G04G 9/02
Visual time or date indication means: by selecting desired characters out of
Official title: by selecting desired characters out of a number of characters or by selecting indicating elements the position of which represent the time, e.g. by using multiplexing techniques {(G04G9/0082 takes precedence)}
G04G9/02 (Visual time or date indication means: by selecting desired characters out of) appears on 240 US grants and 201 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Visual timer19 May 2026US 12,632,012 B2
- Time display method, electronic device, and computer-readable storage medium31 Mar 2026US 12,591,208 B2Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
- Clock faces for an electronic device10 Mar 2026US 12,572,254 B2Apple Inc.
- Information processing apparatus, recording medium, and component management method10 Feb 2026US 12,547,124 B2Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
- Apparatus with API for use in indicating time interval durations of particular events27 Jan 2026US 12,535,775 B2Samrat Solutions, Inc.
- Systems and methods for providing, modifying, and/or interacting with user interfaces24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288080 A1Apple Inc.
- Clock faces for an electronic device10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267462 A1Apple Inc.
- Pixel driving circuit, and display panel and control method thereof2 Jul 2026US 2026/0188214 A1Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
- Clock timing method and device based on the fibonacci sequence25 Jun 2026US 2026/0179578 A1Shenzhen Xingtong Technology Co, Ltd.
- Information processing apparatus, recording medium, and component management method21 May 2026US 2026/0140483 A1Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Clock faces for an electronic device160US 10,620,590 B1Apple Inc. · 2020
- Spatial displacement time display155US 5,526,327 A1996
- Clock-painting device and method for indicating the time-of-day with a non-traditional, now analog artistic panel of digital electronic visual displays148US 5,228,013 A1993
- Time sensing device120US 6,449,219 B12002
- Device for displaying variable data for small screens117US 7,035,170 B2International Business Machines Corporation · 2006