Electronic timepiece
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorFumiaki Miyahara
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Abstract
An electronic timepiece includes a date indicator that is an analog display member, a date indicator motor that drives the date indicator, a display position storage that is a nonvolatile memory that stores position information on the date indicator, a receiver that is a time information acquirer that externally acquires time information, and a control section that outputs a drive signal to the date indicator motor and stores the position information on the date indicator in the display position storage whenever the date indicator motor activated with the drive signal drives the date indicator.
Claims4
An electronic timepiece comprising:
- a dial with a display part including a calendar window;
- an analog display member including a calendar wheel, the analog display member being movable with respect to the dial and displayed at the display part of the dial;
- a driver that drives the analog display member;
- a nonvolatile memory that stores position information of the analog display member;
- a time information acquirer that externally acquires time information;
- a control section that outputs a drive signal to the driver and stores the position information on the analog display member in the nonvolatile memory whenever the driver activated with the drive signal drives the analog display member;
- an external operation member that activates the driver via the control section to drive the analog display member for position adjustment;
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- a position detector that detects that the analog display member has moved to a preset reference position,
- wherein the control section causes the nonvolatile memory to store adjustment information on an amount of the position adjustment performed through the external operation member, the adjustment information being indicative of a position deviation between the preset reference position and the display part of the dial, and
- wherein the control section outputs the drive signal to the driver to drive the analog display member with respect to the dial by the amount of the position adjustment based on the adjustment information stored in the nonvolatile memory to align an indicator of the analog display member relative to the display part of the dial while the indicator of the analog display member is being displayed at the display part of the dial in response to the position detector detecting that the analog display member has moved to the preset reference position to display the indicator of the analog display member at the display part of the dial.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.