ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,677, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Apparatus and manual providing apparatus" was invented by Yuriko Yamaya (Tokyo), Shintaro Kawamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Seigo Harashima (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinya Iguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes circuitry; and a memory storing computer-executable instructions that cause the circuitry to execute acquiring training data, in which image data in a manual and text data in the manual are input data, and in which work procedure information is output data, the work procedure information being supplemented by adding, to the text data i...