US 12,438,991 B2Granted

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsKenta Usami, Masahiro Kajimoto

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Abstract

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 transmission unit is posted to the posting destination corresponding to the information transmitted by the transmission unit, wherein the transmission unit is configured to, while the status of a user corresponding to the posting destination is offline, not transmit the image data or the information, and wherein the transmission unit is configured to, if the reception unit receives status information indicating a responsive status of the user corresponding to the posting destination, transmit the image data and the information.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A scan apparatus comprising:

a scanner that scans a document and generates image data;
and
one or more memories storing instructions;
and
one or more processors executing the instructions to:
receive status information indicating a status of a user from a chat server,
transmit the image data generated by the scanner and information about a posting destination to the chat server,
wherein the image data transmitted by the scan apparatus is posted to a posting destination, the posting destination being of a chat service provided by the chat server,
wherein the one or more processors, while the status of a user corresponding to the posting destination is offline, does not transmit the image data or the information, the status being indicated by the received status information, and
wherein the one or more processors, in response to reception of status information indicating a responsive status of the user corresponding to the posting destination after the one or more processors receives status information indicating an offline status of the user corresponding to the posting destination, transmits the image data and the information to the chat server without receiving a transmission instruction by a user after the one or more processors receives the status information indicating the offline status.

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Facts

Application: 18/504,996Filed 8 Nov 2023
Priority: JP 2022-18002610 Nov 2022
Published: US 2024/0163378 A116 May 2024
Granted: 7 Oct 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06Q 10/10
Administration; Management: office automation; Time management
H04N 1/00214
Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax: details of…
H04L 51/043
Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]: using or handling presence information
H04N 1/00225
Details of image data generation or reproduction, e.g. scan-to-email or network printing: details of image data generation, e.g. scan-to-email or…