Appeal No. 95-3891
Application 08/066,405
pending claims, under § 103 as unpatentable over prior art. We
reverse.
The claimed invention relates to a "universal" remote
control transmitter which includes a memory which has been
preprogrammed by the manufacturer to store formatting data for a
plurality of devices in each of a plurality of different device
categories, such as television receivers (TVs), video cassette
recorders (VCRs), or cable signal decoders (CBLs). Prior to
using the transmitter to control a particular TV, VCR, or cable
decoder, it is necessary for the operator to "set up" the
transmitter by identifying which stored formatting data
corresponds to that device. In the particular embodiment
depicted by the flowchart of Figures 2-5, the operator sets up
the transmitter for use with a particular device by first
depressing the "record" key, followed by depressing whichever one
of the "TV," "VCR," and "CBL" keys corresponds to the type of
device to be controlled, and then using number keys to enter the
device's two-digit numerical code, which can be obtained from an
instruction book. This causes the corresponding format data to
be identified for subsequent use by the microprocessor in
generating control signals whenever the corresponding one of the
"TV," "VCR," and "CBL" keys is selected.
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