Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090231963 | TIME CORRECTING APPARATUS AND RADIO CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - In a time correcting apparatus, a signal including time codes is sampled to generate a bit sequence of input TCO data. A prognostic TCO data generating unit | 09-17-2009 |
20090248357 | TIME ACQUISITION APPARATUS AND RADIO WAVE CLOCK - A received waveform memory | 10-01-2009 |
20100008192 | TIME INFORMATION OBTAINING APPARATUS AND RADIO TIMEPIECE - A signal composing circuit | 01-14-2010 |
20100014388 | TIME INFORMATION OBTAINING DEVICE AND RADIO CLOCK - Disclosed is a time information obtaining device comprising: a reception section to receive a standard time radio wave; an input waveform data generation section to generate input waveform data, based on data having the unit of time length; an estimated waveform data generation section to generate estimated waveform data, wherein the estimated waveform data comprises the value in which each sample point is described by the plurality of bits, and has the same time length as the input waveform data, and comprises at least one code which configures the time code, and a waveform of the estimated waveform data is sequentially shifted by a predetermined sample; a correlation value calculation section to calculate a correlation value; a correlation value comparison section to compare the correlation value to calculate an optimal value; and a control section to specify a beginning position of a second in the time code. | 01-21-2010 |
20100177602 | TIME INFORMATION OBTAINING APPARATUS AND RADIO WAVE TIMEPIECE - A time information obtaining apparatus, comprises: an input waveform data generating section for sampling a received signal including a time code at a predetermined sampling period to obtain sampling points every one unit time length, and generating input waveform data having one or more unit time lengths based on data having at least one unit time length including the obtained sampling points; a predicted waveform data generating section for generating a plurality of pieces of predicted waveform data with respect to each class of a standard time radio wave; a correlation value calculating section for calculating correlation values between the input waveform data and the plurality of pieces of predicted waveform data of each of the classes; a correlation value comparing section for comparing the correlation values to calculate optimum values; and a judging section for judging the class of the standard time wave based on the optimum values. | 07-15-2010 |
20100177853 | TIME INFORMATION RECEIVER, RADIO WAVE TIMEPIECE AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM STORED THEREIN - A time information receiver including a reception unit for receiving and demodulating a standard radio wave containing a time code in which data pulses are arranged at a predetermined period; a determining section for determining rising and falling points of a demodulated signal; a first calculator for calculating first differences between respective time intervals of any pair of the rising points and a time period concerned with the predetermined period, and calculating a rising dispersion amount; a second calculator for calculating second differences between respective time intervals of any pair of the falling points and a time period concerned with the predetermined period, and calculating a falling dispersion amount; a comparison section for comparing the rising dispersion amount and the falling dispersion amount; and a judger for judging a code type of the received time code on the basis of a comparison result of the comparison section. | 07-15-2010 |
20100177854 | TIME INFORMATION RECEIVER, RADIO WAVE TIMEPIECE AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM STORED THEREIN - A time information receiver including a reception unit for receiving and demodulating a standard radio wave containing a time code in which data pulses are arranged at a predetermined period; an analyzer for analyzing the time code from a demodulated signal obtained by demodulating the standard radio wave; a time-shift adder for executing an addition processing of adding a pulse waveform of the demodulated signal and a pulse waveform of a signal obtained by shifting the demodulated signal by a predetermined time; and a judger for judging a code type of the time code contained in the received standard radio wave on the basis of a addition result of the time-shift adder. | 07-15-2010 |
20100311370 | RADIO WAVE RECEIVER - Disclosed is a radio wave receiver including an antenna to receive a radio wave, a tuning unit to switch a frequency characteristic of the antenna in a stepwise fashion, an oscillation unit to oscillate the antenna and a circuit section of the tuning unit, a receiving process unit to carry out a signal process by extracting a signal of a desired wave among received signals which are received from the antenna, a search control unit in which the oscillation unit is made to generate an oscillation signal at the circuit section and in which the oscillation signal searches a setting condition of the tuning unit which is extracted in the receiving process unit by switching a setting of the tuning unit and a search range deciding unit to selectively decide an adjustable range in which the switching of the setting of the tuning unit is carried out by the search control unit so as to be a specific adjustable range which is a portion of an entire adjustable range of the tuning unit corresponding to a frequency of the desired wave. | 12-09-2010 |
20100311371 | RADIO WAVE RECEIVER - A radio wave receiver having an antenna for receiving a radio wave; a tuning unit for switching a frequency characteristic of the antenna in a stepwise fashion; an oscillation unit for oscillating a circuit section including the antenna and the tuning unit; a receiving process unit for executing a signal process by extracting a signal of a desired wave among received signals received by the antenna; and a search control unit for causing the oscillation unit to generate an oscillation signal at the circuit section and for searching, by switching a setting of the tuning unit, a setting condition of the tuning unit at which condition the oscillation signal is extracted by the receiving process unit; wherein the search control unit changes the number of minimum switching steps to be taken at a time or set pattern according to an adjustable range of the tuning unit. | 12-09-2010 |
20110075522 | TIME INFORMATION-ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND RADIO WAVE TIMEPIECE - A time information-acquiring apparatus comprises an input waveform generator which generates an input waveform, a predicted waveform generator which generates plural phase-shifted predicted waveforms, a correlation calculator which calculates a positive correlation based on a first value of the input waveform and a first value of the predicted waveform or a second value of the input waveform and a second value of the predicted waveform, and calculates a negative correlation based on the first value of the input waveform and the second value of the predicted waveform or the second value of the input waveform and the first value of the predicted waveform, a comparator which compares the correlation values to detect an optimal value, and a controller which detects a head position of a second based on a predicted waveform related to the optimal value. | 03-31-2011 |
20110075523 | TIME INFORMATION-ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND RADIO WAVE TIMEPIECE - A time information-acquiring apparatus comprises a receiver receiving a standard time radio wave, an input waveform generator sampling a signal output from the receiver and to generating input waveform data with one or more unit time lengths, the input waveform data at each sampling point having a first value indicating a low level or a second value, the input waveform data within a first characteristic section having a predetermined value unique to codes forming a time code included in the standard time radio wave, an accumulator accumulating the value of the input waveform data during the first characteristic section, a calculator multiplying the accumulated value by characteristic values, and calculating correlation values between the input waveform data and the codes based on multiplied values. | 03-31-2011 |
20110255377 | TIME INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS AND RADIO WAVE TIMEPIECE - A time information acquisition apparatus comprises an input waveform data pattern generator configured to sample a standard time radio wave signal in order to generate an input waveform data pattern, a predicted waveform data pattern generator configured to generate predicted waveform data patterns, represents a string of codes based on a base time, and has a head position, an error detector configured to detect non-coincidence between the input waveform data pattern and each of the predicted waveform data patterns in order to acquire a number of errors indicative of a number of non-coincidences, a current time correction module configured to correct the base time based on the predicted waveform data pattern indicative of a minimum value of the number of errors, and a controller configured to determine the number of predicted waveform data patterns to be generated. | 10-20-2011 |
20120134241 | TIME-INFORMATION OBTAINING APPARATUS AND RADIO-CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - A time-information obtaining apparatus is provided with an input waveform data pattern generating unit for sampling a received standard-time radio wave signal to generate an input waveform data pattern, an internal time counting unit for generate a base time, a calculation-waveform data pattern generating unit for generating plural calculation-waveform data patterns based on the base time, an invalid-bit detecting unit for detecting in the plural calculation-waveform data patterns, invalid bits not to be compared with the input waveform data pattern, an error counting unit for comparing the sample values of valid bits of the plural calculation-waveform data patterns with the invalid bits removed and the corresponding sample values of the input waveform data pattern to detect discrepancies between them, and a present-time correcting unit for correcting the base time based on the calculation-waveform data pattern having the smallest number of errors. | 05-31-2012 |
20120282871 | RADIO WAVE RECEIVER - A radio wave receiver having an antenna for receiving a radio wave; a tuning unit for switching a frequency characteristic of the antenna in a stepwise fashion; an oscillation unit for oscillating a circuit section including the antenna and the tuning unit; a receiving process unit for executing a signal process by extracting a signal of a desired wave among received signals received by the antenna; and a search control unit for causing the oscillation unit to generate an oscillation signal at the circuit section and for searching, by switching a setting of the tuning unit, a setting condition of the tuning unit at which condition the oscillation signal is extracted by the receiving process unit; wherein the search control unit changes the number of minimum switching steps to be taken at a time or set pattern according to an adjustable range of the tuning unit. | 11-08-2012 |