FR2611934A1 - METHOD FOR ANALOGUE DISPLAY OF TIME FLOW ON A DIGITAL CLOCK, AND DIGITAL CLOCK OF ANALOG DISPLAY TYPE USING THE SAME - Google Patents

Abstract

ANALOGUE DISPLAY OF THE FLOW OF TIME ON A DIGITAL CLOCK, CHARACTERIZED IN THAT IT INCLUDES THE DIFFERENT STEPS CONSISTING OF: - GIVING TO THE DISPLAY SURFACE F OF THE DISPLAY SECTION OF THE DIGITAL CLOCK, AN EXTERIOR APPEARANCE ANALOGUE TO THAT OF AN ANALOGUE CLOCK; - USE A CERTAIN NUMBER OF L1, L2, L3 DISPLAY SEGMENTS ARRANGED IN RADIAL DIRECTION ON THE DISPLAY SURFACE, SO AS TO ALLOW THE APPEARANCE ON THIS DISPLAY SURFACE OF CORRESPONDING LINE IMAGES L1, L2, L3 EACH AT THE SECONDS, MINUTES AND HOURS OF THE ANALOGUE CLOCK AND ROTATE EACH OF THE LINE IMAGES AT PREDETERMINED TIME INTERVALS, EACH BASED ON THE DIGITAL CLOCK'S TIME FLOW.

Description

Method for analog display of the passage of time on a clock

  digital, and type digital clock

  with analog display using this process ".

  The invention relates to a method for analogical display of the passage of time on a digital clock, and to a digital clock of the time type.

  analog display using this process.

Classic watches and clocks

  essentially belong either to the analo-

  clock with hour hands respectively,

  minutes and seconds, as well as mechanical parts

  picnics made up of gears and shafts

  rotation allowing the needles to rotate

  described above, either of the analog type affi-

  singing directly on display means such as liquid crystal display panels (LCD), all numerical values corresponding to hours, minutes and seconds. It didn't exist until now

  of clock going beyond these watches and these clocks

classic ages.

In analog type clocks

  that gears and rotating shafts are in-

  dispensable to rotate each of the hands associated with the indication of the hours, minutes and seconds. As a result, the mechanical parts associated with the final rotations of each of the needles, have remained unchanged since ancient times

  Up to the present day, either in ana- type clocks

  purely mechanical logic, even in horlo-

  analog electronic type to which

  applies modern electronic techniques. As a result, it is normal that the thickness and size of these analog clocks cannot generally

help reduce costs.

  In addition, the development of recent precision working techniques has made it possible to manufacture ultra-thin analog watches. In this case, however, there is a cost problem. On the other hand,

  in classic digital watches like this

  those of Figure 1 (in which the

  most simplified digital clock circuit in sup-

  prevailing frequency dividers and other control circuits included in each of the signal output sections. See for example Japanese Patent Specification 57-67885 left open in 1982), the time is displayed on an LCD500 display, according to the signals representative of seconds, minutes and hours respectively from signal output sections of seconds, minutes and hours 200, 300, 400, based on an oscillation output signal from

an oscillator 100.

In these digital clocks, pra-

  all parts can be carried out by

  electronic components and circuits. Like none

  no mechanical part such as gears and ar-

  bres of rotation are only necessary to turn the gears and the needles, these digital clocks

  have become extremely cheap due to the technical

  very advanced in the field of electricity

tronic.

  In these digital clocks however

  as the display 500 used to indicate the

  time in the form of numerical values is relative-

  relatively small compared to the total size of the clock

  corresponding lodge, this presents an imbalance of form. In addition, the display of the figures corresponding per se to the hours, minutes and seconds,

  is relatively trivial and of no common interest

  compared to that of analog clocks. In part-

  culier, in digital clocks of the LCD type (Affi-

  liquid crystal chage), a disadvantage appears from the fact that the figures corresponding to the elapsed time are

  often difficult to see from the angle of observation.

  The invention therefore aims to create an analog display method of the flow

  of time on a digital clock whose surface area

  can be easily observed, exactly as

  me an analog clock, and that presents an atmosphere

  and a more likable aspect - in its function of affi-

  while keeping the characteristics of the clock

digital box itself.

  Another object of the invention is to create a method for analog display of the elapsed time on a digital clock, in which the elapsed time consisting of seconds, minutes and hours,

  can be entered using sixteen digits and a

  seems multiple of single display points.

  Another object of the invention is to create a method for analog display of the time elapsed on a digital clock, in which the flow of the

  time can be indicated on a display by the varia-

  tions of three primary color lights illuminating

  the unique combination of sixteen specific digits.

  Another object of the invention is to create an analog display method of the flow

  of time on a digital clock, in which the

  Time can be indicated by the unique combination of sixteen specific digits and musical sounds produced by sound production means, each of the particular musical sounds of the first and second octaves being previously assigned to the sixteen digits. Another object of the invention is to create an analog display method of the flow

  time on a digital clock, in which the

  lement du temps pet .. to be recognized by touch thanks to the unique combination of sixteen determined numbers and display points which can either protrude on the display surface, when excited, or be retracted under the surface of display, when

  are not excited by means of excitation.

The invention also aims to

  create a digital clock type analog display

  a gic using any of the above methods of analog display of elapsed time on a clock

digital.

The invention also aims to

  create a digital clock type analog display

  icing comprising a first exit section of the

  general for producing a first signal representing seconds, a second signal output section for producing a second signal representing minutes, and a third signal output section for producing a third signal representing hours, in which the time lapse can be displayed on each of the display surfaces by

  the color variations of the three lights

  their primaries issued by means of transmitting

  light in accordance with the signals representing the

  conditions, minutes and hours, these signals come from

  denying signal output sections and illuminating the unique combination of sixteen Arabic numerals on each

display area.

The invention also aims to

  create a digital clock type analog display

  gic in which the section display area

  display is divided into sixteen separate display areas

  separate pendants, each display area being connected to each of the others by electrical conductive wires, each of the twelve main digits plus four digits

  auxiliaries being formed on each of the display zones

  ge, and the reorganization of independent display areas

  separate dantes allowing everyone to create their own

  clock with different unique time indications

  as well as display the flow of time on

  each of the display areas, by the variations in

  lights of primary colors emitted by means of emitting colored light and illuminating the sixteen digits in accordance with the signals representing the

  seconds, minutes and hours, these signals come from

  from digital clock signal output sections

  risk. To this end, the invention relates

  a method of displaying the flow of time of ma-

  analog on a digital clock with

  a first signal output section for pro-

  to draw a first signal representative of the seconds, a second signal output section intended to produce

  a second signal representative of the minutes, three

  sith signal output section intended to produce a third signal representative of the hours, and a

  display section for displaying the time, pro-

  assigned, characterized in that it comprises different stages consisting in:

  - give the display area of the display section

  chage of the digital clock, an external appearance ana-

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  log to that of an analog clock;

  - arrange the twelve numbers from 1 to 12 of the clocks ana-

  logic, on the periphery of the sem-

  similar to that of an analog clock; - use a certain number of display segments available

  laid in the radial direction on the surface of affi-

  chage, so as to allow the appearance on this display surface of images of lines each corresponding to the seconds, minutes and hours hands of the analog clock, in accordance with the seconds, minutes and hours signals produced by each of the signal output sections; and

  - rotate each of the line images at intervals

  predetermined time ranges, each based on

  the passage of time from the digital clock.

The invention also relates to a

  digital clock type with analog display including

  respectively providing a first outlet section of

  signal intended to produce a first signal represented

  tif seconds, a second output section of si-

  general intended to produce a second representative signal

  minutes, and a third if-

  intended to produce a third representative signal

  tif des heures, digital clock characterized in that it further comprises:

  - a display section intended to display the listening

  time analogically, the display area

  filing of this display section having a particular shape divided into a predetermined number of display areas; - the twelve main numbers of an analog clock

  and the predetermined number of auxiliary numbers available

  entered in a predetermined order on each of the display areas thus divided;

  - each first set of Indi- display points.

  as for seconds, minutes and hours, being

  arranged in predetermined positions on the surface

  this display in the vicinity of the twelve main numbers in each display area, and each second set of display points indicating the seconds and the minutes, being arranged in predetermined positions on this display surface, in the vicinity numbers

  auxiliaries located respectively in each viewing area

  plugging, so as to supply each successively

  display points in the predetermined order,

  before the first, second and third signals represented

  seconds, minutes and hours, these

  signals being produced by each of the signal output sections; - which thus makes it possible to use in common the main and auxiliary numbers to indicate the seconds, the minutes and the hours, in order to display the passage of time in an analogical way from the supply conditions of each set of points display, by determining whether the particular display points thus excited belong or not to the numbers intended respectively for the indication of seconds, minutes

or hours.

The invention will be described in detail.

  details with reference to the accompanying drawings in which: - Figure 1 shows a simple construction of a digital clock according to the prior art; - Figure 2 shows the basic principle of the analog type time display system using a digital clock, according to the invention;

  - Figure 3 shows a second embodiment

  tion of the analog type time display system using a digital clock, according to the invention;

  - Figure 4 shows a third embodiment

  tion of the analog type time display system using a digital clock according to the invention;

  - Figure 5 shows a fourth embodiment

  tion of the analog type time display system according to the invention; FIG. 6 represents a fifth embodiment of the time display system of analog type, in triangular form, according to the invention;

  - Figure 7 shows a partially enlarged part

  display die with different display points

chage of Figure 4;

  - Figures 8 (a), (b) and (c) show respective-

  other embodiments of the points of affi-

  Figure 7; - Figure 9 shows another embodiment of the digital clock type analog display according to the invention;

  - Figure 10 shows a partially enlarged part

  die of boot type display numbers, these

  figures being made of a plastic material

  feeling an opaque milky color and storing res-

  pectively each a set of three business elements

  chage; FIG. 11 represents a digital clock of the analog color display type according to the invention; - Figure 12 shows another embodiment

  still digital clock type analog display

  According to the invention, this embodiment comprises

  carrying the separate independent display areas as well as a power supply and a control part; - Figures 13 to 16 show other embodiments of digital clocks of the analog display type similar to that of Figure 12, according to the invention; and - Figures 17 (A) and (B) show the different shapes of the display areas of the display surface of the digital clock of analog display type

according to the invention.

  - Figure 18 shows the construction of the door circuit and door switches of the counters of the

  seconds or sec signal output section

  output of minute signals; - Figure 19 shows the circuit construction of the doors and a door switch of the meters of the output section of the time signals; and

  - Figures 20 (A), (B) and (C) show the cons-

  detailed circuit truction of each switch

shown in Figures 18 and 19.

  Referring to Figure 2, this represents the basic principle of a clock

  digital type with analog display according to the invention

  tion. In this embodiment, on the frame F of the surface of the digital clock are twelve Arabic numerals 1 to 12 belonging to an analog clock and which can be either painted or fixed on the display surface thereof. . In the latter case, the figures made for example of wood, plastic material (, e, metal or the like, can be

  embossed on the surface of the digital clock

  than. On the inner surface of the frame

  F are formed of liquid crystal display elements

  of (LCD) so as to obtain a certain number of li-

  display segment genes L1, L2, L3, ... on the sur-

  display side, when these segments are energized, instead of using the numeric digits of a clock

  normal digital. Consequently, when the elements of af-

  liquid crystal display are excited according to the principle

  known cipe, the needles in the form of liquid crystal images T1, T2, and T3 which correspond to the hour hand, the minute hand and the

  seconds of an analog clock, are displayed and

  tralnées in rotation to advance in the direction of the ai-

  watches of a watch, the seconds display hand

  T3 preferably advancing every second along the lines of latent display segments L1, L2, L3, 30 ... Ln according to the signals representative of the seconds, minutes and hours produced respectively by the signal output section seconds, the minutes output section and the 11 hour signal output section of the conventional digital clock, as shown in Figure 1. In this case, however, when it is difficult to form the segment lines d display at such short distances, it may be possible to display the image of the T3 second hand every two seconds or every three seconds, etc.

In addition, although the digital clock

  rique shown in Figure 2 looks like a clock-

  analog ge on its front side, it is nevertheless

  even though it is a digital clock. As a result, this clock can also be produced in a way

  that the minute hand T2 only moves when

  that it goes from fifty nine seconds to sixty se-

  condes, while the hour hand T1 remains in the ten o'clock position until it reaches the last second coming after fifty nine minutes and fifty nine seconds, that is to say (59: 59) on Figure 2. This reads the hours, the minutes

  and seconds more easily than on an analog clock

logic.

  As described above, the indication of the time can be carried out in analog form by displaying and rotating each of the display segments T1, T2, T3 corresponding to the hour hand, the minute hand and the second hand of an analog clock, under the action of the signals representative of the seconds,

  minutes and hours, these signals coming respectively

  of each of the signal output sections of

the digital clock.

  FIG. 3 represents another embodiment of the digital clock of the analog display type according to the invention, this being in rectangular form. In this embodiment, like the operation of the clock

  numeric is the same as that of the reali-

  sation of Figure 2, there is no need to repeat

take the detailed description.

  FIG. 4 represents another embodiment of the digital clock of analog display type according to the invention, to which the display system of FIG. 2 has been applied. In the embodiment shown above in figure 2, the central part of the digital clock is

  realized in the form of a liquid crystal display

  of. It is not necessary, however, that the totali-

  tee of the central part of the crystal display 11-

  which is realized in the form of a section of affi-

  chage, but just indicate the end of ex-

  end of each of the second hands, minu-

  hours and hours, to find out what time it is. By

  continued, in the embodiment of the clock shown

  felt in figure 4, the center of the frame F is left

  free while each of the clues or display points

  ge P1, P2, P3 is placed respectively at a predetermined spacing distance, so as to light only

  the particular display points P1, P2, P3 correspond to

  laying at the current positions of the hour hands

  res, minutes and seconds of the clock, and

  place these needles according to the time elapsed.

  In the clock shown in Figure 4, this indicates an instantaneous time of ten, five, twenty-five (10: 5:25). The shape of the dots

  display can be done arbitrarily by each

  that set of marks (A), (B), or (C), as shown in Figure 7, which represents a partially enlarged segment of the clock of Figure 4. In Figure 7, P1, P2, P3 represent respectively display points

  hours, minutes and seconds.

Figures 5 and 6 show

  two other embodiments of the invention correspond to

  each laying a rectangular and a triangular shape, the center of the clocks being

left free.

  In the embodiments shown

  felt in Figures 4 to 7, each of the points of affi-

  chage P1 to P3 is shown respectively as being arranged in the radial direction. In practice, however,

  these display points P1, P2 and P3 can be reali-

  preferably in different forms in the lateral direction, these points being placed in the vicinity

  each other below each corresponding figure

  laying, as shown in Figures 8 (A), (B) and (C), so as to reduce the width of the frame F of the face

before the clock.

  FIG. 9 shows another embodiment of the digital clock of the analog display type according to the invention. In this embodiment, the display surface D of a clock

  is divided into sixteen areas or affi-

  equal chage, and each of the twelve main arabic numbers

  pals 1 to 12 corresponding to the normal time display numbers of an analog clock, as well as four auxiliary numbers O, 1/2, 3/4 and 5, are placed on

  each display area thus divided. Each of these names

  bres can preferably be chiselled out of wood or metal, or even be made in shoemaking in the form of an opaque milky color if these numbers are in material

  plastic as shown in figure 10, for reasons

  sounds which will be indicated below. Each of the numbers

  can obviously be painted on the display surface.

  A first set of display points P1, P2, P3 constituted for example by light-emitting elements, are placed around and in the vicinity of each of the numbers one to twelve, while a second set of points d P2, P3 are placed around and in the vicinity of each of the auxiliary numbers 0, 1/2, 3/4 and 5, as shown in Figure 9. Each

* display points P1, P1, P1 ... indicates hours

  res, each of the display points P2, P2 ... indicates

  the minutes, and each of the display points P3, P3 ...

  indicates the seconds, when excited respectively. These display points can be constituted by elements of light-emitting diodes (LED),

  by liquid crystal elements (LCD), by elements

  plasma or lamp displays. Dots

  display can also be made up respectively

  by mechanical elements which can protrude from the display surface when they are excited, and retract when they are not excited, according to a

  well-known technique, so that a blind person can

  to receive by touch either the excited state or the non state

excited mechanical elements.

  Each of the display points P3 is successively lit every second by the signal

  output indicating seconds and coming from sec-

  signal output seconds of the digital clock

  risk, as shown in Figure 1, its feeding

  respective being carried out so as to advance step by step.

  Each of the display points P2 is lit successively-

  every minute by the output signal indicating

  minutes and coming from the exit section of the

  gianl of the minutes of the digital clock, its power supply

  tion advancing step by step in a similar way to that

  above. In the same way, each of the points

  P1 is lit successively every hour

  res by the output signal indicating the hours and pro-

  coming from the hours signal output section, its power state persists for one hour in one

  particular display point P1 thus lit.

  The Arabic numerals belonging to the display point thus lit indicate at all times

  seconds, minutes or current hours.

Table 1 shows how 12 o'clock

  res, 60 minutes and 60 seconds can be displayed by the combination of display elements Pi, P2, P3 on the display surface comprising a total of sixteen

  numbers. We can for example indicate up to the indica-

  1 to 12 hours, 1 to 12 minutes, and 1 to

  12 seconds, by each of the corresponding display points

  P1, P2, P3, i.e. in this case by the elements of light-emitting diodes which must be

  lit, without the need to use names-

  auxiliary bres. In Figure 9, the black dots in-

  indicating the power states or OPERATING STATES, of the light-emitting diode elements, thereby indicating that it is now two seconds, five minutes

  after 10 a.m. (10: 5: 2) on the digital clock.

TABLE 1

  P1: Hour Display Point (P1 = ON, advance every hour) P2: Minute Display Point (P2 = ON, advance every minute) P3: Second Display Point (P3 = ON, advance every seconds) Expressions of Hours, Minutes, Seconds: (Example) 2 (two hours: s). 2 (two minutes) (two seconds) t P1 -P2 P3 Hour indication 1 12

1 - 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

  Minute indication The twelve Arabic numbers + 0, 1/2, and seconds 3/4, 5 (auxiliary numbers)

0 0

1 - 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

13 - 19 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

20 2 0

21 - 29 2 1/2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

30

31 - 39 3 1/2 3/4 5 6 7 8 9

4 0

41 - 49 4 1/2 3/4 5 6 7 8 9

5 0

51 - 59 5 1/2 3/4 5 6 7 8 9

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TABLE II

  Auxiliary numbers o 1/2 3/4 5 the do / re mi / fa sol Indication of the Relations between the numbers and the musical scale hours 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 do ré mi fa sol la si do ré mi fa sol Indications of

seconds and se-

condes o O la

1- 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

J. $ 6 S

  do re mi fa sol la if do re mi fa sol

13 - 19 1 3 4 5 6 7 8

do mi fasol la si do re

2 O

re la

21 - 29 2 1/2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9,

re do / re mi fa sol la si do re

3

mid there

31 - 39 3 1/2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9,

mi do / re mi fa sol la si do re

40 4

fa la

41 - 49 4 1/2 3/4 5 6 7 8 9, -

fa do / re mi / fa sol la si do re

5 O

floor there

51 - 59 5 1/2 3/4 5 6 7 8 9,

  sol do / ré mi / fa sol la si do re NOTE: The mark (') indicates the scales of the second octave. In addition, when an instantaneous time indication of one second, one minute after one hour (1: 1: 1, before noon or afternoon) is to be performed, all the light emitting diode elements P1, P2, P3 belonging to the same 1 are lit at the same time. The seconds and minutes time indication which exceeds the number 12 becomes the combination of two digits. For example, the time indication of

  13 seconds is carried out as follows:

  light emitting diode P3 belonging to the number 1 and the light emitting diode element P3

  belonging to the number 3 are lit at the same time.

  Note however that the time indications provided by the display points

  and the numbers corresponding to the hours, minutes and se-

  condes, must always advance successively in the same direction, and that it is not possible to carry out any indication of any time in opposite direction by the numbers. We therefore use for this the four auxiliary numbers O, 1/2, 3/4 and 5 in the embodiment

  of the invention shown in Figure 9. More specific-

  ment, like the numbers 21, 31, 32, 41, 42, 43, 51, 52, 53 and 54 for the indication of minutes and seconds, cannot be distinguished from the numbers 12, 13, 23, 14, 24, 34, 15, 25, 35 and 45, any of the numbers 2, 3, 4 and 5 and any of the auxiliary numbers 1/2 and

  3/4 are combined to be used as an indi-

as in Table 1.

  In addition, when it is desired to indicate the numbers 20, 30, 40 and 50, the combination of each of the digits 2, 3, 4 and 5 with the auxiliary digit 0, is used as indicated in Table 1. Thanks to this combination , the 132 numbers required (12 +

  + 60) which must be used in total for indica-

  arbitrary time ranging from 1 to 12 hours, 0 to

2 6 1 1 9 3 4

  59 minutes, and O to 59 seconds, can be indicated

  sufficiently by the sixteen digits according to the

  vention. This means that the simplified display system

  relied on according to the invention allows any

  the time indication within twelve hours, in

  using the 132 combinations of the 16 digits in form

me analog.

We will now use in the

  Refer to the term "analog display type" or "analog display". This terminology is justified by the fact that the output signals

  representative of the hours, minutes and seconds, from

  from the hour signal output sections, minu-

  tes and seconds are not used to display di-

  decimal numbers as in a conventional digital clock, but are simply used to turn on or power each of the display points in predetermined positions corresponding to the hands

  hours, minutes and seconds of an analog clock.

  It could also appear that the digital clock type with analog display

  according to the invention, shown in FIG. 9, resembles

  ble to a digital display type clock on its

  front face. Note, however, that the digital clock

  that analog display type shown in Figure 9 is in practice a real clock type

  analog display, because the output signals represent

  seconds, minutes and hours are not

  not used to directly display deci-

  evils by any means but are used sim-

  to switch on or supply display points

P1, P2, P3.

In the embodiment of the

  figure 9, we use elements of light-emitting diodes

  minescents as display points. However, it is also possible to use lamps as display points. In addition, in the embodiment of

  FIG. 9, each of the elements of light-emitting diodes

  nescents representative of the hours, minutes and seconds, can be constituted by light-emitting diodes

  minescents or lamps of different colors

  both for example a red light for the indication

  hours, a green light for the indication of mid-

  nutes, and a blue light to indicate the seconds

  instead of using electric diodes respectively

  troluminescent or single-color lamps.

  Figure 10 shows another embodiment of the display surface of Figure 9, in which a set of three light-emitting diode elements or a set of three color lamps emitting red, green, and blue lights are housed in each of the boot type digits of each display area, at points P1,

  P2, P3 of these. If each of the digits of the over-

  display side is made of pre-

  feeling an opaque milky-colored outer surface

  that, we get a more aesthetic effect due to the

  principle of primary color effects.

  Figure 11 shows another embodiment of the digital clock type

  analog display, in which one displays

  their the numbers themselves instead of the points of affi-

  chage. In this embodiment, the surface

  display is also divided into sixteen display areas

  filing, with dividing walls between edges

  adjacent areas, and primal colored lights

  res are emitted by known means such as

  color light emitting diodes,

  color liquid crystal elements, or elements

  plasma display elements in accordance with the time output signals representative of the seconds, minutes and hours from the second, minute and hour signal output sections of a

  digital clock, as shown in Figure 1.

We can either illuminate the figures

  themselves by the colored lights thus emitted during

  that we use the liquid crystal elements in

  their or the plasma display elements, either illuminated

  rer the background of the figures by the colo- lights

  rees thus transmitted, in accordance with the time signals

  produced by the time signal output sections.

For example, you can assign

  lably a red light to indicate the hours, a green light to indicate the minutes and a blue light to indicate the seconds. Thus, the instantaneous time of the hours, minutes and seconds can be

  tell by the colors of the lights. -

In the example of the indications of

  colors shown in Figure 11, when the name-

  bre "10" of the hour indication is lit in red

  age, the number "5" of the minutes is lit in green, and

  the number "2" of the seconds is lit in blue, this

  say it is currently ten o'clock five minutes

  and two seconds (10: 5: 2) on the digital clock.

  The time indication provided by the color display system according to the invention has a striking aesthetic appearance when the numbers are illuminated by the three primary colors.

  and when these numbers overlap each other

  very. For example, at the instant (5: 5: 1), the number "5" lit by red light representative of the hours, and the same number "5" lit by light

  green representative of the minutes, in this case are

  perposed with each other, which gives an indication

  yellow for the number "5". This state lasts for

  for a predetermined time within one minute, while the number "1" is illuminated by light "2" for one second, then the next number "2" lights up blue when a second has passed elapsed, and so on. When the predetermined time of one minute has elapsed, the number "5" then returns to illumination in red light while the next number "6" which now represents the minutes, is illuminated by the green light. According to the invention, as the flow of the twelve hour, sixty minute and sixty second tunps is indicated by the very limited number of sixteen digits, not only the illuminated colors of the sixteen numbers of seconds and minutes,

  but still the color of the hours, often change during

  for the duration of one minute, in accordance with the flow of a few seconds when the numbers overlap

each other.

  As described above, when the green color light for the minutes and the blue color light for the seconds are superimposed, when it is for example three hours, four minutes and four seconds, i.e. ( 3: 4: 4), the number "4" representative of the minutes and seconds is first lit in cyan (blue-green), then the number "4" automatically returns to green and the next number "5" is now lit up in white to represent the

  seconds. Among other things, when the three colors

  mayors are superimposed at the same time to indicate for example that it is one hour one minute one second (1: 1: 1), only the number "1" is lit in white

for a second.

  Then, a second later, the number "1" turns yellow due to the superposition of the red light representative of the hours and the green light representative of the minutes, for a predetermined time within one minute, while that the number following "2" is lit by light

  blue in color. At the end of the pre-time

  determined for example one minute, the number "1" representing the hours is lit in red in this case, the number "2" representative of the minutes is lit in green, and the number "9", assuming that this number is representative of seconds, is now lit in blue. As the illuminated numbers change color at any time after the passage of time, the indication

  time in colors becomes very beautiful.

Table III shows an example

  full of actual color indications of numbers

  main and auxiliary according to the invention. The indica-

  tion of time starts at (7: 6:44) and goes to (7: 7:27).

  As can be seen from the table, at the beginning of the indication, the number of hours "7" is lit in red and the number of minutes "6" is lit in green, while the numbers of seconds "4" and "/ 4" are lit in blue. However, three minutes later, that is to say at (7 6:47), the number of hours "7"

  lit in red changes color to go to color

  their magenta (dark crimson) due to the overlap

  the number "7" and the second identical number. Nine second-

  after this change, i.e. at (7: 6: 56),

  the number of minutes "6" lit in green changes now

  color to change to cyan because

the effect of the second number "6".

  One second after this change, that is to say at (7: 6: 57), the number of hours "7" is

  again affected by the number of seconds "7" (su-

  perposition) and its value changes from red to magenta. The superimposition of the number of hours "7" and the number of seconds "7" is removed a second later and each of the colors returns respectively to its own color; red, green and

  blue. However, three seconds after the latter changes-

  ment, that is to say the passage from (7: 6: 59) to (7: 7: 0), the indication of the minutes now changes to the number "7" and a superposition of the numbers of the hours and the minutes occurs on the number "7". Therefore, according to

  the principle of primary color lights, the name-

  bre des heures "7" now changes color to yellow, while the color of the second number

remains unchanged.

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TABLE III

TIME 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

COLOR R R R R R R R R R R R R R R

MINUTE 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

COLOR G G C G G G G G G G G G G G

  SECOND 4/4 4 5 4 6 4 7 4 8 4 9 5 0 51/5/2 5/3 5/4 5 5 5 6 5 7

  COLOR B B B B B C B M B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B C B M

TIME 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

COLOR R R Y Y Y Y Y Y Y W Y Y Y Y

MINUTE 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

COLOR G G Y Y Y Y Y Y Y W Y Y Y Y

  SECOND 5 8 5 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

  COLOR B B B B B B B B B B B W B B B B

  TIME 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

  COLOR Y Y Y Y Y W Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y W

  MINUTE 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

  COLOR Y Y Y Y Y W Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y W

  SECOND 121 314 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 2 324 2 526 27

  COLOR B B BB BB B B BW B B B B B B B B B B BB BBB BW

  NOTE: R = red M = magenta W = white G = green C = cyan B = blue Y = yellow Seven seconds after this change,

  when (7: 7: 7) is indicated, the numbers "7"

  res, minutes and seconds are superimposed on each other, and only the unique number "7" is now lit in white due to the principle of the cut lights

  their primaries. One second after this change, the

  their number "7" returns to yellow again, while the next second number "8" is now lit in

  its own blue color and so on.

  In addition, the digital clock type

  with analog display according to the invention can be used

  read not only to read the time, but also to

  watch and enjoy the color changes

  health on the display surface of the digital clock.

  Consequently, the principle of the clock according to the invention is

finds it radically changed.

  To illuminate the numbers on the over-

  display face of the digital clock according to the invention, in the above embodiments have been used elements of light-emitting diodes in color, elements of liquid crystal in color, or plasma display elements in colors. However, one way

  simpler to carry out time indications in

  their numbers, is to use for each a

  seems to be colored lamps or lamps fitted with

  colored filters, these lamps being placed behind each

  display areas so as to produce the best

their color effects.

  The more effective the color display elements are, the more effective they are

  intense, the more the results provided by the digital clock

  that of analog display type according to the invention,

* are clean and aesthetic, without losing the characteristics

  ques essentials of the digital clock.

  FIG. 12 shows another embodiment of the digital clock of the analog color display type according to the invention. In

  this embodiment, each part of affi-

  chage Wl to W16 of the digital clock, is separate inde-

  during the others, these different parts being connected by an electric cable 9 constituted by conductive wires. Each of the display areas independently

  separated is powered and controlled by a part of ali-

  PC power and control statement consisting essentially of

  tially by a digital clock proper.

  Each display area can consist of a display panel or be made

  in a cubic form so that we can stack them.

  In the first case, the display parts can be arranged so as to allow proper connection

  electrical conductors of each of the different

  your display parts Wl to W16, with the supply part

  PC power and control unit, so that the unit can be hung on a wall. In the second case,

  when each of the display parts of the digital clock

  rique according to the invention is carried out in a cubic form

  that corresponding, these different parts can be

  moved and stacked to obtain a desired shape.

  Figures 13 and 15 show respectively the embodiments of the parts

  digital clock display type analog display

  logic thus assembled, according to the invention. In these

  embodiments, the power supply part of

  PC control and sance is not shown because it

  is hidden behind each of the display parts

  pectives. In each of these embodiments,

  me the numbers can be displayed simply by cou-

  their in a predetermined direction, according to the sequence order of the numbers in the invention, i.e. in the order 1, 2, 3, 4 ... 11, 12, 0, 1/2 3 / 4, 5, digital clock type display users

  analog according to the invention can have fun rearranging

  ser the numbers, as far as the sequence of circu-

  predetermined time display is now

  naked, unlike the case of analog or digital clocks

  ques classics. In addition, the Time Indications may

  wind become more flexible and may vary from person to person

  do to another, when these people use the clock according to the invention shown in each of Figures 13, 14 and 15, in addition to the fact that the same

  color effects than those described in the form of

Read Figure 11.

  FIG. 16 represents yet another embodiment of the digital clock of the analog display type according to the invention. In this embodiment, the display parts of the numbers W1 to W16 are respectively produced in the form of small tubes, each display part being connected

  by a cable t comprising the electrically conductive wires

  necessary, for a power supply part

  ce and PC control; that is to say in a style of col-

  bind. When the techniques for emitting color light have progressed in the coming years, we will be able to produce more powerful and richer colored lights which will be able to more effectively illuminate the display numbers in each of the display areas, which will thus allow everyone to enjoy a more aesthetic "time reading" thanks to the clock according to the invention.

  Figures 17 (A) and (B) show

  each of the other embodiments of the digital clocks of the analog display type according to the invention, similar to those shown on

  Figures 11 and 12, in which each of the sur-

  digital display faces or areas is realized res-

  pectively in a circular form (and possibly

  spherical) or in a triangular form.

Figures 18 and 19 show

  an embodiment of an electric control circuit

  base plate intended to produce the type display

  analog by a digital clock according to the invention.

  In FIG. 18 which indicates the construction of the output section of the seconds 200, the references ClG1 and G2 each designate an AND gate mounted between the particular output lines of a counter

  600 units and a tens counter of 700 sec-

  200 second signal output tion, the benchmark

  Wl designates a first door switch and the reference

  this W2 designates a second door switch, each of the detailed circuit constructions of W1 and W2 is

  indicated respectively by (A) and (B) in Figure 20.

  The operation of the circuit shown

  felt in Figure 18 is as follows:

Each of the se-

  condes "0" and "9" is produced successively by the comp-

  unit tester 600 of the second signal output section 200 each time a clock pulse is introduced therein. As a result, the

  door Wl is open and its setting input 5 is supplied

  ted by the output signal "0" so that no

  thus be the output signals from the "0" signals

  to "5" so that they cross the switch Wl and reach

  obstruct the display D according to the invention. As a result,

  output signals from "0" to "9" allow you to

  successively fold point P3 of the Arabic numbers 1 to 9 on the display surface D at each display, as

  shown for example in Figure 8.

As the output signal "0" of the

  tens counter 700 is not used, it does not

  due no change due to this signal. When a transport signal is produced by the counter 600 at ten seconds,

  this signal is applied to the reset input ini-

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  tial R of the door switches Wl and W2 by closing

  thus the paths from "0" to "5" of the gate switches

  your. During this period of time, each of the logic products between the output signal "1" of the counter 700 and the signals "0", "1", "2" of the counter 66o, is carried out

  successively through the AND gate G1 to G3, thereby producing

  if output signals "10" to "12".

  At 12 seconds, the output signal of the AND gate G3 opens the gate switches W1 and W2 so that the indication going from 13 to 19 is implemented by the following output signals "3" to "9"

  which come from the unit counter 600, and by the if-

  output general '1 "which comes from the counter 700.

Time indication from 20 to 29

  seconds is performed as follows; com-

  door mutator W1 is closed by a transport signal from the counter 600 at the following ten seconds, this

  signal being applied to the reset input Ini-

  tial R of the door switch W1, thus preventing the output signals "0" to "5" from the counter 200

  are applied to the display device. In these con-

  editions, such as the output signal "2" from the counter

  tens 700, and the output signals "0" to "2" of the comp-

  600, are combined to form each of the products

  respective logic in gates AND G4 to G6, we obtain

  holds the output signals of the auxiliary numbers 0, 1 /, 2 / which give the time indications "20", "21"

and "22".

  At 22 seconds, the output of the AND gate G6 opens the door switch Wl, and the following output signals "3" to "9" are applied directly to the display D, which gives the time indications of "23 "to" 29 "seconds. Likewise, the output signals required for the time indications from "0" to "59" seconds on the display surface D comprising

  Arabic numbers fixed from 1 to 12, 0, 1/2, 3/4, 5, can-

  can be obtained successively by the

Figure 18.

  Like construction and function-

  of the minute signal output section 300, are exactly the same as those of section 200,

  their detailed description will not be necessary.

  In Figure 19 which shows the construction of the hour signal output section

  400, G22, G23, and G24 indicate AND gates mounted in-

  be the output signal line "1" of the ten counter

  nes 900 and each of the output signal lines "0", "1", and "2" of the unit counter 800, and W3 indicates a

  door switch with setting input S and input

  reset R entry are connected respec-

  with respect to the output line "1" and to the line of trans-

port (see Figure 20 (C)).

  During operation, the commu-

  The door switch W3 is first of all adjusted by the production of the output signal "1" by the unit counter 800, and this door switch is opened thereby successively applying each of the output signals "1" to "9 "directly at each of the display points. At ten o'clock, a transport signal is produced by the counter 800 which closes the door switch W3. As a result, no output signal is applied directly to the display points of the Arabic numbers "1" and "2". On the contrary, each logical product is drawn successively from the doors

  AND G22, G23, G24 between the output signal "1" of the comp-

  900 and the output signals from "3" to "9" to effect

  kill the respective time indications from "10" hours to "12" hours on the display surface D comprising

the sixteen determined numbers.

  In each of the circuits shown in Figures 20 (A), (B), (C), as the outputs of

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  particular doors and / or the particular exit of each

  that counter are applied to the setting input S of a flip-flop FF directly or via an OR gate, the output "1" of the flip-flop turns on each of the transistors Trl, Tr2, ... which open respectively each of the paths to the display. On the contrary, as the reset input R is linked to the transport signal line of each unit counter

  of each of the output sections, each of the switches

  door guardians close each of the particular paths

  to the display when the transport signal is pro-

duit.

As stated in the description

  above, it is clear that the addition of the relative number

  small element of door elements to the circuits of comp-

  existing digital clock, allows,

  point of view of integrated circuits, to realize the diff-

  popular analog time display systems

according to the invention.

  As a result, this type of slight modification

  cation of the existing digital clock counter circuits, allows easy integration of the door elements CG1 to G24 and the door switches W1 to W3 in an integrated circuit of the counters, or somewhere else in each of the output sections of the signals

  seconds, minutes and hours.

  When the control circuit is used in the embodiments of the different time indication systems in different colors as shown in Figures 11 to 16, all the output signals (0 to 59) produced by output section of the signal 200 seconds, can be assigned to the production of blue light, and all the output signals (0 to 59) produced by the output section of the

  300 minute signals, can be assigned to pro-

  duction of the green light, while all the output signals from the output section of the 400 hour signals, can be assigned to the production of the red light. As a result, each of the light emitting means can be made up of three common color emitting materials. So when we have developed

  a material to emit the three main colors

  red, green and blue mayors by making each of the output signals act directly on the materials, as in a color television tube, a more effective indication of the time in colors will become possible by

  using commonly used power batteries

  now in watch straps. In addition, using techniques already common now, it is possible to produce the effective colored lights by means of a low power by making each beam radiate.

  that number by a set of three light-emitting diodes

  color nescentes integrated in an integrated circuit.

  As described in the forms of rea-

  Read above, especially in the embodiments of digital clocks of the analog color display type shown in Figures 11 and 12, as a number of decimal numbers such as 132 numbers (= 12 + 60 + 60) does are denoted only by the limit number of 16 digits (more exactly 18 digits when the additional numbers 1/2 and 3/4 are

  counted as independent shadows), a certain number-

  bre of Gu overlay conditions occur among the 16 digits during the color indications of

this numbers.

  As a result, the red light represents

  tative of hours and which one supposes besides to remain

  lit on a number for an hour, is often

  wind affected by movement or the passage of time

  green and blue lights representative of the minu-

  seconds and seconds within a minute, so that the colors of the numbers change frequently as a whole, which increases the pleasure of observing the passage of time, in addition to the fact that we know the exact time; However, as the red light intended to illuminate the numbers of the hours remains on a particular number for one hour, although it is

  modified by other colored lights, and that its color

  change them frequently from red to other colors, you can easily see that this is the number

  hours due to the periodic appearance of the

  red for the same particular hour figure,

  while the blue indication of the other particular numbers

  liers representative of the seconds changes successively-

every second.

  On the other hand, as the green light intended to illuminate the numbers of the minutes remains on a number or on particular numbers for one minute, one can easily perceive that it is the number of the minutes although this one is also affected by other lights, because known color mixtures of green with another color or colors,

  stay on the same number for one minute.

  In the embodiments shown

  felt in FIGS. 11 to 15, the numbers represented

  tifs of time are displayed by the three primary colors

  res. It is however also possible to assign a particular sound to each number, and to produce sounds

  by conventional means of sound production, ma-

  to obtain a practically infinite number of metered sounds

  lodic, because the particular numbers are superimposed on each other in the course of time,

  as shown in Table II attached.

We each know the agreements that

  are produced when any two numbers overlap

  pose, so that one can perceive the passage of time, as well in seconds as in minutes and hours, by simply listening to the sounds produced by this embodiment according to the invention. This helps the blind as well as the disabled who are looking for a

  way to find new availability opportunities.

  In this embodiment, if it is troublesome to hear

  dre the sounds, we can solve this problem by using a switch. More specifically, the switch of the sound production means are normally cut to

  stop producing sounds, and when you want to

  start the time at any time by musical sounds, you can turn on the switch for the means of sound production. In addition, when the day of the month, the month of the year and / or the year are indicated by the combination of the numbers with one or more colors, at the same time as the displayed time (in hours, minutes,

  and seconds) on the clock display dials

  presented in Figures 11 to 16 according to the invention, one can take advantage of a greater amount of variations

  of colors as well as the pleasure of reading the time.

  As described in the reaction forms

  Read above, digital clocks of the analog display type using the analog time display methods according to the invention have

  remarkable features that radically alter-

  the principle of clocks of different types according to

  the prior art, these characteristics relating to the faci-

  readability of the display surface, user-friendliness

  and the ease of modification of time indications by colors. In other words, the analog display type digital clock according to the invention is pretty and fun to see, and the flow of time can be perceived every seconds, minutes and hours, as well

  by audiovisual means than by touch.

  The invention makes it possible to obtain the following results: - (1) the numbers appearing on the display face are easy to read, since this display surface is of analog type although the clock is truly a clock digital; (2) the necessary number of 132 numbers can be noted by a more limited number of 16 decimal digits in the digital clock type with analog display. As a result, in the color time display system

  according to the invention, as the same numbers are frequently

  used to display seconds, minutes and

  the hours, we can enjoy a wide variety of change-

  color elements of the numbers on the display surface; (3) in digital clocks according to the prior art, the numbers in the block of hours did not change for at least one hour, and the numbers in positions 10 of the minutes only changed five times between ten minutes and fifty minutes, while in the time display system in colors according to the invention, like the colors

  illuminate the numbers of minutes and hours are mo-

  defined by the colors of the numbers of the seconds, one can enjoy a more beautiful aesthetic aspect; (4) in one embodiment of the invention, since the numbers to be displayed on the display surface can be organized independently of one another, it is possible to

  play to get decorative effects between the indica-

tions of colors and numbers.

  (5) in another embodiment according to the invention,

  you can get melodies that change dramatically

  tick, thanks to a well known sound generator, by allocating each of the particular sounds to the number to be displayed, these melodies being all different from each other and possibly not being the same for twelve hours, because they are not the same combinations that appear for

  the numbers representing the time during the twelve hours.

  (6) in the digital clock type with analog display

  that according to the invention, the flow of seconds, half

  nutes and hours can be heard by sounds at any time; (7) in yet another embodiment according to the invention, the predetermined number of decimal digits

  is previously fixed on the display face of the clock

  accommodates, while particular lights of different colors are previously assigned to the seconds, minutes and hours, so that the passage of time can be perceived by the color variations of each of the decimal numbers, illuminated or illuminated by each of the particular colors or combinations of colors produced by means of color production. The color configurations relating to

  numbers appearing on the clock display surface

  digital box of type with analog display according to the

  vention, change every second and these are never

  but the same color patterns that appear

for twelve hours.

  (8) like the decimal numbers used for the indica-

  time can be fixed on the affi-

  chage, these numbers can be made of wood, opaque plastic or glass which are more decorative materials, instead of being made by the liquid crystal display elements of clocks

  digital classics. As a result, when the numbers de-

  cimals used for time indications are illuminated

  res by the lights of primary colors, the passage of time, better than for the various types of conventional clocks, can be embellished, according to the invention, by the variations of colors appearing on the display surface. (9) in the other embodiment of the invention, the

  numbers used to display the passage of time may

  wind respectively have a projecting configuration on the display surface, and the display elements

  Pl, P2, P3 ... can be realized in the form of pro-

  tubers that can protrude from the surface of affi-

  chage when excited, and be retracted

  under the display surface when they are not ex-

  cited. As a result, a blind person using the clock-

  lodge according to the invention can perceive the passage of time at any time by touching the display surface,

  and can know what time it is, even in seconds.

  In this embodiment, it will be noted that, as the projecting decimal numbers represented in FIG. 9 are arranged in a basic order starting from 1, 2, 3,

  4 ... 10, 11, 12, 0, 1/2, 3/4, 5, the simple fact of all

  expensive display area by centering around the display points to know if they are protruding or not, allows everyone to easily know the time

  that it is from positional relations appear-

  knowing the numbers displayed, when he has learned to use them. In other words, the passage of time can be easily perceived by a person who has lost sight and hearing, by simply touching the display surface. As described in the above embodiments of digital clocks of the analog display type according to the invention, the flow of the

  time can be indicated aesthetically and pleas-

  health or audio-visual means, in the form of

  color and / or variation in sound, and can also be seen with precision when touched by the hands (or feet) of people with disabilities, even for

  know the seconds, so these clocks become

  including the digital clocks of the future.

RE V E N D I C A T I 0 NS

  ) Flow display method-

  analog time on a digital clock

  with a first signal output section intended to produce a first signal representative of the seconds, a second signal output section intended to produce a second signal representative of the minutes,

  a third signal output section for pro-

  draw a third signal representative of the hours, and a display section intended to display the time, a process characterized in that it comprises the various steps consisting in:

  - give the display area (F) of the display section

* digital clock connection, an analogous external appearance

  like that of an analog clock;

  - arrange the twelve numbers from 1 to 12 of the clocks ana-

  logic, on the periphery of the sem-

  similar to that of an analog clock; - use a number of display segments (L1, L2, L3) arranged in the radial direction on the surface

  display, so as to allow the appearance on this-

  the corresponding line image display area (L1, L2, L3), each of the second hands,

  minutes and hours of the analog clock, consistent

  second, minute and hour signals

  supplied by each of the signal output sections; and

  - drop each of the line images at inter-

  predetermined time intervals, each based on

  the passage of time from the digital clock.

  20) Method according to claim 1, characterized in that the line image corresponding to the second hand is driven to advance step by step every predetermined seconds, while the line images corresponding to the minute and hour hands are trained to advance respectively

  step by step every minute and every hour.

  3) Method according to claim

  1, to display the passage of time analogously

  logic on a digital clock having a first signal output section for producing a pre-

  first signal representative of seconds, one second sec-

  signal output intended to produce a second signal representative of the minutes, a third section

  signal output to produce a third signal

  general representative of the hours, and a display section intended to display the time, a method characterized in that it further comprises the steps consisting in:

  - divide the display area of the display section

  chage having a particular shape, in a predetermined number of display areas; - arrange the twelve numbers in a predetermined order

  main 1 to 12 of an analog clock, and the name-

  predetermined number of auxiliary numbers on each of the display areas thus divided; - use each first set of display points (P3, P2, P1) to indicate the seconds, minutes and hours at predetermined points on the display surface, near the twelve main numbers, inside each display area, while using

  each second set of display points for indi-

  quer seconds and minutes, at predetermined points-

  mined on this display area, near the nom-

  auxiliary bres located in each display area and; - successively supplying the display points in a predetermined order in accordance with the first, second and third signals representative of the seconds, minutes and hours, these signals being produced by each of the signal output sections; - which thus makes it possible to use in common the main and auxiliary numbers to indicate the seconds, the minutes and the hours, in order to display the passage of time in an analogical way from the conditions of excitation of each set of points display in the predetermined positions, depending on whether the particular display points thus excited belong or

  no to the numbers corresponding respectively to the indication-

  seconds, minutes or hours.

  4) Method according to claim 3, characterized in that the auxiliary numbers are

0, 1/2, 3/4 and 5.

   ) Method according to claim 3, characterized in that it further comprises the step of producing the display points under the

  in the form of lamps, of light-emitting diode elements-

  centee or liquid crystal elements.

  6) Method according to claim

  1, to display the passage of time analogously

  gic on a clock with a first section

  signal output intended to produce a first signal

  general representative of the seconds, a second signal output section intended to produce a second signal

  representative of the minutes, a third exit section

  signal tie to produce a third signal

  representative of the hours, and a display section of the

  intended to display the time, process characterized in

  that it also includes the various stages

both to:

  (a) divide the display area of the display section

  chage having a particular shape, in a predetermined number of display areas; (b) arrange, in a predetermined order, the twelve principal numbers from 1 to 12 of an analog clock, and the predetermined number of auxiliary numbers (0, 1/2, 3/4, 5) on each of the zones thus divided display; (c) placing in each display area of the main numbers, each first set of transmission means

  of light to emit three lights of different colors

  so as to illuminate the main numbers, and place in each display area of the auxiliary numbers, each second set of light emitting means for emitting at least two colored lights

  different so as to illuminate the numbers auxiliai-

  res; (d) assigning a first color of light emitted by one of the light emitting means, to the indication of the seconds, a second color of light emitted by another light emitting means, to the indication of the seconds minutes, and a third color of light emitted by the last light emitting means, .indicating the hours;

  (e) illuminate each of the main numbers and auxiliai-

  res by the different colors of light emitted by the light emitting means, in synchronism with

  each of the first, second and third signals represented

  seconds, minutes and hours, these signals being produced respectively by each of the signal output sections; and (f) advancing the illumination of the lights step by step

  of colors on each of the main and auxi-

  liaries, in a predetermined order consistent with the flow

  time of the digital clock, to allow everyone to read the passage of time from

  different colors of lights and their variations

  tions, and also from particular numbers

  thus illuminated by the different colors of lights.

  7) Method according to claim 6, characterized in that the auxiliary numbers are

0, 1/2, 3/4, and 5.

  80) Method according to claim 6, characterized in that the first color of light is blue, the second color of light is green, and

  the third light color is red.

) Method according to any one

  claims 3 and 6, characterized in that the

  there are sixteen predetermined display areas.

   ) Flow display method-

  analog time on a digital clock

  risk according to any one of claims 3 and 6,

  characterized in that the eight musical sounds of the first

  first octave and the first four sounds of the second octave are assigned to the twelve main numbers, in that the next musical sound of the second octave plus the same first five musical sounds of the first octave

  are assigned to the auxiliary numbers, and in that each

  none of the musical sounds and these combined sounds are pro-

  produced by means of synchronous sound production

  me with the signals representative of seconds, mid

  minutes and hours, these signals from each of the signal output sections of the digital clock, while at the same time indicating the passage of time

on the display section.

  11) Digital clock of analog display type implementing the method according to

  any one of claims 1 to 10, comprising

  respectively a first signal output section intended to produce a first signal representative of the

  seconds, a second signal output section for

  born to produce a second signal representative of the minu-

  tes, and a third signal output section for

  born to produce a third signal representative of the hours, digital clock characterized in that it further comprises:

  - a display section intended to display the flow -

  time analogically, the area of affi-

  chage of this display section having a particular shape divided into a predetermined number of display areas; - the twelve main numbers of an analog clock and the predetermined number of auxiliary numbers arranged in a predetermined order on each of the display areas thus divided; - each first set of display points (P3, P2, P1) indicating the seconds, minutes and hours, being arranged in predetermined positions on the

  display area near the twelve main numbers

  cipals in each display area, and each second set of display points indicating the seconds

  and the minutes being arranged in predefined positions

  completed on this display surface, in the vicinity

  auxiliary numbers located respectively in each

  display area, so as to feed successively-

  each of the display points in the pre-

  finished, following the first, second and third si-

  seconds representative of seconds, minutes and

  hours, these signals being produced by each of the sec-

  signal output; - which thus makes it possible to use in common the main and auxiliary numbers to indicate the seconds, the minutes and the hours, in order to display the passage of time in an analogical manner from the supply conditions of each set of points d display, by determining whether the particular display points thus excited belong or not to the numbers intended respectively for the indication of seconds, minutes

or hours.

12) Digital clock type

  analog display according to claim 11, charac-

  terized in that the auxiliary numbers are 0, 1/2,

3/4, and 5.

13) Digital clock type

  analog display according to claim 11, charac-

  terized in that the display points are lam-

  pes, light-emitting diode elements or liquid crystal elements. 14) Digital clock type

  analog display according to claim 11, character-

  in that the display points (P3, P2, P1) are intended to emit colored light respectively

unique.

 ) Digital clock type

  analog display according to claim 11, character-

  mockery in that each of the numbers is produced in a shell form in a plastic material having an opaque milky color, so as to receive in

  this boot maker each set of display point.

16) Digital clock type

  analog display according to claim 11, character-

  that each of the display points is real

  read in the form of a protrusion protruding from the display surface when excited, and

  being retracted under the display surface when

that she is not excited.

17) Digital clock type

  analog display according to claim 11, character-

  in that each of the display points intended to indicate the seconds is a device for emitting blue light, in that each of the display points

  intended to indicate the minutes is a device for transmitting

  sion of green light, and in that each of the points

  display to indicate the hours is a provision

  sitive red light emission.

18) Digital clock type

  analog display according to claim 11, comprising

  as a first signal output section intended to produce a first signal representative of the seconds,

  a second signal output section for pro-

  draw a second signal representative of the minutes, and a third signal output section intended to produce a third signal representative of the hours, digital clock characterized in that it further comprises: - a certain number of light emitting devices intended emitting at least three different light colors for indicating the time, the first light color emitted by these light emitting means being assigned to the second indication, the

  second color of light emitted by these emission means

  light being assigned to the indication of minu-

  tes, and the third color of light emitted by these

  light emission means being assigned to the indicator

tion of hours;

  - a display section intended to display the flow -

  time analogically, the area of affi-

  each of this display section being divided into a predetermined number of display areas; and - the twelve main numbers of an analog clock

  and the predetermined number of partial auxiliary numbers

  culiers, these numbers being arranged in a pre-

  determined on each of the display areas are divided

  sees; - which thus makes it possible to illuminate each of the particular numbers on the display surface by the first

  color light representative of the seconds, the se-

  color light representative of the minutes, and

  the third color light representative of the hours

  res, in synchronism with each of the first, second and third signals produced by each of the sections of

  digital clock signal output, and what

  also puts to advance step by step each of these

  particular numbers in a predetermined sequence followed

  before the passage of time on the digital clock, so that everyone can read the passage of time from the different light colors and variations of these colors, and from the numbers

  individuals thus lit by colored lights.

19) Digital clock type

  analog display according to claim 18, character-

  laughed at in that the first color of light is blue, in that the second color of light is green, and in

  that the third light color is red.

 ) Digital clock type

  analog display according to claim 18, character-

  laughed at in that the light emitting means are

  colored lamps, elements of electro-diodes

  luminescent in color, elements of crystals

  color liquids or plas-

my in color.

21) Digital clock type

  analog display according to claim 11, comprising

  as respectively a first output section of

  signal intended to produce a first signal represented

  tif seconds, a second output section of si-

  general intended to produce a second signal representative of the minutes, a third signal output section intended to produce a third representative signal

  hours, and a display section for displaying

  expensive the passage of time analogically, digital clock characterized in that it further comprises:

  - a display area of the display section di-

  aimed in the predetermined number of display areas se-

  independent, these different areas being connected

  between them by electric conductive wires; - the twelve main numbers of an analog clock

  and the predetermined number of auxiliary numbers available

  its in a predetermined order on each of the zones

  separate independent displays thus divided; -

  - a number of sets of transmission devices

  of light intended to emit at least three different colored lights for the indication of the

  time, the first color of light emitted by the first

  mier light emitting device being assigned to the indication of seconds, the second color of light emitted by the second light emitting device

  being assigned to the minute indication, and the third

  sth color of light emitted by the third dispo-

  sitive light emission being assigned to the indicator

  tion of hours; and a power supply and control part intended, as in a digital clock, to supply power and to control, via the conductive wires, each of the separate independent display areas; which thus makes it possible to illuminate each of the particular numbers of the display zones by the first color of light representative of the seconds,

  the second light color representative of the minu-

  tes, and the third color of light representing the hours, in synchronism with each of the first, second and third signals produced by each of the signal output sections of the digital clock, and which also makes it possible to advance step by step these particular numbers in a predetermined sequence

  following the passage of time indicated by the differences

  your light colors and the variations of these colors

  theirs, and by the particular Arabic numbers as well

  illuminated by colored lights.

22) Digital clock type

  analog display according to any one of the res-

  dications 18 to 21, characterized in that each of the display areas respectively has a square shape. 23) Digital clock type

  analog display according to claim 21, character-

  that each of the display areas has

respectively a cubic form.

24) Digital clock type

  analog display according to any one of the res-

  dications 18 and 21, characterized in that each of the

display areas is circular.

 ) Digital clock type

  analog display according to claim 21, character-

  laughed at in that the first color of light is blue, the second color of light is green, and the third

light color is red.

26) Digital clock type

  analog display according to any one of the res-

  dications 11, 18 and 21, characterized in that the number

  predetermined divided areas is 16.

27) Digital clock type

  analog display according to any one of the res-

  dications 18 to 21, characterized in that the display surface thus divided is made of a material

  plastic with an opaque milky color of ma-

  to produce the effects of lights of primary colors

  mayors when using colored lamps or

  color light-emitting diode elements.

28) Digital clock type

  analog display according to any one of the res-

  dications 18 to 21, characterized in that each of the

  display areas have a triangular shape.

  29) Digital clock type with analog display, characterized in that it is

  produced by the process according to any of the

vendications 1 to 10.