US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Feb. 17 for "Communication support system, communication support apparatus, communication support method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,652, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Communication support system, communication support apparatus, communication support method, and storage medium" was invented by Kazuhiko Kogami (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication support system includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a speech sound of a participant participating or having participated in a communication and a speech sound of the other participant participating or having participated in the communication. The processing circuitry displays, on a display screen, an index indicating a speech state of th...