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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7286063 | Method of input of a security code by means of a touch screen for access to a function, an apparatus or a given location, and device for implementing the same The method relates to the input of a security code by means of a touch screen of an electronic device such as a watch for access to a specific function, an apparatus or a given location. This touch screen comprises control keys, which can be activated by a manual ac... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7227623 | Method and apparatus for standardization of a measuring instrument A method, a portable device and a measuring instrument for standardization of a satellite measuring instrument to a corresponding master measuring instrument are disclosed. The portable device includes a device for containing a reference material, and an information... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7193963 | Method for inputting information into a data storage medium that is optically recordable and readable In a method of entering information into an optically writable and readable data storage medium having a polymer film which can be changed locally by heating in order to store information and to which there is assigned an absorber dye (34) which is set up to ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7187049 | Data download to imager chip using image sensor as a receptor An imaging device having a CMOS photosensor array for capturing images is described in which the array is also used to input programming and/or data used to control the imaging operations. The data-input can be based upon variations in light color, value, intensity,... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7167689 | Crystal for a telephone watch The telephone watch includes a crystal (1) including a keyboard (2) formed in particular of a plurality of capacitive sensors (3) disposed under the crystal. This crystal includes a thick zone (4) at its center and a thinned zone (5 | 01/23/2007 |
| 7150938 | Structurally embedded intelligent power unit An electrical power system for a spacecraft or other vehicle or structure comprising a structural member containing an integrated solid-state power source is disclosed. The power source includes a solar cell system and an energy storage system that are combined into... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7099905 | Novelty calculator system for amusement A novelty calculator and system of input and data manipulation for amusement. The preferred embodiment of the device contemplates a calculator having a body, keyboard for input of numerical data and functions, and a display similar to standard calculators. However, ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7069055 | Mobile telephone capable of displaying world time and method for controlling the same An apparatus and method for calculating and displaying local time for a plurality of cities in the world. The apparatus includes a memory for storing Greenwich mean time (GMT) information for each of the plurality of cities. The apparatus sets a reference time and c... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7058733 | Handheld computing device with external notification system A portable handheld computing device has a notification system that alerts a user of an event regardless of whether the device is on or off. The notification system has a notification mechanism that is activated upon occurrence of the event and remains active until ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7055111 | Opportunistic data transfer from a personal digital apparatus The opportunistic data download method determines a preferred download time to download the accumulated data from a personal digital apparatus, such as a wristwatch-type device with sensors. The personal digital apparatus then polls for the download device at the do... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6173060 | Voice-controlled timing and calculating device A voice-controlled timing and calculating device includes a microphone to receive a user's vocal signal, a voice amplifier amplifying the vocal signal, a comparison circuit comparing the vocal signal with information stored in a memory to retrieve an asso... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6052700 | Calendar clock caching in a multiprocessor data processing system Each processor (92) in a data processing system (80) caches a copy of the master calendar clock (97). The master calendar clock (97) and all of the cached calendar clocks (272) are periodically incremented utilizing a common clock (99). Whenever a process... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6026367 | Method of billing the parking of vehicles by means of pay meters A method of cash card billing with the aid of parking or pay meters when parking a vehicle. A pay meter system is provided which includes a plurality of pay meters, wherein each pay meter constitutes an independent operative unit and is equipped with a ca... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5986623 | System and method for interlaced display device data transmission A system and method for optically, serially transmitting data to a remote device using an interlaced display device. The data bits to be transmitted are ordered so that the bits are received in proper temporal order by the remote device. At least one of t... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5943297 | Calendar clock circuit for computer workstations A computer date and time clock including an incrementing binary 32 bit register, used to main elapsed date and time in seconds, and an external 1 Hz clock signal, provided by an oscillator, that increments the register. The oscillator and register are bot... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5893073 | Method and apparatus for representing recurring events A method and apparatus for representing and storing the schedules of recurring events. The schedules are represented by recurrence rules generated according to a specific grammar. According to the grammar, each recurrence rule is composed of one or more r... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5878002 | Tactile actuated electronic computer wrist watch A tactilely setable data input structure for a battery-operated, computer-run wrist watch operable in a time mode and a calculator mode comprising: a watch casing housing battery and clock calculator electronics and at least one visible display having mul... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5842177 | Management of calendar events in a data processing system A method and system for managing events within a calendar program executing within the data processing system. Selected events are associated with each other. An action is performed on the selected events in response to a completion of one of the selected... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5835388 | Apparatus and method for optical transmission of serial data using a serial communications port Accessory for a laptop computer with LCD display which is connected to the laptop serial communications port and optically transmits data to a portable information device, such as a wristwatch designed to receive data as sequential pulses of light. The ac... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5742260 | System and method for transferring data using a frame-scanning display device The invention encompasses a system and method for serially transferring a sequence of data bits having binary values. This includes a step of displaying sequential display frames on a frame-scanning graphics display device, wherein each sequential display... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5656153 | Water-removal control system with timer display for dialysis device A water-removal control system for dialysis device includes a volume-setting device for setting a planned volume of water to be removed; a rate-setting device for setting a water-removing rate; and a time-display for calculating from the planned volume of... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5652602 | Fast serial data transmission using a CRT Disclosed herein is a system and method of serially transferring a sequence of data bits between a computer and a portable information device such as the Timex Data Link™ watch, using the CRT of the computer as a transmission medium. The computer is pro... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5617375 | Dayclock carry and compare tree An apparatus for and method of efficiently providing a modular dayclock within a data processing system. This is accomplished by dividing the dayclock hardware into a number of dayclock modules configured to operate in a bit serial fashion. This allows th... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5570297 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing data transfer rate from a cathode ray tube video monitor to a portable information device Method and apparatus for synchronizing the data transfer rate for downloading data from a cathode ray tube (CRT) adapted for transmission of serial data bits as light pulses appearing as spaced lines on the CRT to a portable information device having a ph... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5544078 | Timekeeping comparison circuitry and dual storage memory cells to detect alarms A low-power integrated circuit clock/calendar, wherein separate data busses are used for the time data and the alarm data. Conditional logic is used to only compare seconds bits (unless a match occurs, in which case higher-order bits are then compared). T... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5535147 | Method and apparatus for downloading information from a controllable light source to a portable information device A system for transferring data from a CRT (cathode ray tube) video display monitor on a personal computer to a portable information device such as a multifunction electronic wristwatch. The CRT video display has a video signal generator providing raster s... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5488571 | Method and apparatus for downloading information from a controllable light source to a portable information device A system for transferring data from a CRT (cathode ray tube) video display monitor on a personal computer to a portable information device such as a multifunction electronic wristwatch. The CRT video display has a video signal generator providing raster s... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5448532 | Electronic world clock device for indicating times for various spots in the world An electronic world clock device indicates a time in connection with a designated region based on a time difference in a reference region to be stored, and comprises clock means for counting a present time in a specified home region and memory means for s... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5319581 | Data processor with clocking for various world times A data world times clocking includes a main clock for clocking a reference time and prestorage memory for prestoring names of cities in various time zones in the world and a time difference between the reference time and a standard time for each of the va... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5297119 | Data storage apparatus Data input through a key switch is displayed on a liquid crystal display and is stored in an EEPROM. The data stored in the EEPROM is immediately read out to check whether the read data coincide with the input data. If the data stored in the EEPROM and re... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5218694 | Dual selection system for reference frequency for use in a clock A dual selection system for a reference frequency for use in a clock comprising a microcomputer for controlling the whole system and outputting a switching signal and frequency-demultiplying signals. A system oscillator produces an oscillation signal of 4... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5007015 | Portable compact device A portable compact device for use with an external device. The portable compact device includes an interface circuit for providing an interface between an external device and the portable compact device. A data memory circuit stores data received by the i... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4965553 | Hand-near-mouth warning device The apparatus includes a strap for wearing the apparatus on the wearer's wrist. A three-axis attitude sensor senses when the wrist in a position which places the hand near the wearer's mouth. An alarm is actuated by the three-axis sensor and warns the wea... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4891776 | Electronic timepiece An electronic timepiece comprises time count circuit for counting a reference signal to obtain present time data, item data storage for storing a plurality of item data, and external operation switch for inputting at least one of alarm time data and ident... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4882685 | Voice activated compact electronic calculator A compact electronic calculator comprising a screen, electronic circuits, a microphone, voice recognition circuits which are exchangeable depending upon the context of the verbal data to be received by the calculator and the language in which the data is ... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4602347 | Microcomputer addressing system and electronic timepiece utilizing the same A microcomputer comprises an address decoder (23) for providing address signals to a random access memory (21). The address decoder (23) is adapted to generate a plurality of address signals in accordance with one piece of instruction data obtained from a... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4491049 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument having key input means selectively actuable to cause the production of sounds corresponding to respective notes of the musical scale, comprises a memory circuit for storing the respective notes, and a clear circuit actuate... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4486847 | Watch provided with a microcomputer A microcomputer used in the multi-function watch comprises, in addition to its conventional circuits such as the program memory 1, the data memory 7 and the arithmetic and logic unit 6, a counter 13 with a counting capacity of 100. The counter can be set ... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4452119 | Electronic musical instrument with musical information input means Disclosed is an electronic musical instrument with musical information input keys for producing musical information. A plurality of keys are provided for generating musical information of musical notes to introduce musical tones and pitches of the musical... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4379640 | Timepieces having a device of requesting and reciting time settings in the form of audible sounds A voice-synthesizer timepiece capable of providing advance announcement before time settings and reciting time setting is required already entered, in the form of synthesized voices is disclosed. For example, in the voice-synthesizer timepiece disclosed h... | 04/12/1983 |
