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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 1983
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hideyuki Kawashima, Tanashi, JP;
Assignee:
Citizen Watch Company Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G04B / ; G04C / ; G10G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
368 74 ; 368 82 ; 368273 ; 84-103 ;
Abstract
In an electronic timepiece equipped with a liquid crystal display, means are provided whereby the user can input a freely selected sequence of musical notes to be stored in a memory circuit, to thereby compose a melody, and whereby this melody can be subsequently emitted in audible form when coincidence occurs between a preset alarm time and the current time. Visible monitoring of information specifying the pitch and duration of each note is enabled when a melody is being input, by means of liquid crystal display patterns, together with audible monitoring.