Information-processing apparatus and clock information display control method for use in the apparatus

• US 20030061410A1
• Filed: 06/28/2002
• Published: 03/27/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Numano, Fujihito, Saikawa, Yuuki
• Granted Patent: US 7,406,667 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/14 Time supervision arrangements, e.g. real time clock
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/165 the additional display being small, e.g. for presenting status information

Abstract

An apparatus controls a main display and a sub-display. The apparatus includes a section which displays, on the sub-display, clock information indicating of time, a section which acquires changed time information, when the time information has been changed, and a section which changes a present value of the time of the clock information displayed on the sub-display, based on the acquired changed time information.

Claims

1. An apparatus capable of controlling a main display and a sub-display, comprising:

means for displaying, on the sub-display, clock information indicating of time;

means for acquiring changed time information managed by an operating system, when the time information has been changed in accordance with a request for changing of the time information; and

means for changing the time of the clock information displayed on the sub-display, based on the acquired changed time information.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a clock device which measures time, and a counter which counts up a present time set therein and sequentially generates values of the time displayed on the sub-display, and wherein

the means for displaying includes:

means for acquiring a present time from the clock device when the apparatus is powered on; and

means for setting, in the counter, the acquired present time.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the means for acquiring changed time information includes:

means for detecting whether the time information has been changed; and

means for requesting changed time information when the changing of the time information is detected, and acquiring the changed time information.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the request for changing of the time information includes a request for changing of a present time or time zone of the time information.

5. An apparatus comprising:

a main body;

a display attached to the main body, the display being movable between an open position and a closed position;

a sub-display provided on a surface portion of the main body, on which the sub-display has a display surface thereof exposed irrespective of whether the display is set to the open position or the closed position;

a device configured to display, on the sub-display, clock information indicating of time;

means for acquiring changed time information managed by an operating system, when the time information has been changed by the operating system in accordance with a request for changing of the time information made by a user; and

means for changing a present value of the time of the clock information displayed on the sub-display by the device, based on the acquired changed time information.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the sub-display and the device are configured to be supplied with operation power irrespective of whether the apparatus is set to a powered on state or a powered off state.

7. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the means for acquiring changed time information includes:

means for detecting whether the time information has been changed by the operating system; and

means for requesting changed time information of the operating system when the changing of the time information is detected, and acquiring the changed time information.

8. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the request for changing of the time information made by the user includes a request for changing of a present time or time zone of the time information.

9. A method of controlling display of clock information on a sub-display provided in an apparatus, comprising:

displaying, on the sub-display, clock information indicating of time;

acquiring changed time information, when the time information has been changed in accordance with a request for changing of the time information; and

changing a present value of the time of the clock information displayed on the sub-display, based on the acquired changed time information.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein:

the apparatus includes a clock device which measures time, and a counter which counts up a present time set therein and sequentially generates values of the time displayed on the sub-display, and

the displaying includes;

acquiring a present time from the clock device when the apparatus is powered on; and

setting, in the counter, the acquired present time.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the acquiring changed time information includes:

detecting whether the time information has been changed; and

requesting changed time information when the changing of the time information is detected, thereby acquiring the changed time information.

12. The method according to claim 9, wherein the request for changing of the time information includes a request for changing of a present time or time zone of the time information.

13. A method of controlling display of clock information on a sub-display provided in an apparatus, comprising:

acquiring clock information, indicative of a present time, from a clock device provided in the apparatus when the information-processing apparatus is powered on;

counting up values of the acquired clock information and generating a present time to be displayed on the sub-display;

acquiring changed time information managed by an operating system, when the time information has been changed by the operating system in accordance with a request for changing of the time information made by a user; and

changing a present value of the time of the clock information displayed on the sub-display, based on the acquired changed time information.