US 11,811,982 B2
Image processing apparatus for selecting a registered object determined from an object to share image data among a group
Yoshihiro Tsukada, Ibaraki (JP); and Takuya Ushinohama, Ibaraki (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/859,939.
Application 17/859,939 is a continuation of application No. 17/344,673, filed on Jun. 10, 2021, granted, now 11,412,094.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-111847 (JP), filed on Jun. 29, 2020; and application No. 2021-009129 (JP), filed on Jan. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0345574 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/32 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00217 (2013.01) [H04N 1/00233 (2013.01); H04N 1/00244 (2013.01); H04N 1/00411 (2013.01); H04N 1/32085 (2013.01); H04N 1/32106 (2013.01); H04N 2201/3205 (2013.01); H04N 2201/3252 (2013.01)] 82 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A scanning system comprising:
a scanner that scans a document to generate image data;
a controller that obtains a plurality of icon images each for enabling a user to identify a corresponding one of a plurality of groups of a chat service;
a user interface that displays a plurality of objects each including a corresponding one of the obtained plurality of icon images,
wherein the user interface receives selection, by the user, of an object from the displayed plurality of objects; and
a communicator that transmits the generated image data and information corresponding to a channel of a plurality of channels included in a group which, among the plurality of groups of the chat service, corresponds to the selected object to a server,
wherein the generated image data is stored in association with the channel, and
wherein, based on an execution instruction, the scanner scans the document to generate the image data and then the communicator transmits the generated image data and the information corresponding to the channel to the server.