Author: claimsbot

I claim:

1. A method for manufacturing a basketball comprising the steps of:
(A) preparing a basketball semi-product, which includes an inflated bladder and a winding layer surrounding said bladder;
(B) preparing a large-area rubber sheet and a large-area polyurethane sheet;
(C) interconnecting fixedly said large-area rubber and polyurethane sheets using glue to form a two-layer sheet;
(D) cutting said two-layer sheet into a plurality of cover panels, each of which includes a small-area rubber sheet and a small-area polyurethane sheet that abut against each other, each of said small-area rubber sheets being sandwiched between said winding layer and a respective one of said small-area polyurethane sheets; and
(E) adhering said cover panels to an outer surface of said winding layer so as to form a ball body which has an outer surface that is formed with a channel network among said cover panels; and
(F) vulcanizing said ball body.
2. The method as claimed in claim 1, between the steps (E) and (F), further comprising a step of placing said ball body into a semi-spherical lower mold half having a circular upper end opening, and a step of placing a semi-spherical upper mold half on said lower mold half such that said upper and lower mold halves define a spherical chamber therebetween and such that said ball body is surrounded by an assembly of said upper and lower mold halves, thereby permitting said ball body to be vulcanized within said spherical chamber under pressure and heat.
3. The method as claimed in claim 1, after the step (F), further comprising a step of adhering a plurality of rubber strips to said winding layer along said channel network.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A video processing apparatus comprising:
first stage video processing circuitry for receiving a bitstream of compressed encoded video data representing a plurality of frames of video data and configured to perform one or more processing operations on said input compressed video data;
analysing circuitry configured to analyse said processed bitstream and for determining for at least one of said plurality of frames at least one portion of said at least one frame that is not required in the decoding of other frames and for generating at least one indicator indicating said at least one portion;
frame reconstruction processing circuitry configured to perform frame reconstruction on said compressed encoded video data and to receive said at least one indicator and to generate at least one partial reference frame for use in decoding other frames from said bitstream and said at least one indicator, said frame reconstruction processing circuitry being configured to determine from said at least one indicator said at least one portion that is not required for decoding other frames and to generate said partial reference frame as a frame that does not include said at least one portion and to output said partial reference frame for use in decoding said other frames.
2. A video processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said first stage processing circuitry is configured to generate and output to a data store an intermediate representation of said input video data, and said frame reconstruction processing circuitry is configured to retrieve said intermediate representation of said input video data from said data store and to process said intermediate representation data to perform said frame reconstruction.
3. A video processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said first stage video processing circuitry comprises parsing circuitry, said intermediate representation data comprising partially decompressed video data comprising a plurality of instructions.
4. A video processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said analysing circuitry is configured to analyse a plurality of portions of said at least one frame and said analysing circuitry comprises a predictor for predicting for each of said plurality of portions whether it is unlikely or not to be used in decoding of other frames and in response to predicting that it is likely to be used said analysing circuitry is configured not to generate said at least one indicator for said portion of said frame.
5. A video processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said predictor determines an amount of data present for each portion and in response to said amount of data for said portion being greater than a predetermined amount predicts that said portion is unlikely to be used.
6. A video processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said analysing circuitry is configured to determine a type of encoding of a frame said processed bitstream represents and in response to determining a predetermined type of encoding for said frame not to generate said at least one indicator for said frame.
7. A video processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said analysing circuitry comprises scoreboard generating circuitry for analysing said processed bitstream and for determining for at least some of said frames, portions of said frames that are to be used in the decoding of other frames and portions that are not to be used and for generating scoreboard data for said at least some frames, said scoreboard data comprising a plurality of said at least one indicator, said plurality of indicators each providing an indication as to whether a corresponding portion is required for decoding other frames or not.
8. A video processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said encoded video data comprises a plurality of macroblocks forming said frames, each macroblock representing a plurality of pixels forming an area of said frame, said at least one portion of said frame comprising a macroblock.
9. A video processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said analysing circuitry is configured to output said at least one indicator to said data store, said frame reconstruction processing circuitry being configured to retrieve said at least one indicator and said intermediate representation data from said data store.
10. A video processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said analysing circuitry is configured to output said at least one indicator to said frame reconstruction circuitry.
11. A video processing apparatus according to claim 1, said video processing apparatus further comprising said data store.
12. A video processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said frame reconstruction processing circuitry is configured to output said at least one partial reference frame to a frame data store.
13. A video processing apparatus according to claim 12, wherein said data store and said frame data store comprise a same data store.
14. A video processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said first stage video processing circuitry is configured to process said received encoded video bitstream in advance of said frame reconstruction processing said bitstream by at least a plurality of frames, and said analysing circuitry is configured to detect when said at least one frame is not required to decode any further frames currently being processed by said first stage video processing and in response to said detection to output said at least one indicator.
15. A method of processing data comprising the steps of:
receiving a bitstream of compressed encoded video data representing a plurality of frames of video data and performing one or more processing operations on said input compressed video data to generate a processed bitstream;
analysing said processed bitstream and determining for at least one of said plurality of frames at least one portion of said at least one frame that is not required in the decoding of other frames and generating at least one indicator indicating said at least one portion;
performing frame reconstruction on said compressed encoded video data and receiving said at least one indicator, including generating at least one partial reference frame for use in decoding other frames from said compressed encoded video data and said at least one indicator, by determining from said at least one indicator said at least one portion that is not required for decoding other frames and generating said partial reference frame as a frame that does not include said at least one portion;
outputting said partial reference frame.
16. A method according to claim 15, wherein said step of performing one or more processing operations on said compressed encoded video data comprises generating an intermediate representation of said input video data, and outputting said intermediate representation and output to a data store; and
said step of performing frame reconstruction on said compressed encoded video data, comprises retrieving said intermediate representation of said input video data from said data store and processing said intermediate representation data to perform said frame reconstruction.
17. A method according to claim 16, wherein said performing one or more processing operations on said input compressed video data to generate said intermediate representation of said input video data comprises parsing said input video data to generate partially decompressed video data comprising a plurality of instructions.
18. A method according to claim 15, wherein said analysing step comprises predicting for each of a plurality of portions whether it is unlikely or not to be used in decoding of other frames and in response to predicting that it is likely to be used said analysing step does not generate said at least one indicator for said portion of said frame.
19. A method according to claim 18, wherein said analysing step comprises determining an encoding type for a frame said processed bitstream data represents and in response to a determining a predetermined type of encoding for a frame said analysing step does not generate said at least one indicator for said frame.
20. A method according to claim 15, wherein said analysing step comprises determining for at least some of said frames, portions of said frames that are to be used in the decoding of other frames and portions that are not to be used and generating scoreboard data for said at least some frames, said scoreboard data comprising a plurality of said at least one indicator, said plurality of indicators each providing an indication as to whether a corresponding portion is required for decoding other frames or not.
21. A method according to claim 15, wherein said processing step of performing one or more processing operations on said input compressed video data bitstream is performed in advance of said generating at least one partial reference frame step by at least a plurality of frames, and said analysing step includes detecting when said at least one frame is not required to decode any further frames currently being processed by said processing step and in response to said detection outputting said at least one indicator.
22. A computer program product for storing a computer program which when executed on a processing apparatus controls said processing apparatus to perform steps in a method according to claim 15.
23. A means for processing video data comprising:
first stage video processing means for receiving a bitstream of compressed encoded video data representing a plurality of frames of video data and for performing one or more processing operations on said input compressed video data to generate and output to a data store an intermediate representation of said input video data;
analysing means for analysing said intermediate representation data and for determining for at least one of said plurality of frames at least one portion of said at least one frame that is not required in the decoding of other frames and for generating at least one indicator indicating said at least one portion;
frame reconstruction processing means for retrieving from said data store said intermediate representation data and for receiving said at least one indicator and for generating at least one partial reference frame for use in decoding other frames from said intermediate representation data and said at least one indicator, said frame reconstruction processing means being for determining from said at least one indicator said at least one portion that is not required for decoding other frames and for generating said partial reference frame as a frame that does not include said at least one portion and for outputting said partial reference frame for use in decoding said other frames.

1. A fan motor comprising:
a stepping motor for rotating a rotating shaft;
an impeller rotated by the rotating shaft; and
a connecting member for rotatably connecting the impeller relative to the rotating shaft,
wherein the connecting member absorbs an inertia force of the impeller while idly rotating the rotating shaft relative to the impeller in starting the motor and rotating the impeller to follow the rotating shaft as a revolution number of the rotating shaft increases.
2. The fan motor according to claim 1, wherein the connecting member is a coil spring having one end connected to the impeller and the other end fixed to the rotating shaft, the coil spring been wound around the rotating shaft.
3. The fan motor according to claim 1, wherein the stepping motor includes a stator wound with a coil and a rotor having a magnet arranged to be opposed to the stator so that the rotor is rotated by changing a magnetic pole of the stator by energization of the coil
4. The fan motor according to claim 3 further comprising a driving circuit including a CMOS transistor for controlling energization of the coil.
5. The fan motor according to claim 4, wherein the driving circuit is equivalent to an IC of a timepiece.
6. The fan motor according to claim 4, wherein a pulse frequency of the driving circuit output in starting is set to be lower than a pulse frequency in a steady state.
7. The fan motor according to claim 4 further comprising a solar cell provided at a portion of an exterior of the fan motor, wherein the driving circuit is driven by the solar cell as a power source.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A semiconductor device comprising:
a substrate which includes an element region and an isolation region;
a transistor portion which includes a gate insulating film formed on the element region, and a gate electrode having a metal film formed on the gate insulating film and a first semiconductor film formed on the metal film; and
a resistance element portion which includes a second semiconductor film formed above the substrate and formed of the same material as that of the first semiconductor film, and a cavity formed between the substrate and the second semiconductor film.
2. The device according to claim 1,
wherein the resistance element portion further includes a sidewall portion which is formed on the substrate and on a side surface of the second semiconductor film.
3. The device according to claim 2,
wherein the sidewall portion supports the second semiconductor film.
4. The device according to claim 2,
wherein the transistor portion further includes a sidewall portion which is formed on the substrate and on side surfaces of the gate insulating film and the gate electrode, and
the sidewall portion of the resistance element portion and the sidewall portion of the transistor portion are formed of the same material.
5. The device according to claim 1,
wherein a height of the second semiconductor film from an upper surface of the substrate is the same as a height of the first semiconductor film from the upper surface of the substrate.
6. The device according to claim 1,
wherein the second semiconductor film is formed above the isolation region.
7. The device according to claim 1,
wherein the second semiconductor film is formed to cross a boundary between the element region and the isolation region.
8. The device according to claim 1,
wherein each of the first semiconductor film and the second semiconductor film is formed of a silicon film containing an impurity element.
9. The device according to claim 1,
wherein the resistance element portion further includes an insulating film formed on the substrate and formed of the same material as that of the gate insulating film.
10. A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device, comprising:
forming an insulating film on a substrate including an element region and an isolation region;
forming a metal film on the insulating film;
forming a semiconductor film on the metal film;
patterning a stack film including the insulating film, the metal film, and the semiconductor film to form a first stack structure in a transistor forming region and a second stack structure in a resistance element forming region; and
removing the metal film included in the second stack structure to form a cavity between the substrate and the semiconductor film included in the second stack structure.
11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:
forming a sidewall film which covers a side surface of the second stack structure; and
removing a part of the sidewall film to expose a part of the metal film included in the second stack structure,
wherein the metal film included in the second stack structure is removed by performing etching from the exposed part of the metal film.
12. The method according to claim 10,
wherein removing the metal film included in the second stack structure is performed by a wet etching process.
13. The method according to claim 10,
wherein the second stack structure is formed on the isolation region.
14. The method according to claim 10,
wherein the second stack structure is formed to cross a boundary between the element region and the isolation region.
15. The method according to claim 10,
wherein the semiconductor film is formed of a silicon film containing an impurity element.