Dual-display smart watch with proximal and distal (analog and electronic) displays

• US 10,466,741 B2
• Filed: 01/29/2018
• Issued: 11/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Medibotics, LLC
• Original Assignee: Medibotics, LLC
• Inventors: Connor, Robert A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lopez Cruz, Dimary S
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wright, Ingrid D
• Application Number:
  US15/882,255
• Publication Number:
  US 20180150101A1
• Time in Patent Office: 645 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 9/00 Visual time or date indication means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/165 the additional display being small, e.g. for presenting status information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/014 Hand-worn input/output arrangements, e.g. data gloves
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883

Abstract

This invention is a dual-display smart watch with a proximal dorsal display and a distal dorsal display. In an example, the proximal and distal displays can both be electronic displays. In an example, one display can be an analog watch face with mechanically-moving watch hands and the other display can be an electronic display. The displays can show different types of information such as: the time; notifications or messages; steps, heart rate, blood pressure, glucose level, or other biometric information; temperature, weather, location, directions, or other environmental information; and pictures, icons, or other digital images.

Claims

1. A smart watch with dual displays comprising:

a proximal display which is worn on the dorsal half-circumference of a person'"'"'s wrist or forearm and has a centroid which is a first distance from the person'"'"'s elbow;

a distal display which is worn on the dorsal half-circumference of the person'"'"'s wrist or forearm and has a centroid which is a second distance from the person'"'"'s elbow, wherein the second distance is greater than the first distance; and

a bifurcating band, wherein the dorsal part of the bifurcating band is the part of the bifurcating band which spans the dorsal half-circumference of the person'"'"'s wrist or forearm, as seen from a top-down perspective;

wherein the dorsal part further comprises a right-side segment whose right portion is a single band and whose left portion bifurcates and attaches to the right sides of the displays;

wherein the right-side segment attaches to the proximal display between the 1 o'"'"'clock and 5 o'"'"'clock locations on the proximal display'"'"'s circumference and attaches to the distal display between the 1 o'"'"'clock and 5 o'"'"'clock locations on the distal display'"'"'s circumference;

wherein the dorsal part further comprises a left-side segment whose left portion is a single band and whose right portion bifurcates and attaches to the left sides of the displays; and

wherein the left-side segment attaches to the proximal display between the 7 o'"'"'clock and 11 o'"'"'clock locations on the proximal display'"'"'s circumference and attaches to the distal display between the 7 o'"'"'clock and 11 o'"'"'clock locations on the distal display'"'"'s circumference.

2. The smart watch in claim 1 wherein the proximal display and the distal display are selected from the group consisting of:

electronic display, computer display, digital display, and electronic touch screen.

3. The smart watch in claim 1 wherein the proximal display and/or the distal display show information selected from the group consisting of:

the time;

notifications or messages;

steps, heart rate, blood pressure, glucose level, or other biometric information;

temperature, weather, location, directions, or other environmental information; and

pictures, icons, or other digital images.

4. The smart watch in claim 3 wherein the proximal display and the distal display show different types of information selected from the group consisting of:

the time;

notifications or messages;

steps, heart rate, blood pressure, glucose level, or other biometric information;

temperature, weather, location, directions, or other environmental information; and

pictures, icons, or other digital images.

5. A smart watch with dual displays comprising:

a proximal display which is worn on the dorsal half-circumference of a person'"'"'s wrist or forearm and has a centroid which is a first distance from the person'"'"'s elbow;

a distal display which is worn on the dorsal half-circumference of the person'"'"'s wrist or forearm and has a centroid which is a second distance from the person'"'"'s elbow, wherein the second distance is greater than the first distance; and

a bifurcating band;

wherein the dorsal part of the bifurcating band is the part of the bifurcating band which spans the dorsal half-circumference of the person'"'"'s wrist or forearm, as seen from a top-down perspective;

wherein the dorsal part further comprises a right-side segment whose right portion is a single band and whose left portion bifurcates and attaches to the right sides of the displays;

wherein the right-side segment has a leftward-opening chevron or whale tail shape;

wherein the dorsal part further comprises a left-side segment whose left portion is a single band and whose right portion bifurcates and attaches to the left sides of the displays; and

wherein the left-side segment has a rightward-opening chevron or whale tail shape.

6. The smart watch in claim 5 wherein the proximal display and the distal display are selected from the group consisting of:

electronic display, computer display, digital display, and electronic touch screen.

7. The smart watch in claim 5 wherein the proximal display and/or the distal show display information selected from the group consisting of:

the time;

notifications or messages;

steps, heart rate, blood pressure, glucose level, or other biometric information;

temperature, weather, location, directions, or other environmental information; and

pictures, icons, or other digital images.

8. The smart watch in claim 7 wherein the proximal display and the distal display show different types of information selected from the group consisting of:

the time;

notifications or messages;

steps, heart rate, blood pressure, glucose level, or other biometric information;

temperature, weather, location, directions, or other environmental information; and

pictures, icons, or other digital images.