baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2489829-A (GB)
Title: Use of image processing to ascertain three-dimensional deviations of an aircraft from a trajectory towards a target
Inventor: TTL ALFRED SCHA
IPC: F41G7/34
Filed: 2012-04-10
Abstract: Use of image processing to ascertain three-dimensional deviations of an aircraft from a trajectory towards a target An aircraft is guided to a target predetermined by means of image information by the following steps:Â  i) projecting (PM-B) a predetermined reference model (RM) of the target on the basis of the current direction of view of the aircraft;Â  ii) ascertaining an estimated current aircraft / target relative position from the image information pertaining to a current image (B1) of the target and from the projection information ascertained in the model projection (PM-B); iii) performing texture correlation (T3-TK2) with image information pertaining to a current image and to an earlier image B2 for ascertaining an estimated actual direction of motion or velocity of the aircraft relative to the target; iv) on the basis of these initial values, estimating (Fâ  Ges) the current aircraft/ target relative position, or the direction of motion or of an actual velocity vector; v) on the basis of the ascertained aircraft / target relative position and of the ascertained actual velocity vector in a guidance module (LM), generating control commands for actuating the aircraft aerodynamic controls to guide the aircraft to the target object.Â  Feature projection PF-B can be used in parallel with the model projection.
Patent GB-2507954-A (GB)
Title: Tamper detection system associated with an encryption device and an additional trigger for other components in a user terminal.
Inventor: KORALA ARAVINDA
IPC: G06F21/83
Filed: 2012-10-13
Abstract: A user terminal (1) comprises an encryption apparatus and a tamper detection system (42) associated with the encryption apparatus with means for triggering the tamper detection system in response to tampering with the encryption apparatus. The terminal further comprises additional components with further means for triggering the tamper detection system in response to response to tampering with the at least one further component. In a particular embodiment the encryption apparatus may be an encrypting PIN pad (EPP) (8) and may be associated with an ATM. The encryption apparatus may be within a first housing (40) with the further component outside the housing. A further housing (20) may include the component and opening or unlocking the further housing may trigger the tamper detection system.
Patent GB-2495012-A (GB)
Title: A balance support device incorporating a virtual adjusting zero-free length spring within a gravity-equalised structure
Inventor: HARPER-MEARS CHRISTOPHER
IPC: F16F3/02
Filed: 2012-11-06
Abstract: A balance support device incorporating a virtual adjusting zero-free length spring within a gravity-equalised structure is provided. The device comprises a semi-circular outer support frame 4 which includes a semi-circular guide-rail. Within the semi-circular guide-rail run the long ends of a pantograph 6 which has a central pivot point 12 located on a vertical guide-rail 5. The adjustment of the pantograph 6 is maintained by a combination of movable guide blocks 13 and fixing means 9 for screwing the guide blocks into the vertical guide-rail 5. Two springs 3 have each of their ends attached to a long end of the pantograph 6 and to a horizontally extending parallelogram arrangement 7. The two springs serve to balance any load applied to a distal end of the parallelogram arrangement 7. The springs can thus be adjusted via a conical-path within the Y-Z-axes to create a resultant centre-line virtual spring force whose spring-length can be altered as is its effective attachment point on the Y axis.
Patent GB-2499876-A (GB)
Title: Mobile transmitter tracking system
Inventor: ARTHUR COLIN M
IPC: G01S5/02
Filed: 2013-01-04
Abstract: A system that tracks a mobile transmitter 21 within a communication system is disclosed. The mobile transmitter, which may be a cellular telephone, transmits in one or more predetermined communication slots, the communication slots being dynamically assigned by a system node in the communication system. The tracking system includes at least three uplink probes 22 spatially separated from one another, each uplink probe measuring transmissions in each of the communication slots as a function of time. A cell monitor 24 monitors downlink scheduling transmissions from the system node directed to the mobile transmitter, the scheduling transmissions specifying a time and communication slot to be utilized by the mobile transmitter in a subsequent transmission. A correlators 24 receives the measured transmissions and the monitored downlink scheduling transmissions. The correlator uses the monitored downlink scheduling transmissions and the measured transmissions to determine a time at which a transmission from the mobile transmitter was detected at each of the uplink probes.
Patent GB-2513112-A (GB)
Title: Video sequence processing
Inventor: KNEE MICHAEL JAMES
IPC: H04N19/85
Filed: 2013-04-08
Abstract: Video processing in which motion vectors are identified by applying a spatial filter 402-404 to candidate motion vector compensated pixel to pixel dissimilarity values 401 to determine the best fit motion vector. The spatial extent or size of the filter aperture is varied depending on a spatial activity or local complexity measure. The motion compensated pixel to pixel dissimilarity values are preferably displaced frame differences. The filters may be linear filters or running average filters. At each given pixel, the filter aperture centred on that pixel may be determined to be the smallest window in which an accumulated activity values reaches a threshold. The filter output may be interpolated to approximate a filter of non-integral radius whose accumulated activity measure is exactly the given threshold. The filter output is preferably reduced in proportion to the number of pixels contributing to the accumulated dissimilarity value.
Patent GB-2513853-A (GB)
Title: Motorcycle jacket
Inventor: DHAR SIMON CHANDRA
IPC: A41D13/00
Filed: 2013-05-04
Abstract: A motorcycle jacket that incorporates a belt which extends across the front of the wearer, each end of the belt has a T-shaped handle thereby allowing a tandem passenger sitting behind the motorcyclist to hold onto the handles. The belt may have a buckle or clip which may align with the jackets releasable front zip. The belt is preferably positioned inside the jacket so that the handles on the end of the belt protrude into pockets on the jacket which are sized sufficiently to accommodate the handles.
Patent GB-2505551-A (GB)
Title: Electronic shelf label (ESL) with a patch antenna embedded in its case
Inventor: SEO JEONG SIK
IPC: G09F3/20
Filed: 2013-06-26
Abstract: An electronic shelf label is provided comprising a case, a patch antenna 131 at least partially embedded in the case to receive wireless signals, and a display unit 121 provided in the case and at least partially opened to an exterior of the case to display product information. A circuit board 140 may be provided on which the display unit is mounted and which is provided with a signal processing circuit, and a ground plane 150. The patch antenna may be shaped to provide a circularly polarized signal. The patch antenna is preferably formed in the surface of the case by and in-mold antenna scheme process.
Patent GB-2508456-A (GB)
Title: Pipeline apparatus and valve
Inventor: ENSTON ROBERT PETER
IPC: F16K3/02
Filed: 2013-08-05
Abstract: Pipeline apparatus comprises a housing 2 including a riser 2a and a pipeline connector 2b and a seal pack assembly mounted in a member that is mounted in the riser. The apparatus includes a shaft extending through the seal pack assembly. The seal pack assembly includes at least one seal situated and configured to provide a seal between the outer surface of the shaft and a component of the seal pack assembly through which the shaft extends, that component being releasably attached to the member. The seal and shaft are removable through the riser.
Patent GB-2523365-A (GB)
Title: Improvements to the electric toaster to allow the facility to grill cheese on toast
Inventor: COLE DANIEL
IPC: A47J37/08
Filed: 2014-02-23
Abstract: An electric toaster that is used as a conventional toaster in its vertical position and when the toaster is turned onto its side in a horizontal/inclined position the toaster can be used as a grill. When the toaster is moved from a vertical to horizontal/inclined position a switch may prevent the lower heating elements of the toasting chambers from operating. To operate the grill, the user will place the item for grilling on a heat resistant lipped grilling tray 4 which when placed into the toasting chamber may operate a switch that activates the relevant upper heating element and timer. The tray may also prevent debris from falling onto the lower element.
Patent GB-2515405-A (GB)
Title: Portable medical device system
Inventor: HEATON KEITH PATRICK
IPC: A61M1/00
Filed: 2013-09-20
Abstract: Disclosed is apparatus comprising a wound dressing 15 connected to a fluid container 11 via a pump 3, wherein the wound dressing is in communication with a mechanical pressure control valve 13, the fluid container is provided with an inlet 2 and a vent outlet 4, see figure 1. The fluid container is a flexible fluid container comprising at least two layers of film 21, 23 with an integrated vent 29, preferably a microporous fluid separator or hydrophobic membrane, which divides the container into at least two internal compartments, permitting gas flow between the compartments from the inlet 19 to the outlet 31 but preventing fluid flow. Absorbent polymeric material 25, 27 may act as a spacer. Other apparatus provided comprises a means for detecting the level of fluid within a wound fluid container, comprising a restraining strap, plate or rigid housing. In particular the strap may comprise a pressure sensitive switch, with electrical contacts which break a detection circuit on expansion of the container.
Patent GB-2522290-A (GB)
Title: Running a 32-bit operating system on a 64-bit machine
Inventor: JACKSON HUGH
IPC: G06F9/50
Filed: 2014-07-14
Abstract: A processor having a first and a second mode of operation, the processor comprising: one or more configuration registers (105) arranged to store a configuration parameter, the configuration parameter indicating a width of software visible registers; a register file (116) comprising a plurality of general purpose registers; control logic (124,126) associated with the register file and arranged, in the second mode of operation, to logically divide the register file into a plurality of portions and to control access to the portions, each portion being arranged to store data for one of a plurality of threads of the software; and one or more functional units (110) arranged to execute instructions from the single thread in the first mode of operation and to execute instructions from the plurality of threads in the second mode of operation, wherein the fetch stage, control logic and functional units are each arranged to switch between the first and second modes of operation dependent upon a value of the configuration parameter. The processor can be a 64-bit processor, where the configuration parameter is arranged to indicate whether the software is a 64-bit or a 32-bit operating system.
Patent GB-2521743-A (GB)
Title: Providing origin insight for web applications via session traversal utilities for network address translation (STUN) messages, and computer-readable media
Inventor: YOAKUM JOHN H
IPC: H04L29/12
Filed: 2014-10-30
Abstract: Providing origin insight for web applications via Session Traversal Utilities for Network Address Translation (STUN) messages comprises determining, by a web client, an origin identifier for a web application attempting to send a STUN message to a STUN server, generating the STUN message incorporating the origin identifier for the web application, and transmitting the STUN message to the STUN server. The STUN server extracts the origin identifier for the web application and determines whether to provide a STUN service to the web application based on the origin identifier. If the STUN service should not be provided, the STUN message is rejected or disregarded; otherwise the STUN message is processed. The STUN message may comprise a Traversal Using Relays around Network Address Translation (TURN) message. The web application may be a WebRTC application and the origin identifier comprises an identifier of an application server from which the web client obtained the WebRTC application.
Patent GB-2534604-A (GB)
Title: Video encoding and decoding with adaptive quantisation
Inventor: MATTEO NACCARI
IPC: H04N19/86
Filed: 2015-01-29
Abstract: Disclosed are methods for encoding a video stream which aim to reduce contouring artefacts in areas with small variations in pixel intensities. In one aspect during the video encoding process a quantisation operation is carried out on a block of pixels by adding a rounding offset followed by division by a quantisation step and reduction to integer values. Blocks of the image prone to contouring are identified and, for a contouring-prone block only, the rounding offset is varied between values of the block. The quantised block of pixels may first has been subjected to predictive and transform coding. In a further aspect a quantisation operation is carried out on the transform coefficients of an image block containing residual prediction values that have been subjected to a frequency transformation. An offset used in the dead zone is adjusted to avoid non-DC quantised coefficients being rounded to zero.
Patent GB-2535784-A (GB)
Title: Route planning apparatus and method
Inventor: PHIL STUCHFIELD
IPC: G01C21/34
Filed: 2015-02-27
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of planning a route R to a destination 14. A map database defines a road network; and a communications network database defines one or more network parameters for a wireless communication network. The method uses a routing algorithm to plan a route to the destination using the communications network database to estimate connectivity to the wireless communication network along one or more routes generated using the map database. The route may be selected such that connection to the network is maintained and the parameter data may be historic data from previous journeys. A diary database may be consulted so that the route is planned to ensure that a network connection is available at a scheduled time it is required, also a stop in the journey may be scheduled to ensure that a connection is maintained at a required time.
Patent GB-2525090-A (GB)
Title: Reordering of a beamforming matrix
Inventor: RAJU MEESARAGANDA SURENDRA
IPC: H04B7/06
Filed: 2015-03-16
Abstract: This application relates to transmit beamforming in a multi-carrier, multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system. Singular value decomposition (SVD) is applied to a channel matrix to determine an initial transmit beamforming matrix. The columns (i.e. beamforming vectors) of this matrix are reordered to produce a final transmit beamforming matrix. The reordering is based on a signal characteristic. In a preferred embodiment the modulation and coding scheme (MCS) is the signal characteristic and a look-up table (LUT) indicates reordering which should be performed for a given MCS (see e.g. the table of page 10). This reordering operation may be carried out separately for each sub-carrier. The reordering may be performed at the receiver and the final transmit beamforming matrix communicated to the transmitter, or alternatively the reordering may be performed at the transmitter. Preferably the columns are either arranged in order of decreasing singular values or increasing singular values.
Patent GB-2538780-A (GB)
Title: A support for a scaffold tube
Inventor: ROBERT HENRY WELLER
IPC: E04G7/20
Filed: 2015-05-28
Abstract: A support for a scaffold tube 100 comprises a container 10 defining a cavity 11 for receiving an end of the tube. The support is secured by an attachment 20 provided on an outer face of the container. The support allows a user to lift a scaffold tube from a horizontal to a vertical position by swinging the tube through an arc. The container may be in the form of a box having an open face for receiving the end of a tube. The base 12 of the container may extend beyond the opening. The attachment may be in the form of a clamp. The support may be formed from metal or plastic. The cavity may be lined with a deformable material such as rubber or foam and the base may include a recess for receiving the end of the tube.
Patent GB-2539501-A (GB)
Title: Armrest assembly
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER BROWN
IPC: B60N2/75
Filed: 2015-06-19
Abstract: An armrest assembly 100 for the rear seating assembly (14, figure 5) of a passenger vehicle, the assembly comprises an armrest support structure 60 for supporting a vehicle armrest (30) and armrest drive means 120 coupled to the support structure, wherein the drive means is arranged to reposition the armrest support structure, e.g. between stowed (figure 7) and deployed (figure 12) configurations. Preferably the support structure is pivotally moveable and the drive means comprises a drive unit 122 driving a coupling member 130, which is coupled to the support structure. The coupling member may comprise an armrest drive shaft 128 having a threaded outer surface portion, which is engaged with a complementary threaded portion of the drive unit. The armrest drive may comprise an electric motor. A control module for the armrest assembly, as well as a combination of a bulkhead assembly (34, figure 4) and a seat comprising a powered linkage assembly (42) is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2530134-A (GB)
Title: Video monitoring apparatus
Inventor: ALEXANDER NEIL
IPC: H04N7/18
Filed: 2015-06-23
Abstract: A mobile video monitoring/surveillance apparatus 10 comprising a chassis 12, at least one video camera 24, 26, an electric battery and a fuel cell. The chassis has a ground engaging arrangement 14 for allowing the apparatus to move over the ground, where the arrangement may be in the form of a tow bar 16 for hitching to a vehicle. The at least one camera is supported by the chassis and is operative to acquire video data and transmit the data to a remote location. An electric battery provides electric power to the at least one camera, and the fuel cell is configured to recharge the battery whilst the at least one camera acquires the video data. The at least one camera may be connected to the chassis by a telescopically extendible rod 20. The data may be transmitted via a cellular communications aerial 28.
Patent GB-2528397-A (GB)
Title: Treatment fluids comprising weakly emulsifying surfactants and associated methods
Inventor: XU LIANG
IPC: E21B43/22
Filed: 2014-04-11
Abstract: Provided are acidic treatment fluids comprising a weakly emulsifying surfactant, an aqueous base fluid, and an acid. In some embodiments, the treatment fluids are capable of forming short-lived oil-in-acid emulsions due, at least in part, to the interaction of at least a portion of the weakly emulsifying surfactant with one or more oil or gas molecules within a subterranean formation.
Patent GB-2544035-A (GB)
Title: Life vest with locator beacon, and protective portion
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER ROSS HILL
IPC: B63C9/20
Filed: 2015-09-15
Abstract: A life vest 10 comprises a flotation aid 12, a protective portion 14 which, in use, at least partially covers a wearer's 2 head, and a locator beacon device comprising a signal generator (16, Fig 10), a wireless transmitting unit (50, Fig 10) for transmitting signals generated by the signal generator by wireless communication, a wireless receiving unit (52, Fig 10) for receiving the signals transmitted by the wireless transmitting unit, and an antenna 18 provided on the protective portion for transmitting a beacon signal based on the signals received by the wireless receiving unit. A protective portion for use with a life vest that comprises at least a wireless receiving unit and an antenna is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2542558-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for detecting staining
Inventor: PAUL EASTHAM
IPC: G07F19/00
Filed: 2015-09-17
Abstract: A method for detecting staining on a media item, such as a banknote, ticket or currency bill, comprises capturing (22) a digital image of the media item, the digital image comprising a plurality of pixels representing colour information of the media item and comparing (30) the captured digital image to a reference image. Comparing the captured digital image to the reference image comprises generating a histogram for each of a plurality of kernel patches of the captured image; each of the plurality of kernel patches of the captured image covers an area of the captured image such that the entire captured image is covered by the plurality of kernel patches. The histogram for each of the plurality of kernel patches of the captured image is compared to a histogram of a corresponding kernel patch of the reference image to generate a distance metric. Based on the generated distance metrics, it is determined if staining is present on the media item. The nature of the staining can be determined based on the distance metrics. A dye certainty metric can be determined for each kernel patch. The method can be employed in an automated payment machine to identify and retain spoiled banknotes.
Patent GB-2534007-A (GB)
Title: Door with embedded protecting device
Inventor: Tak Lai Vic Chan
IPC: E06B7/36
Filed: 2015-10-29
Abstract: The door, with an embedded protecting device or guard for preventing fingers from being trapped or pinched in the space between the hinged side of a door and a door frame, has a door sheet, a door frame, and an elastic sheet 6 and/or elastic column, wherein one end of the sheet is connected with the inner vertical side of the frame 21. First 41 and second 42 clamped boards are spatially arranged inside the door sheet to form a hollow area 51 that matches with the elastic sheet, such that the elastic sheet extends into the hollow area from the opening or frame. The door may also include at least a bearing 7 having an inner ring that is fixed on the first clamp board by a bolt. Two bearings (7,71, Fig.5) may be provided on the first clamped board, with one positioned under the other.
Patent GB-2537953-A (GB)
Title: A lighting assembly and a retrofit device for a lighting assembly
Inventor: JOHN TELFORD
IPC: G01B11/26
Filed: 2015-11-25
Abstract: A lighting assembly including a housing 14 for a light source, a support 16 for supporting the housing above a surface with the housing being pivotably connected to the support to permit rotation relative to the support. The lighting assembly also includes a first measurement device 20 attached to the housing and a second measurement device 30 attached to the support. One of the measurement devices obtains from the other measurement device the angle (θ, Fig. 1) between a vertical line (110, Fig. 1) to the surface and the direction in which a light beam (100, Fig. 1) is projected from the housing. One of the measurement devices may provide a visual indication of angle on the other measurement device. The first measurement device may be a laser device 20 which directs a laser beam onto the second measurement device which may include a series of calibrated markings 32 for indicating the angle. Alternatively, the first measurement device may include a pointer or needle. The calibrated markings may include a series of graduations and resemble a protractor. There may be a second series of markings 34 which indicate the angle if the light source has been moved relative to the housing.