Information display device, information display method, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10821809-B2
Application number	US-201715636337-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 28, 2017
Priority date	Jun 30, 2016
Publication date	Nov 3, 2020
Grant date	Nov 3, 2020

Abstract

An information display device comprising a processor, the processor executing: time information acquiring processing of acquiring time information; azimuth information acquiring processing of acquiring azimuth information; coordinate setting processing of setting a time coordinate system for display of the time information on a display image and setting an azimuth coordinate system for display of the azimuth information on the display image; and display control processing of displaying particular time information acquired by the time information acquiring processing, in the time coordinate system set on the display image and particular azimuth information acquired by the azimuth information acquiring processing, in the azimuth coordinate system set on the display image.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information display device comprising a processor,
the processor executing:
time information acquiring processing of acquiring time information;
azimuth information acquiring processing of acquiring azimuth information corresponding to the information display device, wherein the acquired azimuth information includes magnetic field information acquired from a magnetic field sensor;
coordinate setting processing of setting a time coordinate system for display of the time information on a display image and setting an azimuth coordinate system for display of the azimuth information on a plane on the display image, wherein east, west, north and south are set respectively at four different points on the edge of the display screen; and
display control processing of controlling a display to display particular time information acquired by the time information acquiring processing, in the time coordinate system set on the display image and particular azimuth information acquired by the azimuth information acquiring processing, in the azimuth coordinate system set on the display image,
wherein the particular time information and the particular azimuth information is indicated by a same one indicator.

2. The information display device according to claim 1 , wherein in the display control processing, the particular time information and the particular azimuth information are displayed in a coordinate system formed by combining the time coordinate system and the azimuth coordinate system in the display processing, wherein the coordinate axes of the azimuth coordinate system are skewed to match the time coordinate system.

3. The information display device according to claim 2 , wherein in the time coordinate setting processing and the azimuth coordinate setting processing, the position of the particular time information in the time coordinate system is associated with the position of the particular azimuth information relating to the particular time information, and coordinate conversion is made on at least one of the time coordinate system and the azimuth coordinate system based on the position of the particular time information and the position of the particular azimuth information, and
in the display control processing, the time coordinate system and the azimuth coordinate system after the coordinate conversion are combined.

4. The information display device according to claim 3 , wherein in the time coordinate setting processing, coordinates in the time coordinate system are allocated uniformly in a peripheral direction of a display region of the display image generated in the display processing, and
in the azimuth coordinate setting processing, the azimuth coordinate system is set by associating the particular azimuth information relating to the particular time information with the position of the particular time information in the time coordinate system, and allocating azimuth information other than the particular azimuth information relating to the particular time information to the time coordinate system in such a manner as to conform to the azimuth information relating to the particular time information.

5. The information display device according to claim 4 , wherein the azimuth information relating to the particular time information includes first azimuth information relating to first time information, and second azimuth information relating to second time information, and
in the azimuth coordinate setting processing, the first azimuth information relating to the first time information is associated with the time coordinate system, the second azimuth information relating to the second time information is associated with the time coordinate system, and azimuth coordinates between the first azimuth information and the second azimuth information are allocated to time coordinates between the first time information and the second time information.

6. The information display device according to claim 3 , wherein the azimuth information relating to the particular time information includes first azimuth information relating to first time information, and second azimuth information relating to second time information, and
in the azimuth coordinate setting processing, the first azimuth information relating to the first time information is associated with the time coordinate system, the second azimuth information relating to the second time information is associated with the time coordinate system, and azimuth coordinates between the first azimuth information and the second azimuth information are allocated to time coordinates between the first time information and the second time information.

7. The information display device according to claim 3 , wherein in the azimuth coordinate setting processing, coordinates in the azimuth coordinate system are allocated uniformly in the peripheral direction of the display region of the display, and
in the time coordinate setting processing, the time coordinate system is set by associating the particular time information relating to the particular azimuth information with the position of the particular azimuth information in the azimuth coordinate system, and allocating time information other than the particular time information relating to the particular azimuth information to the azimuth coordinate system in such a manner as to conform to the time information relating to the particular azimuth information.

8. The information display device according to claim 2 , wherein in the time coordinate setting processing, coordinates in the time coordinate system are allocated uniformly in a peripheral direction of a display region of the display image generated in the display processing, and
in the azimuth coordinate setting processing, the azimuth coordinate system is set by associating the particular azimuth information relating to the particular time information with the position of the particular time information in the time coordinate system, and allocating azimuth information other than the particular azimuth information relating to the particular time information to the time coordinate system in such a manner as to conform to the azimuth information relating to the particular time information.

9. The information display device according to claim 8 , wherein the azimuth information relating to the particular time information includes first azimuth information relating to first time information, and second azimuth information relating to second time information, and
in the azimuth coordinate setting processing, the first azimuth information relating to the first time information is associated with the time coordinate system, the second azimuth information relating to the second time information is associated with the time coordinate system, and azimuth coordinates between the first azimuth information and the second azimuth information are allocated to time coordinates between the first time information and the second time information.

10. The information display device according to claim 8 ,
wherein the azimuth information acquiring processing of acquiring azimuth information acquires the azimuth information repeatedly; and
wherein the display controlling processing of controlling the display to rotate the displayed image based on a difference between current acquired azimuth information and previous acquired azimuth information.

11. The information display device according to claim 2 , wherein the azimuth information relating to the particular time information includes first azimuth information relating to first time information, and second azimuth information relating to second time information, and
in the azimuth coordinate setting proces

Assignees

• Casio Computer Co Ltd

Inventors

• Imamura Keiichi
• Hanafusa Norihito
• Tsujimura Taichiro
• Moritani Shinichi
• Yamaguchi Tomokazu

Classifications

• Y02B30/70

  Efficient control or regulation technologies, e.g. for control of refrigerant flow, motor or heating · CPC title

• F25B41/39

  Dispositions with two or more expansion means arranged in series, i.e. multi-stage expansion, on a refrigerant line leading to the same evaporator · CPC title

• G04G21/04

  using radio waves (radio-controlled time-pieces G04R) · CPC title

• G04G9/0064

  in which functions not related to time can be displayed (digital output to display devices of digital computers G06F3/14) · CPC title

• F25B5/02 Primary

  arranged in parallel · CPC title