Electronic wristwatch having dialing tone generator

• US 4,864,604 A
• Filed: 04/21/1988
• Issued: 09/05/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Aihara, Toshiharu
• Primary Examiner(s): Schreyer, Stafford D.
• Application Number:
  US07/184,293
• Time in Patent Office: 502 Days
• Field of Search: 379/361, 379/353, 379/354, 379/356, 379/418, 379/110
• US Class Current: 379/110.01
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 13/00 Producing acoustic time signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/275 implemented by means of portable electronic directories
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/505 signals generated in digital form

Abstract

A wristwatch equipped with a dialing tone generator employs a low-frequency oscillator as a reference signal oscillator. The reference signal is frequency-divided into first and second frequency-divided signals, the first frequency-divided signal being used to produce a low-frequency tone signal, the second frequency-divided signal being used to produce a high-frequency tone signal. Both these tone signals are rectangular waveforms which are filtered in corresponding low-pass filters, to output first and second sine-wave signals, which are then synthesized with each other to produce a desired dialing tone.

Claims

1. A dialing tone generator-equipped electronic wristwatch comprising:

oscillator circuit means for producing an oscillator frequency signal having a frequency of about 32 KHz;

time-measuring means for frequency-dividing the oscillator frequency signal from said oscillator circuit means, to obtain time information;

display means for displaying the time information obtained by said time-measuring means;

multiplier means for multiplying the oscillator frequency signal of about 32 KHz, to derive a multiplier reference signal;

memory means for storing a plurality of telephone number data of the dialing numbers;

selection operation switch means for selecting desired telephone number data from said plurality of telephone number data in the memory means; and

dialing tone signal generating means which, upon receipt of the telephone number data thus selected and a multiplier reference signal, frequency-divides the multiplier reference signal and delivers an output dialing tone signal corresponding to the telephone number data.

2. An electronic wristwatch as claimed in claim 1, wherein telephone number data stored in said memory means is composed of area code number data, local call number data, and division code data.

3. An electronic wristwatch as claimed in claim 1, wherein telephone number data stored in said memory means is composed of area code number data and local call number data, and said selection operation switch means includes first switch means for supplying both of the area code number data and local call number data to said dialing tone signal generating means and second switch means for supplying only the local call number data to said dialing tone signal generating means.

4. An electronic wristwatch as claimed in claim 3, wherein said first switch means operates at a predetermined time interval after a push button type external operation switch is operated for the first time, and said second switch means operates when said push button type external operation switch is operated again within said predetermined time interval.

5. An electronic wristwatch according to claim 1, further including display control means for switchingly displaying, on said display means, telephone number data which is selected by said selection operation switch means.

6. A dialing tone generator-equipped electronic wristwatch, comprising:

oscillator circuit means for producing an oscillation signal having a predetermined frequency;

dividing means for outputting a reference frequency signal, including means for frequency-dividing said oscillation signal of said predetermined frequency to produce said reference frequency signal;

display means for displaying time information based on said reference frequency signal;

multiplier means for multiplying the oscillator frequency signal having said predetermined frequency, to provide a multiplier reference signal;

memory means for storing a plurality of telephone number data corresponding to telephone numbers to be dialed;

selection operation switch means for selecting desired telephone number data from said plurality of telephone number data in said memory means;

an

dialing tone signal generating means responsive to the selected telephone number data and said multiplier reference signal, for frequency-dividing said multiplier reference signal and for delivering an output dialing tone signal corresponding to the telephone number data.

7. An electronic wristwatch as claimed in claim 6, wherein said memory means is adapted to store said telephone number data in the form of area code number data, local call number data, and division code data.

8. An electrode wristwatch as claimed in claim 6, wherein said memory means is adapted to store said telephone number data in the form of area code number data and local call number data, and said selection operation switch means includes first switch means for supplying both of the area code number data and the local call number data to said dialing tone signal generating means, and second switch means for supplying only the local call number data to said dialing tone signal generating means.

9. An electronic wristwatch as claimed in claim 8, wherein said first switch means is adapted to operate in a predetermined time interval after an external push button type operation switch is operated a first time, and said second switch means is adapted to operate when the external push button type operation switch is operated again within said predetermined time interval.

10. An electronic wristwatch according to claim 6, including display control means for successively displaying on said display means, telephone number data that is selected by said selection operation switch means.