JPS6148676B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an alarm information setting device for a clock, schedule management device, etc.

As an alarm attached to a watch, there are cases in which the alarm stores only the hours and minutes, and cases in which the date and hours and minutes are stored together.In any case, when setting the alarm, the time or date It was necessary to input and set all the alarm memory information such as and time.

Furthermore, in devices such as schedule management machines that input and notify the date, time, and message contents, there are many key input operations required to memorize one schedule, and when multiple schedules are input, a large number of key input operations are required. It is necessary to perform several key input operations, and the risk of erroneous key operation increases in proportion to the increase in the number of key operations, making it extremely difficult to use.

The present invention makes it possible to omit alarm storage information having the same content as the known information when setting an alarm by using time and date information counted by a reference clock for alarm control as known information. This realizes a reduction in the number of key operations. By reducing the number of key operations, it is possible to reduce the risk of erroneous operation and at the same time speed up the alarm setting operation.

For example, if you want to set 9:45 a.m. as of 9:05 a.m., you can set it to 9:45 a.m. by simply entering 45 minutes.
You can set an alarm for 45 minutes. or as of 2:15 p.m. on August 20, 1979, or as of August 25, 1979, at 2:15 p.m.
When setting an alarm for 10 o'clock, since August 20, 1979 exists as date information, the key input for August 1979 as known information can be omitted, so the key input at 10 a.m. on the 25th will be , you can set an alarm for August 25, 1979 at 10am.

On the other hand, in a schedule management machine, it is not uncommon to write several schedules in a day as schedule settings, and in such cases,
By first pressing the keys for the year, month, and day, and then repeating the key inputs for the time and message, then the time and message, etc., you can set the schedule with fewer key operations one after another.

The present invention will be described below with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of essential parts in an embodiment of the present invention.

The output of the clock generator CG is divided by the frequency divider DV, the current time is counted by the clock counter CC, and the output of the clock counter CC is used to calculate the date counter.
The date is counted in DC. The contents of the time counter CC and date counter DC are displayed on the display DSP via the display drive circuit DR as "year, month, day and current time" or "year, month, day" and "current time" by appropriately switching. On the other hand, the alarm circuit constantly checks whether the contents held in the alarm register AL match the outputs of the clock counter CC and date counter DC using a coincidence detection circuit J. If they match, the sequential control circuit CU is activated. Then, the flip-flop F is set, the alarm sound drive circuit ALM is activated, and an alarm sound is generated from the speaker SP to give an alarm warning.

Alarm register AL is y, m, d, h,
It consists of min year, month, day, hour, and minute registers, and input to each register is performed via the sequential control circuit CU by operating the key input circuit K. This operation sets the alarm date and time. is completed.

Now, the year counter Y of date counter DC is 1979
Year, month counter M is August, day counter D is 20th, and hour counter H of clock counter CC is 2 p.m.
When the hour and minute counter Min is counting 15 minutes, that is, 2:15 p.m. on August 20, 1979, the alarm setting operation for 10 a.m. on August 25, 1979 is as follows. become.

By inputting 10 am on the 25th in the key input circuit K and pressing the alarm setting completion key, the alarm will be set on the 25th.
10 a.m. in the day register d that constitutes register AL.
At the same time, the sequential control circuit CU detects that the year and month are not set in the date information, and the contents of the year counter Y are transferred to the year register y via gate circuits G ₁ and G ₂ . On August 25, 1979, the contents of the month counter M are entered into the month register m, and as a result, the alarm register AL contains the contents of the month counter M.
10 a.m. on the day is entered. Note that in this case, the minute is not set, so it is excluded from the matching target. As is clear from the above operation, it is possible to omit the key input for setting an alarm date that matches the known information held in the date counter DC.

Alternatively, if you want to set alarm information for 2:45 pm on August 20, 1979 at 2:15 pm on August 20, 1979, press the alarm setting completion key after 45 minutes from the key input circuit. 45 minutes is entered into the minute register Min of the alarm register AL, and the contents of the year counter Y are entered into the year register y and the contents of the month counter M are entered into the month via gate circuits _{G 1} , G ₂ , G _{3 , and G 4} . The contents of the day counter D are input to the day register d, the contents of the hour counter H are input to the hour register h, and as a result, the alarm register AL contains 1979.
Alarm setting for 2:45 pm on August 20th is completed.

As mentioned above, date counter DC, time counter
By using the date/time information counted by the CC as known information, it is possible to omit alarm storage information having the same content as the known information when setting an alarm.
This also applies to multiple alarm settings.

Of course, the alarm setting in the above example can also be performed by inputting all the alarm information for the year, month, day, hour, and minute as in a normal alarm clock. In addition, although the example shown in Fig. 1 is an alarm that sets the year, month, day, hour, and minute, it can also be used as an alarm clock that only sets the hour and minute by omitting the date counter DC, year register y, month register m, and day register d. It is clear that it is easy to implement.

Figure 2 is a block diagram of the main parts of another embodiment, which allows multiple alarm settings, and in particular, shows a so-called schedule management device in which message contents can also be set. There is.

The output of the clock generator CG is divided by the frequency divider DV.
The current time is counted by a clock counter CC, and the date is counted by a date counter DC based on the output of the clock counter CC. Clock counter CC
The contents of the date counter DC are displayed on the display DSP via the display drive circuit DR. On the other hand, the alarm date and time as schedule contents is the alarm date and time register.
AL ₁ to AL _o and _the message is stored in message register AM ₁ to _{AM o} , e.g.
and AM ₁ constitute one storage unit. There are n alarm units up to AL _o and AM _o . When the current date and time match the alarm date and time register AL ₁ , the match detection circuit J ₁ detects a match between the current date and time and the alarm date and time register AL ₂ .
In J ₂ , we check the coincidence detection in the same way from AL _o to Jn. For example, if a coincidence between AL ₁ and the current date and time is detected in J ₁ , flip-flop F is set through the sequential control circuit CU. Then, the alarm sound generation circuit ALM is activated to generate an alarm sound from the speaker SP, while the message and register
Display the contents of AM ₁ through the display drive circuit DR
It is also displayed on DSP.

The temporary setting register PAL consists of a year register y, a month register m, a day register d, an hour register h, and a minute register min.Inputs to each register can be made by operating the key input circuit K using the sequential control circuit. This is done via the CU, and then the same contents as the contents of PAL are stored in the designated alarm date and time register while retaining the contents of the temporary setting register PAL. The contents of the temporary setting register PAL are held under the control of the sequential control circuit CU until the clear key is pressed, and when the key is input for the next alarm setting, the held information is treated as known information and only the input alarm information is input information. , and the remaining alarm information is retained as is.

Note that when inputting the first alarm date in the temporary setting register PAL, the clock counter
It operates using the date/time information counted by the CC and date counter DC as known information. That is, it is possible to omit key input of alarm storage information having the same contents as known information.

When the year counter Y of the date counter DC is 1979, the month counter M is August, the day counter D is the 20th, and the hour counter H of the time counter CC is 2:00 p.m., and the minute counter Min is 15 minutes. i.e. 1979
September 1979, if it is 2:15 p.m. on August 20, 1979.
September 10, 1979 at 9:30 a.m. and September 10, 1979 at 10:15 a.m.
Consider the case of setting a schedule for minutes.

Temporary setting registers can be cleared by operating the clear key.
PAL is cleared, and then by keying in 9:30 a.m. on September 10th and pressing the alarm setting completion key, September is placed in the month register m, and the 10th is placed in the day register d.
At the same time, 9:00 a.m. is entered into the hour register h and 30 minutes is entered into the minute register min, and the content of the year counter Y, 1979, is entered into the year register y via gate circuit _G1 , and as a result, the value is entered into the temporary setting register PAL. September 1979
9:30 am on the 10th.

Next, the first blank alarm date and time register is automatically designated. For example, when AL ₁ is specified, 9:30 a.m. on September 10, 1979 is input to AL ₁ via gate circuit E ₁ while retaining the contents of temporary setting register PAL. After inputting AL ₁ , the message input from key input circuit K is sent to gate circuit T _1.
can now be input to message register _AM1 via . This series of keystrokes will cause AL ₁
and schedule settings for the AM ₁ alarm unit are completed.

Next, if you enter the schedule key for September 10, 1979 at 10:15 a.m., the temporary setting register
Since PAL retains alarm information for September 10, 1979 at 9:30 a.m., it is possible to omit key input by treating September 10, 1979 as known information under the control of the sequential control circuit CU. From circuit K, by performing the key input operation for 10:15 a.m. and the alarm setting completion key operation, the contents of the hour register h and minute register min will be filled with the new key input contents, and the other contents will be changed in the sequential control circuit CU. It was detected that the setting had not been made and was left as is, and the temporary setting register PAL became 10:15 a.m. on September 10, 1979. The contents of this PAL are then input to a blank designated alarm register, for example AL ₃ , via the gate circuit E ₃ . Once the input to AL ₃ is completed, the message can be input to AL ₃ , which is the alarm unit of AL ₃ , and the key input circuit K
By operating , it is input to AM ₃ via gate T ₃ .

As mentioned above, in this embodiment, the temporary setting register
The contents held in PAL are sequentially treated as known information, and alarm information with the same contents can be obtained by omitting key input.
You can set the alarm date and time one after another.

As described above, the present invention provides a clock equipped with one or more alarms or a multi-stage alarm and a so-called schedule management device that can store and notify a message/annotation paired with the alarm, using a reference clock. Alarms can be set by omitting key input operations for duplicate alarm information by using the counting time or date information as known information, and can be used to continuously set alarms on a clock or schedule management device equipped with multi-stage alarms. If the alarm setting key operation is performed, the information retained by the alarm setting key operation is used as known information, and the alarm setting is made possible by omitting the key input operation for the duplicated contents of the alarm setting information that follows, and without any erroneous operation. A useful alarm information setting device that can be operated quickly can be provided.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of main parts showing one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram of main parts showing another embodiment. CC...Clock counter, DC...Date counter,
AL...Alarm register, J...Coincidence detection circuit, CU...Sequential control circuit, K...Key input circuit, G1 _{to G4 ...} Gate circuit, PAL...
Temporary setting register, AL ₁ - AL _o ... Alarm date and time register, AM ₁ - AM _o ... Message register, J ₁ - J _o ... Coincidence detection circuit.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. Counting means for counting time information or time and date information, storage means for storing alarm information, input means for inputting alarm information into the storage means, and information input by the input means. and transfer storage means for detecting the information counted by the counting means other than the input information and transferring the information counted by the counting means as known information to the storage means for storage. . 2. Counting means for counting time information or time and date information, first storage means for storing alarm information, input means for inputting alarm information into said first storage means, and said first storage means When information is input by the input means in a state where no information is stored in the input means, the input information is detected and the information counted by the counting means other than the input information is regarded as known information and the first a transfer storage means for transferring and storing the information in the storage means, and when information is inputted by the input means while the information is stored in the first storage means, replacing only the input information with corresponding information; and a transfer storage means that retains the remaining information as known information and transfers and stores the information in the first storage means to a second storage means. .