US Patent Issued to CASIO COMPUTER on Sept. 29 for "Electronic timepiece, hand position detection method and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,384, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Electronic timepiece, hand position detection method and storage medium" was invented by Yuta Saito (Tokyo), Tomohiro Inaba (Tokyo), Hua Gao (Tokyo), Yohei Kawaguchi (Tokyo) and Akihiro Kuroha (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic timepiece includes a plurality of hands; a plurality of detection units that detect external light, arranged corresponding to the plurality of hands; and a control unit, wherein the control unit is configured to perform external light detection operations that respectively determine whether or not external light of a t...