Abstract:
An electronic device including a case, and electronics module and an input mechanism. The electronics module is contained by the case and includes at least a processor and a memory configured to store a plurality of available mode settings for the electronic device. The input mechanism is configured to provide input commands to the processor which is configured to, based on the input comments, configure the electronic device to provide a custom mode setting for a subset of the plurality of available modes.
Abstract:
The timepiece, which is preferably a wristwatch, includes for each time position a capacitive sensor (C1 to C12), on a fixed bezel, including only four markings (R3, R6, R9, R12) at 3 o'clock, 6 o'clock, 9 o'clock and 12 o'clock, and a single crown-push-button (9). The case contains, in particular, a non-acoustic vibration generator (20) and an electronic interpretation and coding circuit (15), associated with a time-keeper circuit (10), with the sensors and with the crown to control the vibration device, said circuit (15) being designed to identify the manipulations on the crown (brief, long application of pressure or pull) and on the sensors (positioning or movement).
Abstract:
A system for denoting time and other values by electronic or equivalent displays. Hours are indicated display pattern created out of centrally located displays that, in the aggregate, form the image of a six pointed star. Minutes are indicated by two sets of displays. The primary set appears on the perimeter of the display area, in correspondence to analogue locations, and represents 5 or 10-minute time spans. Complementary minute indicators appear either within or near the primary minute indicators, or outside the primary indicator displays, or inside the hourly indicator. These complementary indicators specify the time to the nearest minute within a primary minute span. Seconds are indicated by blinking elements of the minute indicator displays. The system may be used also to indicate such values as radio band location, time elapsed, date, CD track and operational mode. Acronyms Used Acronyms used frequently in this application are: HInullHourly Indicator PMInullPrimary Minute Indicator SBS-PMInullStandard Bisected Primary Minute Indicator CMInullComplementary Minute Indicator 5MInull5 Minute Display: SInullSeconds Indicator
Abstract:
A food storage monitoring system device comprising a battery powered digital timer device having an LCD digital readout describing the elapsed days and hours per day, and a reset button to reset the timer. A magnet is permanently attached to the timer device, and removably attached to a ferromagnetic catch having a double sided adhesive tape attached to one face for attaching the catch to a food storage container. A set of devices can be stored on a refrigerator or freezer door. The catch is adhesively attached to a food storage container, and the timer device is magnetically attached to the catch with the timer device started. Upon retrieving the food container and emptying its contents, the timer device and the first magnet portion is returned to the refrigerator or freezer door, and the empty container and the attached catch can be washed in a dishwasher.
Abstract:
The cranial nerve clock and watch is meant to be a readily accessible, and useful, visual aid to unravel the difficulties in memorizing the twelve cranial nerves. The device is both aesthetically pleasing and useful as a chronometer.
Abstract:
A binary coded decimal (BCD) operable electronic timepiece devoid of rotating hands and digital readout numbers. The timepiece, in a preferred embodiment, may be as a timepiece worn on a wearer's wrist, but other applications, such as wall mounted, mantle, and as a display unit in sports arenas and stadiums. The timepiece features a face having plural windows to be illuminated in various mathematical sequences, where the windows may be assigned different values to designate the time and date. The timepiece is operable by a powered electronic circuitry, and may include mechanisms for the handicapped, i.e. hearing and/or sight impaired, to read the time and date.
Abstract:
Real time balanced, quadribalanced, enhanced quadribalanced or unidirectional segmented digital time display systems are modified by inclusion of selectively prompted displays which are readily visually distinguishable from the real time displays and which prompt the viewer with the letters T, A and d to comprehend that the displays are in modes that enable and thus facilitate the setting or resetting of current real time, an alarm time or calendar values.
Abstract:
A clock is disclosed having a seemingly gravity-defying time-indicating element adjacent a substantially vertically disposed dial. A magnetic guide element is positioned behind the dial for movement around the dial as a function of time. A magnetically responsive time-indicating element such as a metallic-appearing sphere is positioned for viewer visibility in front of the dial, and is less dense than it appears. The time-indicating element is magnetically coupled to the time-indicating element for movement therewith around the front of the dial in apparent defiance of gravity to indicate the time without becoming decoupled from the guide element.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a wearable electronic device with a miniature, flat, high-resolution, full color screen for a face, designed to display time and provide entertainment through the use of motion graphics. Animations on the miniature screen display time through alphanumeric sequences, nullhandsnull or through other graphic structures. The timepiece may display time on the miniature screen in typical digital-or analog-style formats, in a moirnull format, or other graphic formats where the graphic and/or video forms are an integral part of the time-telling display, and replace or augment the use of either hands or numbers. The timepiece may be worn on the person as a wristwatch, a pendant, an armband, a pin, or other wearable item.
Abstract:
An electronic market calendar that identifies settlement dates, holidays, market-related events, and provides links to news, information and research materials, pertaining to certain transaction terms, currencies or territories. The invention displays or provides a market calendar in which each one of a plurality of calendar dates that corresponds to a settlement date, a market-related event date or a holiday is displayed in a visibly distinct manner from the rest of the calendar dates. The set of market-related events may include, for example, events such as national elections, publications of economic forecasts, releases of economic reports, monetary policy announcements, trade announcements, interest rate announcements, press releases, governmental hearings, federal open market committee meetings, financial summit meetings, or any other events related to the market in which the electronic market calendar is applied.