Wristwatch with a touch screen and method for displaying on a touch-screen watch
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1. A wristwatch having:
- a digital matrix display;
a sheet of touch-sensitive glass;
a processing circuit specifically laid out so as to interpret the signals from the touch-sensitive glass, for selecting a card from several available cards depending on these signals and for displaying said card on the entire digital matrix display;
wherein said touch-sensitive glass is a two-dimensional glass for detecting a movement of at least one finger at any place on the touch-sensitive glass along at least two different directions;
wherein said processing circuit is specifically laid out so as to cause said several available cards to scroll past in order to lastingly replace the initially displayed card with a replacement card selected between said several available cards, wherein each card of said several available cards has a distinct fixed or periodically refreshed image,wherein the size of the image corresponds to the size of said digital matrix display so that the displayed card occupies the whole of said digital matrix display;
wherein one card of said several available cards and occupying the entire digital matrix display is immediately and without further user intervention replaced after the scrolling by a different card of said several available cards that occupies the entire digital matrix display;
wherein said processing circuit is further laid out so that the replacement card is dependent from the initially displayed card and from the direction of said movement and is independent from the starting point and end point of said movement on said digital matrix display.
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Abstract
Wristwatch (1) comprising: a digital matrix display (4); a two-dimensional sheet of touch-sensitive glass (3) provided with a plurality of electrodes (10, 11, 12) for detecting the movements of at least one finger along two different directions; a processing circuit laid out so as to interpret the signals from said electrodes and to scroll cards (23, 220-225, 210-213) on said display (4) in order to lastingly replace the initially displayed card (23) with another card; wherein the scrolling direction depends on the direction of said movement.
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24 Claims
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1. A wristwatch having:
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a digital matrix display; a sheet of touch-sensitive glass; a processing circuit specifically laid out so as to interpret the signals from the touch-sensitive glass, for selecting a card from several available cards depending on these signals and for displaying said card on the entire digital matrix display; wherein said touch-sensitive glass is a two-dimensional glass for detecting a movement of at least one finger at any place on the touch-sensitive glass along at least two different directions; wherein said processing circuit is specifically laid out so as to cause said several available cards to scroll past in order to lastingly replace the initially displayed card with a replacement card selected between said several available cards, wherein each card of said several available cards has a distinct fixed or periodically refreshed image, wherein the size of the image corresponds to the size of said digital matrix display so that the displayed card occupies the whole of said digital matrix display; wherein one card of said several available cards and occupying the entire digital matrix display is immediately and without further user intervention replaced after the scrolling by a different card of said several available cards that occupies the entire digital matrix display; wherein said processing circuit is further laid out so that the replacement card is dependent from the initially displayed card and from the direction of said movement and is independent from the starting point and end point of said movement on said digital matrix display. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for replacing an initially displayed card displayed by a wristwatch by a replacement card, the method having the following steps:
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detecting a direction of a movement of at least one finger at any place and along at least two different directions on a two-dimensional touch-sensitive glass; scrolling on a digital matrix display of several available cards so as for said scrolling to stop of itself so as to align an edge of the replacement card with an edge of the matrix display, wherein one card of said several available cards and occupying the entire digital matrix display is replaced after the scrolling, immediately and without further user intervention, by a different card selected between said several available cards and occupying the entire digital matrix display; and
wherein the scrolling direction depends only on the direction of said movement so that said replacement card is dependent from the initially displayed card and from the direction of said movement and is independent from the starting point and end point of said movement on said digital matrix display;lastingly displaying the replacement card on the whole of said digital matrix display, wherein each card of said several available cards has a distinct fixed or periodically refreshed image, the size of the images corresponding to the size of said digital matrix display. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A wristwatch having:
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a digital matrix display; a sheet of touch-sensitive glass; a processing circuit specifically laid out so as to interpret the signals from the touch-sensitive glass, for selecting a card from several available cards depending on these signals and for displaying said card on the entire digital matrix display, wherein each card has a distinct fixed or periodically refreshed image; wherein said touch-sensitive glass is a two-dimensional glass for detecting a movement of at least one finger at any place on the touch-sensitive glass along at least two different directions; wherein said processing circuit is specifically laid out so as to cause said several available cards to scroll past by displaying the image of said cards one at a on the digital matrix display in order to lastingly replace the initially displayed card with a replacement card selected within said several available cards, immediately after the scrolling and without further user intervention; wherein the size of the image corresponds to the size of said digital matrix display so that the displayed card occupies the whole of said digital matrix display; wherein said processing circuit is further laid out so that the replacement card is dependent from the initially displayed card and from the direction of said movement and is independent from the starting point and end point of said movement on said digital matrix display.
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24. A wristwatch having:
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a digital matrix display; a sheet of touch-sensitive glass; a processing circuit specifically laid out so as to interpret the signals from the touch-sensitive glass, for selecting a card from several available cards depending on these signals and for displaying said card on the entire digital matrix display; wherein said touch-sensitive glass is a two-dimensional glass for detecting a movement of at least one finger at any place on the touch-sensitive glass along at least two different directions; wherein said processing circuit is specifically laid out so as to cause cards to scroll past in order to lastingly replace the initially displayed card with a replacement card, wherein each card has a fixed or periodically refreshed image, wherein the size of the image corresponds to the size of said digital matrix display so that the displayed card occupies the whole of said digital matrix display wherein said processing circuit is further laid out so that the replacement card is dependent from the initially displayed card and from the direction of said movement and is independent from the starting point and end point of said movement on said digital matrix display; and wherein said several available cards are organized in a virtual closed loop row and in a virtual closed loop column.
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