Abstract: An example crown assembly includes a button tube, a crown, a spring piece, a switch, and a fastening frame. The crown includes a crown cap and a crown stem that are connected. The spring piece includes a first plate, an elastic arm, and a second plate. Two ends of the elastic arm are connected to the first plate and the second plate. When pressure is exerted on the crown cap, the crown stem is capable of moving along the axis and pushing the first plate away from the end that is of the elastic arm and is connected to the second plate, to enable the first plate to press the switch. The elastic arm is capable of generating elastic deformation, and when the pressure on the crown cap is released, the first plate is capable of pushing the crown stem away from the switch under elasticity of the elastic arm.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, at least one coupling member configured to be connected to the housing, a bracket disposed between the housing and the at least one coupling member and including a first through hole and a second through hole, and a connecting member at least partially disposed within the at least one coupling member, wherein the connecting member includes a first protruding area configured to be inserted into the first through hole and a second protruding area configured to be inserted into the second through hole, wherein the first protruding area is configured to rotate within a first angular range in the first through hole, and the second protruding area is configured to rotate within the first angular range in the second through hole.

Abstract: Disclosed is a light source device including: a light emitter; an electrode including a support that supports the light emitter and a terminal that extends from the support in an opposite direction of a light emitting direction of the light emitter; a second restrictor that restricts a movement of the electrode in a second direction perpendicular to the light emitting direction; and a third restrictor that restricts a movement of the electrode in a third direction perpendicular to both of the light emitting direction and the second direction.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to an electronic watch that includes a housing defining a side wall and a display positioned at least partially in the housing. The electronic watch can include an input system that includes a mounting bracket coupled to the side wall, a crown coupled to the mounting bracket and configured to rotate and translate with respect to the housing and a flex plate coupled to the mounting bracket and configured to bend in response to translation of the crown. The input system can include a sensor element coupled to the flex plate and configured to output a signal indicating an amount of the bend of the flex plate.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a main body; a display; an electrode positioned in the main body to be in contact with a body of a user; and a processor operatively connected to the display and the electrode, wherein the processor is configured to: identify an electrical value measured through the electrode, determine whether to control a performance of the electronic device by comparing the electrical value and a preconfigured control-requiring value, identify whether the electrical value is within at least one of a first range and a second range which are classified and configured in advance, based on identifying that the electrical value is within the first range, control the performance of the electronic device to a first level, and based on identifying that the electrical value is within the second range, control the performance of the electronic device to a second level, and wherein the performance of the electronic device controlled to the second level is relatively lower than the performance of the elec

Abstract: An electronic device including a first contact member, a second contact member which is arranged opposing the first contact member, a resilient conductive member which electrically connects the first contact member with the second contact member, and a resilient guide holding member having a guide portion which guides the resilient conductive member in opposing directions of the first contact member and the second contact member, and a resilient holding portion which holds the guide portion such that the guide portion is resiliently movable in the opposing directions of the first contact member and the second contact member.

Abstract: A module which enables slimming down and a timepiece provided with the module are provided. The timepiece module includes a timepiece movement which is a driving section that moves pointers, and a liquid crystal display panel which has an opening section where the timepiece movement is arranged, and is arranged in parallel with the timepiece movement. Since the timepiece movement is arranged in the opening section of the liquid crystal display panel and positioned in parallel with the liquid crystal display panel, the timepiece movement and the liquid crystal display panels do not vertically overlap with each other, whereby the slimming down of the entire timepiece module can be achieved, which enables the slimming down of the entire wristwatch.

Abstract: A regulating member (1) for a horological movement including an oscillating weight, for example a balance, and a balance spring including a flexible strip (2) wound about itself in a plurality of turns, the strip (2) having a predefined rigidity to allow the oscillating weight to undergo a rotary oscillatory motion, the strip (2) including an outer end (9), wherein the regulating member (1, 10) includes a temperature-compensating resilient device configured to adapt the stiffness thereof as a function of the temperature to compensate for the effect of temperature on the regulating member (1, 10), the resilient device including a resilient element (5) connecting the outer end (9) to a first support (7) that is stationary relative to the horological movement, as well as preloading means (6) for applying a variable force or torque to the resilient element (5) as a function of the temperature.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a watch face using NFC tagging performed by at least one server includes obtaining watch face request information from a user terminal based on uniform resource locator (URL) information corresponding to a strap; and providing information about a watch face matching the strap based on the URL information to the user terminal. The URL information is obtained from a Near Field Communication (NFC) tag mounted on the strap via an NFC reader installed in the user terminal.

Abstract: The present invention provides a time display method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The time display method is applied to the electronic device, including: displaying a time dial, where the time dial includes a target pointer; and adjusting a display mode of the target pointer according to a first parameter of the electronic device, where the display mode of the target pointer includes at least one of the following: a color of the target pointer, a color filling amount of the target pointer, and a display attribute of a target element associated with the target pointer; and in a case that the display mode of the target pointer includes the display attribute of the target element, in a process of adjusting the display attribute of the target element, controlling a position relationship between the target element and the target pointer to remain unchanged.

Abstract: A timepiece module includes a digital display screen, an antenna device and a metallic component. The antenna device includes an antenna pattern relevant to communication and an antenna component connected to and extending from the antenna pattern. In a plan view, the antenna pattern has a curved shape and overlaps the digital display screen. The antenna device is disposed such that either one side or other side on a virtual line does not overlap the metallic component. The virtual line is an extending direction in which the antenna component, which extends from the antenna pattern, extends.

Abstract: A device for automatic winding of a barrel spring of a watch includes an oscillating mass, an entry disk kinematically linked to the oscillating mass, two reduction disks and a ratchet driving disk, each reduction disk including a reduction wheel bearing at least four planetary wheels, and a transmission pinion about which the reduction wheel is loosely mounted, the entry disk being kinematically linked to the two reduction wheels such that, regardless of the direction of rotation in which it is driven by the oscillating mass, it rotates the two reduction wheels in mutually different directions, the planetary wheels forming, in each of the reduction disks, ratchets to connect in rotation the transmission pinion and the reduction wheel only when the reduction wheel pivots in a predefined direction of rotation, the predefined direction of rotation being identical for either of the reduction wheels.

Abstract: A timepiece (1) intended to transmit commands to an external device (70), including: a digital display (6); a wireless communication circuit (82); a manual selection interface (5, 6); a microphone (87); and a processing unit (81) configured to: transmit a command to an external device (70) depending on an audible signal received on the microphone (87); depending on a history of previously selected commands, environment criteria, behavioural criteria, physiological criteria of the wearer of the timepiece, or state criteria of the external device, define a list of command suggestions to be displayed; display on the digital display (6) a command interface comprising the command suggestions (cmd1, cmd2, cmd3, cmd4, cmd5, cmd6, cmd7) of the defined list.

Abstract: A wearable device configured to be positioned on a user's wrist, includes a rechargeable battery configured to provide energy for the wearable device, the rechargeable battery including a first pole and a second pole, an enclosure, a crown protruding through the enclosure, the crown being a hardware input for the user, and a case back configured to be at least partially in contact with the skin of the wrist, wherein the crown is configured to be electrically connected to the first pole and wherein the enclosure is configured to be electrically connected to the second pole.

Abstract: A management server serving as an information processing apparatus includes ROM or RAM that stores programs, and at least one processor executing the stored programs. The processor is configured to execute processing including: acquiring the component information comprising at least one selected from the 24-hour meter or the small clock or the 24-hour meter or the date window or the function display board provided on the board surface of the timepiece, which points a symbol indicating certain information or displays the certain information, and the component image such as the 24-hour meter image or the small clock image or the 24-hour meter image or the date window image or the function display board image corresponding to the component information; and setting the component image which is common to a plurality of types of timepieces by associating the component information with the plurality of types of the timepieces.

Abstract: An apparatus, intended for use in indicating time interval durations of particular events in an augmented reality display, includes a computer system with a processing system having a hardware processor and a memory accessible to the processing system, a user interface controller under control of the processing system, a display controllable by the user interface controller to show a user interface, and logic, under control of the processing system. The logic has modules that control the user interface controller to cause the display to show a first clockface that indicates a time interval duration for at least a first event and an augmented reality background appearing behind the first clockface.

Abstract: A timepiece component includes a base material including silicon as a main component, and a light reflecting layer formed on the base material and including a first silicon oxide layer, a silicon layer, and a second silicon oxide layer stacked in this order, when the light reflecting layer is viewed in plan view, the light reflecting layer includes a first region and a second region, and at least one of the thicknesses of the first silicon oxide layer in the first region and the second region and the thicknesses of the second silicon oxide layer in the first region and the second region is set such that the thicknesses are different from each other.

Abstract: An electrode terminal which facilitates the housing of a battery, a module equipped with the electrode terminal, and a timepiece equipped with the electrode terminal and the module.

Abstract: A mechanism including a rotary element and a magnetic device for guiding this rotary element in rotation arranged so as to exert a radial magnetic biasing force on the rotary element when a central axis of this rotary element undergoes a radial movement relative to a given axis of rotation. The magnetic device includes a pair of annular magnets the first annular magnet of which is carried by the rotary element and the second annular magnet is carried by a structure of the mechanism. The second annular magnet is parallel and axially superimposed with the first annular magnet when the central axis of the rotary element is coincident with the axis of rotation, the first and second annular magnets being arranged in magnetic attraction so as to impart on one another an axial magnetic force and a radial magnetic force.

Abstract: A method that prints a functional element on a surface of a receiving area of a timepiece component of a timepiece contributing to regulating the rate of this timepiece includes preparing a solution containing a material constituting the functional element and depositing the prepared solution onto the surface of the receiving area. Specific properties of the solution are defined as a function of preparation criteria and include at least one structural modification feature of the timepiece component, at least one construction feature of the functional element on the receiving area, at least one structural feature of the material to be applied to the receiving area, and at least one feature of the receiving area of the component.