US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 12 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,940, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Masahiro Kajimoto (Chiba, Japan) and Kenta Usami (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a scanning unit configured to scan an image of a document and generate image data, an acceptance unit configured to accept selection of a channel of a chat service, and a transmission unit configured to transmit information about the selected channel and the generated image data to a server configured to manage the chat service, wherein the acceptance un...