ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,195, issued on March 17, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Display terminal, information processing system, communication system, displaying method, information processing method, communication method, and recording medium" was invented by Kohji Ue (Tokyo), Hidekuni Annaka (Saitama, Japan), Daisuke Saitoh (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeshi Homma (Hyogo, Japan) and Kyoya Sawada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display terminal includes circuitry that: receives an instruction to play back a moving image associated with a predetermined-area still image, the predetermined-area still image representing a predetermined...