US Patent Issued to RICOH on Aug. 18 for "Input apparatus, input method of input apparatus, and output apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,764, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Input apparatus, input method of input apparatus, and output apparatus" was invented by Yasuhiro Kajiwara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input apparatus for inputting a diagnosis result of a diagnosis target detectable for a structure includes circuitry configured to display a spherical image captured for the structure on a screen, receive an input of a position of the diagnosis target in the spherical image, store position information indicating the received position of the diagnosis target in the spherical image in a memory, display, on the scr...