Appeal No. 1997-3911
Application 08/368,758
616 (CCPA 1968) (taking judicial notice of retail
price marking procedures).
Compare also In re Fox, 471 F.2d 1405, 1407, 176 USPQ 340, 341
(CCPA 1973) ("As did the board, we will take judicial notice
of the fact that tape recorders commonly erase tape
automatically when new 'audio information' is recorded on a
tape which already has a recording on it."). Moreover,
appellants' specification concedes as much in its "Description
of Related Art":
Conventional electronics apparatus such as a
video cassette recorder (VCR) having a built-in
camera, for example, have mounted thereon a custom
LSI (large scale integration) integrated electronics
apparatus on one chip as control means, i.e., a so-
called micro-controller for controlling the entirety
or part of the electronics apparatus.
The micro-controller is an exclusive-use
microcomputer which is composed of a central
processing unit (CPU), a memory such as a read-only
memory (ROM) and a random access memory (RAM) and a
peripheral circuit such as an input/output (I/O)
port or the like. The CPU acts as an address
controller to control the access to the memories or
the like or acts as a processor to execute a
program. Information such as programs, data and so
on for controlling the mounted electronics device
are stored in the ROM in the form of firmware. The
RAM provides the CPU with a working area or the like
to execute a program and the peripheral circuit is
used to communicate with the external circuits.
Accordingly, mass-production is indispensable for
providing inexpensive custom LSI electronics
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