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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 20, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masaru Goto, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
712 36 ; 712 42 ; 712218 ; 712234 ;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus including a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver for receiving a radio wave from a GPS satellite and a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) type microprocessor for processing signals corresponding to the radio wave received by the GPS receiver. The GPS receiver and RISC type microprocessor are incorporated into a single integrated circuit chip, and the RISC type microprocessor is provided with a bypass circuit which facilitates the execution of conditional branch instructions.