ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,946, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Display terminal, communication system, and display method" was invented by Takeshi Horiuchi (Tokyo), Takashi Hasegawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Kyoya Sawada (Kanagawa, Japan), Hidekuni Annaka (Saitama, Japan) and Takeshi Homma (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display terminal comprising circuitry that displays a first predetermined-area image on a display screen, the first predetermined-area image representing a predetermined area in a first wide-view image having been captured at a given location on a first date and time; and displays a second predetermined...