NONLINEAR TIMER

• US 20110170379A1
• Filed: 06/30/2009
• Published: 07/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tidhar Eylon-Azoulay
• Original Assignee: Tidhar Eylon-Azoulay
• Inventors: Eylon-Azoulay, Tidhar
• Granted Patent: US 8,848,487 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 368/15
• CPC Class Codes: G04B 19/08 Geometrical arrangement of the graduations
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 9/02 by selecting desired characters out of a number of characters or by selecting indicating elements the position of which represent the time, e.g. by using multiplexing techniques G04G9/0082 takes precedence

Abstract

A Nonlinear Timer apparatus characterized by having a display indicator (e.g. hands) with a large plurality of respectively contiguous perceived velocities, said indicator being configured to include predetermined non-zero acceleration for substantially any contiguous intermediate plurality of said respective indicator velocities. The apparatus is for portraying substantially nonlinear temporal frames of reference that are more honestly scaled to the individuals'"'"' respective circumstance than to the metronome mechanical tempos of industrial world time-clocks. However, the Nonlinear Timer apparatus is preferably represented according to classical concentrically rotating clock hands; digital or analog.

Claims

1. A Nonlinear Timer apparatus comprising:

(A) an electronic processor running a predetermined program, said processor having (i) an internal clock configured for producing evenly paced signals, (ii) an input stage capable of accepting a geographical position calibration and a calendar calibration and a clock calibration, and (iii) a calculator stage capable of real-time calculating at least one respective current temporal interval using the internal clock in conjunction with substantially all of the calibrations of the input stage; and

(B) a displayer interconnected to the processor, said displayer having (i) a display driver stage capable of modifying a display setting using the at least one respective current temporal interval, and (ii) a presentation stage capable of presenting a respectively modified display setting.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the input stage capable of accepting a geographical position calibration includes a user interface accepting at least one data item selected from the list:

a nearest city, a country, a GMT related time zone, a latitude, a longitude, and a Global Positioning System signal.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the input stage capable of accepting a calendar calibration includes a user interface accepting at least one data item selected from the list:

a national calendar date, a religious calendar date, a cultural calendar date, a personal biological calendar date, an agricultural calendar date, a species specific physiological calendar date, a weather event calendar date, an econometric model calendar date, and a predetermined interpretation of any of the aforesaid.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the input stage capable of accepting a clock calibration includes a user interface accepting at least one data item selected from the list:

a GMT correlated clock reading and another Nonlinear Timer apparatus correlated clock reading.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the calculator stage capable of real-time calculating at least one respective current temporal interval includes computation of a display indicator velocity component usable by the displayer for the modifying of a display setting.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5 wherein the calculator stage computation of display indicator velocity components is configured to include a non-zero acceleration for substantially any contiguous intermediate plurality of said respective indicator velocity components.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the displayer presentation stage includes a display module selected form the list:

flat digital display, rotating analog indicator, and a combination of the aforesaid.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7 wherein the displayer presentation stage includes a display module configured to display at least one item selected from the list:

an icon, an alert, an alarm, and a reminder; and

the location of each respective at least one item is positioned in coordination with an orientation of a visible indicator.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the calculator stage includes parameters of a predetermined substantially non linear temporal model and said parameters are used in the real-time calculating.

10. A Nonlinear Timer apparatus, substantially as herein before described and illustrated, and characterized by having a display indicator with a large plurality of respectively contiguous perceived velocities, said indicator being configured to include predetermined non-zero acceleration for substantially any contiguous intermediate plurality of said respective indicator velocities.