Clock provided with function of raising alarm at more than one time and alarming method

• US 8,023,361 B2
• Filed: 03/31/2008
• Issued: 09/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Kokuryu, Mineto
• Primary Examiner(s): Luebke; Renee
• Assistant Examiner(s): COLLINS, JASON M
• Application Number:
  US12/059,737
• Publication Number:
  US 20080239881A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,268 Days
• Field of Search: 368/74, 368/261, 368/72, 368/73
• US Class Current: 368/74
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 13/026 acting at a number of different times
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality

Abstract

In order to make it possible to set up an alarm method which is rich in variation, a mobile phone is configured so that a plurality of alarm times are related to the same group, the group to which a plurality of alarm times are related is set to activation or cancellation, and when there comes any one of a plurality of alarm times which are related to the group being set to activation, an alarm is raised. Since setting to raise an alarm at a plurality of alarm times, or cancellation of the setting can be made, an alarm method rich in variation can be configured.

Claims

1. A clock in which plural alarm times can be set, the clock comprising:

a grouping portion to relate a plurality of alarm times, selected from among said plural alarm times, to a same group;

a setting portion to set up activation or cancellation for said group to which said plurality of alarm times are related by said grouping portion; and

an alarming portion to raise an alarm when any one of said plurality of alarm times, which are related to said group being set up to be activated, arrives;

a group-halt-instruction accepting portion to, after said alarming portion raises an alarm, judge whether to set up cancellation on said group being set up to be activated, and to display a group alarm cancellation screen configured to accept a group halt instruction; and

a state switching portion to, when said group has been set to activation, set to a first state and to, when said group halt instruction has been accepted after the earliest alarm time among said plurality of alarm times being related to said group being set to activation, switch from said first state to a second state,

wherein said alarming portion raises an alarm on condition that said first state is set.

2. The clock according to claim 1, wherein, said state switching portion switches to said first state when said second state is set after a current time passed an alarm time.

3. The clock according to claim 1, further comprising a halt-instruction accepting portion to accept an alarming halt instruction for halting the alarm,

wherein said alarming portion halts the alarm in response to acceptance of said alarming halt instruction.

4. An alarming method comprising the steps of:

relating a plurality of alarm times to a same group;

setting up activation or cancellation on said same group to which said plurality of alarm times are related;

raising an alarm when any one of said plurality of alarm times, which are related to said group being set to activation, arrives;

after raising the alarm, judging whether to set up cancellation on said group being set to activation, and displaying a group alarm cancellation screen configured to accept a group halt instruction;

setting to a first state when said same group is set to activation; and

switching from said first state to a second state upon acceptance of said group halt instruction after the earliest alarm time among said plurality of alarm times being related to said group being set to activation,

wherein said step of raising an alarm includes the step of raising an alarm on condition that said first state is set.

5. The alarming method according to claim 4, wherein said step of switching includes the step of switching to said first state when said second state is set after the current time passed an alarm time.

6. The alarming method according to claim 4, further comprising the step of accepting an alarming halt instruction for halting the alarm,

wherein said alarming step includes the step of halting the alarm in response to acceptance of said alarming halt instruction.

7. An alarming method comprising the steps of:

relating a plurality of alarm times to a same group;

displaying a group alarm cancellation screen configured to accept a group halt instruction for, after raising an alarm, judging whether to set up cancellation on a group being set to activation, and;

switching from a first state to a second state when said group halt instruction is accepted after an earliest alarm time among said plurality of alarm times being related to the group; and

when any one of said plurality of alarm times, being related to the group, arrives, raising an alarm on condition that said first state is set.

8. The alarming method according to claim 7, further comprising the step of setting activation or cancellation on said group to which said plurality of alarm times are related,

wherein when any one of said plurality of alarm times arrives, said step of raising the alarm includes the step of raising the alarm on condition that said group is set to activation.

9. The alarming method according to claim 8, wherein said step of switching the state includes the step of switching to said first state when said second state is set after said alarm time passed.

10. The alarming method according to claim 7, further comprising the step of accepting an alarming halt instruction to halt the alarm,

wherein said step of raising the alarm includes the step of halting the alarm in response to acceptance of said alarming halt instruction.