US Patent Issued to Canon on March 3 for "Image processing apparatus and method for posting scanned document data to chat threads" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,280, issued on March 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and method for posting scanned document data to chat threads" was invented by Yoshihiro Tsukada (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus that communicates with an information processing apparatus includes a reading unit that reads an image of a document and generates image data, an acceptance unit that accepts designation of a thread of a channel of a chat service, and a transmission unit that transmits the generated image data to the information processing apparatus so that information indicating the generated ...