JPH0727041B2 - Portable small watch - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to data processing of a portable small timepiece.

[Prior art]

Conventional portable small timepieces do not have an interface with external information equipment. Therefore, it is impossible to transfer and use the data stored in the external information device to the portable small timepiece. Therefore, even if the telephone number, schedule, etc. are stored in the information device at work or at home, they are transferred to the small portable clock and linked with the internal functions of the clock, and the alarm sounds according to the schedule as a schedule alarm. It was impossible to make it.

Also, some conventional wristwatches have melody data in the clock and output one of them at the alarm time, but the data of that song is set externally and an arbitrary melody is output. There was nothing to do.

[Object of the Invention]

In order to eliminate these drawbacks, the present invention links the melody data and alarm time data from the external information device with the time data in the clock so that any melody can be played at any date and time, and the beat clock (The one that changes the alarm ringing pattern at the time of the time signal according to the time), the Morse clock (which outputs the time using the Morse code), etc. can be realized, and the drawings will be described in detail below.

[Summary of Invention]

In the portable small timepiece of the present invention, the interface means has means for inputting composite transfer data simultaneously including arbitrary alarm time and arbitrary melody data individually corresponding to the alarm time data, and the coincidence means is Alarm time data including music selection data is separated from the composite transfer data, stored, compared with the current time, and has a melody alarm control means for outputting a coincidence signal and a music selection signal at the time of coincidence and output. The means has a melody data output means for separating and storing only the melody data from the composite transfer data, and selecting and outputting from the stored melody data based on the coincidence signal and the music selection signal. Select the melody output data from the composite transfer data input via The output means outputs a different melody as an alarm sound for each alarm set time.

〔Example〕

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a melody timepiece according to the present invention, in which 1 is interface means with external information equipment, 2 is timing means, 3 is input means, 4 is display means, 5 is control means, and 6 is melody output. It is a means.

In the normal clock operation, the time data managed by the time measuring means 2 is transferred to the display section 4 by the control of the control means 5.
The input and the switches are displayed by the input means 3 and the control means 5
Are transferred to and processed. At the time of data input, the interface means 1 receives data from the outside as an input and transfers it to the control means 5 and the melody output means 6.
The control means 5 processes data other than the melody in the data. The output means 6 processes the melody data in the data from the interface means 1 and outputs it as a melody in response to an output command from the control means 5. At this time, the melody data is stored in the melody output means 6, and it is possible to repeat and select a song.

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of a melody alarm clock according to the present invention. Reference numeral 7 denotes a melody alarm control means, which detects alarm set time data from the input data from the interface means 1 and stores it in the melody alarm control means 7. The music selection signal and the output signal are output to the melody output means 6 according to the music selection data contained in the alarm setting time data when they are compared with the current time data from the clock means 2 and coincide with each other. Control means 5
A display change signal is output to. In response to this, the melody output means 6 has the interface means 1 in advance.
The data of the designated song is selected from the melody data input from and output. The control unit 5 controls the display unit 4 so that the display becomes the alarm message which has been input from the interface unit 1 in advance.

In this way, it is possible to output arbitrary melody data at any time, and different melody can be output for each time, so that a pulsating clock, a melody alarm clock that increases as the target time is approached, ,
A clock or the like, which encodes the time with Morse code and outputs it as a melody, is created by the idea of the user.

Since the melody data can be voice data, the voice data can be input from an external information device, stored, and output simultaneously with the alarm.

FIG. 3 shows a format embodiment of transfer data. The data from the external information device is divided into a part indicating the kind of the data like 10:11 and a true data part: 12, and 11 parts are the control means 5, the melody output means 6, the melody alarm control means 7 Check with the control unit and process the data.

FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of the melody output means, 21 is a scale control means, 22 is a pitch control means, 23 is a repeat control means, 24 is an envelope control means, 25 is a tone color control means, 26
Is a melody output control means, and 27 is a melody data storage means.

The data from the interface means 1 is checked by the melody output control means 26 for 11 parts indicating the type of data, and in the case of melody data, it is stored in the melody data storage means 27. In order to output a melody by a command from the control means 5 or the melody alarm control means 7, first, the melody output control means 26 reads out the data of the required song from the data in the melody data storage means 27, and the scale data is scale control. Means 21 for the pitch data for determining the speed of the music, and repeat control means 23 for the designation data of the repeat section.
The envelope data to the envelope control means 24,
The tone color data is output to the tone color control means 25, respectively. Each of the scale control means 21 to the tone color control means 25 performs a designated process to obtain a synthetic sound.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, the portable small timepiece of the invention has at least the clocking means for clocking the current time, the interface means for inputting the alarm time data and the melody data from the external information device, and the current time and the alarm time data. In a portable small timepiece having output means for comparing and outputting a coincidence signal at the time of coincidence and output means for outputting the melody data in response to the coincidence signal, the interface means has an arbitrary alarm time and an individual alarm time data. Of the melody data corresponding to the above, and the coincidence means separates and stores the alarm time data including the music selection data from the composite transfer data, and stores the alarm time data. A melody alarm that compares the time and outputs a match signal and song selection signal when they match. The output means separates and stores only the melody data from the composite transfer data, and selects from the stored melody data based on the match signal and the song selection signal. Since it consists of melody data output means to output
By linking the schedule (alarm time) managed on the external information device with the melody data corresponding to this and the time data in the clock, any melody can be played at any time.

Furthermore, melody data and alarm time data are
Since they correspond individually and are transferred and stored and processed at the same time, there is no need to input and manage the melody and alarm time separately, and there is no risk of mistakes even if the number of data increases. Absent.

Further, the switch, circuit, software, etc. for setting the alarm time, which are provided in the conventional timepiece, are unnecessary, and the timepiece can be downsized and the cost can be reduced.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a melody timepiece according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a melody alarm clock according to the present invention. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a format of transfer data used in the present invention. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the melody output means of the present invention. 1 ... Interface means 2 ... Timekeeping means 3 ... Input means 4 ... Display means 5 ... Control means 6 ... Melody output means 7 ... Melody alarm control means 10 ... Data 11 ... Data type designation 12 ... ... data 21 ... scale control means 22 ... pitch control means 23 ... repeat control means 24 ... envelope control means 25 ... tone color control means 26 ... melody output control means 27 ... melody data storage means

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A clock means for measuring at least the current time, an interface means for inputting alarm time data and melody data from an external information device, comparing the current time with the alarm time data, and outputting a coincidence signal when they match. In the portable small timepiece having an output means for outputting the melody data in response to the coincidence signal, the interface means outputs an arbitrary alarm time and arbitrary melody data individually corresponding to the alarm time data. The coincidence means separates alarm time data including song selection data from the composite transfer data, stores the alarm time data, compares the alarm time data with the current time, and compares the alarm time data with the current time. And a melody alarm control means for outputting a music selection signal, and The output means separates and stores only the melody data from the composite transfer data, and selects from the stored melody data based on the match signal and the song selection signal, and outputs the selected melody data. A portable small watch characterized by: