US 11,703,811 B2
Electronic timepiece
Toshihiro Mitani, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Filed by Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 27, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/584,989.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-183866 (JP), filed on Sep. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0103831 A1, Apr. 2, 2020
Int. Cl. G04G 5/00 (2013.01); G04R 20/04 (2013.01); G04R 60/12 (2013.01); G04C 10/04 (2006.01)
CPC G04R 20/04 (2013.01) [G04R 60/12 (2013.01); G04C 10/04 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic timepiece comprising:
a timekeeper configured to keep an internal time;
a receiver configured to receive time information;
an operating device including an operating button and a crown;
an automatic reception controller configured to determine whether or not an automatic reception condition of the time information is met, and operate the receiver to execute a reception process if the automatic reception condition is met;
a time adjuster configured to adjust the internal time based on the time information received by the receiver;
a reception setter configured to selectively set one of a first automatic reception prohibition mode and a second automatic reception prohibition mode that prohibit operation of the automatic reception controller,
multiple hands indicating time;
a driver configured to drive the multiple hands; and
a display controller configured to control the driver, the display controller being configured to control the driver to stop driving one hand of the multiple hands when the first automatic reception prohibition mode is set, the display controller being configured to control the driver to drive the multiple hands to indicate the time when the second automatic reception prohibition mode,
wherein the first automatic reception prohibition is configured to be cancelled by a plurality of cancellation methods, one of the plurality of cancellation methods is a single operation of the crown, and another of the plurality of cancellation methods is a single operation of the operating button, and
the second automatic reception prohibition mode if configured to be cancelled by one predetermined cancellation method.