Color timepiece

• US 7,362,662 B2
• Filed: 08/04/2003
• Issued: 04/22/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Timothy R. Lang
• Original Assignee: Timothy R. Lang
• Inventors: Lang, Timothy R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bradley; P. Austin
• Assistant Examiner(s): GOODWIN, JEANNE M
• Application Number:
  US10/633,737
• Publication Number:
  US 20050041536A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,723 Days
• Field of Search: 368/76, 368/79, 368/82, 368/84, 368/223, 368/228, 368/231, 368/232, 368/239, 368/242
• US Class Current: 368/232
• 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

Abstract

A timepiece includes a display face having a color time field with a first axis representing a first unit of time and a second axis representing a second unit of time, wherein a colored section fills the color time field as time elapses and wherein a current color displayed in the colored section is one color in a set of different colors that correspond to a predetermined measurement of time.

Claims

1. A timepiece comprising:

a display face including a color time field having a first horizontal axis representing a first unit of time and a second vertical axis representing a second unit of time, wherein the first unit of time and the second unit of time are minutes or seconds, wherein a colored section fills the color time field as time elapses and wherein a current color displayed in the colored section is one color in a set of 24 different colors, each of which corresponds to a different hour in a day.

2. A timepiece comprising:

a display face including a color time field having a first horizontal axis representing a first unit of time and a second vertical axis representing a second unit of time, wherein the first unit of time and the second unit of time are minutes or seconds, wherein a colored section fills the color time field as time elapses and wherein a current color displayed in the colored section is one color in a set of 12 different colors, each of which corresponds to a different hour in half a day.

3. A timepiece comprising:

a display face including a color time field having a first horizontal axis which advances with each passing minute and a second vertical axis which advances with each passing second and, wherein the color time field is a 60 unit ×

60 unit grid having a set of 3,600 units, wherein a next color in the set of colors corresponding to a next consecutive hour begins to fill the color time field after the current color in the colored section representing a current hour has filled each of the 3,600 units in the grid.

4. A timepiece according to claim 3, further comprising a first set of indicia along the first axis marking intervals of the first unit of time and a second set of indicia along the second axis marking intervals of the second unit of time.

5. The timepiece according to claim 4, wherein the length of the first axis is substantially different than the length of the second axis.