ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,021, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display terminal for playing back a predetermined area of a wide-view image that is recorded, includes: a display to display a first display area and a second display area, the first display area being related to a first recording duration in which a speech is made when a first predetermined area of t...