US 9,001,625 B2Granted

Wearable electronic device

AssigneeTimex Group USA, Inc.

InventorsThomas Essery, Alexander Kniffin

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Abstract

An analog wearable electronic device that is operationally coupleable to a transmitting device. The transmitting device includes means for viewing a simulation of a display provided on the wearable electronic device, changing information displayable on the simulated display and transmitting the changed information and/or information from which the changed information is derivable to the wearable electronic device. The wearable electronic device includes a receiver for receiving from the transmitting device the changed information and/or the information from which the changed information is derivable. A controller assembly processes the changed information and/or derives the changed information, and an actuation mechanism moves a display indicator based at least in part on the changed information. The changed information is thereafter reflected on the display of the wearable electronic device by the display indicator.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A wearable electronic device of the type wherein information is conveyed in an analog manner at least in part by the use of at least one display indicator, wherein the wearable electronic device is operationally coupleable to a transmitting device, wherein the transmitting device comprises means for (i) viewing a simulation of a display provided on the wearable electronic device, (ii) changing information displayable on the simulated display and (iii) transmitting at least one of (a) the changed information and (b) information from which the changed information is derivable to the wearable electronic device, wherein the wearable electronic device comprises:

a receiver for receiving from the transmitting device at least one of (i) the changed information and (ii) the information from which the changed information is derivable;
a controller assembly, operatively coupled to the receiver, for at least one of processing the changed information and deriving the changed information;
and
an actuation mechanism, operatively coupled to the controller assembly, for moving the at least one display indicator in a direction based at least in part on the changed information;
wherein the changed information is thereafter reflected on the display of the wearable electronic device in the analog manner by the at least one display indicator.

2 more elements

An arrangement comprising:

a wearable electronic device of the type wherein information is conveyed in an analog manner at least in part by the use of at least one display indicator;
a transmitting device, wherein the transmitting device comprises means for viewing a simulation of a display provided on the wearable electronic device, changing information displayable on the simulated display and transmitting at least one of (i) the changed information and (ii) information from which the changed information is derivable to the wearable electronic device;
wherein the wearable electronic device comprises:
a receiver for receiving from the transmitting device at least one of (i) the changed information and (ii) the information from which the changed information is derivable;
a controller assembly, operatively coupled to the receiver, for at least one of processing the changed information and deriving the changed information;
and
an actuation mechanism, operatively coupled to the controller assembly, for moving the at least one display indicator based at least in part on the changed information;
wherein the changed information is thereafter reflected on the display of the wearable electronic device in the analog manner by the at least one display indicator.

5 more elements

A method of changing information on a wearable electronic device of the type wherein information is conveyed in an analog manner at least in part by the use of at least one display indicator, wherein the wearable electronic device is operationally coupleable to a transmitting device, wherein the transmitting device comprises means for viewing a simulation of a display that is displayable on the wearable electronic device, changing information displayable on the simulated display and transmitting at least one of (i) the changed information and (ii) information from which the changed information is derivable to the wearable electronic device, wherein the method comprises the steps of:

viewing, on the transmitting device, a simulation of a display that is provided on the wearable electronic device;
changing information displayable on the simulated display;
transmitting at least one of (i) the changed information and (ii) information from which the changed information is derivable to the wearable electronic device;
receiving, by the wearable electronic device, at least one of (i) the changed information and (ii) information from which the changed information is derivable from the transmitting device;
in the wearable electronic device, at least one of processing the changed information and deriving the changed information;
and
moving the at least one display indicator in a direction based at least in part on the changed information;
wherein the changed information is thereafter reflected on the display of the wearable electronic device in the analog manner by the at least one display indicator.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/591,302Filed 22 Aug 2012 · us provisional application
Priority: 8 Sep 2011
Published: US 2013/0064045 A114 Mar 2013
Granted: 7 Apr 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

G04R 20/00
Setting the time according to the time information carried or implied by
G04C 9/00
Electrically-actuated devices for setting the time-indicating means
G04F 1/005
Apparatus which can be set and started to measure-off predetermined or adjustably-fixed time intervals without driving mechanisms, e.g. egg…
G04G 9/00
Visual time or date indication means