing apparatus that determines, based on image information, a region suitable for inspecting image forming performance of an image forming apparatus in an entire region of an image represented by the image information, the image information processing apparatus comprising: a segment region extraction unit that extracts a segment region having a predetermined size from the entire region of the image; a color reproducibility prediction unit that predicts a result of color reproducibility of the entire image by using an algorithm in a case where the image forming performance of the image forming apparatus is adjusted based on a color measurement result of the extracted segment region; an object region determination unit that determines, as an object region, the segment region showing a best one of the plural results obtained by repeatedly performing extraction processing by the segment region extraction unit and prediction processing by the color reproducibility prediction unit; an evenness degree calculation unit that calculates an evenness degree of color density in the segment region extracted by the segment region extraction unit; and a prediction object selection unit that selects only the segment region showing an excellent calculation result of the evenness degree and outputs the image information on the segment region to the color reproducibility prediction unit as a prediction object of the result.