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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2010
Hiroya Fujii, Tokyo, JP;
Isamu Arie, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Ronald Clark, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Justin Randolf Jakobson, Venice, CA (US);
Yuji Oikawa, Marina Del Ray, CA (US);
Joe Wada, Tokyo, JP;
Rui Yamagami, San Diego, CA (US);
Takuo Ikeda, San Diego, CA (US);
Chia-yao Lin, Tokyo, JP;
Junghee Yeo, L. A., CA (US);
Hiroya Fujii, Tokyo, JP;
Isamu Arie, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Ronald Clark, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Justin Randolf Jakobson, Venice, CA (US);
Yuji Oikawa, Marina Del Ray, CA (US);
Joe Wada, Tokyo, JP;
Rui Yamagami, San Diego, CA (US);
Takuo Ikeda, San Diego, CA (US);
Chia-Yao Lin, Tokyo, JP;
Junghee Yeo, L. A., CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A wedge-shaped digital clock wirelessly receives weather, traffic, and other information over the Internet for display along with the time of day. The clock is wedge-shaped so that it can rest in two orientations, one with the display tilted back slightly from vertical and one with the display substantially horizontal. An accelerometer can signal the orientation to an internal processor, which can flip the text on the display as appropriate for the user flipping or turning the housing upside down, for example.