Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Citizen Watch Company, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Citizen Holdings Company, Ltd.

Kenji Shimoda

Koichi Hirayama

Masatoshi Nakai

Shuji Abe

Kouichi Kurihara

Yasuo Kitajima

Yoshihisa Sakazaki

Hideo Tsurufusa

Shinji Yoda

Shinichi Yamada

Isamu Kobayashi

Kenjiro Endoh

Takehiko Okuyama

Kazuyoshi Fuse

Noritoshi Suzuki

Junko Kimura

Kenji Fujita

Akiyoshi Murakami

Kiyotaka Igarashi

Masami Fukuda

Toshio Umemoto

Kenji Miyasaka

Masao Sakuyama

Takayuki Hasumi

Shinnosuke Sakata

Nobuyuki Uehara

Daisuke Tokunaga

Hidetoshi Ikeda

Hiroyuki Sekiguchi

Takashi Isoda

Seijiro Yasuki

Naoki Endoh

Takehisa Kato

Masahiro Sase

Minoru Yoneda

Hisaharu Takeuchi

Akira Nagashima

Yasuhiro Fujiyoshi

Takeo Mutoh

Masaaki Kisou

Hitoshi Takeda

Teruo Itami

Yoshio Katsuki

Kazumasa Ikeda

Shin-ichi Oosawa

Takao Inoh

Yurie Udou

Yurie Udoh

Michiko Yagi

Eiki Murakami

Tetsuo Nagoya

Koki Mine

Yuta Furudate

Kazutaka Igarashi

Provided is a watch, including: an exterior case having electroconductivity; an operating member having electroconductivity, which is inserted into the exterior case through an opening formed through the exterior case, and which is configured to accept an operation performed by a user; and an electrostatic motor including: an electret substrate having an electret surface on which electret films being electrically charged are provided; a counter substrate, on which electrodes to be arranged so as to be opposed to the electret films are provided; and a rotary shaft configured to rotate the electret substrate and the counter substrate relative to each other, wherein the operating member and the exterior case are electrically continuous with each other via a conduction path formed so as to avoid overlapping with the electret surface in plan view.

Timepiece

Provided is an electromechanical transducer to be detachably attached to an electronic device, the transducer including: first and second plates; a rotor rotating around a rotating shaft supported by the plates; a fixed substrate disposed between the plates and facing the rotor; a charged portion having sub-regions disposed on the rotor at intervals in a rotating direction thereof so as to face the fixed substrate; an opposing electrode disposed on the fixed substrate so as to face the rotor; an adjusting unit for adjusting sliding properties of the rotating shaft, the adjusting unit being provided for at least one of the plates; and a gear train coupled to the rotating shaft. The gear train transmits motive power generated by the rotor rotated by electric power of the electronic device to the electronic device or transmits motive power generated by a change in orientation of the electronic device to the rotor.

Electromechanical transducer and electronic timepiece

A load characteristic estimating apparatus for a driving machine includes an action-command generating unit for generating an action command for a position and speed of a driving machine, a driving-force-command generating unit for generating a driving force command to cause an action of the driving machine to follow the action command, a driving unit for generating driving force corresponding to the driving force command and drive the driving machine, a sign determining unit for determining, based on driving speed of the driving machine, the state of the driving machine, a load-driving-force estimating unit for calculating, based on the driving force command, a load driving force signal, and a normal reverse-rotation-average calculating unit and a reverse-rotation-average calculating unit, configured to calculate a sequential average of the load driving force signal, respectively when the determination result is a normal and reverse rotation action.

Load characteristic estimating apparatus for driving machine

An electronic device such as a watch comprises a solar cell () and window portions () which is located on the solar cell () and through which light is applied to the solar cell (). The solar cell () is divided into a plurality of divided cells such that irradiated portions (A toF) of the divided cells are equal in area, in consideration of the shapes, areas, and number of the window portions () and the number of divisions of the solar cell ().

Electronic device with solar cell

An electronic timepiece () comprises time information generating unit (A) for generating time information, information generating unit for generating information (function information, warning information, etc.) other than the time information, and power-saving operation unit (D) for operating the electronic timepiece in a power-saving operation state entailing lower power consumption than in a normal operation state. The information generating unit or the power-saving operation unit (D) is operated preferentially.

Electronic watch and electronic watch control method

An inexpensive switch connecting structure is provided capable of avoiding abnormal wear-off or deformation of a contact spring of a supporting plate even if a movement in a basic shape is placed in a timepiece case having a shape different from the movement and a push button is repeatedly used. The switch connecting structure includes a supporting plate attached to cap a movement of a timepiece and provided with a contact spring having a contact portion at a tip brought into contact with a switch contact portion of a circuit board, and a switch regulating plate provided with a switch spring on an outer periphery corresponding to said contact spring and covering at least part of said supporting plate, wherein said switch spring is flexed by operation of an externally operated component attached to a timepiece case, thereby bringing the contact portion of the contact spring of said supporting plate into contact with the switch contact portion of said circuit board. The switch spring of the switch regulating plate acts as an intermediary to properly convey the pressing force from the externally operated component such as a push button attached to the timepiece case having a different shape from the basic shape of the movement.

Switch connecting structure for timepiece

A source of MPEG2 video data is connected with a dedicated AV device or personal computer by means of an IEEE 1394 interface. A transmission unit in the source has an IEEE 1394 encryption unit and a sending I/F unit. A reception unit varies between the dedicated AV unit and the personal computer. In the reception unit of the dedicated AV device, a receiving I/F unit and a decryptor are integrally incorporated into one semiconductor chip and an MPEG2 decoder is incorporated into one semiconductor chip. In the reception unit of the personal computer, the receiving I/F unit is formed of one semiconductor chip, and the decryptor connected to the I/F unit through a bus, and the MPEG2 decoder are formed of one semiconductor chip. Thus, data before decryption will not appear on the bus, which prevents MPEG2 video data from being taken out of the computer for illegal copying purposes. In addition, the reception unit is made to have a different physical configuration depending on whether it is to be mounted in the dedicated AV device or the personal computer. This will prevent the reception unit (including the decryptor) of the dedicated AV device from being connected in the personal computer in place of its associated reception unit (excluding the decryptor).

Digital data reproduction device

An electronic watch with a meter function, capable of a multifunctional display, wherein the dial of the watch is divided into a data display region and a mode display region and the area for displaying the mode, and the area for displaying functional quantities are increased to make the graduations easier to read, with one hand indicating a data display region for data corresponding to physical quantities, and one hand indicating the mode region.

Electronic watch with meter function and display means

A multifunction electronic watch having a large variety of added functions, and providing an electronic watch and drive method therefor that have a high value as a product and a configuration enabling separate use of an energy-saving mode and a function information operating mode, this electronic watch having a reference signal generation means , a time information generation means , which generates time information TJ based on a reference signal S R from the reference signal generation means , a function information generation means for generating function information FJ, a display drive means , which outputs drive signals DRT and DRF for the purpose of displaying the function information FJ and the time information TJ on an appropriate display means, and a display means , which displays the function information FJ and the time information TJ based on the drive signals DRT and DRF from the display drive means , this electronic watch having an energy-saving operating condition with a power consumption that is less than an normal operating condition, wherein the function operating condition of the function information generation means is given priority over the energy-saving operating condition.

Electronic watch and drive method therefor

An intelligent digital television receiver for receiving a video signal, an audio signal and a digital data transmitted in a digital broadcast, and for executing an application based on the received digital data by itself or in connection with the received video and/or audio signal. The receiver has a controller for controlling executions of applications by generating events according to event start information bearing time information contained in a digital data stream as an object which comprises an element of the application and another controller for controlling executions of the application.

Intelligent digital television receiver

A copy flag detecting circuit in a device detects the copy generation management information. This copy generation management information is inserted in the CIP header of the IEEE 1394 packet for transmission. The copy flag detector of the 1394 interface in the device detects the copy generation management information in the CIP header. According to the detection result, the copy generation managing circuit records new copy generation management information and the recording controlling circuit permits or prohibits recording. Thus, there is no need for a decoding circuit at a receiving device.

Device having a digital interface and a network system using such a device and a copy protection method

Device having a digital interface and a network system using such a

A variable length code recording/playback apparatus, which by encoding intra-frame data and inter-frame data in variable length code, records them as recorded codes on tracks of a prescribed recording medium and playbacks them, includes a data rearranger for recording the data in areas to be played back at least two specific speed mode playbacks on the tracks by rearranging prescribed data out of the data encoded in variable length code, a variable length decoder for playing back the data recorded on the recording medium and decoding them in variable length code, a data rearrangement canceller for controlling and restoring the time series of the output of the variable length decoder to the original data train before the rearrangement, and a decoder for constructing a playback picture from the decoded outputs for several frames in the specific speed mode playback by decoding the output of this data rearrangment canceller.

Variable length code recording/playback apparatus

An apparatus for recording and playing back digital data with variable length codes encoded from intra-frame compression data and inter-frame compression data. The apparatus includes a data rearranging circuit for rearranging the intra-frame compression data in the variable length encoded data, an address and a data length adding circuit for adding addresses and data length information of the intra-frame compression data which is output from the data rearrangement means.

Digital signal recording and playback apparatus for inter-frame and

An encoded data recording apparatus with high speed reproduction capability, which by encoding intra-frame data and inter-frame data in variable length code, records them as recorded codes on prescribed locations of tracks of a recording medium and plays them back, which includes a data rearranger for recording the data in areas to be played back at least two specific speed mode playbacks on the tracks by rearranging prescribed data out of the data encoded in variable length code, a variable length decoder for playing back the data recorded on the recording medium and decoding it in variable length code, a data restorer for controlling and restoring the time series of the output of the variable length decoder to the original data train before the rearrangement, and a decoder for constructing a playback picture from the decoded outputs for several frames in the specific speed mode playback by decoding the output of this data restorer.

Variable length code recording playback apparatus

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Kenji Shimoda