KR800001693B1 - Talking solid-state timepiece - Google Patents

Abstract

A small ersonal talking timepiece for use by an individual telling the desired time audibly at will to the nearest minute is euipped with a generator for generating time based signals, a logic evice coupled to the generator, a solid state memory device having coded information, a word seledting device interconnected to the logic and memory devices and converting device coupled to the memory device for converting the command signal to signals which enable verbal readout. The timepiece have all the same characteristics and appearance of an ordinary wrist watch.

Description

Talking solid state watch

1 is a convex diagram of a digital audible wrist watch according to the present invention.

2 is an exemplary view of the watch of the present invention

3 is an exploded perspective view of the watch of the present invention

4 is an exemplary view of a listening watch of the present invention.

5 is an exemplary view of attaching a speaker of the present invention watch to a pair of glasses

6 is a waveform diagram of each watch of the present invention.

7 is a block diagram for speech synthesis of the present invention.

8 is an exemplary view of the present invention installed in a pen

Figure 9 is an exemplary view installed in the East Weiss

10 is an exemplary diagram installed in the copper neck-tie pin

11 is an exemplary view installed on the necklace ornament

12 is an exemplary view installed on the earrings

The present invention relates to a watch that has the same characteristics and appearance as a conventional wrist watch and speaks time.

In general, wristwatches play a long-term role as their practicality and popularity increase, and wristwatches are the most accurate in the form of thermometers and movements, and the case has become sophisticated as an expression of jewelry art. However, even though the appearance of the watch is sophisticated, it is not practical because it cannot be seen by many people who have lost their eyesight. The loss of vision is not linked to the clock, so it can't be seen by a digital clock either.

By converting the time signal into an audible signal, the time signal can be given to the ear, which is done in the remains of the watchmaker's art in the form of structural artifacts and grandfather clocks. The time signal consists of a ring and a coded time signal term occurring every 15 minutes so that the blind can see the time again after 15 minutes through the bell's audible sound.

However, since a wristwatch-sized device does not yet exist to be read by a user, an object of the present invention is to provide a small clock that can be used by each individual who can hear when a time is required for minutes.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a watch in the form of an audible signal in which the reading of the time is spoken according to the user's request, and another object is that the user can wear it as a part to assist listening and simply operate the finger pressure. Provide a clock in a form that lets you know the time.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a watch which can be used as a tie pin or a pen so that the time can be audible according to a user's or wearer's request. Other objects and advantages of the present invention are as described below.

The present invention is a watch that can be worn as a watch, attached and used as a component of hearing aid, and can be used in a shape and size that can be worn and manufactured as a component of a relatively heavy eyeglass leg pen or tie pin.

Digital clocks that operate at a controlled frequency from the crystal are a common device on the market. Starting with a common frequency source, supplying energy to a small cell, using a memory matrix coupled to a miniature audible amplifier to couple amplifiers and timing chips and to operate the speakers, the present invention also For audible speakers describing the signal, the company developed a device with a quartz crystal oscillation function as a basic timekeeping device. In other words, it combines a control logic netwowk, selector, latch, memory and amplifier with a switch in a miniature digital readout clock to turn the time signal into a spoken signal that the user can hear. It was made possible.

The present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a basic block diagram of the present invention.

The device can be made available in many or all languages, because we speak English, so we use English but in other countries we can use different languages. In other words, the clock can be applied in any language.

The time signal can be given in conventional 12 hour form or 24 hour form in a, m and p, m representations.

In case of memory loss, the clock can be manipulated to fit the time exactly to ± 1 minute per month, allowing programming of the date date and programming of birthdays and other important dates.

The signal can be adapted to watches, pens, glasses, cars and telephones, but FIG. 1 shows the adaptation to the wristwatch and the parts for using conventional watches are described in FIGS. 2 and 3 and the 4 and 5 degrees are other. It is about the purpose of use.

Referring to FIG. 1, the basis of the device is a quartz crystal oscillator 10 with a frequency of 32.768 or two times, or 65.536, which is a practical level of industrially available frequency. The signal is injected from the oscillator 10 into the divider chain 11 to divide the frequency by 1 cycle per second. From this it is connected to the digital clock timing chip 12 and the chip writes a gate. This allows the signal to represent time in hours and minutes, and an external input 13 is provided to refresh the time. These three devices 10, 11 and 12 are fundamental to the digital clocks that are commonly used.

The timing chip is connected from 12 to latch 14 to maintain readings over time, which keeps the clock output constant during readings. In addition, a 17 was connected from the dividing chain to the control logic device and a connection 18 was injected from the control tissue to the latch.

The signal was connected from the control logic 16 via the connection 19 to the memory metrics 22 from the word selection network, which was made to read only memories programmed to read digits 0-9. The memory matrix is injected into the digital analog converter 24 through the wiring 23 and connected to the filter type selector 26 through the wiring 25 and to the unitary audio amplifier 28 and the speaker 29 via the wiring 27.

As in any explanatory diagram, the system is valid only within the scope of reducing physical reality and shows in a graph how to reach the signal. The various parts of the explanatory drawing are 2.5-1.7 cm in diameter and 0.5 cm or less in thickness and can be easily attached to a conventional watch, and are industrially inexpensive. This is as shown in FIG.

The latch 14 in the figure shows that the device is arranged to maintain the reading during time change to keep the clock output constant during reading.

The memory matrix reads only memory programmed to read digits 0-9 and digital analog converter 24 converts the memory output to a similar form of signal as an amplification change.

The following list of items shows the industrial parts used by the inventor in the wristwatch device according to the geometry as shown in FIGS. 1 and 3. This expands the individual components of FIG. 3 into size and shape suitable for the device.

In FIG. 3, the following types of parts are indicated.

The number of parts of the present invention is as follows.

2-MOS LSI Clock Chip

1 EVA voice device

2-prototype wirewrap board wire wrap socket

2-board connector

1-chassis

1-Electromotive Supply (5V Logic)

1-Electromotive Supply (ZOV MOS-Level)

1-Combined MSI and SSI Logic Chips

Combined mechanical hardware

Referring to FIG. 3, which is a perspective view of a wrist watch made in accordance with the present invention, a switch puts a maltiribrator into set condition, which then allows the latch to maintain the present invention's watch output while reading.

At this point the signal output is connected to the word selection network so that the indication signal read is directed to the appropriate words in the memory matrix. This happens in four steps: the first two steps are for reading the hour and the second two are for reading the minute.

In FIG. 3, the diagram of the clock is shown as a picture of parts in a conventional electrical circuit, because the picture of the parts is more convenient for describing the watch.

In FIG. 3, 30 represents the body of the watch 31, including the band sections 32 and 33, and 34 is covered with 35 pores covered with small pores, and the sides of the case are switches 36 for knowing time and 37 for new time. Has

The speaker is fixed to the pore 34 together with the pore carver 35, followed by a speaker 39 having a conventional structure.

Electron mode 40 is the heart of the structure, with chips 41 and 42 shown here, a memory metric connected to the D / A converter 43, which is connected to the digital ladder networks 44, 45, 46 and 47.

Connected to filter set 49 and then to voice amplifier 50. Bottom array holes 51, 52, 53, and 54 of the mode matrix were associated with pins 56, 57, 58, and 59. The internal carver was adapted to receive the cell holder 62 with the crystal oscillator 60, the trimmer capacitor 61 and the energy cells 63 and 64. The entire package was secured in place by the rear case 65 and equipped with the shortest spring 66, “0” ring 67 and cell carver 68 of the conventional type for mounting the energy cells in the pore to secure the cells in place.

The other side of the electronic model is shown in Figure 3a, which includes latch, word select network 70, control logic network 71, divide chain 72, and digital clock timing chip 73.

A device for assembling a watch using industrially available parts is the basis for a watch manufacturer. The same arrangement of parts makes an earpiece as shown in FIG. Here all the parts are assembled together and molded as in the port and the speaker is placed in the listener's ear as shown in the figure. The reading of the time is done by the user pressing the unit hard to activate the redout when the unit is in position.

The same invention is carried out on an eyeglass stand and the speaker is placed near the tip of the eyeglass leg and the structure is placed in a case under a fluid bubble, making it easier to press the latch by hand and to generate a time signal as the unit is operated. It became.

FIG. 6 shows the operation of the digital voice watch and should be read in conjunction with FIG.

The digital clock timing chip generates a one-second number (four batts) with at least one bit change every second (waveform A). When the time request button is pressed, the external time request (waveform B) is choked and this waveform is asynchronously latched by the RS prep-prop in the control circuit. Even when the time request button is pressed and released (see dashed line in waveform (B)), the pulse remains until full voice time transfer is made). Four sequence instruction pulses are generated as shown in the waveform C of the time request pulse (waveform B) once. Each ordered pulse reading ace forms the beginning of a speech output frame (waveform D) and each speech output frame ends in 500 milliseconds. Two numbers appear for a few minutes, and 250 milliseconds of separation between the voice-output frames causes a sudden bow between the number outputs. In each voice-output frame, a strobe memory address pulse (waveform E) is generated in the regulating logic circuit and sent to the latch and word-selection network. This pulse samples the time term (hours and minutes) and sends it to a word selection network that translates the number into this information (4 bits), adjusting the network to the appropriate block in the memory matrix, where The corresponding digital 2000 is stored as an adjacent 4-bit Weed, and the strobe memory address bill (waveform (E)) starts the 2000 storage cycle instruction (waveform (F)) in the control logic circuit and each of the memory cycle instruction pulses. Is a series of byte streams, where each memory word is read from the storage matrix until all 2000 4-bit words of one number (0-9) are read as a digit through the converter, filter, and speech-amplifier. Switch to the / A switch Each of these memory cycle pointing pulses has a repetition rate slightly less than 250 milliseconds (waveform F).

As described above, the regulating logic blocks control the overall order of the waveforms and the timing signals described herein are synthesized by a device chain injected from the oscillator into the 2-4 MHZ range. The exact choice of oscillator frequency is mainly dependent on the choice of the many off the dense tming chrip.

The power consumption of the present invention is as follows.

Standby -20 milliwatts (continuous)

초 동안)Voice mode -100 milliwatts (2 seconds per digit)

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* Note: If you want to omit the foot replacement, you can replace it with solar cells.

Humseong synthesized natural voices

Digitization is used to store the entire word in a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) read-only memory (ROM). By analyzing the profiled sonic waveforms, the corresponding speech signal of one word can be converted to the desired digital signal with minimal storage reduction.

The result of storing the whole-words as synthesized voices as natural voices is difficult to distinguish them as original. All voice control and delay features allow users to distinguish their voices even when they are played electronically. Each word stored in a separate memory is accessed by each ROM and the words are recalled in the order required for the desired words. You can use simple logic decoding to do this ordering without complicated programming.

In particular, the clock is shown as the waveforms related to FIG. 6 and FIG.

It is apparent from the foregoing that modifications in the structure of the watch can be made within the intention of the present invention. For example, the entire speaker around the front can be made of solar cells to provide energy and can be used to drive the mechanism after filling the energy cells used. In addition, time switches can be displayed in the form of small switches on the sides of the case by using a similar switch to refresh the time. These two functions can be easily adjusted by the centrifugal acceleration switch, that is, by setting the acceleration switch in the circuit case to read the time by momentarily moving the clock to the user's ear to receive the time reading by shaking the watch. Can listen.

The same mechanism can be attached to pens, scuffed tie pins, women's caskets, earrings, eyeglasses and hats.

Claims (1)

As described above in the text and as shown in the figure, a memory device having a memory device having a coded information signal indicating a voice corresponding to a time signal and a transmitter connected to a logic device to provide an arrangement and selection of time signals, and a voice memorized the current time. A solid state clock comprising a combination of an audible selector for selective connection to a signal and a switching device connected to a memory device for powering the indication signal with an audible signal.

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