Patent Document ID: 20110052010
Application ID: 12552519
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for detecting banding defects in a digital imaging system, the method comprising: scanning a plurality of digital images, wherein each digital image corresponds to a page printed by a digital imaging system whereon banding defects are intended to be analyzed; identifying, within each image of said scanned digital images, a plurality of segmented regions, each of said segmented regions comprising standard image regions of each image; determining banding frequency information from at least one color parameter value within each of said identified segmented regions; estimating an amount of banding amplitude associated with at least one recurring banding frequency that repeats, within the banding frequency information, over said plurality of images; detecting at least one targeted banding defect based upon said banding amplitude and said recurring banding frequency; and initiating, in response to the detecting the at least one targeted banding defect, an activity associated with the digital imaging system.