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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7145559 | Display device power savings An electronic or computing device includes an integrated graphical display and a power source, such as a battery, to provide power to operate the graphical display. A selectable shutdown control, such as an operating system shutdown control, is displayed on the grap... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7079452 | Time display system, method and device A time display device (“TDD”)—equally adaptable to watches, clocks, computers, phones, and vehicles—indicates the current hour of the day by displaying a color that refers an observer to the disclosed color-to-hour matrix, thereby eliminating the traditional... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7065006 | Method for enabling displayability/inhibitability of mode functions in a multimode electronic device A method of enabling the displayability of at least one hidden mode in a multimode electronic device, wherein the method comprises the steps of determining that data in the at least one hidden mode satisfies a specified condition; and causing the mode indicator of t... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6966994 | Contamination control for engines A method is provided of detecting contamination of engine fluid in an engine. Engine fluid is provided to a particle counter, and the cleanliness of the engine fluid is measured with the particle counter during operation of the engine. ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6958955 | Electronic timepiece An electronic timepiece has an operating unit for switching between a time display mode and a demo display mode, a time measuring unit for measuring time, and a storing unit for storing a timing condition for switching between the time display mode and the demo disp... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6937267 | Electronic endoscope An electronic endoscope displays the date so as to enable the year, month, and day to be differentiated on a screen when displaying a date together with the object image. The electronic endoscope is provided with, in a processor, a central processing unit (CPU), a r... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6560165 | Medical information appliance A medical information appliance which reminds a user of times to take medications or to perform medical-related activities. It features a delay mode, which shuts the alarm off but later reminds the user to take the indicated medication. Multiple alarms ca... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6420959 | Multi-level user interface for a multimode device A multimode electronic device having a plurality of manually actuated buttons for selecting between a plurality of modes and functions wherein at least one of the modes has at least two second level functions. The device can cycle among the modes upon the... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6286991 | Crown control for enhanced quadribalanced digital time displays Quadribalanced digital time displays and methods comprising increasing digital minutes displayed on the right flank of centrally positioned digital present hours, in relatively upper and lower positions during the first and second quarter hours, followed ... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6204752 | Bicycle display unit with backlight A bicycle display unit is provided for displaying information to the rider. The bicycle display unit is preferably part of a bicycle computer that is battery operated. The bicycle display unit has a display panel with a front display surface and a backlig... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6010242 | Rotary switch laser indicator A rotary switch laser indicator having a casing a mirror seat, and a laser unit, that will display different images by rotating the mirror seat to control the switch. The casing can be attached to a band and the switch can be used as an indicator in the w... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5587971 | Mode preselect function for a multimode electronic timepiece A multimode electronic timepiece includes a display, a number of manually actuated switches, and an integrated circuit programmed to keep time, to provide a plurality of operating modes, including time-of-day, in a continuous loop, and to permit an operat... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5285426 | Rollerball control arrangement for a timepiece adapted to receive radio broadcast messages A timepiece includes a timekeeper displaying the hour (4) and the minute (5), a receiver for radio broadcast messages adapted to be read on a display (7) and a control arrangement (2) including a rollerball (1) adapted to be manually rolled in a first dir... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5257245 | Automatic mode sequencing to last used mode for multimode electronic timepiece Improvement in a multimode electronic timepiece having a display, a plurality of manually actuated actuators, including first and second actuators, and an integrated circuit programmed to keep time and to provide a current sequence of a plurality of modes... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5226022 | Mode selection option with instructional message for multimode electronic timepiece In accordance with the present improvement of the present invention, in a multimode electronic timepiece, actuation of a first actuator while the timepiece is disposed in a "home" mode will cause to be displayed an alternate mode for a first predetermined... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5140563 | Multimode electronic timepiece having a mutually exclusive submode display The operating program of a microcomputer is adapted such that once the operator initially selects a submode, the timepiece is disposed into the first operating state of that selected submode, and actuation of any actuator other than that actuator which cy... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5111487 | Electronic timer apparatus Modulo timer apparatus including a chain of modulo counter stages is controllable by write signals generated by a central controller. The central controller is operative to generate a write signal corresponding to a selected counter stage, and a digital c... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5023848 | Solder wave dwell timer A pair of spaced apart probes generally approximating the contact geometry of conveyed object to be wave soldered is similarly conveyed past and in contact with the solder wave. A timing circuit interconnects with the probes and measures the dwell time of... | 06/11/1991 |
| 5003492 | Display apparatus having data reset arrangement for fast changing of digital display The two-digit number displayed by a display apparatus (1) is adjusted by means of a microcontroller (4) in response to actuation of increment (5) and decrement (6) keys. Each new actuation of the increment key results in incrementation of the displayed nu... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4989188 | Program to display an alternate mode in a multimode timepiece A multimode electronic timepiece has a display, a group plurality of manually actuated switches, and an integrated circuit programmed to keep time and to provide several operating modes including time-of-day mode. The integrated circuit is programmed to p... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4896307 | Microcomputer-controlled programmable time switch A microcomputer-controlled programmable time switch has a display for the acutal time and other functions. The other functions are obtained through easily understood legends, with keys for each individual function and with keys for the input, indication a... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4855971 | Time adjustment arrangement for digital displays An electronic timepiece or clock with a digital display, and with an arrangement for the setting or adjustment of the minutes and/or hour display through either a short or lengthier depression of a timing push button. A single timing push button is provid... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4766578 | Method of setting time in digital clock and system therefor A digital timepiece operates in a normal mode and in a set mode for setting time. A keyboard is sequentially actuated for carrying out a switching operation, an entering operation to enter time data to be set, and an executing operation. A counter is conn... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4726687 | Analog timepiece with device for electronic data input A timepiece includes a conventional circular analog display surrounded by one or more data entry dials. Data selection means such as a pointer or a window are utilized to select one of a plurality of uncoded characters on the data entry dial thereby enabl... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4720823 | Push-pull, stem-controlled digital time displays A single push-pull stem control is provided for setting and operating digital time displays. The stem may be pushed into a first operative position, relative to a case housing the display and exposing it to view, in which it completes a circuit to the ele... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4630935 | Other time instrument An electronic timepiece including a clock for providing an output indicative of natural time, a clock display for displaying time of day information provided by the clock, a chronograph for counting given elapsed natural time periods and a chronograph dis... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4538923 | Test circuit for watch LSI A test circuit for watch IC capable of setting an operating mode with the operations of a plurality of switches has a ROM for deciding next operating mode in response to the outputs of said switching circuit including the switches and the outputs of flipf... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4444511 | Mode switching device in an electronic timepiece An electronic watch having a multiple of modes includes mode selection means operable from the outside and a plurality of external operating buttons for modifying the contents of indication of the watch or for issuing an operational command in each mode. ... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4415276 | Electronic timepiece An electronic timepiece has a timepiece standard generator, a frequency divider having a resettable terminal, a circuit for controlling an optically displaying device connected to the frequency divider, a circuit for controlling a hand displaying device c... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4397568 | Timepiece push-button structure A timepiece push-button structure comprising a spring member composed of tongue portions interconnected by a connection portion, each tongue portion being bridge-shaped so that the central portion is raised while both end portions of the central portion a... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4316276 | Key-operated solid-state timepieces A solid-state electronic timepiece in which the output of a high-frequency time base is divided down to produce low-frequency timing pulses that are applied to a display actuator adapted to selectively control a multi-digit electro-optic display to presen... | 02/16/1982 |
| 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 |
| 4270199 | Switching mechanism for electronic wristwatch A thin-film transparent electrode is provided on the front glass of an electronic wristwatch to form a part of a switching mechanism cooperation with a metal frame provided at the back of the wristwatch. The metal frame is maintained in contact with the o... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4253175 | Time data processing circuit for electronic timepiece A time data processing circuit for an electronic timepiece comprises a common line; a signal generator for generating time data signal and first, second, third and fourth control signals; first and second shift register circuits; an arithmetic operation c... | 02/24/1981 |
| 4245335 | Watch display A digital timepiece is provided with a quartz oscillator, frequency divider and counting circuits, a decoder and a digital electrooptical display device. The timepiece is suitable to operate as a standard digital wristwatch to display the present, i.e., e... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4232301 | Apparatus for automatically selectively displaying information of a plurality of kinds Supplied usually with a first information signal, an indicator displays information carried by the signal, such as time indicated by a clock. Information carried by a second information signal, such as a frequency to which a radio receiver is tuned, is op... | 11/04/1980 |
| 4196582 | Control device for an electronic watch A control device for controlling the display of an electronic watch capable of providing two different types of information. The control device enables selection of the information to be displayed and differentiation between the two types of display avail... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4188776 | Electronic watch A method and circuit for selecting a function of a watch. A predetermined number and a predetermined sequence of electrical code signals are user generated by two switches which are located on the watch. The code signals correspond to at least one functio... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4182113 | Electronic time keeping device with time-shared timing indicator The device includes indicator elements capable of sequentially indicating the output of a counter in the forming of a plurality of time bands; an operation command signal distributor capable of generating an output for the performance of an operation havi... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4182108 | Electronic timepiece correction circuit An electronic timepiece correction circuit for a digital display electronic timepiece wherein the same digital display is utilized with timekeeping circuitry capable of producing two types of time information to display both types of time information is p... | 01/08/1980 |
