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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7830752 | Elapsed time device An elapsed time and remaining time liquid crystal measuring device having a display face around the periphery of which there are a plurality of numerical indicia marks arranged in a generally clockwise pattern with successive numerical indicia marks decreasing in nu... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7773464 | Elapsed time device An elapsed time and remaining time liquid crystal measuring device having a display face around the periphery of which there are a plurality of numerical indicia marks arranged in a generally clockwise pattern with successive numerical indicia marks decreasing in nu... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7359288 | Method and apparatus for automatically displaying a correct time and date when initially activating a clock Method and apparatus for automatically displaying a correct time and date when initially activating a clock. After manufacture of the clock and before it is purchased by the user, a basic data set, including the time and geographical region data, are input to the cl... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7307920 | Timer display device having light generating module with circular arrangement This utility discloses a timer display device for displaying time. The timer display device comprises a counting unit and at least twelve light generating modules with circular arrangement to hour positions. The counting unit is a clock for counting actual time. The... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7152989 | Bracelet A bracelet includes at least one electronic display unit. Each display unit has a display having a plurality of display elements arranged in a sequence lying along the length of the bracelet and/or arranged in a sequence lying substantially around the perimeter of t... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7068569 | Apparatus and method for displaying time and randomly-selected text information The invention is an informational clock, wherein the clock displays information correlating to time displayed on the clock. Information is also varied by a randomizer, wherein a specific entry of information in a database, within an array selected to correlate with ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7035169 | Event planner timepiece The present invention relates to an electronic timepiece, of the wristwatch type, for providing information relating to an event comprising a plurality of scheduled events, like for example the Olympic Games, the football World Cup, or the public holidays across the... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6996031 | Mirror with digital clock readout A typical mirror combined with digital clock for reading time while simultaneously looking in the mirror. To attain this, the clock, which is mounted behind the mirror, has a plurality of display devices for reading hours and minutes aligned with apertures in the bl... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6972698 | GPS e-marker Method and system for a satellite network data communication enabled electronic bookmarking device for bookmarking positional information of a desired location or locations in addition to bookmarking broadcast music clips over registered radio or television stations... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6683822 | Time display device The invention provides an enhanced structure of a time display device includes a circle with 60 display units on the circumference of the clock face, among which 12 display units are made larger for displaying hour of time (hour display units) and the res... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6388952 | Programmable time switch A programmable time switch where a time or time interval set by a user to be reserved is displayed on a display. The display has a current time display part for displaying an hour hand and a minute hand which represent a current time, an hour unit display... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6198698 | Illuminating, visual, time indicating device An illuminating, visual, time indicating device, incorporating a new and innovative time telling indication means that is both functional and stylistic. The watch utilizes LCD or other illuminating or indicating technology to indicate the hour by illumina... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6160767 | Clock A clock includes a base, a clock movement held by the base and having rotatable translucent hour and minute indicators, a cover coaxially connected to the base, and a light source supported between the cover and the indicators for shining light through th... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6058277 | Printing system and control method for printing images having a circle segment display element for visualizing print job processing times and managing print jobs A printing system including at least one printer for printing images on sheets in accordance with electrical image signals fed to the printer, a controller for feeding electrical image signals to the at least one printer and an input unit for receiving an... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5903524 | Personal menstrual cycle clock A personal menstrual cycle clock that indicates a safe time to indulge in sexual intercourse. The clock includes a housing, a plurality of bulbs, and illuminating apparatus. The housing has a top with a transparent ring therearound that is divided into 28... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5896348 | Method and timepiece for displaying time using grouped binary indicators A novel method or convention of tracking and displaying the passage of time can be implemented in a variety of decorative and interesting timepiece configurations. Three groups of indicators are used. Each group of indicators is distinguishable from the o... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5838643 | Timepiece display and method of displaying information time on a timepiece According to the present invention, there is disclosed a timepiece which comprises a face having a polygonal configuration when viewed in plan and having a timekeeping mechanism coupled with the timepiece face. Along at least one of the sides of the polyg... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5694376 | Method and enhanced clock for displaying time A method and device for displaying time using a single segment member where the length and position of the segment member reflects the time. The device generally comprises a timer circuit to set and maintain hours and minutes of time, and a segment member... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5410520 | Spatial/digital timepiece A timepiece combines benefits of analog and digital displays in a format that is both easy to read and precise. The face of the timepiece includes a plurality of selectably displayable LCD numbers spaced about its periphery. Driving circuitry activates ce... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5365498 | Sundial-like timepiece A sundial-like timepiece comprising a conventional clock mechanism including a surface having a plurality of time interval markings inscribed thereon. A light source is attached to the clock mechanism and is disposed a spaced distance from the surface. Th... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5247491 | Device for projecting a rainbow-like spectral display in the form of a symbol design, time indicating display and the like A device for projecting a rainbow-like spectral display including a housing provided with a projecting arrangement for projecting the rainbow-like spectral display onto a viewable surface. The projecting arrangement includes segments, each segment includi... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5237545 | Electronic simulated sundial timepiece An electronic timepiece having a face forming a simulated sundial, a gnomon, a first and second plurality of electronic display circuit elements extending radially from the first and second ends of the base of the gnomon and a control circuit to activate ... | 08/17/1993 |
| 5199009 | Reminder clock A programmable clock includes a memory for storing times, dates and messages for subsequent read-out and display in providing a reminder of a birthday, anniversary, doctor's appointment, meeting, etc. The clock is adapted for prominent display by mounting... | 03/30/1993 |
| 4970815 | Light display A light computer is provided for illuminated and animated displays. Light planes are illuminated and images carried thereon are lit when light is applied to any edge. A moving light and opaque coatings on the edges of the light plane are used to vary the ... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4920524 | Multimode digital timepiece The dial of a timepiece is provided with a first circular array of twelve blue LEDs indicating hours, a second next-outermost array of sixty red LEDs indicating minutes, and a third next-outermost array of sixty green LEDs indicating seconds. Every fifth ... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4783773 | Regatta timing watch Briefly stated, the invention is practiced by providing a wristwatch with a case having manually actuated switches, a microcomputer in the case responsive to the switches, an annunciator responsive to the microcomputer, and an electrooptic display having ... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4742501 | Time display apparatus A time display apparatus including a display having a digital display portion and a peripheral analog display portion comprised of a plurality of display segments. Display control means is provided for controlling the digits of the digital display and the... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4459034 | Time display apparatus A time display apparatus for producing an analog-type display using liquid crystal display elements, electrochomic display elements, or the like is described. The display of this apparatus is divided into two parts: a main display portion for indicating t... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4421419 | Electronic timepiece In an electronic timepiece, which has a time display section constructed such that optical display elements are selectively driven for time display, the display mode of the time display section can be controlled to provide dynamic displays other than an o... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4407587 | Electronic timer A plurality of liquid crystal display elements are radially arrayed, display elements corresponding to preset time are kept turned on, and lapse of time is successively and selectively displayed, so that the remaining time and the lapse of time can be qui... | 10/04/1983 |
| 4400092 | Analogue and digital display A combined analogue and digital display device having a plurality of individually energizable display elements arranged symmetrically with at least some of the elements common to both displays. Several of the elements are disposed so as to form groups of ... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4390287 | Electronic device having time display function In an electronic device having an function of displaying time in an optical analog display with pointers, the information on the position of the pointers on the analog display can be stored as digital information in a memory of the electronic device. The ... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4385842 | Electronic timepiece for indicating digital subdivisions of time in a substantially conventional format An electronic watch having a liquid crystal display which presents time information in a substantially conventional presentation of hour, minute and second hands which appear to circulate around the watch face. The display contains sixty equidistant radia... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4382697 | Electronic timepiece An electronic timepiece in which an optical hand display device is composed of a plurality of segment electrodes of the shape of hands that are radially arrayed and opposing common electrodes that are divided into groups via a liquid crystal, the segment ... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4382696 | Electro-optical analog time display device The device displays an hour hand and a minute hand on a twelve hour dial and comprises a layer of electro-optical material having on one face an inner ring of 10 sectorial plate electrodes B1 etc, each subtending an angle of 36° and a correspo... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4370068 | Hour and minute display for a chronometer An hour and minute display for an electronic chronometer includes a plurality of first indicators positioned in spaced relation about the perimeter of a closed geometric figure. The first indicators are actuatable to indicate the hour. A plurality of seco... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4367959 | Pseudo-analog display device A circuit for producing a numerical signal representative of the value of the physical parameter which is to be displayed and which can assume a given number of values. The signal is applied to a decoder for controlling the display cell. The decoder is so... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4364672 | Method for driving liquid crystal display elements A method for driving a liquid crystal display element so as to give a simultaneous analogue display of 3 kinds of information. The liquid crystal display element is driven over 1/3-duty periods by applying 4 kinds of voltage waveforms to one electrode for... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4362398 | Multiplexed LCD analog timepiece An LCD analog timepiece employs a multiplexing driving circuit to supply voltages to the liquid crystal display segments in the proper sequential relationship so as to activitate the desired portions of the display in time-multiplex fashion to show hours,... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4326279 | Analogue displays An analogue display includes an electrical sensitive medium enclosed between two sets of electrodes. The two sets of electrodes are registered and overlap to provide background and one or more shaped index characters, each at a plurality of selectable pos... | 04/20/1982 |
