Linear time display
First Claim
1. An apparatus comprising:
- a display; and
a processor coupled to the display to cause a first and a second linear clock for a first and a second locale in a first and a second time zone to be rendered on said display in a linear and time-wise aligned manner, with each of said first and second clocks having a plurality of time unit representations (TURs), and the TURs of the first and second linear clocks are linearly and time-wise aligned with each other thereby allowing past, present and future TURs of said first and second linear clocks of said first and second locales to be correspondingly related to each other, and the processor further causing a first linear time correlation indicator to be rendered, correlating a first TUR of said first linear clock to a second TUR of said second linear clock, a second linear time correlation indicator to be rendered, correlating a second TUR of said second linear clock to a corresponding TUR of said first linear clock, and a time difference represented by the spatial difference between the first and second time correlation indicators to be rendered.
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Abstract
A linear time display including a first and a second time clock for a first and a second locale of a first and a second time zone is disclosed. In one embodiment, each linear time clock includes a plurality of time unit representations. A first visual indicator is displayed to correlate a first time unit representation in the first linear clock to a corresponding time unit representation in the second linear clock, and a second visual indicator is displayed to correlate a second time unit representation in the second linear clock to a corresponding time unit representation in the first linear clock. A time difference represented by the spatial difference between the first and second visual indicators is also displayed.
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12 Claims
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1. An apparatus comprising:
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a display; and
a processor coupled to the display to cause a first and a second linear clock for a first and a second locale in a first and a second time zone to be rendered on said display in a linear and time-wise aligned manner, with each of said first and second clocks having a plurality of time unit representations (TURs), and the TURs of the first and second linear clocks are linearly and time-wise aligned with each other thereby allowing past, present and future TURs of said first and second linear clocks of said first and second locales to be correspondingly related to each other, and the processor further causing a first linear time correlation indicator to be rendered, correlating a first TUR of said first linear clock to a second TUR of said second linear clock, a second linear time correlation indicator to be rendered, correlating a second TUR of said second linear clock to a corresponding TUR of said first linear clock, and a time difference represented by the spatial difference between the first and second time correlation indicators to be rendered. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A storage medium having stored therein a first plurality of programming instructions to be executed by a host processor, wherein when executed, the first programming instructions cause the host processor of a first and a second linear clock for a first and a second time zone to be rendered on a display in a linear and time-wise aligned manner, with each of said first and second clocks having a plurality of time unit representations (TURs) and the TURs of the first and second linear clocks linearly and time-wise aligned with each other, thereby allowing past, present and future TURs of said first and second linear clocks of the first and second locales to be correspondingly related to each other, and
the programming instructions further cause the host processor to render a first linear time correlation indicator, correlating a first TUR of said first linear clock to a second TUR of said second linear clock, a second linear time correlation indicatr, correlating a second TUR of said second linear clock to a corresponding TUR of said first linear clock, and a time difference represented by the spatial difference between the first and second time correlation indicators to be rendered.
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12. A method comprising:
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a processor rendering on a display a first linear clock for a first locale in a first time zone; and
the processor rendering on said same display a second linear clock for a second locale in a second time zone, wherein said first and second linear clocks are rendered in a linear and time-wise aligned manner, with each of said first and second clocks having a plurality of time unit representations (TURs) and the TURs of the first and second linear clocks are linearly and time-wise aligned with each other, thereby allowing past, present and future TURs of said first and second linear clocks of said first and second locales to be correspondingly related to each other, and the processor further rendering a first linear time correlation indicator correlating a first TUR of said first linear clock to a second TUR of said second linear clock, a second linear time correlation indicator correlating a second TUR of said second linear clock to a corresponding TUR of said first linear clock, and a time difference represented by the spatial difference between the first and second time correlation indicators.
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Specification