Timepiece illusion device
AssigneeNobody Knows LLC
InventorsChristopher Mitchell, Rory Adams
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Abstract
A timepiece illusion device is formed to appear as an ordinary analog watch or timepiece with hour and minute hands. A software application (Illusion App) is provided that can be loaded onto a smartphone or other device. The Illusion App allows a user to provide inputs into the smartphone, which are transmitted (e.g., as time commands, etc.) from the smartphone to the timepiece illusion device. The timepiece illusion device then moves the hour and minute hands per the time command or otherwise performs the relevant operation per the input from the smartphone.
Claims15
A timepiece illusion system, comprising:
- a timepiece illusion device, the timepiece illusion device including:
- a watch face with hour and minute hands, the hour and minute hands being separately rotatable about the watch face;
- and
- a mechanism configured to connect wirelessly to and be controlled by a separate external controlling device with a wireless time command to cause the hour and minute hands to rotate about the watch face to reflect the wireless time command;
- a controlling device, the controlling device having executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, such that upon execution of the instructions, the controlling device is caused to perform operations of:
- receiving a time command;
- and
- wirelessly transmitting the time command to the timepiece illusion device;
- and
- wherein in receiving the time command, the controlling device depicts a false passcode screen, such that inputs into the false passcode screen are converted into the time command.
A timepiece illusion system, comprising:
- a timepiece illusion device, the timepiece illusion device including:
- a watch face with hour and minute hands, the hour and minute hands being separately rotatable about the watch face;
- and
- a mechanism configured to connect wirelessly to and be controlled by a separate external controlling device with a wireless time command to cause the hour and minute hands to rotate about the watch face to reflect the wireless time command;
- executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the executable instructions being loadable onto a controlling device, such that upon loading onto the controlling device and upon execution of the instructions, the controlling device is caused to perform operations of:
- receiving a time command;
- and
- wirelessly transmitting the time command to the timepiece illusion device such that in receiving the time command, the controlling device is caused to depict a false passcode screen, such that inputs into the false passcode screen are converted into the time command.
A computer program product for controlling a timepiece illusion device, the computer program product comprising:
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium having executable instructions encoded thereon, such that upon execution of the instructions by one or more processors, the one or more processors perform operations of:
- receiving a time command;
- wirelessly transmitting the time command to the timepiece illusion device having a watch face with hour and minute hands, the hour and minute hands being separately rotatable about the watch face, such that upon receiving the time command, the timepiece illusion device is caused to rotate the hour and minute hands about the watch face to reflect the wireless time command;
- and
- wherein in receiving the time command, the controlling device is caused to depict a false passcode screen, such that inputs into the false passcode screen are converted into the time command.
A computer program product for controlling a timepiece illusion device, the computer program product comprising:
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium having executable instructions encoded thereon, such that upon execution of the instructions by one or more processors, the one or more processors perform operations of:
- receiving a time command;
- wirelessly transmitting the time command to the timepiece illusion device having a watch face with hour and minute hands, the hour and minute hands being separately rotatable about the watch face, such that upon receiving the time command, the timepiece illusion device is caused to rotate the hour and minute hands about the watch face to reflect the wireless time command;
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- wherein in receiving the time command, the controlling device depicts a false calculator screen, such that inputs into the false calculator screen are converted into the time command.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.