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A pace timing device for timing steps or other actions during physical exercise, providing audible tone bursts as timing information, and equipped with means for setting the repetition rate and rhythm of the tone bursts to suitable values. Audible and visible indications can be given of elapsed time

A pace timing device for timing steps or other actions during physical exercise, providing audible tone bursts as timing information, and equipped with means for setting the repetition rate and rhythm of the tone bursts to suitable values. Audible and visible indications can be given of elapsed time and of numbers of actions completed during an exercise period, and pulse rate or other physiological parameters can be measured while exercise is being undertaken, and visible or audible indications thereof provided.

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A combination of an electronic timepiece and pace timing device, comprising: a source of a first frequency signal; pace signal generation circuit means responsive to said first frequency signal for providing a pace signal; an acoustic device responsive to said pace signal for providing an audible pa

A combination of an electronic timepiece and pace timing device, comprising: a source of a first frequency signal; pace signal generation circuit means responsive to said first frequency signal for providing a pace signal; an acoustic device responsive to said pace signal for providing an audible pace timing signal; said first frequency signal source including a source of a timebase signal, externally operated frequency setting means, and synthesizer circuit means responsive to operation of said frequency setting means and to said timebase signal for producing a first frequency signal; said pace signal generation circuit means including a frequency divider coupled to receive said timebase signal for thereby producing a carrier signal and time unit signal, and a modulator circuit for modulating said carrier signal by said first frequency signal to thereby produce a pace signal; and a timekeeping counter circuit coupled to receive said time unit signal produced by said frequency divider circuit for thereby producing a time marker signal when a predetermined count of said time unit signal is attained, said time marker signal being applied to said modulator circuit to modulate said carrier signal for thereby producing a modulated time marker signal, said acoustic device being responsive to said modulated time marker signal for producing an audible time marker signal; externally actuated switch means for selecting a timekeeping mode of operation and a pace timing mode of operation; externally actuated switch means for selectively increasing and decreasing a pace timing signal frequency when said pace timing mode of operation is entered; externally actuated switch means for initiating halting production of an audible pace timing signal when said pace timing mode of operation is entered; display means for displaying current time and date when said timekeeping mode of operation is entered and for displaying an elapsed time when said pace timing mode of operation has been entered; display means for indicating a pace timing signal frequency when said pace timing mode of operation is entered; and display means for indicating a cumulative total of steps executed.