Electronic device for reporting information, display method therefor, and recording medium

• US 10,460,696 B2
• Filed: 10/21/2016
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Moritani, Shinichi, Yamaguchi, Tomokazu, Imamura, Keiichi, Hanafusa, Norihito, Tsujimura, Taichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Harrison, Chante E
• Application Number:
  US15/299,674
• Publication Number:
  US 20170186399A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,103 Days
• Field of Search: 345418, 345619, 345660
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/02 Detectors of external physical values, e.g. temperature
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 9/0064 in which functions not related to time can be displayed digital output to display devices of digital computers G06F3/14
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 9/007 combined with a calculator or computing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0464 Positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/38 with means for controlling the display position

Abstract

A timepiece wrist terminal includes: a setting processing unit; a location information acquisition unit; a related information acquisition unit; a time difference calculation processing unit; and an output control unit. The setting processing unit acquires a first location. The location information acquisition unit acquires a second location that is different from the first location. The related information acquisition unit acquires information related to the first location. The related information acquisition unit also acquires information related to the second location. The time difference calculation processing unit generates differential information in accordance with the information related to the first location and the information related to the second location. The output control unit controls the output unit so as to display an object that represents the differential information, at least one of attributes of the object displayed being continuously varied in accordance with a differential amount representing the differential information.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a display unit; and

a processor connected to the display unit, the processor being configured to;

acquire first location information of a first location located in a first time zone;

acquire second location information of a second location located in a second time zone that differs from said first time zone;

acquire first information related to said first location information;

acquire second information related to said second location information;

generate differential information representing a difference between the first information related to the first location information and the second information related to the second location information;

specify a location on the display unit at which the second information is displayed; and

control the display unit so as to display an object on the display unit that represents said differential information, said object having a continuous shape that is continuous from a location at which the first information is displayed on the display unit to said specified location at which the second information is displayed on the display unit, at least one of attributes of said continuous shape representing said differential information,

wherein the processor controls said display unit so as to display said object in a peripheral portion of a display region of the display unit.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the processor is further configured to set said first location information, and

wherein the processor acquires the first information related to said first location information in accordance with a setting result obtained via said setting.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the processor sets current location information as said second location information.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

set, in accordance with the first location information and the second location information, a location of a prescribed area in which said object will be displayed; and

control the display unit so as to display said object in said prescribed area set via said setting.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

acquire first time information as the first information related to the first location information;

acquire second time information as the second information related to the second location information; and

generate time differential information representing a difference between said first time information and said second time information as said differential information.

6. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the processor controls the display unit so as to set a dimension of said continuous shape of said object, as said at least one of the attributes of the object, based on the differential information.

7. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the processor controls the display unit such that said object is displayed only when a differential amount representing the differential information is greater than a prescribed threshold.

8. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the processor controls the display unit so as to display a map in a display area in the display region that is different from the peripheral portion in which said object is displayed.

9. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the processor controls the display unit so as to display a day-night depiction on said map in accordance with the first information related to said first location information and the second information related to said second location information.

10. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the processor controls the display unit so as to display said map in accordance with said first location information and said second location information.

11. The electronic device according to claim 10, wherein the processor controls the display unit so as to display said map and said object in accordance with a positional relationship obtained from said first location information and said second location information.

12. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the processor controls the display unit so as to display a first fan shaped region that is centered at a center of said map and that indicates a daytime region and a second shaped region that is centered at the center of said map and that indicates a nighttime region in accordance with the first information related to said first location information and the second information related to said second location information.

13. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the first information related to the first location information and the second information related to the second location information includes information related to time, latitude, longitude, elevation, or temperature.

14. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the location at which the first information is displayed is fixed on the display unit, and the location at which the second information is displayed on the display unit is set in accordance with the second information.

15. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the location at which the first information is displayed on the display unit is predetermined.

16. A display method to be performed by an electronic device having a processor, comprising:

causing the processor to;

acquire first location information of a first location located in a first time zone;

acquire second location information of a second location located in a second time zone that is different from said first time zone;

acquire first information related to said first location information;

acquire second information related to said second location information;

generate differential information representing a difference between the first information related to the first location information and the second information related to the second location information;

specify a location on a display unit at which the second information is displayed; and

control the display unit so as to display an object on the display unit that represents said differential information, said object having a continuous shape that is continuous from a location at which the first information is displayed on the display unit to said specified location at which the second information is displayed on the display unit, at least one of attributes of said continuous shape representing said differential information,

wherein the method causes the processor to control said display unit so as to display said object in a peripheral portion of a display region of the display unit.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a program executable by an electronic device having a processor, the program stored in the storage medium causing the processor to perform the following:

acquire first location information of a first location located in a first time zone;

acquire second location information of a second location located in a second time zone that is different from said first time zone;

acquire first information related to said first location information;

acquire second information related to said second location information;

generate differential information representing a difference between the first information related to the first location information and the second information related to the second location information;

specify a location on a display unit at which the second information is displayed; and

control the display unit so as to display an object on the display unit that represents said differential information, said object having a continuous shape that is continuous from a location at which the first information is displayed on the display unit to said specified location at which the second information is displayed on the display unit, at least one of attributes of said continuous shape representing said differential information,

wherein the program causes the processor to control said display unit so as to display said object in a peripheral portion of a display region of the display unit.