Wrist watch weather radio

• US 4,480,253 A
• Filed: 06/01/1983
• Issued: 10/30/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Howard M. Anderson
• Original Assignee: Howard M. Anderson
• Inventors: Anderson, Howard M.
• Primary Examiner(s): NG, JIN FAY
• Application Number:
  US06/500,005
• Time in Patent Office: 517 Days
• Field of Search: 455/156, 455/227, 455/228, 455/344, 455/351, 340/539, 340/756, 340/811, 340/825.69, 340/815.04, 340/825.44, 381/51, 375/75
• US Class Current: 340/7.53
• CPC Class Codes: G01W 1/00 Meteorology
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/00 Input or output devices integrated in time-pieces
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/088 with parts of the receiver detachable or collapsible

Abstract

A miniature radio receiver for receiving coded radio transmissions pertaining to the actual or predicted state of the weather and storing the information in a memory from which information can be read out on command. In one embodiment, the radio is small enough to be attached to the wrist and has a display face on which information pertaining to the weather is presented. In another embodiment, the receiver is provided with a voice synthesizer which responds to a read out command by audibly announcing the weather information stored in the memory.

Claims

1. A portable device for presenting information on the state of the weather comprising

(a) a radio receiver for receiving binary coded radio signals;

(b) means for deriving a stream of data signals from the coded radio signals,

(c) means for deriving clock pulses from the received radio signals, the clock pulses being synchronous with the bits in the stream of data signals,

(d) first and second gates, the data stream being applied as the input to both gates,

(e) a code comparator for comparing the data signals with bit patterns representing today'"'"'s weather and tomorrow'"'"'s weather, the code comparator emitting an enable signal to the first gate upon the occurrence of a match with the pattern representing today'"'"'s weather and emitting an enable signal to the second gate upon the occurrence of a match with the pattern representing tomorrow'"'"'s weather,

(f) first address registers, the output of the first gate providing the input to the first address registers,

(g) second address registers, the output of the second gate providing the input to the second address registers,

(h) a read only memory having information pertaining to different weather states stored at predetermined addresses, the outputs of the first and second address registers providing the input to the read only memory, and

(i) means responsive to the output of the read only memory for providing information on the state of the weather.

2. The portable device according to claim 1 wherein the means for presenting information on the state of the weather is a visual display device.

3. The portable device according to claim 1 wherein the means for presenting information on the state of the weather includes a speech synthesizer and speaker.