Electronic timepiece and display control method of electronic timepiece
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorOsami Yamada
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Abstract
An electronic timepiece includes a power generator that generates electric energy, a power storage that stores the electric energy, a capacity detector that detects remaining capacity of the power storage, an operation unit, an operation detector that detects a measurement display operation for instructing the operation unit to display a measurement time, and a capacity display operation for instructing the operation unit to display the remaining capacity, an indicating hand that is used in displaying the measurement time and the remaining capacity, a drive unit that drives the indicating hand, and displays the remaining capacity after moving the indicating hand so as to indicate a preset reference position.
Claims6
An electronic timepiece comprising:
- a power generator that generates electric energy;
- a power storage that stores the electric energy;
- a capacity detector that detects remaining capacity of the power storage;
- an operation unit;
- an operation detector that detects a measurement display operation relative to the operation unit for displaying a measurement time, and a capacity display operation relative to the operation unit for displaying the remaining capacity;
- an indicating hand that is used in displaying the measurement time and the remaining capacity;
- a drive unit that drives the indicating hand;
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- a display controller that controls the drive unit to display the measurement time by moving the indicating hand from a preset initial position, in a case where the measurement display operation is detected, and that controls the drive unit to display the remaining capacity by moving the indicating hand from a preset reference position after moving the indicating hand to the preset reference position, in a case where the capacity display operation is detected, the preset reference position being different from the present initial position.
A display control method of an electronic timepiece including a power generator that generates electric energy, a power storage that stores the electric energy, an operation unit, an indicating hand that is used in displaying a measurement time and remaining capacity of the power storage, the method comprising:
- detecting the remaining capacity;
- detecting a measurement display operation relative to the operation unit for displaying the measurement time;
- detecting a capacity display operation relative to the operation unit for displaying the remaining capacity;
- displaying the measurement time by moving the indicating hand from a preset initial position, in a case where the measurement display operation is detected;
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- displaying the remaining capacity by moving the indicating hand from a preset reference position after moving the indicating hand to the preset reference position, in a case where the capacity display operation is detected, the preset reference position being different from the preset initial position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.