No assignee for this patent application has been made.News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“A teaching device that can perform programming using an ic on representing each command of robotcontrol has been proposed (for example, PT L 1). Further, in relation to this, PTL 2 describes a configurationin which, wh en a setting menu on a touch panel is selected in a teaching device for performi nginput (setting) work of various types of teaching data such as selection of a n operation method and amovement point of a robot body, an item selection scree n representing a plurality of teaching items byicons is displayed, and a video that expresses a content of the teaching item in each of the icons is alsodispl ayed (Abstract).”