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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7480212 | Motion-activated reminder calendar A motion-activated reminder calendar (1) having a front panel (38) and a rear panel (39) connected to one another by a plurality of sides (40), a calendar display (47) located on the front panel (38), a date display (4 | 01/20/2009 |
| 7392041 | Mobile access to information using images The subject application relates to a system(s), methodology, and user interface that facilitate improving mobile awareness of information, activities, events, and occasions by way of images. The application involves providing images of a desired application such as ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7260025 | Bookmark with integrated electronic timer and method therefor A bookmark (12) uses an integrated electronic timer circuit (18) to track reading time. A flat substrate (14) marks the page of the book. A header (16) is integral with the substrate. The header has a cavity for housing the electronic tim... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7215319 | Wristwatch type device and method for moving pointer A feature of the present invention includes a device having a display controller for controlling a display position of the pointer on the display screen, a displacement detector for detecting a displacement of the device itself, and a pointer mover for moving the po... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7172302 | Electronic device with UV illumination arrangement An indicator hand illumination arrangement for use in an electronic device that comprises a casing, a dial positioned in the casing, at least one indicator hand positioned intermediate the dial and a cover for at least in part protecting the at least one indicator h... | 02/06/2007 |
| 6903784 | Display assembly with contrast inversion including two superposed display devices A second device (24) is mounted on a first device (22) formed of a liquid crystal (27) display cell (26) at the front of which is arranged a first linear polarizer (40), of a liquid crystal (29) optical valve (28) at ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6515941 | Electronic watch An electronic watch which can be small-sized even with an additional mechanism such as a calendar mechanism. In the electronic watch, a rectangular piezoelectric oscillator 32 acting as a piezoelectric actuator is forced at its end face to contact with a ... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6388642 | Bidirectional multispeed indexing control system A bidirectional multispeed indexing control system for a display unit which has an increment input and a decrement input so as to be controllable to sequentially index through an ordered list of discrete elements. The control system has a two-button user ... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6323783 | Device with alternating status message display capability A device such as a watch, pager or combination pager/watch that can iteratively display status information messages for set predetermined periods of time at a predetermined location on the display. In normal operation, the device is displaying a variety o... | 11/27/2001 |
| 4774697 | Electronic timepiece including a schedule memory device In an electronic time-keeping apparatus wherein a plurality of schedule data is stored, chronologically readable, and displayed, schedule data input from a key input section is compared, under control of a read only memory, with a number of schedule data ... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4624529 | Liquid crystal display with central interconnections A liquid crystal display adapted for a solid state analog timepiece has front and rear transparent substrates with radial transparent electrodes to represent hour, minute and second hands. The contact terminals connected to the electrodes are grouped in a... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4353178 | Calendar display device A liquid crystal calendar display device presents a full month of dates in a large-sized format. Sunday is always located in the left column or in the alternative in the right column of the calendar display regardless of the day which is the first date in... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4335453 | Electronic watch In an electronic watch the indication of the time (hours, minutes and possibly seconds) is given in analog form by means of a first passive electro-optic display cell. The display segments of this first display cell are arranged radially with respect to a... | 06/15/1982 |
| 4308608 | Digital electronic timepieces In a digital electronic timepiece in which days of the week, hours and minutes are displayed on a display device and the displayed days of the week, hours and minutes can be corrected with a correction switch, a time correction switch is used to also corr... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4303995 | Electronic timepiece with calendar display arrangement An electronic wristwatch having a calendar display arrangement that is capable of memorizing and displaying date information is provided. Specifically, a digital display that is capable of displaying calendar information is coupled to a calendar display m... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4274146 | Calendar data display device for an electronic device A calendar data display controller may display the calendar of a desired month with various calendar data in a calendar display section which is provided in a display unit, together with a numerical data display section for displaying numerical data. The ... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4270846 | Electro-optical display device An electro-optical display device comprises electro-optical material sandwiched between a pair of substrates each having formed thereon electrodes. The electrodes on one substrate comprise a segment display electrode part comprised of a plurality of seven... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4250572 | Watch module construction A watch module construction including a digital display device composed of a liquid crystal display cell and an analog display device composed of time indicating hands. A cell support frame is disposed on one side of each of a base plate and a circuit boa... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4247927 | Digital electronic timepiece A digital electronic timepiece which comprises an oscillator circuit providing a relatively high frequency signal, a frequency divider dividing down the relatively high frequency signal to provide a first low frequency signal representative of the count o... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4236238 | Electronic digital timepiece having a stopwatch function and a timer function An electronic digital timepiece having standard timekeeping, stopwatch, and timer functions, and a weekdays display section composed of a plurality of display segments selectively activated to indicate the day of the week in the standard timekeeping displ... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4236240 | Watch module construction A watch module construction including a liquid crystal display cell of a polygonal profile in plan, with one internal angle of the profile being in the range 180 degrees to 360 degrees, and an analog display device including time indicating hands. A cell ... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4233681 | Electronic timepiece An electronic timepiece having liquid crystal or light-emitting diode display elements provides a logic network for flickering a part or all segments of the display element at a plurality of repetition rates and duty cycles, whereby additional intelligenc... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4130987 | Timepiece A watch is provided with means for displaying time and date and day of the week etc. by means of liquid crystal elements or the like. The display elements are distributed regularly over tape-like means of almost uniform thickness together with means for g... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4110967 | Method and system for driving liquid crystal display device A method and system for driving a liquid crystal display device including a first display section arranged in a first predetermined manner and a second display section arranged in a second predetermined manner, in which the first display section is driven... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4092638 | Display device employing special purpose monograms An electric-optic display device having an electrically controllable optical means for selectively indicating one of the seven days of the week by means of a combination of two letters. The device comprises two arrays, a first array composed of a pluralit... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4058971 | Digital wristwatch and stopwatch A resettable interval timer in combination with, but functioning independently from a digital watch which provides horological information. The watch operates in two modes; the first mode displaying horological information on the display devices and the s... | 11/22/1977 |
| 3991552 | Digital watch with liquid crystal display A digital watch system includes a crystal controlled oscillator with frequency division which controls a set of counters, each counter carrying coded horological data. Selected counter set data is multiplexed into a seven segment decoder. The decoder outp... | 11/16/1976 |
| 3945190 | Switch mechanism for electronic timepiece A switch mechanism for an electronic timepiece which makes use of an electro-optical display element. The switch mechanism serves to effect erasure, correction and the like of the display and comprises an exteriorly operated member provided in its axial d... | 03/23/1976 |
