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EP3265880B1 - Montre intelligente hybride avec plusieurs sources de temps, plusieurs sources d'alimentation et plusieurs mécanismes d'indication de temps - Google Patents

Montre intelligente hybride avec plusieurs sources de temps, plusieurs sources d'alimentation et plusieurs mécanismes d'indication de temps

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EP3265880B1
EP3265880B1 EP16759660.0A EP16759660A EP3265880B1 EP 3265880 B1 EP3265880 B1 EP 3265880B1 EP 16759660 A EP16759660 A EP 16759660A EP 3265880 B1 EP3265880 B1 EP 3265880B1
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04C—ELECTROMECHANICAL CLOCKS OR WATCHES
    • G04C17/00—Indicating the time optically by electric means
    • G04C17/0091—Combined electro-optical and electro-mechanical displays
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04G—ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES
    • G04G21/00—Input or output devices integrated in time-pieces
    • G04G21/04—Input or output devices integrated in time-pieces using radio waves

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  • the present invention generally relates to the field of wearable devices, more particularly to the apparatus commonly referred to as "smart watches”, as well as to other wearable timepieces, as well as the methods of combining such devices together.
  • Smart watches also often referred to as “smartwatches" are portable electronic devices, worn like a wristwatch, or like a fashion accessory on a strap, or a belt, or some other fashion or jewelry contrivance.
  • Smart watches are essentially small computers, as they include a processor, some memory, a display, a communication component, an ability to accept user input, and an ability to download and execute a variety of application software.
  • smart watches depend for their functioning on having a built-in source of time, which enables them to perform the key function of a conventional timepiece: display the current time.
  • a smart watch that does not function as a watch is usually seen as showing an unacceptable regression of its most basic function.
  • Such device cannot be classified as a smart watch and would have to compete for space on the wrist of the user against a conventional watch that actually shows time and belongs on the wrist by custom and tradition.
  • US2016109861 discloses a wearable device including an analog watch unit that includes a time indicating unit that indicates times, and a drive unit that drives the time indicating unit; a touch screen that senses an input for adjusting the drive unit; and a control unit that controls the drive unit in response to the senses input.
  • US2015301506 discloses an analog timepiece with smart watch functions is provided that has an overlay full color display and a transparent mode when the smart watch features are not in use.
  • EP 3091 421 A2 discloses a hybrid smart watch.
  • CN 105159046 A discloses a hybrid smart watch with a transparent display element, wherein the operating states of the transparent display element include a display state and a transparent state, wherein when the transparent display element is in the transparent state, a movement layer is visible.
  • Other examples of known hybrid smart watches are disclosed in EP 2 851 756 A2 and EP 2 913 723 A1 .
  • connected smart watches can automatically adjust their time to match precisely the time and time zone provided by specialized network services, thus significantly exceeding the precision of the mechanical movements that require a manual intervention of the user or a skilled professional to avoid time drift, even perfect precision is moot when a smart watch cannot show the time. Yet the mechanical movements do not lend themselves to an automatic adjustment to network time.
  • the present invention introduces an apparatus combining a smart watch and a conventional watch movement together into a "hybrid smart watch", to offer the benefits of both. Accordingly, the present invention provides a hybrid smart watch according to claim 1.
  • a smart watch and an alternate, conventional (mechanical, quartz, kinetic, or other) movement each can have a dedicated power source, such a battery, capacitor, mainspring, mechanical rotor or some other means of storing and releasing energy, from here on is referred to as "energy storage”.
  • energy storage such as battery, capacitor, mainspring, mechanical rotor or some other means of storing and releasing energy, from here on is referred to as "charging”.
  • a smart watch pixel-addressable digital display is also shown to the user.
  • the analog dial indicates the time as established by the conventional movement within the hybrid smart watch.
  • the digital display may indicate the time as established by the electronic component of the hybrid smart watch, or it may display the information imparted by various applications that may or may not relate to the time measurement function of the hybrid smart watch.
  • the analog dial and the digital display may be combined to offer enhanced functionality, and multiple analogue dials and digital displays may be combined within a single hybrid smart watch.
  • the electronic component of the hybrid smart watch can be further combined with the conventional movement or movements to facilitate time display such that at times the analog dial displays the time as measured by the electronic components, and/or the digital display shows time as measured by the conventional movement.
  • Elements of the analog dial may be integrated with the electronic component of a hybrid smart watch in such a fashion that the elements of an analog dial may be utilized to indicate information outside of time measurement domain, such as, for example, direction, air quality, radiation levels, available storage capacity, strength of communication signal, or any of the myriad other measurements available to the electronic component of the hybrid smart watch.
  • the electronic component of the hybrid smart watch can be further combined with the conventional movement to provide the benefits of integration, for example, to measure the precision of the conventional movement and sense the time it displays, adjust the conventional movement to display the correct time as indicated by the network services, regulate the subsystems of conventional movement so that they measure time with higher precision, change the time indicated by the conventional movement to adjust to a time zone change, wind up the spring of a mechanical movement (or otherwise charge up the power storage dedicated to a quartz movement) using the electronic component of the hybrid smart watch as the power source.
  • Electronic elements of the hybrid smart watch may control and/or utilize one or several forms of energy harvesting, including, but not limited to any combination of some or all of photovoltaic, piezoelectric, thermoelectric, kinetic, radio, microwave or some other form of energy harvesting.
  • the harvested energy may then be used to wind up or otherwise recharge, drive, or augment the power source of the conventional (mechanical, quartz, kinetic, or other) movement.
  • the following various embodiments describe a hybrid smart watch with multiple sources of time, multiple power sources, and multiple time indicator mechanisms.
  • Fig. 8 is a block diagram presenting one embodiment of a hybrid smart watch, containing the digital subsystem 810, the analog watch subsystem 820, and the time adjustment subsystem 830 and the energy transfer unit 840.
  • the digital subsystem may include a controller 811, a communication unit 815 with an external interface 816, a digital display 817, a tactile feedback system 818, an internal clock 812, data storage 814, and energy storage 813.
  • the controller 811 may control general operations of the digital subsystem 810 and a signal flow between the components within. In accordance with embodiments of the invention, it executes various application and system software residing in the data storage 814 or elsewhere, perform operations on the system and user data residing in the data storage 814 or available over the communication unit 815, display the data and user interface elements via the digital display 817, read and set the internal clock 812, read the state of the energy storage 813, interact and control the time interaction subsystem 830, and engage the energy transfer unit 840.
  • the data storage 814 stores a program code required for operations according to an embodiment of the present invention, user data, or the like.
  • the storage unit 814 may store a program that controls general operations of the digital subsystem 810, applications required for an operating system (OS) booting the digital subsystem 810, interacting over various communications protocols such as IP, Bluetooth, ZigBee, Wi-Fi, LTE, and the like, and additional functions of the digital subsystem 810 of the hybrid smart watch, including but not limited to all or any of a camera function, a music playback function, an image display function, a video play function, or the like.
  • OS operating system
  • the storage unit 814 may store user preferences regarding the automatic adjustment of the analog subsystem when a time correction is suggested by the digital subsystem, for example when the digital sub-system discovers that the user has entered a different time zone, or when the analog subsystem has been deviating from the expected time by a certain, configurable amount, for example three seconds or more.
  • the communication unit 815 may form wireless or wired communication channels with other devices and network services. It may have a single communication interface 816 or multiple communication interfaces as needed. In fact, multiple, medium-specific communications units might be employed in various embodiments of the present invention.
  • the communication unit 815 may use a communication technology such as Ethernet, Universal Serial Bus (USB), Bluetooth, infrared communication, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct, home RF, DLNA, ZigBee, or the like. More particularly, the communication unit 815 may form a communication channel with a network time service employing NTP or a functionally similar protocol, and may thus discover events such as clock drift or time zone change. Such events may trigger the controller 811 to make automatic adjustments, or to communicate the need for such adjustments to the user via the digital display 817, the tactile feedback system 818, or some other means.
  • the digital display 817 shows the information and user interface presented by the applications and the operating system executed within the digital subsystem of the hybrid smart watch, information provided by external devices via the communication unit 815, or the information generated by various sensors and components of the digital subsystem, as well as the sensors and components interacting with the analog subsystem of the smart watch.
  • the display unit 817 may provide work areas for various applications such as a weather report, a message reader, a digital timer, a power indicator, a "wondering", “jumping”, or retrograde indicator, while also showing a dial that would indicate the time when considered in conjunction with the analog time indicator 822, such as the mechanical hour and minute hands as shown in Fig. 1 .
  • the tactile feedback system 818 drives one or many mechanisms that provide information to the user of the hybrid smart watch via one or more haptic mechanisms.
  • Such mechanisms may be simple like a single-point pressure actuator, or complex, with patterns extended in time and across multiple pressure points.
  • the controller 811 determines that the time in the internal clock 812 deviates from the time as known to the analog subsystem 820 of the hybrid smart watch by a certain pre-configured amount, it may alert the user by sending a tactile pattern that would be perceived by the user as an alert requiring a human intervention.
  • the internal clock 812 is an essential component of any electronic system and thus of the digital subsystem 810.
  • the digital subsystem may contain multiple such clocks necessary for the operation of its components.
  • the internal clock does not necessarily have to keep track of the date or the hour, but rather of the passage of time.
  • the controller 811 may translate the passage of time as indicated by the internal clock 812 into the current date and time as perceived by humans.
  • the controller 811 may request and receive the current time and date from various network services via the communications unit 815. Once the controller 811 arrives, as a result of a network dialogue via communications unit 815, at what it perceives to be an accurate current time, it may adjust the internal clock 812, or adjust the formula it uses to translate the time reported by the internal clock 812 into the time in human-readable format.
  • the time as reported by the internal clock 812 or arrived at through a network transaction via communications unit 815 may be used to adjust the time in the analog subsystem 820.
  • an external source can be utilized to adjust either the internal time of the hybrid smart watch, or the time displayed by the hybrid smart watch on its digital or analog dial(s).
  • the energy storage 813 provides electric power to all the components of the digital subsystem 810, as well as time adjustment sub-system 830, and may provide power to the energy transfer unit 840 as well.
  • the energy storage 813 is charged by an energy capture unit 819, which receives energy from a wired source such as USB power, a power harvesting subsystem, a wireless source such as inductive charging, or the like.
  • the controller 811 can receive indications of the amount of power stored within energy storage 813 and adjust the behavior of the digital subsystem 810 and its components accordingly, as well as alert the user.
  • the power contained within the energy storage 813 could be used to charge the energy storage 823 of the analog subsystem of the hybrid smart watch. Mechanisms for efficiently and safely regulating and charging small power sources are well-known in the art and will not be enumerated here.
  • the digital subsystem 810 may further include optional components for providing additional functions, such as a camera module for photographing an image or a video, a broadcasting reception module for receiving broadcasts, a digital music playback module, and a sensor module for proximity, acceleration, radiation, and other sensing. All the types of components cannot be listed since a variation on the components varies greatly according to a convergence trend of digital devices, and the digital subsystem 810 of a hybrid smart watch according to embodiments of the present invention may further include components in a level equal to that of the above listed components.
  • the analog subsystem of a hybrid smart watch includes an energy storage 823, such as a spring, battery, capacitor, fuel cell, or the like, a watch movement 821, and a time indicator 822 such as an analog dial with hour, minute and second hands.
  • an energy storage 823 such as a spring, battery, capacitor, fuel cell, or the like
  • a watch movement 821 such as an analog dial with hour, minute and second hands.
  • a time indicator 822 such as an analog dial with hour, minute and second hands.
  • the time indicator 822 may be any of the known analog time indicators using, for example, separate hands to indicate hours, minutes, seconds, and fractions thereof, or a wondering hour dial, a sun-and-moon dial, a mystery dial, a jumping or retrograde display, or any other mechanical contrivance for showing time.
  • the time indicator 822 may rely on the digital display 817 to provide the context for the time it displays, such as digitally displayed hour and minute marks, or the current hour in case of the wondering hour time indicator.
  • the time indicator 822 may include multiple interrelated or independent indicators, showing different times or the same time in different formats, driven by the same movement or by multiple watch movements.
  • the time indicator may also display the date or dates as per various calendars, as well as the time elapsed from a certain moment, or time remaining until a certain moment in the future.
  • the time currently shown by the time indicator 822 may be captured by the time indicator sensor 831 and reported to the controller 811.
  • the time indicator itself may be adjusted by the time adjustment mechanism 832 based on a command from the controller 811.
  • the controller 811 would discover as a result of a transaction with a network time service like GPS, GSM, or LTE that the hybrid smart watch has entered a different time zone, and would command the time adjustment mechanism 832 to move the hour and minute hands of the time dial to match the local time.
  • the controller 811 may command the time adjustment mechanism 832 to regulate the conventional mechanism so as to improve precision of the same.
  • the watch asks the user if they wish to have the time adjusted. For example, some people who travel like to keep the conventional watch indicating their home time.
  • the watch movement 821 such as mechanical, quartz, kinetic, or some other movement, counts the time and controls the state of the time indicator 822 using power from the energy storage 823.
  • a hybrid smart watch may have more than one watch movement, just as it may have more than one time indicator.
  • the watch movement may track the time based on the common 24-hour day scale and the Gregorian calendar, or may track the sidereal time, the solar time, or other times such as measured by various cultural and religious traditions.
  • the watch movement may also use Gregorian, Mayan, or any of the multitudes of other calendars.
  • Fig. 1 shows a front view of a hybrid smart watch with a digital display where the hour and minute hands of the analogue watch component overlay the digital display.
  • a hybrid smart watch is shown enclosed in a case 110 with a wrist strap 150.
  • the hybrid smart watch has a rectangular digital display 120.
  • the rectangular display is depicted showing the weather indicators 170 and the Arabic numerals 160 marking the hours.
  • the digital display is driven by the digital subsystem of the hybrid smart watch, while the hour hand 130 and the minute hand 140 are driven by the analog subsystem of the hybrid smart watch.
  • Such an embodiment allows for an easy change of the dial, say from Arabic to Roman numerals, for display of information from various software applications, and for display of the time even when the digital subsystem of the hybrid smart watch has been shut down.
  • the board 232 with a controller, a communications unit, and other digital components is connected by leads 233 to the battery 234.
  • the board 232 and the digital components residing on it are also connected by leads 231 to the digital display 235.
  • all or several digital components may be integrated with the digital display and/or the power source.
  • Fig. 2 shows the watch movement 246 driving the hour hand 242 and minute hand 241 via the pinions 243 with the hour wheel 247 and the cannon pinion 248. Furthermore, Fig. 2 shows the stem 245 and the crown 244 that can be used to adjust the movement 246.
  • FIG. 2 provides an illustration of one possible embodiment of the current invention where the pertinent components of the digital and analog subsystems are packaged together to comprise a hybrid smart watch.
  • Fig. 3 demonstrates another embodiment of the present invention, a hybrid smart watch in a round case 320 with a wrist strap 310, a digital display 380 in the center, an analog dial 330 with permanent hour marks outside of the digital display, and the hour hand 360, minute hand 370 and second hand 350 mounted above the digital display.
  • the crown 340 could be used to adjust the hour and minute hands, or even adjust the time perceived by the digital subsystem of the hybrid smart watch and shown on the digital display 380.
  • the analog watch is fully divorced in its representation of time from the digital subsystem, yet the digital subsystem is still intimately integrated within the hybrid smart watch.
  • Fig. 4 illustrates a particular embodiment of the present invention, a hybrid smart watch in a round enclosure 420 with a wrist strap 410, a digital display 480 in the center, and an analog dial 430 with permanent hour marks outside of the digital display.
  • the hour hand 440 and the minute hand 460 are driven from the periphery of the watch face with a mechanism possibly similar (although not limited to) the "Mysterious Wall Clock" from US patent 2,153,004 issued in 1937.
  • the crown 450 could be used to adjust the hour and minute hands, or even adjust the time perceived by the digital subsystem of the hybrid smart watch and shown on the digital display 480.
  • the analog time indicator does not interfere with the digital display driven by the digital subsystem of the hybrid smart watch, while comprising an integrated device.
  • Fig. 5 shows an embodiment of the present invention, a hybrid smart watch in a round enclosure 520 with a wrist strap 510, where the digital display is covered with an aperture 580, thus indicating that the display is intentionally switched off.
  • the hour hand 540 and the minute hand 560 are driven from the periphery of the watch face and use the permanent hour marks outside of the display to indicate the time.
  • the crown 550 is used to control the hybrid smart watch, and can be pushed in to cause the aperture to close and to shut down the digital display, or, subsequently, to open and trigger the switching on of the digital display.
  • digital display is switched off, the smart watch knows it is not being viewed and thus goes into low power mode.
  • the display is switched on the digital subsystem of the hybrid smart watch draws more power to achieve higher performance. As such, this overcomes the design problem of poor performance of the smart watch because of power optimizations to improve overall battery life in the prior art.
  • Fig. 9 also demonstrates information 950 regarding the location of the next upcoming activity and the approximate time necessary to get to the location shown on the digital display 930 so that when the minute hand will arrive to the markings, it will be clear to the user that an action is indicated.
  • Fig. 9 further shows information shown on the digital display 960 next to the current position of the minute hand 990.
  • the time-sensitive data is displayed in its time context for the convenience of the user.
  • FIG. 9 illustrates various embodiments of the current invention wherein the information on the digital display is shown at significant locations associated with the analog dial and the current position of the analog hands of the hybrid smart watch, thus communicating to the user time-anchored data clearly and succinctly.
  • Fig. 10 illustrates a particular embodiment of the present invention, a hybrid smart watch in an enclosure 1010 with a wrist strap 410, an analog dial 1020, a digital display 1030 and the analog hands: the hour hand 1060 and the minute hand 1040.
  • a menu of easily accessible actions is shown next to the current location of the minute hand, so as to be instantly recognizable by the user reading the time.
  • FIG. 11 Another embodiment taking advantage of the hybrid nature of the smart watch presented in the current invention is depicted in Fig. 11 .
  • a hybrid smart watch 1110 is shown with an analog dial 1120, a digital display 1130, and the analog hands: the hour hand 1150, the minute hand 1160, and the second hand 1140.
  • the second hand 1140 is shown temporarily detached from the analog subsystem, so that instead of indicating the passage of time, it is controlled by the digital subsystem to indicate pulse, relative to the scale 1180 shown on the digital display, where the function of the scale is further indicated by the label 1170 shown on the digital display.
  • an inherently analog component of a hybrid smart watch can be coupled with the digital subsystem to implement a clearer, less distracting, user interface.
  • Fig. 6 illustrates an embodiment of the current invention where a hybrid smart watch 630 is attached to a wrist 610 by a wrist strap 640.
  • the crown of the watch is given a shape such that when the hand is bent backward, as depicted in Fig. 6 , it would push in the crown 620.
  • Such a crown is used to trigger the opening/closing of the aperture depicted in Fig. 5 and the switching on and off of the digital display without the need to engage another hand or some other triggering mechanism.
  • Fig. 7 is a sequence diagram illustrating a system for adjusting the time shown by the analogue subsystem of a hybrid smart watch.
  • the controller 701 of the digital subsystem of the hybrid smart watch issues the request 710 to the communications unit 702.
  • the communications unit 702 initiates the pertinent network protocol and requests the current network time 711 from the network time source 706.
  • a network time source are Network Time Protocol servers like pool.ntp.org, or GPS and cellular networks.
  • a network time source like NIST radio station or Global Positioning System satellites, broadcast current time continuously, thus making the step of requesting network time unnecessary.
  • the communications unit 702 returns the network time 713 to the controller 701.
  • the controller 701 Having received the network time 713, the controller 701 reads the watch time, as displayed by the time indicator, from the time indicator sensor 703. When the indicator sensor 703 reports current watch time 715 to the controller 701, the controller 701 compares it to the network time received earlier and makes a decision 716 whether there is a need to adjust the watch time.
  • the controller 701 raises the request 717 to the user 705 asking for permission to adjust the watch.
  • a request could be issued via a digital display, a dedicated indicator, a sound, a haptic subsystem or by some other means.
  • the controller 701 sends the command 719 to adjust the watch to the actuator 704.
  • the actuator 704 would then physically affect the analog time indicator to adjust the time displayed.

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  1. Montre intelligente hybride (630) comprenant :
    un boîtier de montre muni d'un bracelet (640) et d'une enceinte (520) renfermant un sous-système numérique (810) et un sous-système analogique (820),
    dans laquelle le sous-système numérique comprend :
    un dispositif de commande (811) destiné à effectuer les calculs et le traitement de données sous la direction d'un système d'exploitation (OS) ou d'un logiciel d'application,
    une unité de mémoire (814) destinée à mémoriser diverses données et le logiciel d'application devant être exécuté par le dispositif de commande,
    un affichage numérique (817) destiné à afficher des informations sous forme textuelle et graphique,
    une unité de stockage d'énergie (813) destinée à alimenter les éléments du sous-système numérique avec l'alimentation électrique ; et
    une horloge interne (812),
    dans laquelle le sous-système analogique comprend au moins :
    un mouvement de montre (821), un stockage d'énergie (823) destiné à alimenter le mouvement de montre, un indicateur d'heure (822) et un cadran analogique ;
    dans laquelle ladite montre intelligente hybride est conçue pour permettre à un système entre le sous-système numérique et le sous-système analogique de continuer à fonctionner et d'afficher des informations à l'intention de l'utilisateur pendant que l'autre manque de son alimentation stockée attribuée,
    caractérisé en ce que la montre intelligente hybride comprend en outre :
    une ouverture (580) présentant :
    un état fermé dans lequel l'affichage numérique est fermé par ladite ouverture de manière à ne pas être visible et il est éteint,
    et un état ouvert dans lequel l'affichage numérique est visible et il est allumé,
    dans laquelle, à l'état fermé de l'affichage numérique, le cadran analogique continue à afficher l'avancement de l'heure ; et
    une couronne (550, 620) située sur le boîtier de montre et façonnée de sorte que lorsque la main portant la montre intelligente hybride est pliée vers l'arrière, elle pousse la couronne pour choisir entre l'état fermé et l'état ouvert sans qu'il soit nécessaire d'engager l'autre main de l'utilisateur ou un autre mécanisme déclencheur.
  2. Montre intelligente hybride selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle la combinaison de l'affichage numérique (817) dans l'état actif et de l'indicateur d'heure (822) présente un cadran de montre comprenant des indicateurs d'échelle, chaque élément parmi l'affichage numérique et l'indicateur d'heure affichant des éléments visuels.
  3. Montre intelligente hybride selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle le sous-système numérique (810) comprend en outre d'autres composants et les autres composants et l'affichage numérique sont commutés dans un état de faible consommation d'énergie par un déclencheur logiciel, dans laquelle le cadran analogique est conçu pour continuer à afficher l'avancement de l'heure.
  4. Montre intelligente hybride selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle l'indicateur d'heure (822) du sous-système analogique (820) est visible et configuré pour afficher l'avancement de l'heure lorsque l'ouverture est dans un état fermé.
  5. Montre intelligente hybride selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle le sous-système numérique (810) est conçu pour améliorer la précision du sous-système analogique en ajustant l'heure affichée par le sous-système analogique (820) en fonction d'une heure réelle connue du sous-système numérique.
  6. Montre intelligente hybride selon la revendication 5, dans laquelle le sous-système numérique (810) est conçu pour prendre en compte les préférences de l'utilisateur pour que l'heure affichée soit constamment en avance sur l'heure réelle lors du réglage de l'heure en fonction de l'heure réelle telle que connue du sous-système numérique.
  7. Montre intelligente hybride selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle le sous-système numérique (810) est conçu pour améliorer la précision du sous-système analogique en ajustant un mécanisme régulateur apparent par le sous-système analogique (820), ledit ajustement étant fonction d'une heure réelle connue du sous-système numérique.
  8. Montre intelligente hybride selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle le stockage d'énergie (823) du sous-système analogique (820) peut être chargé à partir d'une source d'alimentation externe autre qu'un utilisateur humain.
  9. Montre intelligente hybride selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle le sous-système numérique (810) est conçu pour déterminer la quantité d'énergie stockée dans le stockage d'énergie (823) du sous-système analogique (820) et générer une alerte destinée à indiquer quand le stockage d'énergie nécessite une charge.
  10. Montre intelligente hybride selon la revendication 8, dans laquelle le sous-système numérique (810) est conçu pour déclencher la charge du stockage d'énergie (823) du sous-système analogique (820) en fonction d'une combinaison quelconque d'un ou plusieurs des éléments suivants :
    - la disponibilité d'une source d'alimentation externe,
    - le niveau d'énergie stocké dans le stockage d'énergie,
    - un temps d'exécution restant projeté du sous-système analogique.
  11. Montre intelligente hybride selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle l'affichage numérique (817) et l'indicateur d'heure analogique (822) sont conçus pour fonctionner comme un cadran de montre en combinaison, dans laquelle soit l'affichage numérique affiche des informations positionnées par rapport aux marquages de l'heure sur le cadran analogique de manière à être perçues par l'utilisateur comme étant liées aux moments dans le temps ; soit l'affichage numérique affiche des informations positionnées par rapport aux emplacements actuels des aiguilles du sous-système analogique (820) de manière à être perçues par l'utilisateur comme étant liées à l'instant de l'heure réelle.
  12. Montre intelligente hybride selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle l'affichage numérique (817) est conçu pour afficher un menu de choix pertinents positionné par rapport aux emplacements actuels des aiguilles du sous-système analogique (820) de manière à être lisible commodément par l'utilisateur lorsqu'il observe l'heure.
  13. Montre intelligente hybride selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle une ou plusieurs aiguilles (1150) du sous-système analogique (820) sont conçues pour être affichées temporairement détachées du mouvement de montre (821) et être ultérieurement actionnées par le sous-système numérique (810) destiné à indiquer une valeur par rapport à une échelle affichée sur l'affichage numérique (817) jusqu'à l'instant où ladite au moins une aiguille est affichée temporairement reconnectée au sous-système analogique.
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