US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 7 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,991, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scan apparatus includes a scan unit configured to scan a document and generate image data, a reception unit configured to receive status information indicating a status of a user from a chat server, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data generated by the scan unit and information about a posting destination to the chat server, wherein the image data transmitted by the t...