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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 16, 2019
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Nigel Brady, Irvine, CA (US);

Nobuyuki Iwauchi, Irvine, CA (US);

Yunzhe Zhao, Irvine, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/1231 (2013.01); G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1232 (2013.01); G06F 3/1238 (2013.01); G06F 3/1292 (2013.01); G06K 9/00201 (2013.01);
Abstract

A communication apparatus automatically establishes a wireless communication connection with an image processing apparatus. The communication apparatus captures one of more images of the image processing apparatus and determines, via image recognition process the identification information associated with the image processing apparatus. The communication apparatus automatically searches configuration information matching the identification information of the image processing apparatus and initiates the communication connection request. Communication apparatus provides the status information on a display screen of the communication apparatus and establishes a connection between the image processing apparatus and the communication apparatus.


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