All The Claims

1. A method comprising:
detecting the type of motion compensation data that is to be processed by a video decoder; and
dynamically reconfiguring a video decoder cache depending on the type of data to be processed.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein detecting the type of data includes detecting whether the data is interlaced or progressive.
3. The method of claim 2 including receiving information from a packetized elementary stream parser to determine the type of data.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein said cache is reconfigured to store data from successive adjacent lines of scanned data.
5. The method of claim 3 wherein said cache is configured to receive successive even lines in one cache line and successive odd lines in another cache line.
6. The method of claim 1 including receiving an indication of a block position and whether the block is interlaced or progressive scanned and outputting an indication of tag random access memory address bits in the form of lower order column and lower order row bits.
7. The method of claim 6 including using said lower order column and lower order row bits to access a tag random access memory, receiving from the tag random access memory the higher order row and column bits and comparing those bits to the received address of a data access.
8. The method of claim 7 including receiving a field select bit and using said field select bit to identify a location within a tag random access memory.
9. The method of claim 1 including reconfiguring the video decoder cache depending on whether motion compensation data refers to both fields of a frame of scanned data or only one field of said frame.
10. The method of claim 1 including flushing said cache in connection with reconfiguring said cache.
11. The method of claim 10 including flushing on a frame boundary.
12. The method of claim 10 including flushing on a sequence boundary.
13. The method of claim 1 including reconfiguring said cache on a frame boundary.
14. The method of claim 1 including reconfiguring said cache on a sequence boundary.
15. A method comprising:
detecting whether data to be processed in a video decoder is interlaced or progressive; and
dynamically reconfiguring the video decoder cache depending on whether the data is interlaced or progressive.
16. The method of claim 15 including receiving information from a packetized elementary stream parser to determine the type of data.
17. The method of claim 15 including reconfiguring said cache to store data from successive adjacent lines of scanned data.
18. The method of claim 16 including reconfiguring said cache to receive successive even lines in one cache line and successive odd lines in another cache line.
19. The method of claim 15 including receiving an indication of a block position and whether the block is interlaced or progressive scanned and output an indication of tag random access memory address bits in the form of lower order column and lower order row bits.
20. The method of claim 19 including using said lower order column and lower order row bits to access a tag random access memory, receiving from the tag random access memory the higher order row and column bits and comparing those higher order row and column bits to the received address of a data access.
21. A system comprising:
a cache; and
a configuration unit coupled to said cache, said configuration unit to dynamically reconfigure the cache depending on the type of data to be decoded.
22. The system of claim 21, said unit to detect whether data to be stored in the cache is interlaced or progressive scanned data and to reconfigure the cache depending on whether the data is interlaced or progressive scanned.
23. The system of claim 21 wherein said configuration unit to reconfigure the cache depending on whether motion compensation data refers to both fields of a frame of scanned data or only one field of said frame.
24. The system of claim 21, said cache including a tag random access memory storing information about the higher row and column address bits of motion data and being indexed by lower row and column address bits, said tag random access memory including a comparator to compare information about higher row and column address bits with the information from the tag random access memory to determine whether data is cached in said cache.
25. The system of claim 21 comprising:
a processor;
a decoder coupled to said processor, said decoder including said cache and said configuration unit; and
a dynamic random access memory coupled to said processor.
26. The system of claim 25, said configuration unit to detect whether motion compensation data is interlaced or progressive scanned and to reconfigure the cache depending on whether the data is interlaced or progressive scanned.

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. An image forming device, comprising:
a photoconductive drum;
a discharge electrode which discharges corona onto a surface of the photoconductive drum;
a cleaning member which cleans the discharge electrode by moving along the discharge electrode; and
a detection device arranged on one of a first side and a second side in a moving direction of the cleaning member and detects a current value of an electric current discharged from the discharge electrode.
2. The image forming device according to claim 1, wherein the detection device detects a first current value as a value of an electric current discharged from the discharge electrode prior to a cleaning operation performed by the cleaning member, and a second current value as a value of an electric current discharged from the discharge electrode after the cleaning operation has been performed by the cleaning member, and the image forming device further comprises a comparison device which compares the detected first current value and the detected second current value.
3. The image forming device according to claim 2, wherein after the cleaning operation has been performed by the cleaning member, when the comparison device determines that a difference between the first current value and the second current value is equal to or greater than a prescribed threshold value, a determination is made that a life-span of the discharge electrode has ended.
4. The image forming device according to claim 2, further comprising a computer including a display, wherein a comparison result of the comparison device is transmitted to the computer, and the computer displays the comparison result on the display.
5. The image forming device according to claim 2, further comprising a driving member which moves the cleaning member, wherein when the comparison device determines that a difference between the first current value and the second current value is equal t or greater than a prescribed threshold value, the comparison device outputs a control signal to the driving member, the driving member that received the control signal is driven, and the cleaning member moves on the discharge electrode to clean the discharge electrode.
6. The image forming device according to claim 2, further comprising a second detection device, wherein the first and second detection devices are arranged on both the first side and the second side in the moving direction of the cleaning member.
7. An image forming device, comprising:
a photoconductive drum;
a discharge electrode which discharges corona onto a surface of the photoconductive drum;
a cleaning member which cleans the discharge electrode by moving on the discharge electrode; and
two detection devices, wherein the detection devices are arranged on both a first side and a second side in a moving direction of the cleaning member and detect a current value of an electric current discharged from the discharge electrode.
8. The image forming device according to claim 7, wherein one of the two detection devices detects a first current value as a value of an electric current discharged from the discharge electrode prior to a cleaning operation performed by the cleaning member, and another one of the detection devices detects a second current value as a value of an electric current discharged from the discharge electrode after the cleaning operation has been performed by the cleaning member, and the image forming device further comprises a comparison device which compares the detected first current value and the detected second current value.
9. The image forming device according to claim 8, wherein after the cleaning operation by the cleaning member, when the comparison device determines that a difference between the first current value and the second current value is equal to or greater than a prescribed threshold value, a determination is made that a life-span of the discharge electrode has ended.
10. The image forming device according to claim 8, further comprising a computer including a display, wherein a comparison result of the comparison device is transmitted to the computer, and the computer displays the comparison result on the display.
11. The image forming device according to claim 8, further comprising a driving member which moves the cleaning member, wherein when the comparison device determines that a difference between the first current value and the second current value is equal to or greater than a prescribed threshold value, the comparison device outputs a control signal to the driving member, the driving member that received the control signal is driven, and the cleaning member moves on the discharge electrode to clean the discharge electrode.
12. An image forming device, comprising:
a photoconductive drum;
a discharge electrode which discharges corona onto a surface of the photoconductive drum;
a grid electrode which is provided along a direction in which the discharge electrode extends; and
at least one detection device which is provided on the grid electrode and detects a current value of an electric current discharged from the discharge electrode.
13. The image forming device according to claim 12, further comprising a cleaning member which cleans the discharge electrode, wherein the at least one detection device detects a first current value as a value of an electric current discharged from the discharge electrode prior to a cleaning operation by the cleaning member, and a second current value as a value of an electric current discharged from the discharge electrode after the cleaning operation by the cleaning member, wherein the image forming device further comprises a comparison device which compares the first current value and the second current value detected by the at least one detection device.
14. The image forming device according to claim 13, further comprising a driving member which moves the cleaning member, wherein when the comparison device determines that a difference between the first current value and the second current value is equal to or greater than a prescribed threshold value, the comparison device outputs a control signal to the driving member, the driving member that received the control signal is driven, and the cleaning member moves on the discharge electrode to clean the discharge electrode.
15. The image forming device according to claim 13, further comprising a computer including a display, wherein a comparison result of the comparison device is transmitted to the computer, and the computer displays the comparison result on the display.
16. The image forming device according to claim 12, further comprising a power source, wherein the discharge electrode, the grid electrode and the at least one detection device are connected to the power source, and an electric current detected by the at least one detection device is supplied to the grid electrode.

1. A method for producing SOI wafers by delamination method comprising the steps of:
preparing a first wafer having an insulating layer on its both major surfaces;
providing two delamination planes in the interior of said first wafer;
bonding a second wafer on one side of the first wafer bonding a third wafer on the other side of the first wafer; and
delaminating said second and third wafers from said first wafer such that each of said second and third wafers carries a SOI layer on one of its major surfaces.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said first, second and third wafers are silicon wafers and said insulating layer is an SiO2 layer.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said delamination planes are provided by ion implantation of hydrogen ions.
4. The method according to claim 3, wherein said ion implantation of hydrogen ions is performed simultaneously on both sides of said first wafer.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said delamination is performed by a heat treatment at a temperature of about 500 C. or higher in an inert gas atmosphere.
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein after delamination said first wafer is prepared as a new first wafer for a next delamination cycle.

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

In the claims:

1. A thermally insulating glass panel comprising:
first and second spaced apart glass substrates defining a low pressure space therebetween having a pressure less than atmospheric pressure;
a plurality of spacers disposed between said first and second glass substrates in order to space the substrates from one another; and
at least one elongated fiber inclusive hermetic edge seal disposed at least partially between said first and second glass substrates for hermetically sealing said low pressure space.
2. The glass panel of claim 1, wherein said edge seal comprises at least one elongated glass fiber.
3. The glass panel of claim 1, wherein said edge seal is substantially transparent to at least certain wavelengths of visible light.
4. The glass panel of claim 1, wherein said edge seal comprises a bundle of elongated glass fibers.
5. The glass panel of claim 1, wherein said elongated fiber is bent at corner areas of the edge seal which substantially correspond to corner areas of the glass panel.
6. The glass panel of claim 5, wherein opposite ends of said elongated fiber are bonded to one another at a junction or interface area in order to complete the edge seal.
7. The glass panel of claim 1, wherein said fiber comprises at least one of: silica based glass, brucite and chrysotile.
8. The glass panel of claim 1, wherein at least one of said spacers comprises a glass fiber.
9. The glass panel of claim 1, wherein said edge seal has one of an approximately circular cross section, an approximately rectangular cross section, and an approximately oval cross section when located at least partially between the substrates.
10. The glass panel of claim 1, wherein said edge seal is transparent to at least about 70% of certain wavelengths of visible light.
11. The glass panel of claim 10, wherein said edge seal is transparent to at least about 90% of all wavelengths of visible light.
12. The glass panel of claim 13, wherein a refractive index of said edge seal is approximately equal to a refractive index of at least one of said glass substrates.
13. A vacuum IG window unit comprising:
first and second spaced apart substrates having a low pressure space therebetween with a pressure less than atmospheric pressure;
a plurality of spacers disposed between said first and second substrates for spacing said substrates from one another; and
an edge seal including at least one elongated fiber disposed between said first and second substrates for sealing said low pressure space.
14. The window unit of claim 13, wherein said substrates are glass substrates.
15. The window unit of claim 14, wherein said fiber comprises an elongated glass inclusive fiber.
16. The window unit of claim 13, wherein said edge seal comprises a bundle of elongated fibers.
17. A method of making a vacuum insulating glass (IG) window unit comprising:
providing first and second glass substrates;
positioning a plurality spacers on the first substrate;
positioning at least one glass fiber on the first substrate at least partially at an edge seal location;
sandwiching the at least one glass fiber and the spacers between the first and second glass substrates;
heating at least an edge seal area so as to form an edge seal including the at least one glass fiber; and
evacuating a space between the first and second substrates so that the space has a pressure less than atmospheric pressure.
18. The method of claim 17, wherein the glass fiber is elongated in shape, and wherein the method further comprises bending the fiber into a shape of an edge seal at the time of or after the fiber is positioned on the first substrate.
19. The method of claim 17, further comprising bending and fusing the glass fiber into a shape of an edge seal prior to positioning the fiber on the first substrate.
20. A vacuum IG window unit comprising:
first and second spaced apart substrates having a low pressure space therebetween with a pressure less than atmospheric pressure;
a plurality of spacers disposed between said first and second substrates for spacing said substrates from one another; and
an edge seal including at least one glass fiber disposed between said first and second substrates for sealing said low pressure space.