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US 9,041,632 B2Granted
Device for displaying a text message
AssigneeBiegert & Funk Product GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsAndreas Funk, Marco Biegert
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Abstract
A device for displaying a text message, comprising a display (10) having a plurality of characters, each of said characters being arranged at a fixed position, not overlapping with any other of said characters, and being adapted to be switched on and off, and a controller being connected to said plurality of characters and being adapted to switch on and off selected characters so that at a given time, a selected sub-group of said characters is switched on, the selected sub-group displaying a text message.
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A device for displaying a text message, comprising:
- a display (10) having four edges and having a plurality of characters, each of said characters being arranged at a fixed position, not overlapping with any other of said characters, and being adapted to be switched on and off, and
- a controller being connected to said plurality of characters and being adapted to switch on and off selected characters so that at a given time, a selected sub-group of said characters is switched on, the selected sub-group displaying a text message,
- wherein said characters are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix which is filled with characters such that at each position of the matrix a single character is disposed,
- wherein at least some of the characters are arranged such that adjacent characters form words
- wherein the device is a clock and the selected sub-group of said characters is displaying the time as a text message,
- wherein said plurality of characters comprises a first group of characters for displaying an hour and a second group of characters for displaying a minute,
- wherein said second group of characters is adapted to display the time in steps of five minutes,
- wherein the display (10) comprises four additional graphical elements (58) not forming a part of the text message and being adapted to be switched on and off, said four additional graphical elements (58) being connected to said controller, wherein said controller is adapted to switch on and off a selected number of the additional graphical elements (58) to display the minute of the given time in steps of one minute, and
- further wherein said four additional graphical elements are positioned at the four edges of the display.
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A device for displaying a text message, comprising:
- a display (10) having four edges and having a plurality of characters, each of said characters being arranged at a fixed position, not overlapping with any other of said characters, and being adapted to be switched on and off, and
- a controller being connected to said plurality of characters and being adapted to switch on and off selected characters so that at a given time, a selected sub-group of said characters is switched on, the selected sub-group displaying a text message,
- wherein said characters are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix which is filled with characters such that at each position of the matrix a single character is disposed,
- wherein at least some of the characters are arranged such that adjacent characters form words
- wherein the device is a clock and the selected sub-group of said characters is displaying the time as a text message,
- wherein said plurality of characters comprises a first group of characters for displaying an hour and a second group of characters for displaying a minute,
- wherein said second group of characters is adapted to display the time in steps of five minutes,
- wherein the display (10) comprises four additional graphical elements (58) not forming a part of the text message and being adapted to be switched on and off, said four additional graphical elements (58) being connected to said controller, wherein said controller is adapted to switch on grid off a selected number of the additional graphical elements (58) to display the minute of the given time in steps of one minute, and
- further wherein the four additional graphical elements are positioned in a row at the bottom, top or side of the display.
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