Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kuniomi Kano

Hideo Fushimoto

Kazumi Sekine

Osamu Hirata

Yoshiaki Nishimuro

Akira Miyakawa

Akira Miyagawa

Electronic equipment comprises a store for storing messages, apparatus for processing time information and generating an output at the beginning of each predetermined time period. The messages and time information may be displayed and one of the messages can be selected at random at the start of each time period and displayed with time information in response to the output of the time information processing means, the same message being prevented from being displayed more than once in a time period that is longer than the first mentioned time period.

Electronic equipment calendar and random daily message generator

An electronic compact function calculator of the invention has a keyboard including function keys, numeral/operation keys, and a graphic print key for accessing a graphic pattern of a desired function; a ROM storing graphic patterns of functions; and a display device or printer for displaying or printing the graphic pattern. The graphic representation of a function can be performed by a simple operation.

Electronic compact function calculator

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Yokohama, Japan

Kuniomi Kano