baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2586119-A (GB)
Title: An improved medical scan protocol for in-scanner patient data acquisition analysis
Inventor: MADS NIELSEN
IPC: G06T7/00
Filed: 2019-06-26
Abstract: There is provided a method of performing a medical scan (possibly using MRI, CT or PET scanners) of a subject using a medical imagining system, the method comprising: a) initiating a medical scan session 250; b) performing, using the medical imaging system, a first image acquisition sequence 252 during the medical scan session to obtain first image scan data; c) performing, using a computer system, image analysis 254 on the first image scan data acquired during the said first image acquisition sequence to identify one or more quantitative indicators of pathology and or image quality; d) based on said identification of one or more quantitative indicators at step c), determining, using the computer system whether any additional image acquisition sequences are required during said medical scan session 256; and, if so required: e) determining, using the computer system, a second image acquisition sequence based on the one or more quantitative indicators; and f) performing, using the medical imaging system, a second image acquisition sequence during the medical scan session to obtain second image scan data. Further provided is a computer readable medium comprising instructions and a processing and storage device.
Patent GB-2586129-A (GB)
Title: Dry wall formations
Inventor: WILLIAM HART
IPC: E04F13/073
Filed: 2019-08-05
Abstract: A prefabricated plasterboard element (300) formed of a plasterboard panel (302) having an external sheet (308) and a body (312) formed by plaster, wherein the plasterboard element (300) comprises a first face (316) and a second face (318), angled with respect to the first face (316), the first and second face (316, 318) joined along an edge; wherein the first and second faces (316, 318) are formed by the external sheet (308) of a plasterboard section; wherein the external sheet (308) is continuous, and the body (312) includes a break along the edge, to form separate body portions. The panel can be folded along the line of the break to allow relative movement of the separate body portions and corners can be formed between the portions
Patent GB-2591428-A (GB)
Title: Barriers
Inventor: ROBERT NICHOLAS BALL
IPC: E01F15/00
Filed: 2019-08-29
Abstract: A vehicle barrier comprises a plurality of separate support base parts 2 for ground engagement, each of which is fixed to a respective housing part 1, at least one of which includes a barrier member such as a bollard. Each housing part comprises a duct 8 extending along the support base, the duct having an opening accessible from an edge of the support base. A coupling part (20, Figures 10A/B) is inserted into the ducts of two adjacent support bases to join them together. The duct may also contain cementing material to cement the coupling part to the housing. The housing and barrier may both be upstanding from the support base, and the housing may define a socket for receiving the barrier. There may be a gap provided between the socket and the barrier to allow the position and/or inclination of the barrier member to be adjusted. Also claimed is a kerb assembly comprising a concrete kerbstone in which one or more barrier members are embedded. A plurality of support base parts are provided and at least one includes a barrier member, with adjacent support bases being connected by one or more couplings embedded in the kerbstone.
Patent GB-2574740-A (GB)
Title: Characterisation of emulsion stability
Inventor: BØRRE TORE BØRRESEN
IPC: G01N13/00
Filed: 2017-03-01
Abstract: A method of assessing the effect of a production chemical on the stability of a water and oil emulsion, the emulsion comprising the production chemical, is provided. The method comprises: applying a potential difference across the emulsion at a detection site; measuring a current flowing through the emulsion due to the applied potential difference; and using this measured current to assess the effect of the production chemical. The step of using the measured current to assess the effect of the production chemical may comprise determining, based on the measured current, whether a critical potential of the emulsion has been reached or exceeded. The emulsion may be a crude oil emulsion. It may be a water-in-oil emulsion. The production chemical may be an emulsion breaker. Also provided is an apparatus for assessing the effect of a production chemical on a water and oil emulsion.
Patent GB-2575946-A (GB)
Title: Dielectric resonator antenna system
Inventor: Kristi Pance
IPC: H01Q25/00
Filed: 2018-06-05
Abstract: An electromagnetic device includes: a ground structure; a dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) disposed on the ground structure; an electromagnetic (EM) beam shaper disposed proximate the DRA; and, a signal feed electromagnetically coupled to the DRA. The EM beam shaper includes: an electrically conductive horn; a body of dielectric material having a dielectric constant that varies from an internal portion of the body to an outer surface of the body; or, both the electrically conductive horn and the body of dielectric material.
Patent GB-2577192-A (GB)
Title: Movement capability evaluation device, movement capability evaluation system, movement capability evaluation program and movement capability evaluation method
Inventor: YUSUKE ASADA
IPC: A61B5/11
Filed: 2017-06-02
Abstract: A movement ability evaluating apparatus configured to evaluate movement ability of a subject, comprising: a communication unit configured to acquire front-back acceleration right-left acceleration, and up-down acceleration during movement of the subject measured by an acceleration sensor 1 attached to waist of the subject M. There is also a control unit configured to evaluate the movement ability, based on temporal change of the front-back acceleration, the right-left acceleration, and the up-down acceleration acquired by the communication unit, wherein the movement ability includes at least one of front-back balance, weight shift, and right-left balance during movement of the subject. The control unit executes at least one of the following corresponding to the movement ability: (a) calculation of an indicator indicating the front-back balance, based on an autocorrelation function of the front-back acceleration;(b) calculation of an indicator indicating the weight shift, based on an autocorrelation function of the up-down acceleration; and (c) calculation of an indicator indicating the right-left balance, based on an autocorrelation function of the right-left acceleration and an autocorrelation function of the front-back acceleration. Other aspects relate to a movement ability evaluating system, computer program and method respectively.
Patent GB-2596105-A (GB)
Title: System and method for implementing a stimulation protocol
Inventor: Nickolai Vysokov
IPC: A61N1/39
Filed: 2020-06-17
Abstract: A system 100 for implementing a stimulation protocol that mimics an effect of a drug on a subject’s brain. System 100 comprises a brain interface 104 that records electroencephalogram (EEG) of a subject before and after taking a drug. Interface 104 comprises: headwear comprising a plurality of scalp contacting electrodes to detect electrical signals and to apply brain stimuli; input/output to receive electrode signals and deliver the brain stimuli; and a data processing unit to process the detected electrical signals, generate the brain stimulation protocol corresponding to the received electrical signals and apply the stimulation to achieve an effect similar to that of the drug. The data processing unit compares the received electrical signals with electrical signals received after consumption of the drug to generate an analysis of the received electrical signals, where an adaptive learning algorithm is employed to generate the analysis. Preferably, brain interface 104 records the EEG and provides the stimulation in real time, so that the electrical signals are detected at the subject’s scalp concurrently with the application of the brain stimuli. System 100 may disable brain interface 104 in an event of a system malfunction.
Patent GB-2596108-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for determining electrical mobility of an aerosol
Inventor: KINGSLEY STJOHN REAVELL
IPC: G01N27/60
Filed: 2020-06-18
Abstract: A mobility separator comprises a classification channel 1 with inlets for an aerosol flow 5 and a clean sheath flow 4. An electric field is imposed approximately perpendicular to the flow in the channel and may be automatically controlled to maintain a target ratio of measurements. The outlet flow is split between two outlets containing the higher 8 and lower 9 electrical mobility particles and these are fed to particle detectors to determine the particle electrical mobility. The particle detectors may be those know in the art such as Condensation Particle Counters or Aerosol Electrometers. The sheath flow may be obtained by filtration of one of the outlet aerosol flows.
Patent GB-2596791-A (GB)
Title: Resistive liquid heater
Inventor: STEPHEN GREETHAM
IPC: H05B3/03
Filed: 2020-06-30
Abstract: A liquid heater with a chamber 20. A pair of electrodes 30 are located within the chamber, wherein a liquid may flow through the chamber from inlet 21 to outlet 22. Input terminals connect the heater to a power supply 50. A plurality of switches connect the electrodes to the input terminals, wherein the switches are bi-directional. The power supply provides an alternating voltage at a maximum frequency of 60Hz. A control unit controls the switches, such that the electrodes are energised with an alternating voltage having a frequency no less than 150Hz. The switches may have a first state where the electrodes are energised with a positive voltage and a second state where the electrodes are energised with a negative voltage. The control unit would thus switch the switches at a switching frequency of 300kHz. There may be multiple pairs of electrodes, wherein the switches have a plurality of different states for selectively connecting pairs of electrodes to the input terminals in one of a plurality of electrode configurations.
Patent GB-2593241-A (GB)
Title: Separation method and apparatus for monomolecular layers
Inventor: Igor Vozyakov
IPC: B01F25/64
Filed: 2020-08-21
Abstract: Disclosed is method of separating a mixture of graphite and nano-platelets including graphene by suspending the mixture in a liquid 15 with a density of 1.5-2.5 g/cm3. This allows for selective movement of at least one of the graphite and the nano-platelets toward a specific portion of the liquid which can be settling of the graphite or floatation of the nano-platelets. The liquid can have a density in the range of 98-99 % the density of graphite and can be an aqueous solution of NaCl, CaCl2 or KCl. A gas 14 may be bubbled through the liquid, preferably being introduced from the bottom of the liquid. There may also be present a further layer of immiscible liquid 16, such that one of the graphite or nanoplatelets move into the further liquid. Optionally this may be of lower density than the liquid of the mixture.
Patent GB-2602300-A (GB)
Title: Gyroscopes
Inventor: JAMES STONEHOUSE BURDESS
IPC: G01C19/5698
Filed: 2020-12-22
Abstract: A gyroscope comprising: a cyclic symmetric (preferably circular) proof mass for bearing degenerate, spatially orthogonal primary and secondary surface acoustic waves (preferably Rayleigh or standing waves). The proof mass may have a predetermined axial depth providing at least a predetermined flexural rigidity in a direction of the axis. The gyroscope may comprise at least one arcuate reflector including a variable radius that varies with the speed of propagation of the primary and/or secondary surface acoustic wave. The radius may also vary with material properties of the proof mass. The reflectors may be circular or cylindrical. The reflectors may also be nested or concentric. The plurality of reflectors may span a predetermined radial width which is associated with a wavelength of at least one of the primary surface acoustic wave or the secondary surface acoustic wave. The gyroscope may comprise a plurality of cyclic symmetrically disposed arcuate sensors and a plurality of cyclic symmetrically disposed arcuate actuators. Also comprising a method of determining the angular rate from data associated the secondary surface acoustic wave.
Patent GB-2603129-A (GB)
Title: Method for managing power consumption of a railway vehicle, and railway vehicle with improved power consumption management
Inventor: Domenico Palmisano
IPC: B61C3/00
Filed: 2021-01-25
Abstract: A method for managing electrical power consumption of a railway vehicle 100 utilises a central control unit 150 of the railway vehicle which receives information representing an amount of electrical traction power 240 required for a traction motor 250 or generated by electrodynamic braking based on a traction demand set by the driver of the railway vehicle. The central control unit additionally receives information representing an amount of electrical auxiliary power 260 demanded by auxiliary devices 161,262,263 from control units 160 of the respective auxiliary devices. The total available electrical power, which can be provided by the energy supply line 300 for the railway vehicle, is determined. The central control unit prioritizes operation of the auxiliary devices based on the total available electrical power and the electrical traction power required for traction to selectively reduce consumption of electrical energy by all or selected auxiliary devices if a sum of the electrical traction power required for traction and the electrical auxiliary power demanded by auxiliary devices exceeds the total available electrical power.
Patent GB-2604597-A (GB)
Title: Authentication mechanism
Inventor: Max Smith-Creasey
IPC: H04L9/40
Filed: 2021-03-05
Abstract: A method 200 of user authentication at a second device (130, Figure 1), wherein the authentication readings taken and subsequently used to authenticate the user at said device are selected in dependence on authentication data generated during a first authentication process at a first device (120, Figure 1). The authentication data may include authentication readings taken at the first device, a trust score for the user, a location of the user, a proximity of the user to the first and/or second device, or the time elapsed since the authentication process occurred on the first device. The authentication readings may be biometric readings and the first and/or second authentication process may be continuous authentication processes. Also disclosed is a network device which acts as an intermediatory between a first and second device, receiving authentication data from the first device (500, Figure 5), generating second authentication from the first authentication data (520, Figure 5) and sending the second data to the second device to be used in a second authentication process at said device (530, Figure 5).
Patent GB-2591387-A (GB)
Title: Waste treatment apparatus and method
Inventor: WILLIAM ALEXANDER BEVERIDGE
IPC: C02F11/131
Filed: 2019-08-16
Abstract: A method and apparatus for organic waste treatment are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of adding a sorbent to a waste product to form a fluid matrix which may then be subjected to a compressive force to dewater the matrix. Thermal desorption and pasteurisation of the matrix may then be carried out. The sorbent added is draff, which may be obtained as a by-product from various industries, including the distillation of spirits. The apparatus comprises generally a dewatering compressor, but may also include a thermal desorption unit, which may thermally dewater the matrix and pasteurise it.
Patent GB-2605136-A (GB)
Title: Software Code Consolidation
Inventor: JOHANNES NOPPEN
IPC: G06F8/72
Filed: 2021-03-22
Abstract: Generating a software service 218 from software code 202 for a software component 200, comprising: converting the code 206 to a model representation 208, the model including elements corresponding to functional components in the code and relationships between elements corresponding to one or more of functional links and data relationships between the functional components; applying a clustering method 210 to the model to define a plurality of clusters 212 of elements of the model, each cluster of elements representing a set of functional components in the code corresponding to the elements in the cluster; monitoring 214 the software code in execution to identify a set of functional components in the code corresponding to a cluster of elements in which the set of functional components is collectively stateless between executions of any of the functional components in the set; and generating 216 a software service as an executable software component comprising the identified set of functional components.
Patent GB-2606369-A (GB)
Title: Analysis of histopathology samples
Inventor: HANYUN ZHANG
IPC: G06T7/00
Filed: 2021-05-05
Abstract: Methods and systems for analysing the cellular composition of a sample are described, comprising providing an image of the sample in which a plurality of cellular populations are associated with respective signals and classifying a plurality of query cells in the image between a plurality of classes corresponding to respective cellular populations in the plurality of cellular populations. This is performed by providing a query single cell image to an encoder module of a machine learning model to produce a feature vector for the query image, and assigning the query cell to one of the plurality of classes based on the feature vector for the query image and feature vectors produced by the encoder module for each of a plurality of reference single cell images. The machine leaning model comprises: the encoder module, configured to take as input a single cell image and to produce as output a feature vector the single cell image, and a similarity module configured to take as input a pair of feature vectors for a pair of single cell images and to produce as output a score indicative of the similarity between the single cell images. Thus, the machine learning model can be obtained without the need for an extensively annotated dataset. The methods find use in the analysis of multiplex immunohistochemistry / immunofluorescence in a variety of clinical contexts.
Patent GB-2607344-A (GB)
Title: Skincare device
Inventor: Emma Metcalfe-Smith
IPC: G01N21/3554
Filed: 2021-06-04
Abstract: A skincare device which comprises a first sensor type which senses a characteristic of a user’s skin by sensing a frequency in a first frequency band (e.g. visible and near infra-red). A classifier is trained using a sensor of the first type and a sensor of a second type, which uses a frequency in a second different frequency band (e.g. far infra-red). The first sensor type senses a skin characteristic of the corpus of users. The second sensor type senses a moisture content of the skin of the corpus of users. The device further comprises a controller which provides the sensed characteristic to the classifier to determine the moisture content of the skin and performs an action associated with the determined moisture content. Moisture content of the skin is detectable using short wave infra-red (SWIR) sensors which are difficult to incorporate into a skincare device. By using the classifier, the result from the first sensor can be used to determine the moisture content of the skin without needing the second type of sensor. This enables a reduction in cost and complexity of the skincare device without sacrificing the capability to determine the moisture content of the user’s skin.
Patent GB-2595101-A (GB)
Title: Thermally inhibited starch and process for making
Inventor: TARAK SHAH
IPC: C08B30/12
Filed: 2019-12-27
Abstract: Improved thermally inhibited starch is disclosed and methods of making such starch are disclosed. In some embodiments a thermally inhibited starch has improved whiteness and flavor. In some embodiments a method for making a thermally inhibited starch includes providing adding a buffer and an acid to a starch to obtain a pH adjusted starch having an acidic pH and thermally inhibiting the pH adjusted starch. The technology further pertains to methods of making the thermally inhibited starch in batch, continuous, continuous-like process or combinations thereof.
Patent GB-2598838-A (GB)
Title: Modified catalyst supports and catalysts supported thereon
Inventor: RICHARD MERCER
IPC: B01J35/10
Filed: 2021-08-04
Abstract: A modified catalyst support is described in the form of titania particles with a volume-median diameter in the range 100 to 1000 mm. The particles are modified with one or more refractory oxides of metals selected from zirconium, lanthanum, cerium, yttrium and neodymium, wherein the total refractory oxide content is between 0.1 to 15% by weight. The modified support has a pore volume in the range of 0.2 to 0.6 cm3 /g and an average pore diameter of 30 to 60 nm. Preferably the refractory oxide consists of zirconia. Preferably the catalyst support may be loaded with cobalt to form a catalyst precursor. More preferably the catalyst precursor may be comprise between 1 and 15wt% of one or more additives selected from nickel, zinc, thorium, magnesium, manganese or silicon. More preferably the catalyst precursor may comprise between 0.01 and 1 wt% rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, rhenium platinum or palladium. Preferably the support may be used to form a catalyst comprising cobalt metal crystallites within the pores of the modified support.
Patent GB-2596005-A (GB)
Title: Float equipment assemblies and methods to isolate downhole strings
Inventor: Ryan Michael Novelen
IPC: E21B34/10
Filed: 2019-04-26
Abstract: The embodiments include float equipment assemblies and methods to isolate downhole strings. In one embodiment, a float equipment assembly includes an inner string that provides a fluid flow path through the float equipment assembly. The float equipment assembly also includes an opening through which a fluid flowing through the inner string exits the float equipment assembly. The float equipment assembly further includes a moveable member, which when repositioned, isolates the inner string. The float equipment assembly further includes a dissolvable material that initially prevents repositioning of the moveable member, where the moveable member is repositioned after a threshold portion of the dissolvable material has dissolved.
Patent GB-2598224-A (GB)
Title: Sub-surface release plug system
Inventor: MARCEL BUDDE
IPC: E21B33/16
Filed: 2018-03-01
Abstract: A plug mandrel has a body; a bore; an adjustable sleeve 120 to prevent fluid from flowing through a port 118, fig 4; a first channel portion 110 and an insert 108c, fig 2 connected to the plug body and having a second portion of the channel. Also claimed is a subsurface release plug system incorporating the plug mandrel and a method of operating a subsurface plug system where there is a protrusion 148, fig 4 disposed in a second longitudinal channel of an insert.