Devices and methods for specifying a time when a specified process was performed

• US 6,130,860 A
• Filed: 05/14/1997
• Issued: 10/10/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Suzuki, Hiroaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Roskoski, Bernard
• Application Number:
  US08/855,930
• Time in Patent Office: 1,245 Days
• Field of Search: 368/10, 368/47, 368/48-61, 368/46
• US Class Current: 368/10
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass

Abstract

A transmitter includes a time measuring unit. The transmitter also includes a time information storage unit for storing information on the time measured by the time measuring unit when a specified process was performed. The transmitter is responsive to an instruction of transmission to transmit to a receiver information on the time difference between the time measured by the time measuring unit and the time whose information is stored in the time information storage unit. The receiver calculates the time when the specified process was performed by the transmitter on the basis of the information on the received time difference and information on the current time obtained by a time measuring unit. Thus, although the transmitter has no current time measuring unit, the receiver is capable of specifying the time when the specified process was performed.

Claims

1. An electronic device including a transmitter and a receiver, wherein:

(i) said transmitter comprises;

elapsed time measuring means for measuring an elapsed time which has elapsed since a set point of time;

time information storing means for storing information on a plurality of elapsed times;

storage controlling means, responsive to a user performing a specified process, for controlling said elapsed time measuring means to measure a particular elapsed time related to the specified process at a time that the specified process is performed by the user, and for controlling said time information storing means to store the particular elapsed time related to the user-performed specified process; and

controlling/transmitting means, responsive to an instruction of transmission input by the user, for calculating information on a plurality of time differences each between the particular elapsed time measured by said elapsed time measuring means when the instruction of transmission was input by the user and a respective one of the plurality of elapsed times whose information is stored in said time information storage means, and for transmitting to said receiver information on the calculated plurality of time differences; and

(ii) said receiver comprises;

current time measuring means for measuring a reference signal to obtain information on a current time;

receiving means for receiving the information on the transmitted plurality of time differences; and

calculating means for calculating a plurality of times at which the specified process was performed by said transmitter, based on the information on the plurality of time differences received by said receiving means and information on the current time obtained by said current time measuring means.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein said transmitter further comprises measuring means for measuring human body data, and wherein the specified process comprises a process for measuring living body data using said measuring means.

3. The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein said controlling/transmitting means comprises means for transmitting to said receiver the living body data.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein said receiver further comprises means for transmitting outside information on the plurality of times calculated by said calculating means.

5. An electronic device including a transmitter and a receiver, wherein:

(i) said transmitter comprises;

elapsed time measuring means for measuring an elapsed time which has elapsed since a set point of time;

time information storing means for storing information on a plurality of elapsed times;

storage controlling means, responsive to a user performing a specified process, for controlling said elapsed time measuring means to measure a particular elapsed time related to the specified process at a time that the specified process is performed by the user, and for controlling said time information storing means to store the particular elapsed time related to the user-performed specified process; and

transmitting means, responsive to an instruction of transmission input by the user, for transmitting to said receiver means the information on the particular elapsed time and the information on the plurality of elapsed times stored in said time information storing means; and

(ii) said receiver comprises;

current time measuring means for measuring a reference signal to obtain information on a current time;

receiving means for receiving from said transmitter the information on the particular elapsed time and the information on the plurality of elapsed times stored in said time information storing means; and

calculating means for calculating a plurality of times when the specified process was performed, based on the received information on the particular elapsed time, the received information on the plurality of elapsed times, and the information on the current time obtained by said current time measuring means.

6. The electronic device according to claim 5, wherein said transmitter further comprises measuring means for measuring human body data, and wherein the specified process comprises a process for measuring living body data using said measuring means.

7. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein said transmitting means comprises means for transmitting to said receiver means the living body data.

8. The electronic device according to claim 5, wherein said receiver further comprises means for transmitting information on the plurality of times calculated by said calculating means.