JPS6231308B2 - - Google Patents

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a multifunctional electronic timepiece that counts and displays biorhythms.

In recent years, with the rapid advancement of electronic technology, electronic watches (particularly electronic watches that use electro-optical display devices such as liquid crystals) have begun to display simple information such as hours, minutes, seconds, year, month, date, etc.
In addition to time and calendar functions such as the day of the week, devices that have multiple functions such as alarm functions and chronograph functions are becoming commonplace, and one of these multi-functional devices is devices that are equipped with biorhythm counting and display functions. is also being considered. This biorhythm is a wave of active and resting periods related to the three rhythms of the body, emotion, and intellect, starting from the day of a person's birth.The body rhythm (abbreviated as P) has a cycle of 23 days. , the rhythm of emotions (abbreviated as S) has a cycle of 28 days, and the rhythm of intellect (abbreviated as I) has a cycle of 33 days.
It has a daily cycle. To express the state of these biorhythms, it is difficult to tell whether the biorhythm is in the active phase or the resting phase by simply displaying the numerical values corresponding to each cycle, so it is usually difficult to tell whether the biorhythm is in the active phase or the resting phase. A method is used to indicate the location. However, when trying to express the biorhythm state by the position on the sine curve under conditions such as an electronic clock where the display surface size is limited and the number of display elements is kept as small as possible, the As shown in Figure 1 A and B, each of the display element blocks 1 to 6 (each block is in the shape of a day character) displays the hours, minutes, and seconds in the normal time display state A. 7 of a to g placed in
1g, 2f, 2a, 2b, 3g, 1g, 2f, 2a, 2b, 3g,
An idea has already been proposed in which a sine curve is approximately formed by each display element 4e, 4d, and 4c, and the display element corresponding to the state of the biorhythm of the day is blinked to express its position. The sine curve approximately expressed in this way not only has a poor approximation and becomes very difficult to see, but also divides each period of the biorhythm corresponding to the eight display elements 1g to 4c. As a result, the number of days allocated to one display element increases, resulting in a very rough representation.

The purpose of this invention is not to force digital display elements to approximate a sine curve, but to use digital display elements used for time display, calculation function display, etc., in a way that is easy to understand quantitatively and with high accuracy, and to display biorhythms. To provide an electronic timepiece with a biorhythm that can also display the state within a limited display area.

Below, a detailed explanation will be given based on the drawings. Figures 2 and 3 show one embodiment of the present invention, and are arranged in a straight line to display the "day" of the time/calendar function. This is an example of sequentially switching and displaying three types of biorhythm states using seven display elements, and FIG. 2 is a display state diagram showing the display method on the display screen.
FIG. 3 is a division state diagram showing how to allocate the seven display elements for displaying the "day of the week" corresponding to each cycle of the P, S, and I biorhythms. First, in Fig. 2, A shows a state in which all display elements on the display surface are lit, and B shows a normal display state of the time and calendar functions. , 12 display element blocks display the "hour" digit, display element blocks 13 and 14 display the "minute" digit, and display element blocks 15 and 16 display the "second" digit. The display element blocks 17 and 18 display the “day” digit, and the 1
The seven display elements arranged in a straight line from 9a to 19g each display the digit of the day of the day, and in the figure, it is 12:58 pm on Wednesday the 10th.
Displaying 34 seconds. Here 20 is 17, 18
The block of display elements 19a to 19g are date marks indicating that the display elements 19a to 19g are in the display state of the calendar function of "day" and "day of the week," respectively. Next, C is the display state of the P rhythm of the biorhythm, and the blocks of display elements 11 to 16 at the top of the display screen display "hours", "minutes", and "seconds" in the same way as the display state of B above. However, the lower part of the display screen is switched to display the biorhythm, and 21 is a biorhythm mark indicating that the lower part of the display screen is in the biorhythm display state, and 22a is the three types of biorhythm. The rhythm selection mark 22b indicates that the state of the P rhythm is displayed among the rhythms (the rhythm selection mark 22b is used to display the state of the S rhythm and I rhythm).
and 22c light up correspondingly. In this P rhythm display state C, the display element blocks 17 and 18 at the bottom of the display screen are used to numerically display the number of days from the beginning of the P rhythm cycle, and at the same time as shown in FIG. According to the contingency table, any one of the seven display elements 19a to 19g corresponding to the above numerical value is blinked, and the blinking display element is the display element 19d.
Depending on whether it is on the right side or the left side, it can be seen at a glance whether it is in the active phase or the resting phase, and the scale mark 23 assists in reading it. Also, right arrow 2
4a and the left-pointing arrow (not shown as it is not lit) are used to indicate whether the biorhythm status is on an upward trend or a downward trend by lighting either one of them. As shown in the figure, when the P rhythm falls on the 20th day from the beginning of its cycle, the display element 19f blinks and at the same time the rightward arrow 24a lights up.
This indicates that although it is in a resting period, it is on an upward trend (heading toward an active period). (Therefore, even if the same display element 19f is blinking, if the P rhythm is on the 15th or 16th day from the start of the cycle, the leftward arrow 24b will light up, indicating that it is in a resting period and has a further downward trend. (It is shown that there is.) Furthermore,
When the S rhythm and I rhythm are called up, they are sequentially switched and displayed in the lower part of the display screen in the same way as the P rhythm. or,
FIG. 4 shows an example of an external appearance diagram of an electronic wristwatch corresponding to the above-mentioned embodiment, and 25 is a display surface which is in the display state shown in FIG. 2C. 2
6 shows the status of each of the P rhythm, S rhythm, and I rhythm on the display screen 2 by repeating the operation.
The mode switching buttons 27 and 28 are respectively a correction digit selection button and a correction input button, and similarly to a general digital display electronic watch, by operating the correction digit selection button 27, A modifiable digit is selected and the selected modifiable digit is set to a desired value by operating the modification input button 28. Further, FIG. 5 is an example of a block diagram showing the main parts of the electronic timepiece circuit corresponding to the embodiments shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, and 29 is a crystal oscillator as a time standard;
30 is an oscillation frequency divider circuit that oscillates the crystal oscillator 29 and divides the oscillation frequency to a frequency required for timekeeping; 31 is a time function for hours, minutes, and seconds upon receiving the signal from the oscillation frequency divider circuit 30; 32 is a calendar counting circuit that receives signals from the time counting circuit 31 and counts the calendar functions of the week, day, month, and year; 33, 34, and 35 are each connected to the time counting circuit 31; a biorhythm counting circuit that receives signals from the 3-bit biorhythm and counts the cycles of three types of biorhythms: the P rhythm, the S rhythm, and the I rhythm; 36 is a display device including the display surface 25 shown in FIG. 4;
7 is a time counting circuit 31, a calendar counting circuit 3
2, and biorhythm counting circuits 33, 34, 35
display control circuits 38, 39, 4 that control display signals from the 38, 39, and 4 to perform displays as shown in FIG.
0 are buttons 26 and 2 shown in FIG. 4, respectively.
7, 28 input terminals for receiving operation signals, and 4
Reference numeral 1 designates an input control circuit for receiving signals from input terminals 38, 39, and 40 to perform predetermined circuit operations. Here, the biorhythm counting circuit 33,
34 and 35, once the state of the biorhythm of the user of the watch is set correctly, the counting is performed automatically by the signal from the time counting circuit 31, so the user can simply switch to the mode shown in Fig. 4. By simply operating the switching button 26, the state of the biorhythm for that day can be immediately known, and
When setting the state of a person's biorhythm for the first time, first operate the correction digit selection button 27 and correction input button 28 shown in FIG. 4 to set the calendar counting circuit 32 to the date of birth of the person. In this state, by operating the mode switching button 26 shown in FIG.
4, 35 are all preset to the value of 1,
Next, by operating the correction digit selection button 27 and correction input button 28 shown in FIG. 4, the calendar counting circuit 32 calculates the total number of days from the date of birth to the current year, month, and day. The setting is completed by applying a pulse signal of the number to each of the calendar counting circuit 32 and the biorhythm counting circuits 33, 34, and 35, and can be realized with an easy-to-understand operation and a simple circuit configuration. It is. Next, FIG. 6 is a display state diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention, in which a plurality of display element blocks are arranged in a horizontal line (each display element block is a general display element block as shown in FIG. 1). The display elements that are in a straight line are selected from among the display elements that make up the display elements (consisting of seven display elements a to g arranged in the shape of a sun) and are taken out as one group to determine the state of the biorhythm. This embodiment is intended to be used for analog display, and this embodiment uses seven of the eight display element blocks used to display the counting function in an electronic watch that also has a counting function. The display elements at positions a, g, and d are extracted from each of the seven display element blocks, and the display elements at position a (the upper display elements) are combined into one group, and the display element at position g. (the display elements in the middle) are grouped together as one group, and the display elements at position d (the lower display elements) are grouped together as one group, forming a total of three groups. Using biorhythm P rhythm, S
This is for displaying the states of rhythm and I-rhythm, respectively. First, A shows the state in which all display elements within the display screen are lit, and 42,4
3, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 5
0, 51, 52, 53, 54, and 55 are display element blocks each consisting of seven display elements a to g arranged in the shape of a sun character. B shows the simultaneous display state of the time function and the calculation function.The time function is displayed in the upper part of the display screen, and the calculation function is displayed in the lower part, and the display element blocks 42 and 43 are "time function". The display element blocks 44 and 45 display the minute digit, the display element blocks 46 and 47 display the second digit, and each of the blocks 48 to 55 at the bottom The display element blocks each display a calculation function. Next, C shows the display state of the biorhythm, and the biorhythm mark 56 lights up to indicate that the display screen has been switched to the biorhythm state, and the three rhythms of the biorhythm are displayed at the top of the display screen at the beginning of each cycle. The display element blocks 42 and 43 show the state of the P rhythm, the display element blocks 44 and 45 show the state of the S rhythm, and the display element blocks 46 and 47 show the state of the S rhythm. displays the state of the I rhythm, and the display position is made clear by lighting rhythm display marks 57, 58, and 59.
In addition, the lower part of the display screen displays each of the three rhythm states of the biorhythm numerically displayed in the upper part in analog form, and seven display elements arranged horizontally. Block 4
Take out display elements at positions a, g, and d from each of 8 to 54, and select display elements 48a and 5 on a straight line.
Assume the seven display elements of 4a as one group,
The state of the P rhythm of the biorhythm is displayed in the same way as in the case of using the seven display elements of "Day" in the embodiment of FIG.
The seven display elements g to 54g are grouped to display the S rhythm status, and the seven display elements 48d to 5 are displayed as one group.
7 display elements of 4d as one group I
This allows the rhythm status to be displayed. Here, 60 is a rhythm display mark 61 for clarifying the display positions of the three rhythms, and is a scale mark for facilitating reading of the state of the biorhythm by analog display. Note that the allocation of display elements corresponding to the respective cycles of the P, S, and I biorhythms in the three groups of display elements can be done in the same manner as in Figure 3, but if the biorhythm is on an upward trend or If you try to distinguish whether there is a downward trend by the direction of the lit arrow as in the example of Fig. 2, you will see that three types of biorhythm states are displayed at the same time as in this example. In this case, six arrows would be required, which not only increases the number of display elements but also makes the display surface complicated. Therefore, in this embodiment, whether the biorhythm is in an upward trend or a downward trend is distinguished by changing the blinking cycle of the display elements that display the three types of biorhythm states. , the display elements 49a and 49b blink at a period of 1 second when the trend is upward, and at a cycle of 1/2 second when the trend is downward. The display element 54g blinks at a period of 1 second, and the display element 51d blinks at a cycle of 1/2 second.
In addition, when the state of the biorhythm changes from the active phase to the resting phase or from the resting phase to the active phase, the day that falls on the boundary between the active phase and the resting phase is a day that requires attention, and there are three types of biorhythms. On days when even one rhythm falls under this cautionary day,
It is said that the probability of causing a traffic accident or other trouble is high, and the probability is said to be even higher if not only one rhythm but two or three rhythms require caution on the same day. . Therefore, instead of simply reading the number or analog display position in the biorhythm display state on such days that require attention, it is possible to make the entire number blink or display the analog display on the day that requires attention. Change the blinking cycle of display elements, set special marks to indicate days that require attention, or change the color of a color display if it is used. It is also very beneficial for the user to actively display the biorhythm in a different way, and the display method can be changed depending on the degree to which the cautionary days of each rhythm overlap (for example, the biorhythm that is on the cautionary day When there is one circle mark, one circle mark is lit, when there are two overlapped marks, a double circle mark is displayed, and when there are three overlapped marks, a triple circle mark is displayed. It is possible to further call the user's attention by saying (in the case of display, the color is changed).

As described above, when displaying the biorhythm state in an analog manner, the present invention displays a one-dimensional graph using a plurality of display elements arranged on a straight line, rather than approximating it to a sine curve. This makes it possible to easily switch between display elements that display other functions even within a limited display surface such as an electronic watch, and to display the state of the biorhythm with high accuracy and ease of viewing. It is what makes it possible.
In addition, it is very effective and does not take up much display space, even in cases where the state of biorhythm can be displayed with higher accuracy by simultaneously displaying not only an analog display but also a numerical digital display. Furthermore, as in the embodiment shown in FIG. 6, it is possible to easily display three types of biorhythm states simultaneously in an analog manner.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

1A and 2B are analog display state diagrams of conventional biorhythms, and FIG.
Fig. 3 is a diagram of the divided state of display elements corresponding to each cycle of the biorhythm in Fig. 2, Fig. 4 is an external shape diagram of the electronic wristwatch shown in Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is a diagram of the electronic watch circuit shown in Fig. 2. The main part block diagram and FIGS. 6A, 6B, and 6C are display state diagrams showing other embodiments of the present invention. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13,
14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 42, 43, 4
4, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 5
1, 52, 53, 54, 55...Display element block, 19a, 19b, 19c, 19d, 19e,
19f, 19g... "Day" digit display element, 2
1,56...biorhythm mark, 21a, 22
b, 22c... Rhythm selection mark, 23, 61...
... Scale mark, 24a, 24b ... Arrow mark, 25 ... Display surface, 26, 27, 28 ... Operation button, 29 ... Crystal oscillator, 30 ... Oscillation frequency dividing circuit, 31 ... Time counting circuit, 32... Calendar counting circuit, 33, 34, 35... Biorhythm counting circuit, 36... Display device, 37... Display control circuit, 38, 39, 40... Input terminal, 41...
Input control circuit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In an electronic watch, hour, minute, second, year, month, day,
A time counting circuit such as the day of the week, a biorhythm counting circuit that performs three types of counting corresponding to each of the three types of cycles of the biorhythm based on the signal from the time counting circuit, and a multi-digit time in the form of a day character to numerically display. A display device having a display unit and a multi-function display unit in which a plurality of Japanese character-shaped number display blocks are arranged in a horizontal row to display calculation functions;
Among the plurality of number display blocks, display elements arranged horizontally in a straight line are configured as one group, and the group includes a group of lower display elements, a group of middle display elements,
Then, a circuit is provided for supplying the three types of biorhythm signals from the biorhythm counting circuit to each of the three groups of upper display elements in place of the multi-function display, and the three groups are used to display the three types of biorhythm signals. A multi-functional electronic clock featuring one-dimensional analog display of three types of biorhythm states. 2. In the multifunctional electronic timepiece according to claim 1, the display device includes a biorhythm counting circuit in place of the time signal in the display section that displays the time in response to a signal from the time counting circuit. A multi-functional electronic watch characterized by displaying biorhythms numerically by being equipped with a circuit that supplies numerical values corresponding to three types of cycles. 3. The multifunctional electronic timepiece according to claim 1, characterized in that the display device is provided with means for identifying whether each of the biorhythms is on an upward trend or a downward trend. A multi-functional electronic watch. 4. In the multi-functional electronic timepiece as set forth in claim 3, the identification display means may display a display element indicating the state of the biorhythm when the biorhythm is on an upward trend and when the biorhythm is on a downward trend. A multi-functional electronic timepiece, characterized in that it is a means for driving at different blinking cycles depending on the time.