Electronic watch
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorToshiyuki Nozawa
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Abstract
An electronic watch includes a display surface, a magnetic sensor including a first detection axis and a second detection axis orthogonal to the first detection axis, with the first detection axis and the second detection axis being disposed in a plane parallel to the display surface, a correction unit configured to correct an error due to an offset magnetic field included in a detection value of the magnetic sensor, a calculation unit configured to calculate a bearing and magnetic intensity, based on a value acquired by correcting the detection value by the correction unit, and a display unit configured to cause the display surface to display the bearing and the magnetic intensity that are calculated by the calculation unit to be displayed.
Claims8
An electronic watch, comprising:
- a display surface;
- a magnetic sensor including a first detection axis and a second detection axis orthogonal to the first detection axis, the first detection axis and the second detection axis being disposed in a plane parallel to the display surface;
- and
- a CPU configured to
- correct an error, due to an offset magnetic field, included in a detection value of the magnetic sensor,
- calculate a bearing and magnetic intensity, based on a value acquired by correcting the detection value, and
- cause the display surface to display the calculated bearing and the calculated magnetic intensity, wherein
- the display surface includes a first pointer configured to indicate the bearing and the magnetic intensity, and
- the CPU indicates the bearing by a pointing direction of the first pointer, and indicates the magnetic intensity using the first pointer by changing an amplitude of a reciprocating movement of the first pointer in accordance with the magnetic intensity.
An electronic watch, comprising:
- a display surface;
- a magnetic sensor including a first detection axis and a second detection axis orthogonal to the first detection axis, the first detection axis and the second detection axis being disposed in a plane parallel to the display surface;
- a CPU configured to
- correct an error, due to an offset magnetic field, included in a detection value of the magnetic sensor,
- calculate a bearing and magnetic intensity, based on a value acquired by correcting the detection value, and
- cause the display surface to display the calculated bearing and the calculated magnetic intensity;
- a first pointer configured to indicate the bearing and the magnetic intensity;
- and
- an operation unit that receives an operation of switching between a normal mode of displaying time and a compass mode of calculating and displaying the bearing and the magnetic intensity, wherein
- the CPU indicates the bearing by the first pointer when the mode is switched to the compass mode, and indicates the magnetic intensity instead of the bearing by the first pointer when the operation unit is operated while the first pointer is indicating the bearing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.