ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,272, issued on May 13, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).
"Input apparatus, input method, program, and input system" was invented by Kiyoshi Kasatani (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input apparatus includes a handwriting input unit configured to receive a handwritten input using a position of a pen or a user's finger in contact with a display; and a display unit configured to display the handwritten input received by the handwriting input unit on the display as a handwritten object. The input apparatus is configured to, in response to no occurrence of a change in the handwritten object during a first perio...