Efficient use of display real estate in a wrist watch display
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1. A method for efficiently utilizing display space provided for a wearable appliance providing time keeping functions, said method comprising:
- a) generating a watch face display having minute and hour indicators for presenting said time keeping functions, said watch face display being pixel addressable for presenting said time keeping functions in one of;
a circular orientation or elliptical orientation;
b) enabling display of textual content in remaining portions of said watch face display when said time keeping functions are presented in either of said circular and elliptical orientation; and
, c) changing orientation of said watch face display time keeping functions from a circular orientation to an elliptical orientation so as to accommodate placement of additional text content in said remaining portions of said watch face display.
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Abstract
A wearable mobile computing device/appliance (e.g., a wrist watch) with a high resolution display that is capable of wirelessly accessing information from the network and a variety of other devices. The mobile computing device/appliance includes a user interface that includes software mechanisms for enabling watchface orientation in either of: circular and elliptical modes, and further to enable the further display of textual content in remaining portions of the display when in either circular and elliptical mode.
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33 Claims
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1. A method for efficiently utilizing display space provided for a wearable appliance providing time keeping functions, said method comprising:
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a) generating a watch face display having minute and hour indicators for presenting said time keeping functions, said watch face display being pixel addressable for presenting said time keeping functions in one of;
a circular orientation or elliptical orientation;
b) enabling display of textual content in remaining portions of said watch face display when said time keeping functions are presented in either of said circular and elliptical orientation; and
,c) changing orientation of said watch face display time keeping functions from a circular orientation to an elliptical orientation so as to accommodate placement of additional text content in said remaining portions of said watch face display. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system for efficiently utilizing display space provided for a wearable appliance having mechanism for providing time keeping functions, said system comprising:
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a) mechanism for providing graphic display of a watch face having minute and hour indicators for said time keeping functions, said watch face display being pixel addressable for presenting said time keeping functions in one of;
a circular orientation or elliptical orientation;
b) mechanism for displaying textual content in the remaining portions of the watch face display when said time keeping functions are presented in either said circular and elliptical orientation; and
,c) mechanism for changing orientation of said watch face display time keeping functions from a circular orientation to an elliptical orientation so as to accommodate placement of additional text content in said remaining portions of said watch face display. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for efficiently utilizing display space provided for a wearable appliance providing time keeping functions, said method steps including the steps of:
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a) providing graphic display of a watch face having minute and hour indicators for said time keeping functions, said watch face display being pixel addressable for presenting said time keeping functions in one of;
a circular orientation or elliptical orientation;
b) enabling display of textual content in remaining portions of watch face display when said time keeping functions are presented in either said circular and elliptical orientation; and
,c) changing orientation of said watch face display from a circular orientation to an elliptical orientation so as to accommodate placement of additional text content in said remaining portions of said watch face display. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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