Counting apparatus, counting method, and computer readable storage medium
US6578161B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 7, 1999 |
| Grant date | Jun 10, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 7, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q20/343
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A counting apparatus comprising an execution detection circuit for detecting the execution of a predetermined operation; plural memory circuits for commonly storing the information on the number of execution at each detection of the execution; a destruction detection circuit for detecting, at the storage of the information, whether the information stored in each memory circuit is destructed; and a correction circuit adapted, upon detection that the information of a memory circuit is destructed, to correct the destructed information with the information of another memory circuit.
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