Patent Document ID: 20160275664
Application ID: 15171600
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image inspection apparatus for inspecting an image output on a recording medium by scanning the output image as a scanned image, the image inspection apparatus comprising: an inspection reference image generator to obtain data of an output-target image used by the image forming apparatus to conduct an image forming operation, and to generate an inspection reference image using the data of the output-target image, the inspection reference image to be used for an image inspection of the scanned image; an image inspection unit to determine whether the scanned image includes a defect based on a comparison result obtained by comparing a difference between the inspection reference image and the scanned image with a given threshold; and a threshold determiner to determine the given threshold, wherein the threshold determiner controls generation of the inspection reference image having a normal image condition to be used for determining the given threshold, wherein the threshold determiner computes a difference between the inspection reference image and the scanned image obtained by scanning a threshold setting image prepared by adding an artificial defect to the inspection reference image, wherein the threshold determiner determines the given threshold based on the difference between the scanned image and the inspection reference image.