Patent ID: 7821878
Filing Date: 2010-10-26
Classification: B63C,G04B,G04C,G04F,G04G

Abstract:
1. A wearable multimode electronic device of the type that is wristworn and wherein information is conveyed in an analog manner at least in part by the use of at least one display hand, wherein the wearable electronic device includes a non-transparent dial having a dial side and an opposite side, wherein the dial has at least one window, and the display hand is positioned on the dial side of the dial, wherein the wearable multimode electronic device comprises: an actuation mechanism, operatively coupled to the at least one display hand, for rotating the at least one display hand in at least one of a clockwise and counterclockwise direction in predefined increments; a controller, operable in a first mode and at least a second mode and operatively coupled to the actuation mechanism, for causing the actuation mechanism to rotate the at least one display hand in at least one of the clockwise and counterclockwise direction in the predefined increments; and a display tat is operatively coupled to the controller, positioned on the opposite side of the non-transparent dial and viewable through the at least one window in the non-transparent dial, wherein the display displays informational indicia corresponding to the mode in which the electronic device is operating, and wherein the informational indicia is changeable based on the mode in which the wearable electronic device is operating; wherein the positioning of the display hand as it rotates in the one of the clockwise and counterclockwise directions in the predefined increments conveys the information by referring to particular informational indicia, and wherein the controller operatively controls the positioning of the hand so that the hand can convey the information in the analog manner for each of the at least two modes.