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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 1987
Filed:
Aug. 11, 1986
Yoshiaki Nishimuro, Hachioji, JP;
Osamu Hirata, Tokyo, JP;
Kuniomi Kano, Yokohama, JP;
Akira Miyakawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hideo Fushimoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Kazumi Sekine, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.