US Patent Issued to Canon on July 22 for "Image processing apparatus for setting a notification destination user when an image is shared by a chat service" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,807, issued on July 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus for setting a notification destination user when an image is shared by a chat service" was invented by Takuya Ushinohama (Ibaraki, Japan) and Yoshihiro Tsukada (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus that communicates with a chat server which controls displaying of received image data in a talk room of a chat service provided by the chat server, based on received information about the talk room, and controls transmission of a notification, based on received user information on a notification destination user, t...