PORTABLE APPARATUS AND CUMULATIVE TIME DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD

• US 20150099477A1
• Filed: 10/03/2014
• Published: 04/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: SATO, Reiko
• Application Number:
  US14/506,521
• Publication Number:
  US 20150099477A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/90.1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 1/00 Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith position fixing by co-ordinating a plurality of determinations of direction or position lines G01S5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/19 Sporting applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/006 with additional information processing, e.g. for direction or speed determination

Abstract

A portable apparatus can receive a GPS signal from a GPS satellite and obtain positioning information. The portable apparatus can thus present a distance traveled. The portable apparatus can clock gross time from competition start specified time or in response to clocking initiation operation each of which serves as clocking initiation timing. The portable apparatus can further initiate clocking concurrently with or after the gross time clocking initiation and clock net time the clocking of which can be temporarily discontinued and resumed. The gross time and the net time can be displayed on a touch panel.

Claims

1. A portable apparatus comprising:

a first clocking section that initiates clocking from given clocking initiation timing and clocks a first cumulative time;

a second clocking section that initiates clocking concurrently with or after the clocking initiation timing and clocks a second cumulative time; and

a cumulative time display control section that controls display of the first cumulative time and the second cumulative time.

2. The portable apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first clocking section initiates the clocking of the first cumulative time at given specified time as the clocking initiation timing.

3. The portable apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a positioning section;

a travel distance calculation section that calculates a travel distance from a given start point by using a positioning result from the positioning section;

a passage limit information setting section that sets, in accordance with an operation input from a user and by using a positioning result from the positioning section, limit time expressed in the form of a period having elapsed from the clocking initiation timing or in the form of time and a limit point that represents a point which is expressed in distance from a first point to a second point over which the user travels and where the user unable to pass the point in the limit time is rejected; and

a remainder information display control section that controls display of a remaining period before the limit time and a remaining distance to the limit point by using a positioning result from the positioning section.

4. The portable apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a traveling pace calculation section that calculates a traveling pace by using a positioning result from the positioning section;

an expected arrival time calculation section that calculates expected arrival time at which the user arrives at the limit point by using the traveling pace; and

an expected arrival time display control section that controls display of the limit time and the expected arrival time.

5. The portable apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising

a pace display control section that controls display of a given target pace and the traveling pace.

6. The portable apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the limit time is expressed in a period having elapsed from the clocking initiation timing, and

the portable apparatus further comprises

a limit time comparison display control section that controls display of the limit time and the first cumulative time.

7. The portable apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a passage target time setting section that expresses a passage point in distance from a third point to a fourth point over which the user travels and sets, in accordance with an operation input from the user, passage target time at which the user passes the passage point; and

a target reference remainder information display control section that controls display of a remaining period from the second cumulative time to the passage target time and a remaining distance to the passage point.

8. A cumulative time display control method comprising:

initiating clocking from given clocking initiation timing and clocking a first cumulative time;

initiating clocking concurrently with or after the clocking initiation timing and clocking a second cumulative time; and

displaying the first cumulative time and the second cumulative time.