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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2005
Akinari Takada, Tokyo, JP;
Akinari Takada, Tokyo, JP;
Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A radio controlled time pieceactively using a time-programmed receiving operation and a forced receiving operation with respect to a standard radio signal and having an object the enablement of highly accurate and efficient time correction by properly receiving time information or calendar information and the like by executing a minimum amount of receiving operations, having a receiving means, a timekeeping means, a display means, a control meansfor controlling the drive condition of the timekeeping means, an external input means, and a control information storage means, wherein when performing singularly or consecutively a time-programmed receiving operation that operates when a prescribed timekeeping value of the timekeeping means is reached, based on a first receiving method and a forced reception operation which operates by the operation of the external input means, based on a second receiving operation method, the first receiving method of time-programmed receiving operation and the second receiving method of forced receiving operation being established so as to be mutually different.