Time information receiver, radio wave correction timepiece, and time code type determination method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10001758-B2
Application number	US-201715435691-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 17, 2017
Priority date	Feb 26, 2016
Publication date	Jun 19, 2018
Grant date	Jun 19, 2018

Abstract

A time information receiver that receives a standard radio wave containing a time code and analyzes the time code based on a demodulated signal of the standard radio wave includes a falling edge cycle measurement part that measures a falling edge cycle of the demodulated signal over a measurement period set in advance and counts an occurrence in which the falling edge cycle is determined to coincide with any of 400 ms, 700 ms, 1300 ms, and 1600 ms, a low level width measurement part that measures a low level width over the measurement period whenever the falling edge cycle of the demodulated signal occurs and counts an occurrence in which the measured low level width is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold greater than 300 ms but smaller than 500 ms.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A time information receiver that receives a standard radio wave containing a time code and analyzes the time code based on a demodulated signal of the standard radio wave, the receiver comprising:
a falling edge cycle measurement part that measures a falling edge cycle of the demodulated signal over a measurement period set in advance and counts an occurrence in which the falling edge cycle is determined to coincide with any of 400 ms, 700 ms, 1300 ms, and 1600 ms;
a low level width measurement part that measures a low level width over the measurement period whenever the falling edge cycle of the demodulated signal occurs and counts an occurrence in which the measured low level width is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold greater than 300 ms but smaller than 500 ms; and
a determination part that determines a transmitting station that transmits the standard radio wave,
wherein when a result of the measurement performed by the low level width measurement part is fewer than 2, the determination part determines that the transmitting station that transmits the standard radio wave is an MSF station.

2. A time information receiver that receives a standard radio wave containing a time code and analyzes the time code based on a demodulated signal of the standard radio wave, the receiver comprising:
a falling edge cycle measurement part that measures a falling edge cycle of the demodulated signal over a measurement period set in advance and counts an occurrence in which the falling edge cycle is determined to coincide with any of 400 ms, 700 ms, 1300 ms, and 1600 ms;
a low level width measurement part that measures a low level width over the measurement period whenever the falling edge cycle of the demodulated signal occurs and counts an occurrence in which the measured low level width is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold greater than 300 ms but smaller than 500 ms; and
a determination part that determines a transmitting station that transmits the standard radio wave,
wherein when a result of the measurement performed by the falling edge cycle measurement part is at least 1, the determination part determines that the transmitting station that transmits the standard radio wave is a JJY60 station.

3. A time information receiver that receives a standard radio wave containing a time code and analyzes the time code based on a demodulated signal of the standard radio wave, the receiver comprising:
a falling edge cycle measurement part that measures a falling edge cycle of the demodulated signal over a measurement period set in advance and counts an occurrence in which the falling edge cycle is determined to coincide with any of 400 ms, 700 ms, 1300 ms, and 1600 ms;
a low level width measurement part that measures a low level width over the measurement period whenever the falling edge cycle of the demodulated signal occurs and counts an occurrence in which the measured low level width is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold greater than 300 ms but smaller than 500 ms; and
a determination part that determines a transmitting station that transmits the standard radio wave,
wherein when a result of the measurement performed by the falling edge cycle measurement part is 0, and a result of the measurement performed by the low level width measurement part is at least 2, the determination part determines that the transmitting station that transmits the standard radio wave is a WWVB station.

4. A radio wave correction timepiece comprising:
the time information receiver according to claim 1 ;
a time correction part that corrects internal time based on time data acquired by the time information receiver; and
a display part that displays the corrected internal time.

5. A radio wave correction timepiece comprising:
the time information receiver according to claim 2 ;
a time correction part that corrects internal time based on time data acquired by the time information receiver; and
a display part that displays the corrected internal time.

6. A radio wave correction timepiece comprising:
the time information receiver according to claim 3 ;
a time correction part that corrects internal time based on time data acquired by the time information receiver; and
a display part that displays the corrected internal time.

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Yoshida Hiroaki

Classifications

• G04R20/12 Primary

  Decoding time data; Circuits therefor · CPC title

• G04R20/10

  Tuning or receiving; Circuits therefor · CPC title