Patent ID: 7529157

Claim:
A time correction control apparatus, comprising: a receiving section to receive a GPS signal; a clock section to count time; an obtaining section to obtain at least one of hour/minute/second information and year/month/day information included in the GPS signal received by the receiving section; a calculating section to calculate a time difference between hour/minute/second of the hour/minute/second information obtained by the obtaining section and hour/minute/second of the time counted by the clock section; a comparing section to compare the time difference calculated by the calculating section and a predetermined time difference; and a time correction control section to correct year/month/day and the hour/minute/second counted by the clock section using both the year/month/day information and the hour/minute/second information obtained by the obtaining section when the calculated time difference is greater than the predetermined time difference as a result of comparison made by the comparing section, and to correct the hour/minute/second counted by the clock section using the hour/minute/second information obtained by the obtaining section when the calculated time difference is smaller than the predetermined time difference.