Abstract: A radio-controlled timepiece includes an antenna receiving a standard radio wave and a plurality of motors driving indicator portions which indicate information. A fourth motor which is driven at a lowest frequency during the standard radio wave reception of the antenna is disposed closer to the antenna than the rest of the motors.

Abstract: A data converting apparatus includes a video encode or decode operation unit which decodes a bit stream into a video signal; an IO buffer into which the bit stream transferred from an encoded-video recorder is stored; and a DMAC which controls a process of determining, in accordance with free space of the IO buffer and an OP buffer, either a first path going through a main memory or a second path bypassing the main memory as the transfer path, and having the bit stream, that is stored in the IO buffer, inputted into the video encode or decode operation unit via the determined transfer path.