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Electronic timepiece

US4764910A · kind A · utility

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12Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateMar 5, 1986
Grant dateAug 16, 1988
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Expiry dateMar 5, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG04G21/08
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An electronic timepiece includes a plurality of light-receiving elements arranged to receive external light, a light-receiving condition discriminator for discriminating a light-receiving condition of each light-receiving element, and a circuit to be controlled in response to an output signal from the light-receiving condition discriminator. The light-receiving condition discriminator discriminates that the light-receiving condition of a central one of three light-receiving elements among the plurality of light-receiving elements is different from those of end light-receiving elements, and thereupon generates an output signal.

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