JPS60133389A - Digital electronic watch - Google Patents

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Technical Minute Hand The present invention relates to a digital electronic clock (RIYOTSUKU), and in particular only displays the time such as the date, time, day of the week and month in a particular city according to both the Western calendar and the Islamic calendar. but also the shape of the moon according to the given data, the times of the four fixed prayers, the name of a particular person praying, the land of the person praying and the direction from the particular city of the selected and displayed name to the city Mecca, etc. Concerning Islamic (Islamic) prayer electronic clocks. Additionally, the watch displays special information such as local phone codes, local area codes, emergency numbers, etc. for a given city.

Muslims have a different calendar from that of the Western world. This is Hijiri (Muslim) Karen J” -J-i-
h4'L - Has different months and different years than the Saiyang calendar.

In addition, Muslims are required to pray five times a day at different times. There are also two important additional times in Islam. The first time is only during the month of Ramadan.
Occurs 10 minutes before the first prayer time. The other times occur between 2g1 and 2nd prayer time and are the times when Muslims should pray. Further complicating matters is that for those praying, these times are related to the latitude and longitude of a city or location in relation to the time of day and the angle of the sun relative to the horizon, and from place to place and throughout the year. It changes from day to day. In this way, prayer times vary even between two cities separated by a small distance. If a complete year's calendar had been published accurately in advance at a particular time to inform Muslims at what time to pray on a given day, Muslims would be able to decide when to pray in a particular city. You can know the exact time for. Since calendars must be published for each department, which is clearly different from each other, it is difficult to create a thick table. Moreover, if there is any misconception in the calculation or printing of prayer times, the person praying will not be able to know the correct prayer time required for Muslims. In addition, faithful believers must kneel facing Mecca every time they pray. This means that the direction of Mecca must be considered depending on where the faithful believers are located. Moreover, when individuals are busy, it is difficult to remember the exact time to pray9.
The time for prayer will elapse before the disaster occurs, and it will be impossible to pray.

The present invention also applies to any particular day of the year.
This article concerns electronic portable Muslim prayer clocks that display Muslim prayer times in many cities throughout the world. This watch uses an I, CD display to save power and can display either the Western European calendar or the Islamic Hijiri calendar. Further, the Hijiri calendar data is automatically calculated from the Western European calendar data stored in the memory. Easy push-button operation
You can do this by adjusting the calendar data. The new prayer clock also includes an indication of the direction of QIBLA, ie, the direction of Mecca as seen from any particular city at multiple locations on the globe. The new device can display multiple place names, such as countries or cities, around the world by holding down a pushbutton and allows clock cycles for all of the cities stored in memory. Furthermore, the new clock can display the date and time of any city in the world by selecting the name of the city to be displayed. In addition, although not limited to q), for example, area code, emergency phone number, etc.
National or civic holidays and similar information specific to a given city can be permanently stored and displayed either programmatically. Also, Western European dates and Hijiri dates for specific cities can be displayed as needed. In addition, this watch can generate and display the shape of the moon (wei phase). This clock has the ability to calculate and display all prayer times on a particular day in a particular city by pressing one button.

It also has the ability to convert from sunlight to standard time and vice versa via a slide switch. If necessary, automatic adjustment in this case can be performed. Finally, new watches will be available from January 1, 1985 to January 2, 1985.
It has a function to automatically know the days of the week leading up to a specific date up to December 31, 2015.

OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION Thus, one object of the invention is to provide a novel digital clock that automatically displays the time function of any particular city simply by selecting the name of the city to be displayed. .

In addition to the time function, the area code of the city or other specific information about the city may also be automatically displayed.

Another object of the invention is to provide a novel timepiece having means for automatically visually indicating the direction of a given city, e.g. Mecca, from a named city selectively indicated using a northerly indication as a reference. It is said that it provides.

Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a means for calculating and automatically displaying Muslim prayer times in displayed city names.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an audible display of the time of each Muslim prayor as well as a display of the time occurring for each prayor.

Still another object of the invention is to display the names of particular prayers to be uttered at particular times and to display at least part of the words of the call to each prayor at that time.

Structure of the Invention The present invention provides an optical clock circuit that generates a time function, a sophisticated memory device that stores data representing the names of many cities around the world, and selectively displays any one of the city names. The present invention relates to a digital clock comprising means coupled to said memory for automatically displaying a time function for a particular city name displayed, and said city name selection means for automatically displaying a time function for a particular city name displayed.

The present invention also provides a memory means for storing data representing the names of a number of cities around the world; means for storing a direction of a predetermined location with respect to the north from a city with a selected and displayed name; and automatically displaying visually the direction of the predetermined location with respect to the north from a city with a selected and displayed name. and a display means coupled to the storage means for displaying the information.

The present invention also provides a memory for storing data representing the names of a large number of cities around the world;
nine means coupled to said memory for selectively displaying one of the names; and means coupled to said selective display means for automatically calculating a Muslim prayer time for any of the cities whose names are displayed; and means for supplying said calculated original prayer time to said display means for visual observation.

These and other detailed objects and features of the invention will become clearer from the accompanying drawings and the description of the corresponding embodiments.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A novel timepiece according to the invention is illustrated at 10 in FIG. This clock has a microprocessor 12
, ROMj 4, and LCD display (display section) 1
Includes 6.

Input data is 3 slide switches sl # s2 and S3, 8 push buttons P1 + "tr P*
* No. 2, P, , P,.

P and P8 and the keyboard 15 into the micro processor 12. The outputs of these slide switches, push buttons, and keyboard 13 are stored in RAM.
The microphone 4 is connected to an input/output (engine 10) circuit 18 in the processor 12 for generating a signal on the line 2o to an arithmetic circuit (unit) 26 connected to the microphone 24.

Also, the circuit 10 is connected to the line 2 to the LOD display 16 which controls the selection of the display reading and writing section.
It also generates the control signal above 8. Finally, engineering 10 circuits 18
generates an output on line 30 to an acoustic buzzer 32 for audibly indicating the prayer time as will be described in detail below.

The RAM 24 stores the hours such as seconds, minutes and hours of the day and the number of seconds, minutes, hours and next prayers and the number of prayers;
The name of the city selected for display, the number of weeks and fraction of weeks that have passed since January 1, 19B3, the number of days that have passed since January 1, 1985, the shape of the moon (image phase), etc. are stored. RAM 24 is also R for specific information regarding a particular location or city, such as area code or emergency phone number.
It also stores pointers for accessing OMI 4.

The three slide switches 518t and S3 perform the following functions: Switch S1 displays while the time logic changes between frame 1 and frame 2 or frame 3 giving the hours and minutes of the day and the day of the week. Select the desired frame. Frame 2 provides the hour and minute of the day, the date and month shape by day and month. Frame 13 gives the Western European date in month and day and time in hours and minutes.

Thus, in the lower position of switch 1, the display first shows the Arabic day of the week, hours and minutes, then the month and the approximate lower date, hours and minutes, and the shape of the month. If switch S, is in the western position.

The display first shows the Arabic day of the week, hours and minutes, then the month and the approximate Western date, hours and minutes. By use of this switch, the user can choose to display either the Western European calendar date in frame 15 or the Hijirigalendar date in frame 2 on the same watch.

Switch S is set to standard time (Stanaara Tim).
e) and Daylight Saving Tim.
e) Select.

When the switch is in position D, daylight saving time is displayed and B
When in position, standard time is displayed. When the switch position changes from standard time to summer time, the time is stored in RAM2.
4, and the Western and Hijiri dates are checked to see if the necessary adjustments can be made by making this changeover after 11:00 p.m., and if it is possible at the end of December or at the beginning of New Year's Eve. be done. When the switch position changes from daylight saving time to standard time, the time is decremented in RAM and displayed and the Western and Eastern dates are readjusted if necessary.

The slide switch S3 is an on/off switch for turning on and off the power of the device.

Push button "I + P2 r PS + P4 + P
M + "6 T"? and P are used for setting the time and date, selecting a particular city, specific news for the selected city, adjusting the Hijiri date, and displaying all prayer times on a particular day.

Pushbuttons P1 and P2 are used to adjust the minute, hour, month, day and year. When pushbutton 1 is first pressed, the characters "m1nute" appear on the display surface (as in frame 16 of FIG. 7). Although the present invention is disclosed here in Japanese (with some parts in English), it should be understood that it actually relates to a Muslim prayer clock and is displayed in Arabic on the display surface. For example, "1 minute" is expressed in Arabic.Obviously, for the purpose of brevity of disclosure, other languages are used, and here it is written in Japanese.Here, the letter 1
Not only is the minute displayed by the first press of the pushbutton, but the minute value is also stored in the appropriate minutes RAM location and displayed by the t value.

When push button P is pressed together with push button P, 01 times, data representing the minutes stored in the RAM is obtained, simultaneously displayed on the display, and advanced by one count. In this way, when the pushbutton p is pressed for the first time, if the numerical value indicates 10 minutes, then when the pushbutton P is pressed here, the data stored in the RAM will be 1.
The count is advanced and the display shows 11. If the subsequent progress exceeds 59, the RAM data completes one cycle and the display time drops to zero.

When pushbutton switch P1 is pressed twice, the message (as in Figure 7 frame 11) is the character 6 o'clock (hou
r)'' and also displays the time value stored in the 1 o'clock RAM location. Here, if the time is 8200, the character "1 o'clock" and the number B will be displayed.If the pushbutton switch P is pressed anew, R
The data representing the time stored in the AM memory and the numerical value on the display advance by one. RAM that represents time
The contents of the position cycle between zero and 24 when divided by 24 hours. The specific display logic can be changed to 1 and 12 12 timetables with AM/PM display.

When switch Pi is pressed five times, the message (7th
As shown in frame 18 of the figure, the W letter "January" indicates the name of a large moon in Western Europe.The month name is January (January) to Dec.
Ember (December). As is clear from FIG. 2, register location 54 of RAM 24
contains the month (1 to 12) used in the relative address of index table 36 containing Western European month names, and indicates the appropriate Western European month name in table 38. In this state, when switch P2 is pressed, RAM location 34 is incremented and points to the next location in table 56, which is the Western European month name in ROM 14 in the starting order of the letters representing the month name. Contains the addresses in Table 38. When the contents of RAM location 34 reach 12, the next press of switch P2 cycles the value stored in RAM 34 back to 1.

Depending on the country in which it is used, the Western European Otsuki name can also be written in Arabic, so both names are displayed on the display. Of course, as mentioned above, the present invention is not limited to Arabic only, but can be displayed in any other language.

When pushbutton P is pressed four times, the message (7th
The characters "aay" (as in frame 19 of the figure) are displayed on the display 16, which also indicates the actual day of the month represented by the data stored in RAM location 4O shown in FIG. do. The actual days within this month vary between 1 and 51.

Thereafter, each time the pushbutton switch P is pressed, the contents of the RAM location 40 indicating the day of the month are incremented by one and this content is shown on the display 16. As shown in the table of FIG. 3, the maximum number of days representing each Western European month is stored (increased by 1 when an impossible day is reached). By advancing the data in RAM position [40] representing the numerical value of the day by one unit, this value is checked against the corresponding value in RAM table 42, which is obtained from the knowledge of the Western month number in register 34. Ru. The day value in register 40 is at the invalid limit (
30j1 or 52 days), it is reset to 1 before being shown on the display. If it is unclear whether the year is a leap year, the number of days in February is 2.
It allows for 9 days and checks after determining whether it is actually a leap year.

When switch P1 is pressed 5 times, the message will be character 6.
year” (as in frame 2° in Figure 7)
For example, @1985 is displayed on the display and below it.
''. The particular RAM location contains 83 as the starting value. When transferred to display 16, the value ``tpoo'' is added to obtain the display 1983.

Each time the switch Pt is pressed in the 2 position of the switch P1, the RAM in the register is
The Western European adult age stored in increases, and the corresponding value displayed on display 16 also increases.

When a particular year is selected, switch P.

When is pressed down to the end, the following operation is performed: First, it is checked that the month setting is February, the day setting is 29 days, and the year is not a leap year. If this condition were to appear, a message ((
Like frame 5 in Figure 7 K) Message @revie
wdate (Date Recheck)'''. If the settings are satisfactory, the Western European date for the year is calculated. This number is required for prayer time calculations as explained below. The value is (register 4 in Figure 5)
0) are stored in two RAM locations. This R.A.
One of the M positions contains the number of complete weeks that have elapsed since the beginning of the year, and the other contains the fractional number of weeks, if any. The day of the week is automatically calculated and stored in the RAM 240 predetermined location of the register 44 shown in FIG.

The business 9 date is also automatically calculated. The nine-year period passes in a 30-year cycle, with several years being leap years. A list of these years is stored in a table in ROM 14. The length of the Hijiri month alternates between 29 and 50 days.

The last month has 29 days in a normal year and 30 days in a leap year.

For the date in question, the total number of days elapsed since the base date of January 1, 198S is summed or added. The base date varies by adding 75 days to total or add from January 1, 1983 to January 1, 1405.

(Hijiri date January 1, 1403 is January 1, 1983.
Occurred 75 days before the date. ) Grand totals or additions are converted to fin9 years, months and days to obtain accurate bi9 dates.

In such calculations of the end of the month, the day of the month, and the year, the Hijiri date is stored as the year, month, and 8 sum.

From the knowledge of Western dates, the early date is computed, and subsequently from the knowledge of the low date and the specific month and day, the shape of the moon is computed and stored, for example, as shown in FIG. 1 as moon shape 49.

Once all such calculations are established, the arithmetic circuit calculates the next prayer time and stores it in memory to automatically display the appropriate time and provide an audible announcement. When the names of the praying persons and the calling of the prayer order are displayed in the order shown in FIG. 8, the arithmetic circuit calculates and stores the next prayer time and repeats the process thereafter. In this way each folding time is always calculated individually.

When all of the calculations are completed, frame 1 (originally shown in Figure 7) displays the name of the day of the week, first with the set time, and then (after about 3 seconds) with frame 2 giving the date and time, and then the name of the day of the week as shown in Figure 1. The Hijiri date and month shape 49 are displayed as shown in FIG.

The day names are obtained as shown in the table of FIG.

The register in RAM 24, evening 44, is a number representing the day of the week (1 to 7).
), which serves to locate the address of the starting order in the ROM 14 index table of the letter representing the name of the day of the week. This index table is located at location 48 in the ROM 14 which contains the Western European day name table.

As already disclosed with reference to FIG. 2, the name of the Hijiri month is obtained by the same process as that of the Western European month.

As previously mentioned, the number of selectable cities is indicated by a parameter list stored in ROMfJ. These parameters are shown in the table of FIG. A suitable number of city names representing major places on earth are selected on a memory-basis. There is no limit to the number of such cities stored except by the capacity of the goM 14 installed in the new watch. For example, specific data such as the area code of a specific city, an emergency phone number, or a specific business phone number can be permanently stored in the ROM for each specific city, and can also be stored in the RAM 24 as described below. This can be done by programming. The latitude and longitude of the city and the local time of the city relative to Greenwich time, as well as the prayer time parameters of a particular city, are all used in the calculation of the prayer performance time.

The formula used to calculate the prayer performance time is as follows.

t=N+() 4 Here, M; 0.98! Mt+1289L =M+t9
16 sin) + 0.02ein (2M) + 282
,654tan(RA)=0.91746tan(L)
sin(DLTmu)=Q j9782sin(L)T=
H+RA-0,06s7'r-6,622UT,=T-
)-LMDA PT=, UT+LO0AL The nomenclature of the symbols used in the formula for calculating prayer time is as follows.

Appropriate time of the BT phenomenon N; Initial value of the phenomenon during the year M = Apparent periapsis distance of the sun L * True longitude of the sun LMDA = Longitude of city location PH Industrial Electric City t is the latitude of the position RA = vertically above the sun DLTA = - the inclination of the sun to the perpendicular H = the local time angle of the sun z = = the zenith distance of the sun T = = the local time of the phenomenon UT = the universal time of the phenomenon LOCAL = Greenwich time local time zone FT,
Prayer time Additionally, Muslim prayors must face Mecca when praying. This direction, called Qila, is given by a thick outer circle passing through the observer's position on Earth and the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The angle between true north and Qipra at a location can be obtained by solving a spherical triangle whose zenith is the north pole, and the name of the city selected and displayed is Mecca. This angle can be obtained from the following formula:

Here, LMDA: Longitude of the city with the chosen name LMK
: longitude of Mecca PH1, latitude of city of selected name PH ENG MK = latitude of Mecca This angle is calculated for each of the nine selected cities and stored in the specific format shown in FIG.

The user presses one pushbutton P3 to select and display a particular city and the selected city name is displayed on display 16. If this is a specific city in which the user has an interest, the pushbutton switch P
Press 1 to confirm your selection. If it is not a city in which the user has an interest, the pushbutton P5 is continued to be pressed until the desired city appears from among all cloth names, which is stored in the ROM 14 of the new watch. At this point, the user presses pushbutton P1 to confirm the selection.

After the pushbutton switch P1 is pressed, the following operations are performed. First, the city order is placed in the RAM location 50 shown in FIG. 5 to represent that city. This is a ROM
14 represents the address of the selected city stored in the index table 52 pointing to the parameter in the table 54.

These new parameters will be used for all subsequent calculations. The new city's qibla is then displayed on the display using frames 14 and 15, as shown in FIG. 7, and the direction of the qibla is flashed. As shown in FIG.
Start 7 lashing from the direction where 8 indicates north to the ultimate direction of Kipura. As shown in FIG. The direction indicated by corner 60 is indicated by a point on the display surface.
It is stored as a set of coordinates indicating the position of the keyhole 58.

The time display on display 16 is then selected -tt@
- automatically converted to local time in city i. This feature eliminates the need for the user to remember the time difference and reset the clock.

By selecting the name of the city in which the user has an interest, the time will be automatically updated by Seven Cities! ! Adjustment time)
? ” is also displayed. The user can check the position of the slide switch S2 to determine whether the selected time zone is summer time or standard time, and this switch should be set to the appropriate position. be.

The Western European calendar and the Hijiri calendar start from the day with the time difference between the previous city and the newly selected city (
or the previous day), from one month to the next (or previous month), or from one year to the next (or previous year).

Specific information permanently stored in ROM 14 can be displayed by first selecting and pressing the subsequent pushbutton P.
The desired city name can be displayed by pressing the push button P3 together with the pressing of the button P4.

Furthermore, if the user wishes to store special information in the RAM memory 24, such as the area code or emergency telephone number of a particular city, the user simply presses the push button P4 following the press of the push button P3. The specific city name may be displayed by pressing the button, and then input using the keyboard 13 in a well-known manner.

To call up the special data, the user has to press again the pushbutton P3 for selecting the city name mentioned above and then the pushbutton P8 representing the area code, emergency telephone number or some special information of the particular city. .

It will be clear that the present invention will be extremely useful to travelers and those with an interest in time in other cities around the world.

Hijiri dates are calculated from Western European dates as described above. Some Muslim societies have a precept that states that the month of Hijiri must not start until a new month is recognized. This acknowledges the uncertainty in the actual Hijiri date. The preset calendar of the year erroneously advances a full month if the observance of the moon does not match the calculated beginning of a particular month. This process is repeated monthly and a complete year-free calendar is formed.

This difference at the beginning of the month is usually one day plus or minus, but it can be two days at a time. This happens at the beginning of the month, so the rest of the month (and the rest of the year) is gone.

This may be a date record or a pre-printed calendar used by the handler during handling, from 1 to 2 days.
This creates a problem in that there is a possibility of forgetting a specific month, which requires a day adjustment. In contrast, the present invention provides the user with a means to solve this problem. By pressing pushbutton P5, the user can (without any other special settings) advance the date by one day, and by pressing pushbutton P6, the user can (without any other special settings) (without needing) Hijiri date 1
It can be delayed by a day. When either pushbutton switch P5 or P6 is pressed, the date changes by one day in one direction t or in the opposite direction. Biji September and Hijiri year are automatically adjusted. When the pushbutton switch P5 or P is pressed, the 7th frame 2 (Figure 7) will cause the display 16 to change even if the user changes the order in which the dates are changed.
Shown above.

There are seven different times each day that are important to Muslims and their prayers. The first time is Biji September 9th, which is only significant in the month of Ramadan. This time of the month occurs at a specific time interval before the first prayer time.

The second important time is the beginning of the first prayer.

The fifth important time marks the end of the time allowed for the first prayer.

The fourth period that follows marks the beginning of the subsequent prayer period.

In order to properly plan these times, the user needs to know the prayer times and other specific times on the aforementioned specific days. By pressing the pushbutton switch P7 alone, the clock operates as follows: First, the number of events is set in a register in the RAM 24. If BiSeptember is September 9th or Ramadan, the device calculates the time of event 1 and displays the name and time of the event (frame 4 in Figure 7) and waits for about 3 seconds.

If the Hijiri month is not 9 (following the above calculation), the event number is set to 2, the first prayer time is calculated, the event number 20 hours is calculated, and the name of the person praying and the prayer time (first prayer time) are calculated. (as shown in frame 4 in Figure 7). The device waits approximately three seconds and then repeats the next event or prayer until the times for all seven events are displayed, after which the device returns to displaying the date, time, and calendar as described above. When it is determined that it is time to pray, two actions are performed. First, the prayer time is converted to hours, minutes, and seconds and stored in RAM 24 in the appropriate locations for seconds, minutes, and hours. Second, the position of daylight saving time switch 82 is established. If it is in the standard time position, no action is required. If in the daylight saving time position, the RAM 24 time register is incremented as described above.

FIG. 6 is a flow diagram of the operation of the new prayer clock.

First, push buttons P1, P2, P3. P4, P5
, P6, P7, and P8 is checked by the determination unit 56. If so, then these pushbuttons are operated and the corresponding actions are performed as represented by block 58 of FIG. 6 and described above. After the pushbutton is operated as indicated by block 58, the device returns to step 6o and is advanced.

Similarly, if none of the pushbuttons are pressed,
The output of the decision unit 56 is again applied to step 60 and the next step 62 is the time-based adjustment of the daylight savings time switch position.

Thereupon, the display will be updated from the actions taken in step 62, as indicated in step 64, if necessary. Following step 64, the decision at step 66 is whether to calculate the next prayer time. If no, the device proceeds to step 6B. If it is YNB,
The next step is the calculation of the next prayer time in step 7o, as described above. Next prayer time step 70
Once calculated, the device returns to step 68. In the next step 72, the time for displaying the praying person is T. If YleS, the person praying is displayed in step 74. This display is performed not only visually by the display unit 16 but also audibly by the sound produced by the buzzer 32 shown in FIG. After step 74, the system goes to step 76 and then returns to the original decision block 56 via step 78 and repeats the cycle.

The prayer step 74 shown in FIG. 6 is as detailed in Section 8. If the decision unit 72 in FIG. 6 is a time indicating prayer, then the unit 80 in FIG.
It is determined whether the prayer number is 1 or not. If YES
If so, the appropriate Hijiri month is ensured to be stored at step 82 and the unit simply returns to step 76 of the main logic of FIG. If YB2, the next step 84 is to display the name of the person praying twice and sound the buzzer S2 in FIG. In the next step 86, the process waits for 18 seconds, and in the next step 88, the name of the person praying is displayed three times and it is determined whether or not the buzzer has sounded. If no, the unit repeats steps 84 and 86 until a third time (f') produces an o display and a buzzer. If the fifth occurrence occurs and Y11i &, then in step 90, characters for calling the person to pray are displayed as shown in frames 8 to 12 of FIG. The system then returns to step 76 of the main logic of FIG.

FIG. 7 is a table showing the number of frames displayed or expressed in a particular frame.

The novel Muslim prayer clock presented here exhibits several tasteful and unique features. The first of these features is to simply display the name of a particular selected city, and to automatically calculate the time function for the particular city to display the hour, minute, month, day characters, and moon shape. It is. The year is calculated and remembered but not displayed. Both Western and Hijiri calendars can be calculated, stored and displayed. Second, the coordinates representing the location of Mecca and the coordinates of each of a number of cities are also stored, and when a particular city is selected, the direction of the selected city from Mecca, tt, is the Qibla. To display. The new clock automatically calculates and displays the Muslim prayer times in the nine city names, and displays the calculated time. Information regarding a particular city, such as area code, emergency telephone number, specific telephone number, national address, public holidays, etc., can also be permanently and temporarily stored, retrieved and displayed.

Although the present invention is disclosed here in accordance with preferred embodiments, the scope of the present invention is not limited to a specific form, and the present invention is disclosed within the spirit and scope of the present invention as set forth in the claims. It will be obvious that many variations, modifications and equivalent substitutions are possible.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a novel electronic timepiece according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a table showing the storage and reproduction of the numbers and names of Western European months stored in memory. FIG. 3 is a table showing the maximum number of days in a Western European month. FIG. 4 is a table showing the storage and reproduction of the number and name of the days of the week from memory. FIG. 5 is a table showing the storage and reproduction of data from memory necessary to determine each city stored in memory. 6 is a flow diagram showing the main logic used in the watch according to the present invention; FIG. FIG. 7 is a table showing frames that are automatically or selected by the user and displayed in a clockwise manner. FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating the method of the prayer display routine to recall the prayer order. The correspondence of the main reference symbols in Nanchu is as follows. 10: Electronic clock 12: Microprocessor 13: Keyboard 14: ROM 16: Display 18: Engineering 10 circuit 24: RAM 26: Arithmetic unit 52: Buzzer 49: Moon shape 56: Extension marker 58: RIBL person (Qibla) 60 : Corner B1, 82, 85 Ni slide switch P1, P8 : Push button switch

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) (,) A luminous clock circuit that generates a time function, (
b) memory means for storing data representing the names of a number of locations around the world, (C1 means connected to said memory means for selectively displaying the name of any one of said locations, and ( (1) A digital electronic clock comprising means connected to the position name selection means and the clock circuit for automatically displaying the time function of any particular position whose name is displayed. (2, Patent The digital electronic timepiece according to claim 1, wherein the time function includes time, day of the week, date, month, year, and month shape. (3) The digital electronic timepiece according to claim 2. In the above, the means for performing the automatic display is a calculation mechanism for automatically calculating the time function of the position of the selectively displayed name. (4) (al. Clock circuit, (
1)) Ninth memory means for storing data representing a name and specific information regarding each of a number of locations around the world; means connected to said position name selection means and said clock circuit for automatic display of both a time function and specific information for any particular position whose name is displayed; A digital electronic clock consisting of (51(a) a clock circuit for generating a time function, (b)
) memory means for storing data representing a name and identifying information for each of a number of locations around the world; (C) connected to said memory means for selectively displaying the name of any one of said locations; and (a) means connected to said position name selection means and said clock circuit for automatically displaying both a time function and specific information of the particular position of the displayed name. digital electronic clock. (61(a)) a memory means for storing data representing the names of a number of cities around the world; (b) connected to said memory means for selecting and displaying any one of said city names; (C) means for storing a first set of coordinates representing a predetermined location of said city and a second set of coordinates representing a particular location of each of said remaining cities of said plurality of cities; means in a memory; (a) calculating means connected to the means for storing the city name and the means for storing the coordinates for calculating the direction of the particular city with respect to the selected source city; and (e) ) means connected to said memory means for visually displaying the relative direction of said predetermined city from any of the cities whose names are selectively displayed; (7) (!L) memory means for storing data representing the names of a number of locations around the world; 0) means connected to said memory for selecting and displaying the name of any one of said locations; C) rounding means for storing the relative direction of the predetermined position with respect to the north from any one of said positions; a display means connected to the memory means for the purpose of the present invention. (8) The digital electronic timepiece according to claim 7, wherein the predetermined position is Mecca. (9) Patent The digital electronic timepiece according to claim 8, further comprising: (a) a first means for indicating the relative direction of north on the display; (10) In the digital electronic timepiece according to claim 9, the first direction indicating means is an extended marker on a display indicating a north direction. A second, and the second direction indicating means flashes at a position rotated along an arc from the extended marker indicating the north direction to indicate the direction of Mecca from the indicated north direction. (tl) (a) memory means for storing data representing the names of a number of locations around the world; (b) means connected to said memory means for selectively displaying the names of said locations; (C) means connected to said selective display means for automatically calculating the number of prayers with respect to the time of the event at any location of the displayed name; said display for the purpose of observing the waiting time; A digital electronic clock consisting of a means connected to a means. (12) In the digital electronic watch described in fi+Claim 11, the display of the time of an event related to Muslims is an acoustic display of the time of an event related to each person praying, and the display of the time at which the event related to each person praying occurs. , an indication of the name of a specific event concerning the person praying when the event occurred, and a means of indication of at least a portion of the words of each prayer when it occurred. (a) said automatic prayer display for causing the name of the person praying to be flashed twice on said display means when an acoustic display of the prayer time is provided; (b) source means connected to means and said display means; and (b) to said prayer person name flashing means for repeating said prayer time twice and three times every 18 seconds by means of said audible indication and said visual flashing. (14) The digital electronic timepiece according to claim 11, wherein: (a) a clock in the memory for storing both a Western European calendar and a Hijiri calendar; and (1) means for selecting either the Hijiri calendar or the Western European calendar on the display to display either the Western European time or the Hijiri time selected and displayed. electronic clock. (1αa) memory means for storing data of names of a large number of locations around the world; (1)) a clock circuit for generating a time function associated with each of said locations; (0) a time function of said clock circuit; display means for displaying ((1) means connected to said memory means and said display means for selecting and displaying the name of any one of said stored original locations, and (θ); means connected to the memory means and the selection means for automatically displaying the time function of the position of any of the selected and displayed negative names. θ6) (& ) Clock circuit for generating a time function, (1
)) memory means for storing the latitude and longitude of each of a number of locations around the world; (d) a calculation circuit connected to said clock circuit means and said memory means for calculating; (d) a circuit connected to said memory means for selectively displaying the name of any one of said selected original locations; (e) means in said calculation circuit for automatically calculating an indication of the time of an event relating to a Muslim prayer at any selectively displayed position; means connected to said memory means for automatically displaying the direction of a predetermined position and the time associated with the prayer of the selected position of the displayed name and the name of the Muslim prayer person; Watch. (17) Claims 1, 2, 5, and 7
The name of the item is the clock described in any one of item 15, in which the location is a city. (18) The timepiece according to any one of claims 1, 2) J, 5, 7, or 15, wherein the location is a country. (19) The timepiece according to claim 1 or 15, further comprising means in the storage device for storing an area code of a name location of a stored name, and means for storing an area code of a name location of a stored name, and means connected to said storage device and said location name selection means for automatically displaying the area code of a particular location. (2. In the timepiece according to any one of claims 1, 11, or 15, means in the storage device for storing specific information regarding a specific position of a stored name. and means connected to the storage device and the location name selection means for displaying special information of the specific location of the selected and displayed name. A watch according to paragraphs 1, 2, 5, 7 or 15, characterized in that: (a) a keyboard connected to said memory means and certain information regarding one of the locations of the stored name; (b) means on the keyboard for inputting into memory the location name selection means for automatically displaying information for any location of said selected and displayed name; and means connected to the memory means. (L) in a method for providing a time function at a specific position;
storing data representing the names of a number of locations around the world; (bl) generating a time function for each of said locations; (C) selecting and displaying the name of any one of said locations; , and (a) automatically providing an indication of the time function of any particular position of the displayed name. (2. The method of claim 25. In the step of storing the time function, the time, day of the week, date,
A method comprising storing one or all of the functions including a month, a year and a shape of the month. C2. The method of claim 24, comprising the step of: displaying a function of time of the position of the selectively displayed name. (2. The method according to claim 25, wherein the displaying step includes the step of displaying the time functions of both the Western European calendar and the Hijiri calendar. (27) The method of providing the time function of a specific position, (a) storing data representing the names of a large number of locations around the world; (1)) selecting and displaying the name of one of said locations; and (C) determining a function of time for each of said locations. (1) storing a first set of coordinates representing a predetermined one of said locations and a second set of coordinates representing a remaining one of said multiple locations; and (e) said selected location. (f) visually displaying the direction of the predetermined position from any position of the selectively displayed name; 2. The method according to claim 27, wherein the predetermined location is Mecca. 2. The method according to claim 28, comprising the steps of: displaying information regarding the direction of north; and displaying information regarding the direction of Mecca with respect to the relative display of north. (50) Claim 28. 29. The method of clause 29, wherein an extended marker is displayed on the display to represent the way north, and the extension representing the north so as to represent the way Mecca from the selected city with respect to the north. (51) A method of providing a display of a blinking marker at an angle from a marker that has been placed. (51) A method of providing a time function of a particular location, comprising: (b) selectively displaying any of said city names; (C) automatically calculating instructions for Muslim prayer times for any of the cities whose names are displayed; and fd) said calculated 52. The method of claim 31, comprising the steps of: providing a display means for observing the prayer event time.
The step of calculating the Islamic prayer time instructions includes (al) providing an audio indication of each time of the prayer-related event time; (b) displaying the time when the prayer-related event time occurs; (33) In the method of claim 52, ” (al. 7 lashing of said prayer time name twice when the acoustic indication of the prayer time is given, and (b) said flashing of the prayer time twice every 18 seconds for 3 repetitions; 34) The method of claim 53, comprising: (a) storing both a Western calendar and a Hijiri calendar, and ( b) either the Hijiri calendar or the Western European calendar is selected, whereby either the Western European time or the Hijiri time is selected and displayed; (5) providing a time function for a particular position; A method comprising: (a) storing data representing names of a number of locations around the world; (b) generating a time function for each of said locations; (Q) displaying said time function; selecting and displaying a name for any one of the stored locations, and (θ) automatically displaying a time function for the location of the selected and displayed name;
The method comprises the steps of: (56) In a method of providing a digital Muslim prayer clock, (!L) generating a time function; (b) remembering the latitude and longitude of each of a number of cities around the world; (C) said number with respect to the north; (al) selectively displaying the name of the selected city; (θ) selectively displaying the name of the selected city; (f) calculating automatically an indication of the times of Islamic observances for each day of the named city; The method comprising the steps of automatically displaying the direction, the name of the Muslim praying person, and the time of the prayer event. (37) Any one of Claims 23, 24, 27, or 55. The method according to claim 1, wherein the location is a city. (38) The method according to any one of claims 23, 24, 27, or 55, wherein the location is a country. (59) The method according to claim 25 or 35, comprising: storing an area code for each location of the stored name; (40) The method according to claim 25 or 35, further comprising: displaying the area code of a specific location of the stored light name. A method comprising the steps of: storing information regarding each, and displaying information on a specific position of the selected and displayed name. (41)!Claims 23 and 27 In a method according to any of paragraphs 35: (a) connecting a keyboard to the memory means; (b) entering into the memory means one of the positions of a stored name; and (c) automatically displaying specific information on the location of the selected and displayed original name. (42, Claims 23 and 27 f2 are 35 In the method according to any one of paragraphs 1 to 3, the storing step of storing information specific to the named city is an area code, an emergency telephone number, and a special telephone number for each specific S1. (Patent No. 4) Claims 23, 27 and 35 provide a method according to any one of claims 35, including: (a) providing access to said memory; and (1)) a city whose name is selected for display. 71. A method comprising the steps of: inputting special information of a predetermined city in said memory for display in said memory; and finally connecting a keyboard to said memory. (44) Claim f1g, Items 26 and 9 are the methods according to any one of Items 34, in which the Hijiri date can be adjusted without affecting the Western European date.