Patent ID: 6837618

Claim:
An electronic thermometer comprising: a display device ( 6 ) for displaying a measured temperature measurement in a predetermined display digit number; a temperature measurement device ( 3 ) for generating a temperature measurement signal based on the temperature of an object under temperature measurement; a computation device ( 5 ) for computing a temperature value of a digit number larger than the predetermined display digit number to be displayed on the display device ( 6 ) on the basis of the temperature measurement signal; and a control device for controlling the display device to display a first temperature value portion and a second temperature value portion in such a manner that the second temperature value portion is not displayed while the first temperature value portion is displayed and vice versa; wherein the first temperature value portion is defined as a portion of the temperature value having a first set of predetermined digit or digits, and the second temperature value portion is defined as another portion of the temperature value having a second set of predetermined digit or digits including all remaining digit or digits other than the first predetermined digit or digits.