TIMEPIECE, METHOD OF DISPLAY CONTROL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20180181081A1
• Filed: 12/28/2017
• Published: 06/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: IMAMURA, Keiichi
• Granted Patent: US 10,691,075 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/00 Input or output devices integrated in time-pieces
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 9/0064 in which functions not related to time can be displayed digital output to display devices of digital computers G06F3/14
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 9/02 by selecting desired characters out of a number of characters or by selecting indicating elements the position of which represent the time, e.g. by using multiplexing techniques G04G9/0082 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 9/045 provided with date indication
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 99/006 Electronic time-pieces using a microcomputer, e.g. for multi-function clocks
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/60 Rotation of whole images or parts thereof

Abstract

A timepiece includes one or more processors; and a display unit controlled by said one or more processors, wherein said one or more processors perform: obtaining a clock hand image; obtaining positional information indicating a location of the electronic device; and controlling the display unit to display a map image that includes said location of the electronic device and to display the clock hand image superimposed onto the map image in such a rotated manner as to indicate a time, a center of rotation of the clock hand image being set at said location of the electronic device in the map image.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

one or more processors; and

a display unit controlled by said one or more processors,

wherein said one or more processors perform;

obtaining a clock hand image;

obtaining positional information indicating a location of the electronic device; and

controlling the display unit to display a map image that includes said location of the electronic device and to display the clock hand image superimposed onto the map image in such a rotated manner as to indicate a time, a center of rotation of the clock hand image being set at said location of the electronic device in the map image.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein said positional information indicates a current location of the electronic device at a current time as said location indicated by the positional information,

wherein said one or more processors further identify a movement range that includes the current location of the electronic device indicated by the positional information obtained at the current time and a previous location of the electronic device at a prescribed time in the past, and

wherein said map image includes said identified movement range.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein said positional information indicates a current location of the electronic device at a current time,

wherein said map image is a map image corresponding to the current location indicated by the positional information obtained at the current time.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein said one or more processors control the display unit so as to display the map image such that the location of the electronic device indicated by the positional information is at a center of a display region on the display unit.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein said one or more processors control the display unit so as to display the clock hand image such that a center of a display region on the display unit is at the center of rotation of the clock hand image.

6. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein said one or more processors cause a guide line indicating a prescribed direction relative to the center of rotation of the clock hand image to be displayed on the display unit.

7. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein said one or more processors obtain information related to a movement range of a user, and

wherein said one or more processors control the display unit so as to display an image corresponding to the movement range obtained by said one or more processors and an image corresponding to a current location or a previous location of the electronic device.

8. The electronic device according to claim 3, wherein during map display, said one or more processors cause the display unit to display, in a manner incorporating an animation, a map display screen switching process of switching between two map display screens of a first map display screen that displays a map image corresponding to the current location of the electronic device and a second map display screen that displays a map image of a wider range than the first map display screen.

9. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the map display screen switching process displayed on the display unit is a switching process by an animation from the second map display screen to the first map display screen by zooming in to the image corresponding to the current location from the second map display screen.

10. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein said one or more processors, in accordance with an extent of a range of the second map display screen, change a zoom speed of the animation of switching to the first map display screen by zooming in from the second map display screen.

11. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein in the step of obtaining said positional information indicating the location of the electronic device, said one or more processors perform a schedule information obtaining process that obtains scheduled move information that includes a move to a destination, as said positional information, and set a future location of the electronic device corresponding to the destination as said location of the electronic device indicated by the positional information, and

wherein said map image displayed by the display unit is a destination map image corresponding to the destination indicted by the scheduled move information obtained by the schedule information obtaining process.

12. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein said positional information indicates a current location of the electronic device at a current time as said location indicated by the positional information,

wherein said one or more processors further identify a movement range that includes the current location of the electronic device indicated by the positional information obtained at the current time and a previous location of the electronic device at a prescribed time in the past,

wherein said map image includes said identified movement range,

wherein said one or more processors further perform a schedule information obtaining process that obtains scheduled move information that includes a move to a destination,

wherein said one or more processors further cause the display unit to display a destination map image corresponding to the destination indicted by the scheduled move information obtained by the schedule information obtaining process, and to display the clock hand image superimposed onto the destination map image in such a rotated manner as to indicate a time, a center of rotation of the clock hand image being set at a location of the destination in the destination map image.

13. The electronic device according to claim 11, wherein said one or more processors further determine, on the basis of a current location, a current time, the destination indicated by the scheduled move information, and a date and time indicated by the scheduled move information, whether to update the destination map image displayed on the display unit,

wherein said one or more processors cause the display unit to display an updated destination map image when said one or more processors determine to update the destination map image.

14. The electronic device according to claim 13,

wherein said one or more processors determine to update the destination map image when said one or more processors detect new scheduled move information that includes a new destination and that is to occur closest in time to the current time from among scheduled moves that satisfy prescribed conditions, said prescribed conditions being that a start date and time is within a first threshold period from the current time and a destination is separated from the current location by at least a first threshold distance.

15. The electronic device according to claim 14,

wherein said one or more processors, after determining to update the destination map image, do not perform further updates of the destination map image once the current time is within a second threshold period prior to a start of a scheduled move with respect to which the last update of the destination map image is performed, even if another scheduled move satisfying said prescribed conditions for updating the destination map image is newly detected.

16. The electronic device according to claim 15,

wherein said one or more processors resume updates of the destination map image once the current location is within a second threshold distance from the destination of the scheduled move with respect to which the last update of the destination map image is performed or once the current time is within a third threshold period from an end time of the scheduled move with respect to which the last update of the destination map image is performed.

17. A method performed by one or more processors in an electronic device having a display unit controlled by said one or more processors, the method comprising:

obtaining a clock hand image;

obtaining positional information indicating a location of the electronic device; and

controlling the display unit to display a map image that includes said location of the electronic device and to display the clock hand image superimposed onto the map image in such a rotated manner as to indicate a time, a center of rotation of the clock hand image being set at said location of the electronic device in the map image.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the location of the electronic device is a future location of the electronic device at a future time indicated by a schedule, or a current location of the electronic device at a current time.

19. A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having stored therein a program that causes one or more processors in an electronic device having a display unit controlled by said one or more processors to perform:

obtaining a clock hand image;

obtaining positional information indicating a location of the electronic device; and

controlling the display unit to display a map image that includes said location of the electronic device and to display the clock hand image superimposed onto the map image in such a rotated manner as to indicate a time, a center of rotation of the clock hand image being set at said location of the electronic device in the map image.

20. The computer-readable non-transitory storage medium according to claim 19, wherein said location of the electronic device is a future location of the electronic device at a future time indicated by a schedule, or a current location of the electronic device at a current time.