US 12,436,676 B2
Apparatus, external apparatus, display method, and recording medium
Kiyoshi Kasatani, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/765,000
Filed by Kiyoshi Kasatani, Kanagawa (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 12, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/038524
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 30, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/070972, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 15, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-188188 (JP), filed on Oct. 11, 2019; and application No. 2020-168992 (JP), filed on Oct. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0374142 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2022.01); G06F 3/04845 (2022.01); G06F 3/04883 (2022.01); G06V 30/32 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/04883 (2013.01) [G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 3/04845 (2013.01); G06V 30/347 (2022.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a display;
processing circuitry configured to
receive, from a user, a selection of a color among a plurality of colors to display handwriting data in black and white in a manner corresponding to color information indicating the selected color, the manner being a visually different manner for each of the plurality of colors,
receive handwriting input from the user,
convert the handwriting input into the handwriting data,
associate the converted handwriting data with the color information, the color information indicating the selected color,
display, on the display, the handwriting data in black and white in the manner corresponding to the color information associated with the handwriting data, and
transmit data based on the handwriting data and the color information to an external apparatus.