baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2586088-A (GB)
Title: Boron doped synthetic diamond electrodes and materials
Inventor: GEORGIA WOOD
IPC: G01N27/30
Filed: 2020-04-06
Abstract: An electrode comprising synthetic high-pressure high-temperature (HTPT) diamond material, the diamond material comprising a substitutional boron concentration of between 1 x 1020 and 5 x 1021 atoms/cm3 and a nitrogen concentration of no more than 1019 atoms/cm3. The electrode has a ΔE3/4-1/4 as measured with respect to a saturated calomel reference electrode in an aqueous solution containing 0.1 M KNO3 and 1 mM of Ru(NH3)6 3+ of less than 70 mV and/or a peak to peak separation ΔEp as measured with respect to a saturated calomel reference electrode in an aqueous solution containing 0.1 M KNO3 and 1 mM of Ru(NH3)6 3+, of less than 70 mV. A non-conductive matrix material such as a polymer, insulating oil or ink may also be provided. A method of manufacture and a particle with the sae features may also be detailed.
Patent GB-2583603-A (GB)
Title: Image tagging with audio files in a wide area network
Inventor: STEPHEN MICHAEL MCNULTY
IPC: H04W4/02
Filed: 2018-12-21
Abstract: Disclosed is a computer implemented internet platform having one or more computer implemented servers connected to the internet with associated non-transient computer readable memory including data storage space resident on non-transitory computer readable media for defining digital spaces available to platform users; the servers include processing circuitry configured for operation with one or more software modules stored on non-transitory computer readable media, the software modules have instructions for processing circuitry to: present user interfaces to at least one platform user that allows access by the at least one user to their digital space for uploading and storing digital images to their digital space; display the uploaded digital images; receive information corresponding to a selected location within the display area of at least one of the displayed digital images from a user; and receive audio and store audio information from a user and associate the audio information with the selected location.
Patent GB-2584563-A (GB)
Title: Patient support usable with bariatric patients
Inventor: RICHARD BRIAN ROUSSY
IPC: A61G7/05
Filed: 2014-09-08
Abstract: A patient support (100, fig. 1) comprises a width adjustable deck (104, fig 1) which can be simultaneously manually adjusted from both sides of the patient support deck. A width adjustable headboard (106, fig 1) is also mounted to the deck, and preferably comprises two sections 2106a, 2106b which can move to the expanded position without introducing gaps between the sections. A headboard supporting base 2101 may be located on the deck and a first headboard section may have mounts 2108a, 2109a configured for removable installation on the supporting base and moveable between at least two different positions thereon. The headboard sections may comprise posts to locate in sockets 2110 a-d on the headboard supporting base. An extendible actuator (2115, fig. 35a) may drive the sections of the headboard apart. A lift mechanism (1001, fig 2b) may be provided for supporting the deck on a base (132, fig. 2a), and the lift mechanism and base may also be adjustable in width. A footboard (2120, fig. 38B) may be provided which is extendible longitudinally to extend the length of the bed. The bed is particularly useful for supporting bariatric patients.
Patent GB-2598603-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for detecting magnetic markers for surgical guidance
Inventor: QUENTIN JOHN HARMER
IPC: A61B5/06
Filed: 2020-09-04
Abstract: A method and a magnetic detection system 1 for detecting a magnetic marker 6, system 1 comprising: a driving unit to generate a driving magnetic field comprising a first frequency, the driving magnetic-field having a first amplitude for a first time period and a second lower magnitude amplitude for a second time period; a sensor to detect a response magnetic field comprising a first and second response component at respective first and second frequencies; and a processor that’s arranged to: select a signal from a first sensed signal corresponding to the response magnetic field detected during the first time period and a second sensed signal corresponding to the response magnetic-field detected during the second time period; determine a detection signal corresponding to the magnetic marker 6 using the selected signal; generate an output based upon a strength of the detection signal. Preferably, the processor selects the signal by identifying the presence of a secondary magnetic source that’s preferably a liquid magnetic tracer 7. Identifying the secondary magnetic source presence may include calculating a harmonic ratio between the first and second response components, and possibly comparing a first and second harmonic ratio based upon the respective first and second sensed signals.
Patent GB-2599381-A (GB)
Title: Provision of media content
Inventor: JOHNATHAN RENNISON
IPC: H04N21/81
Filed: 2020-09-30
Abstract: Methods and (interface) apparatus for providing media content to client devices 14a-c configured to render received media content for displaying as a video presentation. The method comprises providing a primary stream 15a-c to the client devices comprising data corresponding to a full area of the media content when displayed as a video presentation on a client device; receiving field-of-view (FOV) reports 16a-c from respective client devices indicating a portion of the full area selected for viewing by a viewer; determining from the field of view reports a common area of interest within the media content, the common area corresponding to a portion selected by viewers via plural client devices; and providing a supplementary stream to one or more client devices, configured to include a subset of the primary stream selected in dependence on the common area of interest. Further, if the common area of interest corresponds to a variable (size, shape) spatial area of the media content, the supplementary stream comprises data corresponding to the variable spatial area.
Patent GB-2591337-A (GB)
Title: Control device for a steam generator
Inventor: JEREMY HENRY ARTHUR BLISS
IPC: F23K5/00
Filed: 2020-12-02
Abstract: A steam generation system is disclosed. The system comprises a steam generator, a hydrogen (H2), oxygen (O2) and purge gas supply system, a water supply system and a controller. The gas supply system comprises first and second stages. The first stage is arranged to receive gas under high-pressure and to supply those gases to the lower-pressure second stage. The second stage receives the gases and supplies them to the steam generator. The controller operates they system in Prime, Run and Shutdown phases. Hydrogen and oxygen and introduced to the first stage and pressure allowed to build up in the Prime phase. The gases are passed to the second stage at a lower-pressure and then supplied to the steam generator to be ignited, along with water, in the Run phase. The supply of gases and water ceases and the system is purged in the Shutdown phase. The system regulates temperature and heat transfer to improve efficiency, whilst monitoring pressure to eliminate the risk of failure.
Patent GB-2590582-A (GB)
Title: Titanium dioxide/nickel phosphide photocatalyst for hydrogen production by degrading plastics and a preparation methid thereof
Inventor: WUYI ZHUANG
IPC: C01G23/08
Filed: 2021-03-30
Abstract: A method for the preparation of a titanium dioxide/nickel phosphide photocatalyst for hydrogen production by degrading plastics is disclosed. The method comprises synthesising titanium dioxide by a hydrothermal method, and then mixed with nickel nitrate hexahydrate, sodium hydrogen phosphate and deionized water, and then a hydrothermal reaction is performed, and then product is washed, filtered, dried, and transferred into a tube furnace mixed with argon and hydrogen for being calcined, and then a kind of titanium dioxide/nickel phosphide material is obtained; the titanium dioxide/nickel phosphide material is mixed with organic plastics to be applied in an light-catalysed reaction to form hydrogen. The plastic may be PBT, PET, PE, PA or PS.
Patent GB-2605576-A (GB)
Title: Gear wear detection in intermeshing running gears
Inventor: DIRK SCHILLER
IPC: G01M13/028
Filed: 2021-03-31
Abstract: A pair of intermeshing, preferably oil-free, running gears for dual or multi-shaft vacuum pumps, comprises a first 10 and second 20 running gear. At least the first running gear comprises a first 11 and second 12 gearwheel, wherein the gearwheels are axially arranged. The first gearwheel comprises a number of first cogs (n11, Fig 3) of same dimension and the second gearwheel a number of second cog(s) (n12, Fig 3), having a dimension smaller than the first cogs (w, Fig 3). The first gearwheel is made of a material with a first elastic modulus (E), preferably a polymer, and the second gearwheel is made of a material with a second elastic modulus (E'), preferably metal, both being different. Preferably, the predetermined amount (w) corresponds to the maximum permissible wear. An apparatus, part of a vacuum pump system, comprises a gear wear detection device (40, Fig 5) with a detection module (41, Fig 5) to detect the sound produced by the running gears. An analysis module (42, Fig 5) analyses frequency spectrum of the sound and a determination module (43, Fig 5) determines wear dependent on a change of the frequency spectrum. A method of wear detection is also claimed.
Patent GB-2595367-A (GB)
Title: Decoder for a receiver
Inventor: MALCOLM DAVID MACLEOD
IPC: H04L1/00
Filed: 2021-05-07
Abstract: Decoding a convolutionally coded multilevel signal by quantizing a part of the multilevel signal derived from a signal produced by a first polynomial during a coding stage and producing a first quantized binary bit stream; feeding the bit stream into a first exclusive OR gate (XOR) set, the set receiving further input(s) from bins from the shift register as determined by the first polynomial, the set of XOR gates producing a first set output bit; quantizing, a part of the multilevel signal as derived from a signal produced by a second polynomial during a coding stage, and producing a second quantized binary bit stream therefrom, feeding this bit stream into a second XOR gate set, the set receiving as inputs, bins from the shift register as determined by the second polynomial, the XOR gates producing a second set output bit; selecting, the first set output bit if the absolute value of the first polynomial multilevel signal exceeds the absolute value of the second, or otherwise the second set output bit, providing the selected bit as an input to the shift register; and providing the bit output by a selected stage of the shift register as a decoded output.
Patent GB-2599758-A (GB)
Title: Predicting and reducing vibrations during downhole drilling operations
Inventor: ROBELLO SAMUEL
IPC: E21B49/00
Filed: 2021-05-11
Abstract: A system that can receive drilling parameter values associated with a drilling operation involving drilling a wellbore through a subterranean formation using a drill string. The system can receive a depth value associated with the drilling parameter values. The system can provide the drilling parameter values as input to a drill string model 224 to receive a critical speed prediction 310 as output from the drill string model. The system can then generate a speed-depth mapping 314 based on the critical speed prediction and the depth value. The speed-depth mapping can be used to avoid the critical speed and reduce vibrations at the depth in the wellbore, which may prevent a failure of the drill string resulting from associated vibrations.
Patent GB-2594865-A (GB)
Title: Extrusion method for high-brittleness aluminum alloy, and high-brittleness aluminum alloy extruded piece
Inventor: LI CHEN
IPC: B21C29/02
Filed: 2020-06-29
Abstract: An extrusion method for a high-brittleness aluminum alloy, comprising: heating a ductile aluminum alloy ingot and a high-brittleness aluminum alloy ingot and then loading same into an extrusion container, and causing the ductile aluminum alloy ingot to be positioned at a front end of the extrusion container, and the high-brittleness aluminum alloy ingot to be positioned at a back end of the extrusion container; and then performing upsetting, extrusion, aligning, and peeling, to obtain a high-brittleness aluminum alloy extruded piece product. A ductile aluminum alloy ingot is placed in front of a high-brittleness aluminum alloy ingot, and by means of controlling the pre-heat temperature of both, the high-brittleness aluminum alloy ingot is caused to not come into contact with an extrusion die, improving extrusion product yield. The processing is simple, does not require independent manufacture of a sheath, and can integrate well with existing common extrusion processing, causing high-brittleness aluminum alloy extrusion processing to have the potential for scaled production.
Patent GB-2603584-A (GB)
Title: Display device and driving method thereof
Inventor: SANGHUN YOON
IPC: G09G3/3233
Filed: 2021-11-16
Abstract: A display device driving method comprises supplying S1200 a first power voltage to a pixel; supplying S1210 a data signal to the pixel; supplying S1220 a reset voltage to the pixel while the first power voltage is cut off and the data signal is held by the pixel; supplying S1230 the first power voltage to the pixel again; and supplying S1240 the data signal again. A display device comprises a pixel comprising a light emitter. The pixel receives a data signal corresponding to a gate signal. The emitter emits light by receiving a driving current flowing from a first power voltage to a second power voltage in response to the data signal. The pixel receives a reset voltage at least once after receiving one data signal and before receiving the next data signal. The display comprises a data driver for supplying the data signal to the pixel; a gate driver for supplying the gate signal to the pixel and outputting a light emission control signal; and a timing controller for controlling the data driver and the gate driver. The light emission control signal controls supply of the reset voltage or the first power voltage to the emitter.
Patent GB-2600329-A (GB)
Title: Downhole electronics puck and retention, installation and removal methods
Inventor: AARON SCHEN
IPC: G01V5/10
Filed: 2020-06-02
Abstract: An electronics module or "puck" is positioned in a recess formed in the outer surface of a downhole tool. The puck body includes a flange segment having a first outer diameter, and an adjacent seal-engaging segment having an outer diameter that is less than the outer diameter of the flange segment. An annular seal is disposed about the seal-engaging segment and seals between the puck and the perimeter wall of the recess. A cover ring is disposed over an intermediate segment of the puck body, capturing the seal between the cover and the flange segment. A retainer ring is employed to selectively engage and disengage the perimeter wall of the recess, retaining the puck, seal and covering ring in the recess. A method for installation and removal of the puck is disclosed.
Patent GB-2616637-A (GB)
Title: Methods and apparatus for processing graphics data
Inventor: Olof Henrik Uhrenholt
IPC: G06T15/04
Filed: 2022-03-15
Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to an apparatus comprising graphics data receiver circuitry, rendering circuitry and render feedback circuitry. Graphics data comprising tiles of texture mipmap data is received, 405, and rendered to produce a rendered output, 410, based on a used set of tiles. An intermediate representation of the used set is generated, 415, in the form of a bitmap in which each bitmap value represents a corresponding tile in a mipmap level and has a bit representing each of a plurality of the mipmap levels. A bit offset is determined to produce a z-ordering of the bitmap value bits which correspond to valid combinations of mipmap level and tile region in the received graphics data, 420. Based on this, the z-ordering is applied to valid bits of bitmap elements to generate a final representation of the used set, 425.
Patent GB-2618334-A (GB)
Title: A method for quantifying patient set up errors in radiotherapy
Inventor: MARK GOODING
IPC: G06T7/00
Filed: 2022-05-03
Abstract: A method and system for determining changes between a planning image and a treatment image, e.g., for 3D computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) or magnetic resonance (MRI) images. The method comprising steps of: defining one of more clinical volumes (CV) on the planning image of a subject and defining a planning envelope volume (PEV) around the clinical volume for the planning image; acquiring a treatment image from the subject for a location corresponding to the location of the planning image; wherein the treatment image will have the same planning envelope volume as the planning image; determining the location of the one or more clinical volumes on the treatment image relative to the planning envelope volume; determining an encapsulation metric for one or more of the clinical volumes defining the extent of encapsulation of the clinical volume on the treatment image within the planning envelope volume on the treatment image. Determining the encapsulation metric may comprise designating representative surface points on the CV, determining shortest distance to the PEV, classifying as having either positive or negative internal or external shortest distances, and using minimum or maximum shortest distance parameters.
Patent GB-2619755-A (GB)
Title: Analogue to digital converter
Inventor: PHILIP CHARLES JARRETT PRING
IPC: H03M1/12
Filed: 2022-06-16
Abstract: A method of performing analogue to digital conversion of an analogue electrical input signal 107 is disclosed. The method uses an electro-optic phase modulator 105 and a processor. The electro-optic phase modulator receives a laser signal 103 and modulates the laser signal on the basis of the analogue electrical input signal 107. The circuit may comprise a coherent optical detector 111, analogue to digital converters 117a,b and a digital signal processor 123. The processor is configured to determine, on the basis of the modulated laser signal, a voltage of the analogue input signal and generate a digital signal indicative of the determined voltage. The modulation may be such that the variation of the analogue input signal over its range imparts to the laser signal a phase shift of greater than one cycle. Performing analogue to digital conversion in this way can provide increased dynamic range.
Patent GB-2613219-A (GB)
Title: Organic light-emitting display device
Inventor: DONG CHAE SHIN
IPC: H10K59/80
Filed: 2022-08-19
Abstract: An organic light emitting display comprises a substrate 101 further comprising a first and second area AA. A driving (first) thin film transistor DT is in the second area, and comprises a first oxide semiconductor pattern 311, and a switching (second) TFT ST-1, comprises a second oxide semiconductor pattern 312. The driving thin-film transistor comprises a first light blocking pattern 308 below the first oxide semiconductor pattern. A vertical distance between the first light blocking pattern and the first oxide semiconductor pattern is shorter than a vertical distance between the first light blocking pattern and the second oxide semiconductor pattern. The first and second oxide semiconductors may include ZnO, ZTO, ZIO, InO, TiO, IGZO, or IZTO, and may be disposed in different layers. A second light blocking layer may be disposed below the second oxide semiconductor pattern. The first area may be disposed in the display area or non-display area.
Patent GB-2619571-A (GB)
Title: A supply & control system and method of engine oxygen-enriched micro-nano bubble premixed fuel
Inventor: LIANG GUO
IPC: F02M25/10
Filed: 2022-10-31
Abstract: A supply & control system of oxygen-enriched micro-nano bubble premixed fuel for engine comprising a controllable four-way fuel valve 9, a premixed fuel preparation system 25, a premixed fuel storage device 17, a fuel-gas separation device 11, a liquid position sensor 13 and a bubble concentration sensor 12. The system may also comprise an exhaust gas turbo 7 and a gas separation device 20 with a gas separation membrane 19 for increasing the oxygen concentration in the air for pre-mixing with the fuel. A supply & control method of oxygen-enriched micro-nano bubble premixed fuel for the engine to improve the fuel preparation quality of the engine at different rotating speeds and working conditions, improve the oxygen content of the fuel for the engine, and improve the atomization characteristics of the fuel, thereby optimizing the combustion process of the engine.
Patent GB-2614826-A (GB)
Title: Gate driving circuit and display device
Inventor: JONGHYUCK LEE
IPC: G09G3/3266
Filed: 2020-09-22
Abstract: A display device (e.g. an active matrix OLED, AMOLED, display) comprises an active area including a first area, A1, having a first number of subpixels disposed in a unit area and a second area, A2, A3, having a second number of subpixels disposed in the unit area, with the first number of subpixels being different to the second number of subpixels. The first area, A1, includes a transparent area. A gate driver, 120, drives at least one gate line, GL, supplying a scan signal and at least one gate line supplying an emission signal. The subpixels each include a light emitting device (e.g. an organic light emitting diode , OLED) and circuit elements having a driving transistor and at least one N-Type metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) transistor. The gate line is disposed overlapping the first area including the transparent area and the second area.
Patent GB-2618200-A (GB)
Title: Method of affixing a sleeve to a rod- or tube-like member and an apparatus therefor
Inventor: OLIVER JAMES EDWARD HUTSBY
IPC: A61M25/10
Filed: 2023-03-06
Abstract: At least partially automated apparatus and methods for adhering a sleeve member 5 to a rod- or tube-like member 1, that may be for production of a balloon catheter device. The apparatus includes a support 3 to hold the rod or tube member and the located sleeve, a rolling portion to hold the apparatus and with means such as one or more cylindrical rollers 19 to roll back or unroll the ends 29, 31 of the sleeve, and an adhesion section to hold the support and apply adhesive. Where the method comprises the rolling section rolling back at least one sleeve end to expose a portion of the rod or tube 7, the adhesion section applying adhesive to the exposed portion, and the rolling section unrolling the sleeve over the adhesive. The adhesive station may include multiple applicators to simultaneously apply adhesive at both ends of the sleeve member.