Electronic timepiece

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10222760-B2
Application number	US-201615204700-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 7, 2016
Priority date	Sep 17, 2015
Publication date	Mar 5, 2019
Grant date	Mar 5, 2019

Abstract

An electronic timepiece, including: a reciprocating hand which is provided to be rotatable only within a partial angle range of a circle; and a processor which acquires information according to an operation of the reciprocating hand, and makes the reciprocating hand perform a predetermined notification operation when a destination of the reciprocating hand is out of the angle range, the destination being determined on the basis of the information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic timepiece, comprising: a dial; a display region having a range of less than 360 degrees which is provided on the dial; a reciprocating hand which is provided to be rotatable only within the range of the display region; an acquisition section which acquires predetermined information; and a processor which controls an operation of the reciprocating hand, wherein: a first scale value to a second scale value which is larger than the first scale value are shown on a perimeter of the display region, the processor acquires the predetermined information, acquired by the acquisition section,
if the predetermined information is smaller than a value corresponding to the first scale value, the processor controls the reciprocating hand to perform a first notification operation of reciprocating in a region from a position of the display region where the first scale value is shown to a position of the display region where a scale value which is equal to an intermediate value between the first scale value and the second scale value is shown, and then back to the position of the display region where the first scale value is shown, where the reciprocating hand stops, and
if the predetermined information is larger than a value corresponding to the second scale value, the processor controls the reciprocating hand to perform a second notification operation of reciprocating in a region from a position of the display region where the second scale value is shown to a position of the display region where a scale value which is equal to an intermediate value between the second scale value and the first scale value is shown and then back to the position of the display region where the second scale value is shown, where the reciprocating hand stops.

2. The electronic timepiece according to claim 1 , wherein the first notification operation includes an operation of the reciprocating hand moving at a fast forwarding speed.

3. The electronic timepiece according to claim 2 , wherein the acquisition section includes an operation receiving section which receives an operation by a user, and wherein, if a value acquired via the operation receiving section is smaller than the value corresponding to the first scale value the processor controls the reciprocating hand to perform the first notification operation of reciprocating in the region from the position of the display region where the first scale value is shown to the position of the display region where the scale value which is equal to the intermediate value between the first scale value and the second scale value is shown, and then back to the position of the display region where the first scale value is shown where the reciprocating hand stops.

4. The electronic timepiece according to claim 1 , wherein the second notification operation includes an operation of the reciprocating hand moving at a fast forwarding speed.

5. The electronic timepiece according to claim 4 , wherein the acquisition section includes an operation receiving section which receives an operation by a user, and wherein, if a value acquired via the operation receiving section is larger than the, value corresponding to the second scale value the processor controls the reciprocating hand to perform the second notification operation of reciprocating in the region from a position of the display region where the second scale value is shown to the position of the display region where the scale value which is equal to the intermediate value between the second scale value and the first scale value is shown and then back to the position of the display region where the second scale value is shown where the reciprocating hand stops.

6. The electronic timepiece according to claim 1 , wherein the acquisition section includes an operation receiving section which receives an operation by a user, and wherein, if a value acquired via the operation receiving section is smaller than the value corresponding to the first scale value the processor controls the reciprocating hand to perform the first notification operation of reciprocating in the region from the position of the display region where the first scale value is shown to the position of the display region where the scale value which is equal to the intermediate value between the first scale value and the second scale value is shown, and then back to the position of the display region where the first scale value is shown where the reciprocating hand stops.

7. The electronic timepiece according to claim 6 , wherein the processor determines a notification amount of the first notification operation according to at least one of an acquisition frequency and a number of successive acquisitions of reception information.

8. The electronic timepiece according to claim 1 , wherein the acquisition section includes an operation receiving section which receives an operation by a user, and wherein, if a value acquired via the operation receiving section is larger than the, value corresponding to the second scale value the processor controls the reciprocating hand to perform the second notification operation of reciprocating in the region from a position of the display region where the second scale value is shown to the position of the display region where the scale value which is equal to the intermediate value between the second scale value and the first scale value is shown and then back to the position of the display region where the second scale value is shown where the reciprocating hand stops.

9. The electronic timepiece according to claim 8 , wherein the processor determines a notification amount of the second notification operation according to at least one of an acquisition frequency and a number of successive acquisitions of reception information.

10. The electronic timepiece according to claim 9 , wherein the notification amount is determined by at least one of a movement width of the reciprocating hand, a fast forward speed of the reciprocating hand, and a number of times that a predetermined pattern operation is repeated in the second notification operation.

11. The electronic timepiece according to claim 1 , wherein the acquisition section includes a sensor which measures a predetermined physical quantity and, wherein, if a value acquired via the sensor is smaller than the, value corresponding to the first scale value the processor controls the reciprocating hand to perform the first notification operation of reciprocating in the region from the position of the display region where the first scale value is shown to the position of the display region where the scale value which is equal to the intermediate value between the first scale value and the second scale value is shown, and then back to the position of the display region where the first scale value is shown where the reciprocating hand stops.

12. The electronic timepiece according to claim 11 , wherein the processor determines a notification amount of the first notification operation according to a difference between the value acquired via the sensor and the value corresponding to the first scale value.

13. The electronic timepiece according to claim 12 , wherein the notification amount is determined by at least one of a movement width of the reciprocating hand, a fast forward speed of the reciprocating hand, and a number of times that a predetermined pattern operation is repeated in the first notification operation.

14. The electronic timepiece according to claim 1 , wherein the acquisition section includes a sensor which measures a predetermined physical quantity and, wherein, if a value acquired via the sensor is larger than the, value corr

Assignees

• Casio Computer Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hasegawa Kosuke

Classifications

• G04C3/146

  incorporating two or more stepping motors or rotors · CPC title

• G04B19/082 Primary

  varying from the normal closed scale · CPC title

• G04B47/005

  combined with a key · CPC title

• G04G9/0005 Primary

  Transmission of control signals · CPC title

• G04C3/14

  incorporating a stepping motor (G04C3/02 - G04C3/12 take precedence {; generating commutating pulses in primary clocks G04C13/0463}) · CPC title