Timepiece provided with a display for adaptive selection of manual commands

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12566410-B2
Application number	US-202217988452-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 16, 2022
Priority date	Dec 22, 2021
Publication date	Mar 3, 2026
Grant date	Mar 3, 2026

Abstract

A timepiece ( 1 ) intended to transmit commands to an external device ( 70 ), including: a digital display ( 6 ); a wireless communication circuit ( 82 ); a manual selection interface ( 5, 6 ); a microphone ( 87 ); and a processing unit ( 81 ) configured to: transmit a command to an external device ( 70 ) depending on an audible signal received on the microphone ( 87 ); depending on a history of previously selected commands, environment criteria, behavioural criteria, physiological criteria of the wearer of the timepiece, or state criteria of the external device, define a list of command suggestions to be displayed; display on the digital display ( 6 ) a command interface comprising the command suggestions (cmd 1 , cmd 2 , cmd 3 , cmd 4 , cmd 5 , cmd 6 , cmd 7 ) of the defined list.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A timepiece for transmitting commands to an external device, comprising:
a digital display; a wireless communication circuit; a manual selection interface; a microphone; and a processing unit configured to: transmit a command to an external device depending on an audible signal received on the microphone, through the wireless communication circuit; depending on a history of previously selected commands, environment criteria, behavioural criteria, physiological criteria of the wearer of the timepiece, or state criteria of the external device, define a list of command suggestions to be displayed; display on the digital display a command interface comprising said command suggestions of the defined list; identify the selection of a plurality of commands displayed on the digital display, through the manual selection interface; and transmit a command to the external device based on a combination of the selected plurality of commands, through the wireless communication circuit.

2 . The timepiece according to claim 1 , further comprising an interface for measuring physiological data of a wearer of the timepiece, said processing unit being configured to define the list of command suggestions to be displayed depending on physiological criteria of the wearer of the timepiece.

3 . The timepiece according to claim 1 , further comprising a geolocation device, said processing unit being configured to define the list of command suggestions to be displayed depending on the position of the timepiece determined by the geolocation device.

4 . The timepiece according to claim 1 , further comprising a memory storing one or more of the last commands transmitted, said processing unit being configured to define the list of command suggestions to be displayed by including one or more of the last commands stored or one or more commands contrary to these last commands.

5 . The timepiece according to claim 1 , further comprising an accelerometer, said processing unit being configured to define the list of command suggestions to be displayed depending on the accelerations measured by the accelerometer.

6 . The timepiece according to claim 1 , wherein said processing unit is configured to define the list of command suggestions to be displayed depending on a state criterion detected for the external device and a distance of the external device to the timepiece.

7 . The timepiece according to claim 1 , wherein the manual selection interface is a touch screen associated with the digital display.

8 . The timepiece according to claim 1 , wherein the processing unit implements a learning algorithm that is capable of contributing to dynamically generating on the digital display said command interface comprising the command suggestions.

9 . The timepiece according to claim 1 , wherein the define the list of command suggestions to be displayed comprises defining a tree structure of command suggestions that comprises a plurality of levels of suggested commands.

10 . The timepiece according to claim 9 , wherein the display on the digital display the command interface comprising said command suggestions of the defined list comprises displaying suggested commands associated with one level of the plurality of levels of suggested commands.

11 . The timepiece according to claim 9 , wherein the suggested commands in each subsequent level of the plurality of levels are associated with the suggested commands in a corresponding preceding level of the plurality of levels.

12 . The timepiece according to claim 10 , wherein in response to a selection of a command associated with the one level, said processing unit is further configured to update the digital display to display the suggested commands associated with another level of the plurality of levels of suggested commands.

13 . The timepiece according to claim 12 , wherein the one level is a first level of suggested commands and the another level is a second level of suggested commands associated with the selected command from the first level.

14 . The timepiece according to claim 10 , wherein the identify the selection of the plurality of commands displayed on the digital display and the transmit the command to the external device based on the combination of the selected plurality of commands comprises: identifying each selected command associated with each level of the plurality of levels of suggested commands, combining the selected commands to generate a resulting command, and transmitting the resulting command to the external device.

Assignees

• Eta Sa Mft Horlogere Suisse

Inventors

• Lagorgette Pascal

Classifications

• G04G21/08

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