US Patent Issued to CANON on Dec. 16 for "Notification system notifying user of message, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,984, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Notification system notifying user of message, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor" was invented by Ryosuke Kasahara (Ibaraki, Japan) and Shuichi Takenaka (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A notification system that is capable of sending a message to a person who is highly related to the message. The notification system includes an image pickup unit that picks up an image including a person as an object, an obtainment unit that obtains a role of the person in the image based on the image picked up by the image pickup unit,...