Method for unlocking a function using a timepiece
AssigneeETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
InventorsVincent MEYER, David Benjamin KRAEHENBUEHL
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Abstract
The invention concerns a method for unlocking a function of a device using a timepiece, the timepiece including: a display device including display elements; control means able to drive the display elements in a predefined animation sequence; the method including the following steps: the timepiece is placed in front of detection means; the control means are actuated so that they drive the display elements in the predefined animation sequence; the predefined animation sequence is detected by the detection means; the detected animation sequence is compared to a reference animation sequence; if the detected animation sequence is identical to the reference animation sequence, then the function is unlocked.
Claims10
1:
- A method for unlocking a function of a device using a timepiece, the timepiece including:
- a display device including display elements;
- control means able to drive the display elements in a predefined animation sequence;
- the method including the following steps:
- the timepiece is placed in front of detection means;
- the control means are actuated so that they drive the display elements in the predefined animation sequence;
- the predefined animation sequence is detected by the detection means;
- the detected animation sequence is compared to a reference animation sequence;
- if the detected animation sequence is identical to the reference animation sequence, then the function is unlocked.
2:
- The method according to claim 1, including a step of initialising the timepiece during which the predefined animation sequence is stored in the timepiece so that actuation of the control means drives the display elements in the predefined animation sequence.
3:
- The method according to claim 1, including a step of initialising the device during which the reference animation sequence is stored in the device.
4:
- The method according to claim 1, further including a step of actuating the control means in which at least one timepiece button is actuated.
5:
- The method according to claim 1, further including a step of actuating the control means in which at least two timepiece buttons are actuated in a predetermined actuation sequence.
6:
- The method according to claim 1, wherein the animation sequence includes a series of predefined positions for a predefined duration for each of the display elements.
7:
- A timepiece for implementing an unlocking method according to claim 1 including:
- a display device including display elements;
- control means configured to drive the display elements in a predefined animation sequence.
8:
- The timepiece according to claim 7, including actuation means able to actuate the control means.
9:
- A device for implementing an unlocking method according to claim 1, the device including:
- means for detecting an animation sequence;
- means for comparing a detected animation sequence to a reference animation sequence;
- unlocking means configured to unlock the function when the detected animation sequence is identical to the reference animation sequence.
10:
- The device according to claim 9, wherein the animation sequence detection means include a camera.