Patent ID: 7286445

Claim:
A unified digital time display configured for compatibility with prior quadribalanced, enhanced quadribalanced or unidirectional segmented time displays comprising: (a) a time display field, (b) display elements positioned generally in the center of the display field and activated to display current digital hours from 1 through 12, (c) display elements positioned in a space beside the right flank of the hour elements and activated to display elapsed minutes from zero to 59 during each current hour, (d) display elements positioned below the hour elements and activated to display incrementing seconds from zero to 59 during each elapsed minute, and (e) display elements positioned in a space beside the left flank of the hour elements and activated to form at least one steady dash that denotes the absence of time information therein as zero to 59 elapsed minutes are displayed on the right flank of each hour, said displays of hours, minutes, and seconds and said dash being maintained in stationary positions throughout such hour, whereby the unified time display claimed herein at least in part will be recognized as similar to and therefore compatible with the prior time displays.