TIME DISPLAY DEVICE, TIME DISPLAY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20170176952A1
• Filed: 09/21/2016
• Published: 06/22/2017
• 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
• Granted Patent: US 10,126,714 B2
• Time in Patent Office: 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 smartphone includes: a touch panel display that performs display and receives an operation by a user; flash memory; a CPU; and a time display program that is stored in the flash memory and is configured so as to be executed by the CPU. This time display program includes: a command for causing the touch panel display to receive a selection operation of a specified city by the user; and a command for causing the touch panel display to display a center of a local time display of the specified city so as to be superimposed on a display location of the specified city in a map showing the specified city.

Claims

1. A time display device, comprising:

a display unit;

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

one or more processors connected to the display unit and the operation receiving unit; and

one or more storage units storing a map image and instructions executed by said one or more processors;

wherein said instructions include a segment that, in response to the selection operation by the user, causes the display unit to display said map image, a location in said map image of said city selected by the user, and a timepiece image that indicates a local time of said city such that a center of the timepiece image coincides with said location of said city in said map image.

2. The time display device according to claim 1, wherein said instructions further include a segment that, when the user selects another city as a replacement of said previously selected city via the operation receiving unit, updates said city and said local time of said city so that the display unit displays a location of said updated city now selected by the user, and a timepiece image that indicates said updated local time of said updated city such that a center of the timepiece image coincides with said location of said updated city.

3. The time display device according to claim 1, further comprising a communication unit that connects to an external network,

wherein said instructions further include a segment that, when the user selects another city as a replacement of said previously selected city via the operation receiving unit, updates said city and said local time of said city when the user selects another city as a replacement of said previously selected city via the operation receiving unit,

wherein said instructions further include a segment that causes the communication unit to receive a map image of a map in which said updated city is located as an updated map image when the map image stored in said one or more storage units does not include said updated city and stores said updated map image in said one or more storage units so that the display unit displays said updated map image, a location in said updated map image of said updated city now selected by the user, and the timepiece image that indicates said updated local time of said updated city such that a center of the timepiece image coincides with said location of said updated city in said updated map image.

4. The time display device according to claim 1,

wherein said instructions further include a segment that causes the display unit to display a hometown timepiece image that is larger than said timepiece image indicating the local time of said selected city, the hometown timepiece image indicating a time of a hometown that is user selectable;

wherein the operation receiving unit is configured to receive from the user a switching operation that switches displays of the hometown timepiece image and the timepiece image for said selected city on the display unit, and

wherein said instructions further include a segment that, in response to the switching operation received from the user, switches roles of the hometown and the selected city, thereby making the hometown as a newly selected city and said selected city as a newly specified hometown, and that causes the display unit to display the hometown timepiece image for the newly specified hometown, a map image in which the newly selected city is located, a location in said map image of said newly selected city, and a timepiece image that indicates a local time of said newly selected city such that a center of the timepiece image coincides with said location of said city in said map image.

5. The time display device according to claim 1, further comprising a near field wireless communication unit that communicates with a timepiece,

wherein said instructions further include a segment that causes setting information regarding the city selected via the operation receiving unit to be transmitted to said timepiece via the near field wireless communication unit.

6. The time display device according to claim 5, wherein said instructions further include a segment that, when the near field wireless communication unit receives from the timepiece a notification that said setting information of the city have been deleted via the timepiece, causes the display unit to terminate a display of the map image for said selected city.

7. The time display device according to claim 5, wherein said instructions further include a segment that, when the near field wireless communication unit receives from the timepiece a notification that said setting information of the selected city have been deleted via the timepiece as a result of a user of the timepiece changing setting of said local time, and receives, from the timepiece, information indicating time difference between said changed local time and the previously set local time, causes the one or more processors to determine a city that is within a prescribed range of said time difference and that is located closest to the previously selected city as a newly selected city for which the local time and the location thereof is displayed in the map image.

8. The time display device according to claim 1, wherein said instructions further include a segment that causes the display unit to display a name of the selected city adjacent to the center of the timepiece image indicating the local time of the selected city that coincides with the location in the map image of the selected city.

9. The time display device according to claim 2, wherein said instructions further include a segment that causes the display unit to display a name of the selected city adjacent to the center of the timepiece image indicating the local time of the selected city that coincides with the location in the map image of the selected city.

10. The time display device according to claim 3, wherein said instructions further include a segment that causes the display unit to display a name of the selected city adjacent to the center of the timepiece image indicating the local time of the selected city that coincides with the location in the map image of the selected city.

11. The time display device according to claim 4, wherein said instructions further include a segment that causes the display unit to display a name of the selected city adjacent to the center of the timepiece image indicating the local time of the selected city that coincides with the location in the map image of the selected city.

12. The time display device according to claim 5, wherein said instructions further include a segment that causes the display unit to display a name of the selected city adjacent to the center of the timepiece image indicating the local time of the selected city that coincides with the location in the map image of the selected city.

13. The time display device according to claim 6, wherein said instructions further include a segment that causes the display unit to display a name of the selected city adjacent to the center of the timepiece image indicating the local time of the selected city that coincides with the location in the map image of the selected city.

14. The time display device according to claim 7, wherein said instructions further include a segment that causes the display unit to display a name of the selected city adjacent to the center of the timepiece image indicating the local time of the selected city that coincides with the location in the map image of the selected city.

18. The time display device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit and the operation receiving unit is comprised of a touch panel.

15. A method of time display executed by a time display device that includes one or more processors, one or more storage units that store a map image and instructions executed by said one or more processors, a display unit, and an operation receiving unit, the method comprising:

receiving a selection operation indicating a selection of a city by a user via said operation receiving unit; and

displaying in the display unit said map image, a location of said selected city in said map image and a timepiece image that indicates a local time of said selected city such that a center of the timepiece image coincides with the location of said city.

16. A non-transitory storage medium having stored therein instructions that can be read by one or more processors in a time display device, the time display device further including a display unit and an operation receiving unit, wherein a map image is stored in the non-transitory storage medium or in a storage unit in the time display device, said instructions causing said one or more processors to perform the following:

receiving a selection operation indicating a selection of a city by a user via said operation receiving unit; and

displaying in the display unit said map image, a location of said selected city in said map image and a timepiece image that indicates a local time of said selected city such that a center of the timepiece image coincides with the location of said city.

17. A time display device, comprising:

a display unit;

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

one or more processors; and

one or more storage units storing a map image and instructions executed by one or more processors,

wherein said one or more processors cause the display unit to display said map image, a location in the map image of the city selected via the operation receiving unit and a timepiece image that indicates a local time of said selected city such that a center of the timepiece image coincides with said location of said city in said map image.