EP1226570A1

EP1226570A1 - Visual sensitive support of calendars

Info

Publication number: EP1226570A1
Application number: EP00947693A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Fernando Alberto Grazziotin; Ricardo Moacyr Grazziotin
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1999-08-19
Filing date: 2000-07-12
Publication date: 2002-07-31
Also published as: WO2001015121B1; AU6141900A; AR025858A1; BR9903636A; CN1379897A; WO2001015121A1

Abstract

The present invention refers to an element that will become part of the composition of a calendar with the aim of integrating the calendar into objects or illustrations. It is applicable to the calendars of dates. The proposed solution is a definition of areas (1-7) that will constitute themselves as elements of the calendar, the sum of the areas (1-7) constituting the support for the other elements being associated therewith. The disposition of seven areas (1-7), one for each day of the week, in sequential order allows the reduction of necessary space and/or the change of the appearance of the calendar, allows integrating the calendar into illustrations, objects or advertisements, the calendar thus being fitted to a ring, to a small coin, to a pen, to a shirt button, to a credit card, to an industry mark, trade or service, to an advertisement to a landscape in a picture, to a toy and other objects in a personalised way.

Description

VISUAL SENSITIVE SUPPORT OF CALENDARS

This present invention refers to an element that starts to do part of the composition of calendars. It is applicable to the calendars of dates, as the Gregorian, the Egyptian, and the Israeli, among others. The previous calendars usually form a structure in form of tables with identifiers characters of days of the month and days of the week, disposed in lines and columns, where leaving of the day of the month, it is followed in the sense of the line or of the column to be located the day of the week, or leaving of the day of the week, it is followed in the sense of the line or of the column to be located the day of the month.

In general each table corresponds to an only month of the year, but there are also calendars where an only table corresponds to all year. In this last case there is just an only group of days of the month.

The previous calendars, commonly, come accompanied by objects, illustrations and advertisements being noticed what evidently is calendar.

It is difficult to integrate the previous calendars to an illustration or an object without the calendar gets plenty attention for itself, usually taking the characteristic or harming, the aesthetics of the due group to great amount of characters (numbers or letters) that composes the calendar. Also, for the same reason, it is practically unviable to join, so that it is visibly readable, a traditional calendar with twelve months in a small area that fits in a ring, in a button, in a small coin, in a pen cover, for instance.

Nowadays, the smallest printed calendar or object that we can imagine, it still occupies a lot of space and it is very difficult to use it jointly with some product of reduced size without interfering excessively in the group.

Besides, every year the printed calendars lose their usefulness because they cannot be used the following year. And that implicates in an enormous amount of material thrown away.

The present invention has the aim of solving the mentioned problems such as: to allow the reduction of necessary space to the calendars and/or the change of the appearance of the same ones integrating them the illustrations, objects, advertisements that accompany becoming them more present in a subtle way making possible in many cases, that the shape/object has subsequent usefulness at the end of the calendar.

The solution proposed by the present invention is the definition of areas 5 that start to constitute in calendar elements and support for other elements of the same. The sum of the areas constitutes the support for the other elements, that associated to these ones, they supply the information of calendar.

The mentioned areas can be shapes/objects or parts of shapes/objects. Each element area can correspond to a day of the week and to it is 10. associated elements that correspond to a/some day(s), with preference the first, the eighth, the fifteen, the twenty-second and the twenty-ninth of each month.

Or, each element area can correspond to one month and to it is associated an element that corresponds to the day of the week corresponding to a/some day(s), with preference the first, the eighth, the fifteen, the twenty-second and the 15 twenty-ninth of that month.

This way, considering that the support becomes integral part of the calendar, with other elements distributed according to the defined areas, we have a coincidence of areas among the definer elements of days of the week and days of the month, there is no way to go through from the day of the month to the day of

20 the week or from the day of the week to the day of the month.

. The disposition of seven areas, one for each day of the week, in sequential order can serve as an instrument to be traveled for obtaining of the other days non informed more directly.

For instance, if in an area that means Tuesday it is inserted an element 25 that means first, eighth, fifteen, twenty-second and twenty-ninth day(s), we can count twenty-two in the area of Tuesday, twenty-three in the area of Wednesday, twenty-four in the area of Thursday, and so forth, until we get to the wanted day; it's getting to this, we observe which area stopped the count and we have the day of the corresponding week. 30 Still considering that constituted instrument of seven areas, if we want to know how many days the respective month has, in the case of the Gregorian calendar, it is enough we make the count starting from the definer element of the month in subject, considering this as twenty-nine and following the count even before getting to the definer element of the following month; the last count will correspond to the last day of the month. If the same area comprises the definer element of the month in subject and the definer element of the following month, for obvious it doesn't exist the twenty-nine in the month in subject.

Considering the infinite alternatives of definitions of areas the calendar constituted like this can be of common use, identified as such for anybody that has previous knowledge of the definition of areas, as it can be used in a personal way, for the definition of the elements areas and of the other complementary elements in agreement with the symbolic universe wanted by the users; it could arrive to the point that, before a picture that presents a landscape, for instance, the solicitor and his supplier only know immediately that they are before a calendar. It is possible, therefore, harmonize the calendar with the environment and maintain it even after the passage of the last day of the calendar in subject.

It becomes possible to integrate the calendar, visible with the naked eye, to a ring, to a small coin, the a shirt button, to a credit card, to an industry mark, trade or service, to a advertisement and infinites other objects/shapes.

If we have in mind that the day of the week of the first, eighth, fifteen, twenty-two and twenty-nine of every month are always equal, when visualizing the calendar, it is possible to obtain the day of the week of the days of the year in an interval of one to ten seconds, even for initial users, according to the ability of each one. Therefore the speed of obtaining of the information can be faster than the one of the previous calendars. It allows to be obtained the information of the calendar in a more natural way. The user comes across different styles of calendar, stimulating the intellect in a pleasant way, very different from the table structures.

The enclosed drawings show some of the applications of the present invention: The fig. 1 displays the human hand divided in seven areas (1 ) (2) (3) (4) (5)

(6) (7), each one representative of a day of the week; and the areas of the fingers represent the days of the week, so that the one of the thumb (2) corresponds Monday, the one of the indicator (3) corresponds Tuesday, the one of the middle finger (4) corresponds Wednesday, the one of the ring (5) corresponds Thursday and the one of the minimum finger (6) corresponds Friday; the central area of the hand comes divided in two areas, so that the base of the thumb (1 ) corresponds to Sunday and the base of the other fingers (7) corresponds on Saturday;

The fig. 2 displays a variant of the illustration 1 with twelve rectangles where representative characters/symbols of the twelve months of the year of 1999, will be inserted January (11 ), February (12), March (13), April (14), May (15), June (16), July (17), August (18), September (19), October (20), November (21 ), December (22), distributed in the seven areas in agreement with the day of the week of the first, eighth, fifteen, twenty-two and twenty-nine of each month; the characters/symbols can be, for instance January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.

The fig. 3 displays other variant of the illustration 1 ; in this case for the positions in that the rectangles are distributed where representative characters/symbols of the twelve months of the year of 1999 will be inserted although don't appear the limits among areas, it is implicit, to whom is already user of the new technology that the support is composed of seven associated areas the human hand;

The fig. 4 also displays a variant of the illustration 1 ; in this case, twelve animals, each one representing one of the twelve months of the year of 1999 are distributed in seven groups, as background a landscape that in a subtle way presents, in some lines a linking with areas of the human hand; in the inferior part for the sequential position in that they present the same twelve animals, it identifies which month represents each one;

The fig. 5 introduces a similar form of a clock where twelve representative areas of the months of the year coincide with the respective positions of the hours and shows twelve rectangles where symbols/characters will be inserted, identifiers of the days of the week - Sunday (31 ), Monday (32), Tuesday (33), Wednesday (34), Thursday (35), Friday (36), Saturday (37) - of the first, eighth, fifteen, twenty-two and twenty-nine days of each one of the months of 1999, positioned one in each one of the areas corresponding to the respective month; the symbols/characters can be, for instance Sun, Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat.

The fig. 6 displays a variant of the illustration 5, where the areas of the positions of hour of one to seven, in the external part, present seven circumferences that can be colored, for example, Sunday/yellow (41 ), Monday/red (42), Tuesday/blue (43), Wednesday/green (44), Thursday/purple (45), Friday/black (46), Saturday/orange (47); and the areas of the positions of hour of one to twelve, in the internal part represent the months of the year of 1999, each one in agreement with the color corresponding to the day of the week of the first, eighth, fifteen, twenty-two and twenty-nine of every month.

Among the several ways of executing to present invention, we consider that the best is to constitute the support based on seven associated areas the human hand, because this is knowledge of all, facilitating the common use; it is asymmetric, avoiding confusion among areas and, also, because as the elements areas, when visualized with explicitness, as the groups of elements disposed in the seven areas, they can supply instantly the days of the week of the days one, eight, fifteen, twenty-two and twenty-nine and, still, to serve as instrument for the obtaining of the days of the week of the other days, being enough to travel the areas, starting the counting from one of the known closer days of wanted day.

However as in some cases the objective is to reduce still more the size of the calendar in order to integrate it to a ring, for instance, where we could visualize it with the naked eye, we consider that the best way is constituting the support based on twelve associated areas the positions of hour of a clock in its internal part, more seven associated areas the first seven positions of hour of the same clock in the external part, this for inscribing the days of the week, the other to present, according to legend, the days of the week of the days one, eight, fifteen, twenty-two and twenty-nine of every month.

The ways which the invention can be explored comprise, besides those in

Claims

that nowadays the current calendars of dates are explored, countless other, mainly because they can be in a quite reduced size and for the flexibility aesthetic.

The invention can be joined practically, any illustration or object, enlarging the usefulness of the same ones. For instance: credit card, phone card, presentation card, gloves, toys, little key keeper, gifts in general, ring, button of clothes, bracelet, pendants, pens, pencil, rulers, cases, notebooks, blocks, calendars, medals, trophies, etc.

It can be used in stamps and commemorative coins of special dates; for instance, a stamp, or coin of the 500 years of the discovery of Brazil with the calendar of the year of 1500, with symbols that have relationship with the discovery, and jointly the calendar of the year 2000, with symbols related with

Brazil now.

Personalized calendars/objects can be mounted for instance, for a builder to distribute for his customers, a calendars/objects, that can be used as weight for papers, in a format where five buildings more two areas of common use to the same ones are associated to seven areas of the human hand. For an industry of sodas instead of the format with buildings, it can be with bottles or cans.

Personalized calendars can be supplied using relatives' pictures, friends or other chosen images as symbols to being disposed on defined areas in an environment chosen for the same, in such a way that the user and the supplier will know that the picture or object is a calendar.

Pictures can be marketed with paintings comprising an implicit base of calendar without appearance of this, in such a way that the same maintains its ornamental value even if it finishes the period embraced as calendar.

They can also be marketed, besides pictures, other objects with several symbols in each representative area of the days of the week or months of the year in such a way that for the same illustration jig/legends can be supplied for several years, then it will be enough to see the legend or change the form that can be of reduced size, and the painting or object will continue serving as calendar.

Didactic games can be created with several levels of difficulty. For instance, in the illustration it can have a jungle that corresponds to the elements areas and several animals that symbolize the other elements of the calendar, in such a way that some will easily be able to be found and other only with a lot of perception, then the forms of every year can be composed of months whose symbols, animals, are easier or more difficult of being found, so that two or more people can compete to see who discovers the requested dates first. Still, it can have option of form only with mammals, or reptiles, to facilitate the learning of the differentiation among them. It can also have inspired calendars in historical facts and they are requested the corresponding dates in letters whose answers are in the verse of the same ones, for instance.

CLAIMS:

1) "VISUAL SENSITIVE SUPPORT OF CALENDARS", characterized by presenting areas, explicit or implicit perceptible that can be associated, to the months of the year and/or days of the week, on which can be inserted or associated, characters, symbols, colors, songs, objects or other elements that represent the days of the week and/or the months of the year, where it is possible to know the day of the week in a certain day of the month, with preference, in an instantaneous way the first, eighth, fifteenth, twenty-two and twenty-nine; so that the illustrations and/or objects formed by the group of the certain areas with characters, symbols, colors, songs, objects or other elements can supply the information of the calendar and at the same time, to show itself; with a such format, and/or with the elements willing of a such form, that its appearance is different from the appearance of the current calendars and prevai. on this.

2) VISUAL SENSITIVE SUPPORT OF CALENDARS WITH FORMAT THAT MAKES POSSIBLE THE ASSOCIATION OF THE POSITIONS

OF THE HOURS OF A CLOCK TO THE MONTHS OF THE YEAR in agreement with the claim 1 , characterized by presenting a same or similar form of the clock form, stylized or not, and for possessing twelve representative areas of the months of the year associated the twelve hours of the clock so that on each area it can be inserted or associated some symbols, color, character(s), object or other element that represents a certain day of the week, with preference the day of the week of the first, eighth, fifteenth, twenty-two and twenty-nine of the month represented by the area on which the representative elements of the days of the week are inserted, or associated. 3) VISUAL SENSITIVE SUPPORT OF CALENDARS WITH

FORMAT THAT MAKES POSSIBLE THE ASSOCIATION OF THE POSITIONS OF THE FIRST SEVEN HOURS OF A CLOCK TO THE DAYS OF THE WEEK in agreement with claim 1 , characterized by being a base for calendar with a same or similar form to the total or partially form of the clock, stylized or not, and for possessing representative areas of the days of the week, where each one of the points that indicate the first seven hours belong or they are associated to an traditional calendar and they can be used as calendar or serve as support Tor other calendars.

8) VISUAL SENSITIVE SUPPORT OF CALENDARS WITH THE DAYS OF THE WEEK REPRESENTED BY THE SEVEN MUSICAL NOTES, in agreement with claim 1 , characterized by using the representative symbols or tones of the seven musical notes to identify the days of the week.

9) VISUAL SENSITIVE SUPPORT OF CALENDARS WITH THE MONTHS OF THE YEAR AND/OR THE DAYS OF the WEEK REPRESENTED BY COLORS in agreement with claim 1 , characterized by using colors, instead of symbols, to identify the months of the year and/or day of the week corresponding to certain day of the month.

10) VISUAL SENSITIVE SUPPORT OF CALENDARS WITH THE MONTHS OF THE YEAR AND/OR THE DAYS OF THE WEEK ASSOCIATED THE ANIMALS OF THE GAME OF THE BUG in agreement with claim 1 , characterized by using the animals accordingly their numbering in the game of the bug, to associate them to months and/or to the days of the week.

internal area or externals representative of the day of the week whose the order number coincides with the number of the hour in that point, so that on each area can be inserted or associated, symbols, colors, characters, objects or other elements that can represent the month or the months of the year that have a certain day, with preference the first, eighth, fifteenth, twenty-two and twenty-nine, that combines in the day of the week represented by the area on which the representative elements of the months are inserted or associated.

4) VISUAL SENSITIVE SUPPORT OF CALENDARS WITH DERIVED FORMAT OF THE HUMAN HAND WITH SEVEN ASSOCIATED AREAS TO THE SEVEN DAYS OF THE WEEK in agreement with claim 1 , characterized by being a base for calendar with stylized form or not, with derived shape of the human hand, possessor of seven representative areas of the days of the week on which can be inserted or associated symbols, colors, characters, objects or other elements that represent or can represent the month or the months of the year that have a certain day, with preference the first, eighth, fifteenth, twenty-two and twenty-nine, that combines in the day of the week represented by the area on which the representative elements of the months are inserted or associated.

5) VISUAL SENSITIVE SUPPORT OF CALENDARS IN SAME OR SIMILAR FORMAT TO THE SUN in agreement with claim 1 , characterized by the similar form to the sun with areas associating positions of hours of a clock with ray of the sun.

6) VISUAL SENSITIVE SUPPORT OF CALENDARS WITH THE MONTHS OF THE YEAR REPRESENTED BY THE SYMBOLS OF THE HOROSCOPE in agreement with claim 1 , characterized by using the symbols of the horoscope to identify the months of the year, being used for every month, with preference, the symbol of the horoscope of the first day of that month.

7)) VISUAL SENSITIVE SUPPORT OF CALENDARS WITH THE NUMBERS 1-8-15-22-29 OR SYMBOLS THAT REPRESENT THEM in agreement with claim 1 , characterized by presenting the numbers 1-8-15-22-29 or symbols that represent them, close to illustrations or objects that are not a