Time display device, time display method, and recording medium

• US 10,591,873 B2
• Filed: 11/07/2018
• Issued: 03/17/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Misaki, Naoaki, Hanafusa, Norihito
• Primary Examiner(s): Kayes, Sean
• Application Number:
  US16/183,316
• Publication Number:
  US 20190072909A1
• Time in Patent Office: 496 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/08 Touch switches specially adapted for time-pieces
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 9/0076 in which the time in another time-zone or in another city can be displayed at will

Abstract

A time display device includes a display; an operation receiving unit that receives a selection operation of a city by a user; a memory that stores a time piece image and a map image including a plurality of city locations; and a processor, wherein said processor performs: reading out the time piece image and said map image from the memory; identifying one of the city locations in the map image read from the memory as corresponding to a location of the selected city; generating a display image by overlapping the map image including said identified one of the city locations and the timepiece image that is adjusted to indicate a local time of the selected city such that a center of the timepiece image coincides with said identified one of the city locations in the map image; and causing said display image to be displayed on the display.

Claims

1. A time display device, comprising:

a display;

an operation receiving unit that receives a selection operation of a city by a user;

a memory that stores a time piece image and a map image including a plurality of city locations; and

a processor,

wherein said processor performs the following;

reading out the time piece image and said map image from the memory;

identifying one of the city locations that are included in the map image read from the memory as corresponding to a location of the selected city;

generating a display image by overlapping the map image including said identified one of the city locations and the timepiece image that is adjusted to indicate a local time of the selected city such that a center of the timepiece image coincides with said identified one of the city locations in the map image; and

causing said display image to be displayed on the display.

2. The time display device according to claim 1, further comprising a transmitter that transmits prescribed information to a timepiece,

wherein the processor transmits setting information for the selected city to the transmitter.

3. The time display device according to claim 2, wherein said processor:

generates the display image so as to include a name of said identified one of the city locations; and

displays the display image that includes the name of said identified one of the city locations on the display.

4. The time display device according to claim 1, wherein said processor:

generates the display image so as to include a name of said identified one of the city locations; and

displays the display image that includes the name of said identified one of the city locations on the display.

5. A time display method performed by a processor in a time display device that includes:

a display;

an operation receiving unit that receives a selection operation of a city by a user;

a memory that stores a time piece image and a map image including a plurality of city locations; and

said processor, the method causing the processor to perform the following;

reading out the time piece image and said map image from the memory;

identifying one of the city locations that are included in the map image read from the memory as corresponding to a location of the selected city;

generating a display image by overlapping the map image including said identified one of the city locations and the timepiece image that is adjusted to indicate a local time of the selected city such that a center of the timepiece image coincides with said identified one of the city locations in the map image; and

causing said display image to be displayed on the display.

6. A non-transitory storage medium having stored therein instructions readable by a processor in a time display device, the time display device further including:

a display;

an operation receiving unit that receives a selection operation of a city by a user; and

a memory that stores a time piece image and a map image including a plurality of city locations, the instructions causing the processor to perform the following;

reading out the time piece image and said map image from the memory;

identifying one of the city locations that are included in the map image read from the memory as corresponding to a location of the selected city;

generating a display image by overlapping the map image including said identified one of the city locations and the timepiece image that is adjusted to indicate a local time of the selected city such that a center of the timepiece image coincides with said identified one of the city locations in the map image; and

causing said display image to be displayed on the display.