Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11316997-B2
Application number	US-202016952811-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 19, 2020
Priority date	Nov 21, 2019
Publication date	Apr 26, 2022
Grant date	Apr 26, 2022

Abstract

An image processing apparatus communicates with a chat server that controls displaying information indicating received image data on a talk room based on received information indicating the talk room of the chat server. The image processing apparatus includes a reading unit that reads an image of a document and generates image data based on the image, a receiving unit that receives information indicating the talk room of the chat server from a mobile terminal, and a transmission unit that transmits the generated image data and the information indicating the talk room to the chat server.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image processing apparatus:
a scanner that scans an image of a document and generates image data based on the image; and
a communicator that receives information indicating a channel of a chat service provided by a chat server from a mobile terminal,
wherein the communicator transmits the generated image data by the scanner and the received information indicating the channel to the chat server, and
wherein the transmitted image data is stored in association with the channel.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a display that displays a setting screen including the received information indicating the channel.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2 , further comprising a controller that accepts an instruction,
wherein the scanner scans an image of the document and generates image data based on the image based on an execution instruction that is accepted in a state that the display displays the setting screen.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the controller sets information indicating a channel as a transmission destination.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the communicator transmits the generated image data by the scanner and the received information indicating the channel to the chat server so that the chat server posts the transmitted image data to the channel.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the communicator receives the information indicating the channel via wireless communication from the mobile terminal.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the scanner scans the image of the document and generates the image data based on the image based on reception of the information indicating the channel by the communicator.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the communicator receives the information indicating the channel together with information indicating a scan setting, and
wherein the scanner scans the image of the document to generate the image data based on the scan setting.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the communicator receives the information indicating the channel together with information about a user included in the channel from the mobile terminal.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the image processing apparatus notifies the mobile terminal of information indicating success in receipt of the information indicating the channel.

11. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the channel of the chat service is a chat room.

12. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the mobile terminal is a smart phone.

13. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the received information indicating the channel is information indicating a channel selected, from a plurality of channels of the chat service, by a user on a user interface of the mobile terminal.

14. An image processing method comprising:
scanning an image of a document and generating image data based on the image;
receiving information indicating a channel of a chat service provided by a chat server from a mobile terminal; and
transmitting the generated image data and the received information indicating the channel to the chat server,
wherein the transmitted image data is stored in association with the channel.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform an image processing method, the image processing method comprising:
scanning an image of a document and generating image data based on the image;
receiving information indicating a channel of a chat service provided by a chat server from a mobile terminal; and
transmitting the generated image data and the received information indicating the channel to the chat server,
wherein the transmitted image data is stored in association with the channel.

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Sugita Hikaru
• Tsukada Yoshihiro

Classifications

• H04L51/224

  providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages · CPC title

• H04L51/046

  Interoperability with other network applications or services · CPC title

• H04N1/00384

  Key input means, e.g. buttons or keypads (electromechanical details of key input means in general H01H13/00) · CPC title

• H04L51/10

  Multimedia information · CPC title

• H04N1/00822

  Selecting or setting a particular reading mode, e.g. from amongst a plurality of modes, simplex or duplex, or high or low resolution · CPC title