Displaying notifications on a watchface
AssigneeGoogle Technology Holdings LLC
InventorsRicky J. Hoobler, Daniel T. Jacobs, Megan Knight
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Abstract
Disclosed are techniques for displaying notifications on a watchface. In one or more implementations, a watchface is displayed on a display of a smartwatch. The watchface occupies an entire display area of the display and indicates a current time in a first region of the watchface. In some cases, the watchface uses one or more rotating pointers or rotating dials to indicate the current time. Responsive to receiving a notification, the notification is displayed at a second region of the watchface such that the current time is visible in the first region of the watchface.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- outputting, by a computing device and for display at a display device, a watchface that occupies an entire display area of the display device and indicates a current time in a first region of the watchface, wherein the watchface comprises a plurality of numerals, wherein each numeral is indicative of a respective hour, minute, or second, wherein a first subset of the plurality of numerals is output for display at the first region of the watchface and a second subset of the plurality of numerals is output for display at a second region of the watchface, and wherein while outputting the watchface for display, the computing device always outputs the current time at the first region of the watchface;
- receiving, by the computing device, a notification;
- and
- responsive to receiving the notification, outputting, by the computing device and for display at the display device, the current time at the first region of the watchface and the notification at the second region of the watchface such that the current time is indicated in the first region of the watchface and the second subset of the plurality of numerals is no longer output for display at the second region of the watchface.
The method of claim wherein outputting the analog watchface further comprises outputting by the computing device, at the second region of the analog watchface:
- an additional stationary dial;
- and
- a second pointer configured to rotate to point to seconds arranged on the additional stationary dial to indicate seconds of the current time.
The method of claim wherein the watchface comprises outputting, by the computing device, a rotating watchface that comprises:
- a rotating hour dial configured to rotate around a perimeter of the rotating watchface;
- a rotating minute dial configured to rotate around the perimeter of the rotating watchface;
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- a viewfinder, in the first region of the rotating watchface, configured to indicate an hour on the hour dial corresponding to the current time and to indicate a minute on the minute dial corresponding to the current time.
A computing device comprising:
- a display device;
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least a memory comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
- output, for display at the display device, a watchface that occupies an entire display area of the display device and indicates a current time in a first region of the watchface, wherein the watchface comprises a plurality of numerals, wherein each numeral is indicative of a respective hour, minute, or second, wherein a first subset of the plurality of numerals is output for display at the first region of the watchface and a second subset of the plurality of numerals is output for display at a second region of the watchface, and wherein the computing device always outputs the current time at the first region of the watchface when outputting the watchface;
- and
- receive a notification;
- and
- responsive to receiving the notification, outputting, by the computing device and for display at the display device, the current time at the first region of the watchface and the notification at the second region of the watchface such that the current time is indicated in the first region of the watchface and the second subset of the plurality of numerals is no longer output for display at the second region of the watchface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.