# US 7,612,759 B2 · Cycle computer display apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 7,612,759 B2 - Document ID: US7612759B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 10/843,311 - Filed: 2004-05-12 - Published: 2005-11-17 - Granted: 2009-11-03 - Earliest claimed: 2004-05-12 - Assignees: Shimano Inc. - Inventors: Noriyuki Horiuchi - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7612759B2 ## CPC - G01P 1/16: for erasable recording, e.g. magnetic recording - B62J 45/20: Cycle computers as cycle accessories - B62J 50/22: electronic, e.g. displays - G01C 22/002: {for cycles} - G01P 1/122: {Speed recorders} - G06F 3/04886: by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus - B62M 2025/003: {with gear indicating means, e.g. a display} - G06F 2203/04809: Textured surface identifying touch areas, e.g. overlay structure for a virtual keyboard - G01P: MEASURING LINEAR OR ANGULAR SPEED, ACCELERATION, DECELERATION, OR SHOCK; INDICATING PRESENCE, ABSENCE, OR DIRECTION, OF MOVEMENT (measuring or recording blood flow A61B5/02, A61B8/06; monitoring speed or deceleration of electrically-propelled vehicles B60L3/00; vehicle lighting systems adapted to indicate speed B60Q1/54; determining position or course in navigation, measuring ground distance in geodesy or surveying G01C; combined measuring devices for measuring two or more variables of movement G01C23/00; measuring velocity of sound G01H; measuring velocity of light G01J7/00; measuring direction or velocity of solid objects by reception or emission of radiowaves or other waves and based on propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effect, propagation time, direction of propagation, G01S; measuring speed of nuclear radiation G01T; measuring acceleration of gravity G01V; {measuring or recording the speed of trains B61L23/00; speed indicators incorporated in motor vehicles B60K35/00; measuring frequency or phase G01R; traffic control G08G}) - B62J: CYCLE SADDLES OR SEATS; AUXILIARY DEVICES OR ACCESSORIES SPECIALLY ADAPTED TO CYCLES AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. ARTICLE CARRIERS OR CYCLE PROTECTORS - G01C: MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (measuring liquid level G01F; radio navigation, determining distance or velocity by use of propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effects, propagation time, of radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S) - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - B62M: RIDER PROPULSION OF WHEELED VEHICLES OR SLEDGES; POWERED PROPULSION OF SLEDGES OR {SINGLE-TRACK} CYCLES; TRANSMISSIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR SUCH VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of transmissions in vehicles in general B60K; transmission elements per se F16) ## Abstract A cycle computer display apparatus is provided with a touch panel for the rider to input data into the cycle computer. The cycle computer includes a display screen for producing visual images and a controller that selectively controls the visual images and the touch panel such that sensor areas of the touch panel are correlated to images formed on the display screen. Preferably, the controller produces several different display modes with button images of different sizes. The controller further correlates the touch panel to the different size button size images so that when the rider touches the touch panel in the area corresponding to the button image, the appropriate control program is executed by the controller. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A cycle computer display apparatus comprising: a display screen configured to produce visual images; a touch panel input unit associated with at least a portion of the display screen that produces at least one output selection signal upon being touched; and a controller configured to selectively control the visual images displayed on the display screen, the controller being configured to selectively display a plurality of button images on the display screen in a first display mode and to selectively display at least three different bicycle environmental data displays within a first button image of the button images in the first display mode, the controller being further configured to switch the bicycle environmental data display displayed in the first button image between the at least three different bicycle environmental data displays in response to receiving an output selection signal from the touch panel input unit when the first button image is touched without changing the remaining button images in the first display mode. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The cycle computer display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein one of the button images is a mode-change button image, which does not display the at least three different bicycle environmental data displays in the first display mode, and the controller is configured to switch to a second display mode upon receiving an output selection signal from the touch panel input unit when the mode-change button image is touched in the first display mode. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The cycle computer display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the controller is configured to selectively display a plurality of button images on the display screen in the second display mode that are different from the button images displayed in the first display mode. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The cycle computer display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the button images in the first display mode have different sizes and locations to those in the second display mode. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The cycle computer display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the number of button images in the first display mode is different than the number of button images in the second display mode. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The cycle computer display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to selectively display the at least three different bicycle environmental data displays within a second button image of the button images in the first display mode. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The cycle computer display apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the controller is further configured to switch the bicycle environmental data display displayed in the second button image between the at least three different bicycle environmental data displays in response to receiving an output selection signal from the touch panel input unit when the second button image is touched, and the controller is further configured to not display in the second button image the bicycle environmental data display that is displayed in the first button image when the second button image is touched. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The cycle computer display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first button image has a larger area than an area of each of the remaining button images in the first display mode. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The cycle computer display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to automatically switch between the at least three different bicycle environmental data displays after a predetermined period of time. ### Claim 10 A cycle computer display apparatus comprising: a display screen configured to produce visual images; a touch panel input unit associated with at least a portion of the display screen that produces output selection signals upon being touched; and a controller configured to selectively control the visual images displayed on the display screen, the controller being configured to selectively display a plurality of button images on the display screen in a first display mode, to selectively display one of at least three different bicycle environmental data within a first button image of the button images in the first display mode, and to selectively display one of the at least three different environmental data displays in a second button image of the button images in the first display mode, the controller being further configured to selectively display at least one of the at least three different bicycle environmental data displays within either of the first or second button images without changing the size, shape or location of the first and second button images in the first display mode. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The cycle computer display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein one of the button images is a mode-change button image, which does not display the at least three different bicycle environmental data displays in the first display mode, and the controller is configured to switch to a second display mode upon receiving an output selection signal from the touch panel input unit when the mode-change button image is touched in the first display mode. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The cycle computer display apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the controller is configured to selectively display a plurality of button images on the display screen in the second display mode that are different from the button images displayed in the first display mode. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The cycle computer display apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the button images in the first display mode have different sizes and locations to those in the second display mode. ### Claim 14 (depends on 12) The cycle computer display apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the number of button images in the first display mode is different than the number of button images in the second display mode. ### Claim 15 (depends on 10) The cycle computer display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein one of the first and second button images has a larger area than an area of each of the remaining button images in the first display mode. ### Claim 16 (depends on 10) The cycle computer display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the controller is further configured to selectively display the at least three different bicycle environmental data displays within a third button image of the button images in the first display mode. ### Claim 17 (depends on 10) The cycle computer display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the controller is further configured to switch the bicycle environmental data display displayed in the first button image between the at least three different bicycle environmental data displays in response to receiving an output selection signal from the touch panel input unit when the first button image is touched, the controller is further configured to switch the bicycle environmental data display displayed in the second button image between the at least three different bicycle environmental data displays in response to receiving an output selection signal from the touch panel input unit when the second button image is touched, and the controller is further configured to not display in the second button image the bicycle environmental data display that is displayed in the first button image when the second button image is touched.