baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2572865-A (GB)
Title: Polymeric film
Inventor: KENNETH GARGAN
IPC: B32B27/32
Filed: 2019-04-05
Abstract: The film at least partly blocks the region of the solar spectrum around and/or up to a wavelength in the range 400-490nm, preferably by 40-100%. A preferred multilayer film is 150 µm thick and has seven layers, including a layer of polyethylene (LDPE or mLLDPE), polyethylene vinyl acetate (EVAc), polypropylene (PP), polyamide (PA) or polyethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH). The preferred film includes an ultraviolet absorber and yellow pigment. The film is used in the construction of greenhouses, especially those used to control the Spotted Wing Drosophila. A disclosed film includes LLDPE blend layers 1, 4, 6, 7, LDPE layers 2, 3 containing light modifier and another LDPE layer 5.
Patent GB-2583974-A (GB)
Title: Improvements to the construction of axial flux rotary generators
Inventor: HUGH-PETER GRANVILLE KELLY
IPC: H02K21/24
Filed: 2019-05-17
Abstract: An axial flux rotary generator comprising two magnetic annuli rotors and coil annulus stator, with the rotors and stator having a common axis. The two rotors define a plurality of magnetic fields around the axis extending across a gap between the rotors and the stator. The stator having a sequence of coils around the axis in the gap such that magnetic flux interact with the coils causing the rotors to rotate. At least one first part 24 and at least one second part 26 extends between the two rotors wherein the first part is under greater compressive strain than the second part. The first part may have a bulk modulus which is lower than the second part. The second part may be in an axial recess 25 of an associated first part, where the second part is cylindrical. The generator may comprise a plurality of draw bolts drawing the two rotors towards one another and into contact with axial ends of the at least one second part, where the second part has an axial through hole. Multiple first and second parts may be distributed between the rotors. Cooling gas may pass through a gap between each first part. The first part may be a plastic and the second part a metallic material.
Patent GB-2573073-A (GB)
Title: Radiation window
Inventor: Nikolai Chekurov
IPC: G01T7/00
Filed: 2018-01-17
Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising obtaining a first silicon wafer comprising a mask on a first side, attaching a second silicon wafer on the first side of the first silicon wafer, and etching one of the wafers to partially expose a window layer deposited on the opposite silicon wafer and to leave a structure defined by the mask supporting the window layer.
Patent GB-2578677-A (GB)
Title: Determining Road Safety
Inventor: DAVID SKIPP
IPC: G08G1/01
Filed: 2019-09-11
Abstract: A controller for a vehicle 1105 is configured to receive data relating to a first performance parameter of a first vehicle 1102 at a given location 1103 to determine a driving behaviour, and to receive data relating to a second performance parameter of a second vehicle at the location 1103. The controller also receives data relating to a flow of traffic at the given location and/or a geography at the given location. If the controller determines that the driving behaviour of the first vehicle and the driving behaviour of the second vehicle are the same, or similar within a predetermined first threshold, and the controller determines that at least one of: the flow of traffic at the given location departs from a normal traffic flow; and the geography at the given location increases the risk of accident, then the controller is configured to issue an alert. The traffic flow data may be used to generate a mapping of virtual paths. The alert may cause changes in guided navigation routes of alerted vehicles, or an automated response in autonomous vehicles.
Patent GB-2581015-A (GB)
Title: A personal water safety device
Inventor: JOHN HANLEY
IPC: B63C9/15
Filed: 2019-12-05
Abstract: A personal water safety device (1, Fig 1) comprises a backpack assembly which comprises a slimline body section 2 and a harness assembly. The harness assembly comprises a left shoulder strap (3, Fig 1), a right shoulder strap 4 and waist straps 5 configured to extend over the wearer's left and right shoulder and extend around the wearer's waist respectively. The slimline body section of the backpack houses a compressed air container (10, Fig 9), an air bladder (12, Fig 9) in fluid communication with the compressed air container, a pull cord 13 coupled to a trigger attachment (11, Fig 9) on the compressed air container, a lanyard (14, Fig 9) permanently attached at one end to the backpack body section and at the other end to the air bladder, a holding cord (15, Fig 9) permanently attached to one end of the air bladder, a waterproof compartment and identification means 17. The backpack body section is elongate in shape and configured to be positioned on the upper back area between the shoulders of the wearer and wherein the backpack body section is neutrally buoyant in water.
Patent GB-2591480-A (GB)
Title: Mounting apparatus for fire suppression system
Inventor: MATTHEW MALEWSKI
IPC: A62C13/78
Filed: 2020-01-29
Abstract: A mounting apparatus 100, for a fire suppression system that includes a cylinder, comprises a support body 120, defining an interior mounting space for the cylinder in use, and at least one retaining member 130, for securely retaining the cylinder in the mounting space. The body has a wall arranged in use to extend around more than 50% of the circumference of the cylinder when the cylinder is in the mounting space. The retaining members are releasably mounted on the body and both the retaining members and body preferably include a compression material 134, 216, such as silicone, arranged to compress when the retaining member is pressed against the cylinder.
Patent GB-2584176-A (GB)
Title: 3D object reconstruction using photometric mesh representation
Inventor: OLIVER WANG
IPC: G06T17/20
Filed: 2020-02-11
Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for 3D object reconstruction using photometric mesh representations. A decoder is pretrained to transform points sampled from 2D patches of representative objects into 3D polygonal meshes. An image frame of the object is fed into an encoder to get an initial latent code vector. For each frame and camera pair from a sequence, a polygonal mesh is rendered at the given viewpoints using an object mesh generation neural network trained to transform a set of two-dimensional data points representing the first object into the polygon mesh, the set of 2D data points representing colour pixels in at least two images of the first object, the at least two images having different camera poses,. The mesh is optimized over the set of latent feature vectors by creating a virtual viewpoint, rasterized to obtain a depth map. The 3D mesh projections are aligned by projecting the coordinates corresponding to the polygonal face vertices of the rasterized mesh to both selected viewpoints. The photometric error is determined from RGB pixel intensities sampled from both frames. Gradients from the photometric error are backpropagated into the vertices of the assigned polygonal indices by relating the barycentric coordinates of each image to update the latent code vector.
Patent GB-2595672-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in vibratory feeders
Inventor: SIMON LAWTON
IPC: B65G47/14
Filed: 2020-06-02
Abstract: Disclosed is a vibratory feeder with a feeder plate comprising a laminate of two layers (fig 10). The first upper layer (fig 10 17) is solid and the second lower layer (fig 10 18) comprises voids. Preferably a third solid layer underlies the second layer (fig 11 19). The second layer may comprise one of the following materials; metal foam, sintered metal, ceramic, a foamed polymer, glass or an aerogel. The second layer may alternatively comprise an arrangement of spacers or a cellular matrix (fig 13). Preferably the stiffness of the laminated plate is greater than the stiffness of a feeder plate made from the materials of the first layer alone. The feeder plate may have an isotropic stiffness. The feeder plate may take the form of a scarf plate 2.
Patent GB-2584243-A (GB)
Title: Hardware to implement a convolutional neural network
Inventor: JAMES IMBER
IPC: G06N3/063
Filed: 2017-05-03
Abstract: Hardware 200 to implement a convolutional neural network (CNN). A memory interface 210 receives weights, input data, and command information from external memory. A command decoder 220 decodes the command information and issues control information to a coefficient buffer controller 225 and input buffer controller 215 to control how the weights and input data are stored in a coefficient buffer 230 and a plurality of input buffers 235 respectively. Convolution engines 240 perform convolution operations on the input data in the input buffers using the weights in the coefficient buffer. Accumulators 245 receive results from the convolution engines and add them to values stored in an accumulation buffer 250. An activation module 255 performs an activation function on data in the accumulation buffer and stores the results in a shared buffer 270. A normalize module 265 performs a normalizing function on data in the shared buffer and stores the results in the shared buffer. A pool module 275 performs a pooling operation on data in the shared buffer and stores the results in the shared buffer.
Patent GB-2601474-A (GB)
Title: A method for evaluating a plurality of different machine learning methods for use in a motor vehicle by an electronic computing device
Inventor: Ting-Wei Hsu
IPC: G06N20/00
Filed: 2020-11-12
Abstract: Method for evaluating a plurality of different machine learning methods 30 for use in a motor vehicle 42 by an electronic computing device, comprising: providing the machine learning methods depending on a plurality of use cases in the motor vehicle by the electronic computing device; providing predefined datasets, variables, an environment setup and a model variant for each of the machine learning methods by using a pretrained frozen graph by the electronic computing device; converting the frozen graph into a plurality of output graphs for each of the machine learning methods by the electronic computing device; evaluating each machine learning method depending on a training and an inference of the machine learning method; and evaluating each machine learning method in the training and the inference depending on an operation speed and a bandwidth of the machine learning method. The machine learning methods may comprise at least one supervised, at least one unsupervised, and at least one reinforcement method. The machine learning methods may be provided depending on a different type combination needed in a special use case.
Patent GB-2586930-A (GB)
Title: Optical device production method
Inventor: Shigehiro Nagano
IPC: G02B6/13
Filed: 2019-06-04
Abstract: This optical device production method includes a hydrogen injection step, a laser irradiation step, and a focal point movement step, wherein the laser irradiation step and the focal point movement step are repeated in an alternating manner or performed in parallel. At the hydrogen injection step, hydrogen is injected into a glass member that includes B2O3, and has a GeO2 content that is less than 10% in terms of the mass fraction on an oxide basis. At the laser irradiation step, the interior of the glass member injected with hydrogen is irradiated with focused femtosecond laser light having a repetition frequency of 10 kHz or more, thereby causing a photoinduced refractive index change in the glass member. At the focal point movement step, the position of the focal point of the femtosecond laser light is moved relative to the glass member.
Patent GB-2591404-A (GB)
Title: 3D media elements in 2D video
Inventor: SPENCER STEPHENS
IPC: H04N21/81
Filed: 2019-09-11
Abstract: The disclosed embodiment generate a 3D representation of a 2D scene depicted to two dimensional video. The 3D representation includes individual 3D media elements representing objects included in the 2D scene. 3D void segments within the 2D scene are identified based on an aggregation of the individual 3D media elements. The 3D void segments are prioritized for insertion of additional 3D media elements within the 3D void spaces based on a variety of factors including lighting present at the 3D void segment, a distance of the 3D void segment from a center of the 2D scene, a size of the 3D void segment, and a time duration the 3D void segment is present in the 2D scene. A new 3D media element in these selected for insertion into the 2D scene based on the priorities of the 3D void segments.
Patent GB-2607557-A (GB)
Title: A system and method for beam alignment
Inventor: Omar Iqbal
IPC: H04B10/70
Filed: 2021-03-26
Abstract: This application is concerned with aligning a transmitter of quantum key distribution (QKD) signals with a quantum receiver. This is conventionally achieved using classical beacon signals. However, there is generally some directional misalignment, or offset, between a quantum laser used for QKD and a classical laser used to transmit the beacon. This misalignment will compromise the rate of successfully received photons from the quantum beam. To address this, the present invention uses the quantum laser when aligning the transmitter and receiver. A transmitter 2 transmits both a quantum laser beam 4 and a classical laser beam, which are substantially co-aligned, towards a receiver 3 (Fig. 3A). The receiver measures the photon reception rate of the quantum beam and reports this to the transmitter (Fig. 3B). The transmitter makes a series of adjustments to transmit direction (Fig. 3C) whilst monitoring the effect of the adjustments through reported photon detection rates (Fig. 3D), to align the transmitter with the receiver. The transmitter is preferably a satellite and the receiver a ground system. The invention may be applied as a fine correction to a conventional pointing procedure using classical beams.
Patent GB-2593823-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle Seat
Inventor: GEORGE KARL SCHOLZ
IPC: B60N2/02
Filed: 2020-03-31
Abstract: A seat for a vehicle, comprising a seat back 804, a base 802, on which a first surface 816 is disposed, a seat cover 810 on which a second surface 818 is disposed, and a moving mechanism, connected to the seat cover to move the seat cover relative to the base between a covering position, and an exposed position where the seat cover leaves the first surface exposed. The moving mechanism comprises a guide element 824 disposed within the seat back, and a carriage 828 that is connected to the seat cover, the carriage being movable along the guide element to move the seat cover between the covering position and the exposed position. In some embodiments, the second surgace is configured as a seating, whilst the first surface is configured as a stepping surface to facilitate entering and/or exiting the vehicle
Patent GB-2605616-A (GB)
Title: Mooring arrangement for a tension leg platform
Inventor: GRAHAM FOSTER
IPC: B63B21/50
Filed: 2021-04-07
Abstract: A buoyant tension leg platform 102 is provided, the platform being arranged to support a renewable energy capturing device 104 when the platform is submerged in a body of water. The platform comprises at least three vertices 106, at least three of said vertices having a mooring arrangement 108. The mooring arrangement comprises a first mooring line 110 extending between said vertex and a first anchor point 112 in communication with a bed of said body of water, the first mooring line extending at an angle relative to said bed and a second mooring line 114 extending from the first vertex to a second said anchor point 116, the second mooring line extending at the angle relative to said bed, such that each said mooring arrangement of a corresponding vertex defines a triangle 118 positioned on a plane. The present disclosure aims to provide improved stability of such platforms when submerged and supporting a renewable energy capturing device.
Patent GB-2609447-A (GB)
Title: Variable geometry turbine
Inventor: ROBERT L HOLROYD
IPC: F02B37/24
Filed: 2021-07-30
Abstract: A nozzle ring 112 for a variable geometry turbine comprises: a generally annular wall; an inner flange 19; an outer flange 20; and two protrusions 30, 32. The inner flange is generally perpendicular to the generally annular wall and extends from a radially inner edge of the generally annular wall. The outer flange is generally perpendicular to the generally annular wall and extends from a radially outer edge of the generally annular wall. The two protrusions extend from one of the inner or outer flange towards the other one of the inner or outer flange. At least one of the two protrusions extends only partially towards the other one of the inner or outer flange. The two protrusions define a first gap 36 (Fig. 2A) and a second gap 38 (Fig. 2A) between the generally annular wall and both of the two protrusions. In use, the second gap may receive an arcuate head portion 48 of a support 124 and the first gap may receive an intermediate portion 46 of the support.
Patent GB-2595120-A (GB)
Title: Hair modification system
Inventor: BEN JAN COHEN
IPC: A61K8/04
Filed: 2019-07-23
Abstract: The present invention relates to hair modification system including a range of hair colour modifiers and associated hair modification process and regime. The invention has been developed primarily for use by hair care professionals in a salon environment, but is not limited to this particular field of use.
Patent GB-2612613-A (GB)
Title: Stem and branch cutter
Inventor: PIERRE ROBERT FROHLICH
IPC: B02C18/02
Filed: 2021-11-05
Abstract: A stem and/or branch cutter for garden waste includes a chassis 1 arranged to be secured over a container 2 having an open top. The chassis has a depending lip arranged to rotate over an outer edge of a distal side of the container and an adjustable clamping mechanism arranged to engage an opposing proximal side of the container. The chassis supports a cutting station having a fixed blade and a movable cutting blade with a hopper being provided for introducing stems and/or branches into the cutting station. An outlet from the cutting station is arranged to deposit cut stems and/or branches into the container. The movable cutting blade may be driven by power means, e.g. electric drill 3, or an electric motor. Alternatively a manual crank may be used. The movable blade may be driven by a crank arrangement to generate a reciprocal motion of the blade.
Patent GB-2618799-A (GB)
Title: Boost voltage driving device
Inventor: WEN-SUNG LEE
IPC: H05B45/38
Filed: 2022-05-17
Abstract: A boost voltage driving device in which the boost voltage driving device is electrically connected to a light emitting device 100 and drives the light emitting device. The boost voltage driving device includes: an electric power supply module 1 capable of outputting alternating current 11 or direct current 12, a microcontroller 2, a boost voltage module 4, a first feedback circuit 5 and a second feedback circuit 6. The boost voltage module 4 may receive power from alternating current supply 11 via the first feedback circuit 5 or receive power directly from direct current supply 12. Boosted power 44 from the boost voltage module 4 is transmitted to the light emitting device 100. The microcontroller controls operation of the device in accordance with signals received from the feedback circuits.
Patent GB-2604805-A (GB)
Title: Animal harness and leash system
Inventor: SHONNA HUDSON
IPC: A01K27/00
Filed: 2020-11-25
Abstract: A dog harness assembly comprising: a harness body adapted to be positioned on a chest portion of a dog, a pair of restraint loops coupled with the harness body and adapted to pass respectively under the left and right foreleg pits of the dog, each loop comprising a clasp adapted to be releasably fastened to a fastening arrangement provided in the harness body; a connector located in the harness body for engaging with a locking portion of a leash for allowing a user to exert a force for controlling movements of the dog wearing said harness when the harness is connected to the leash through said connector; a key or combination actuated locking arrangement coupled with said connector to provide a lockable connection between the leash and the harness wherein in a locked configuration the leash connector is prevented from being uncoupled from the connector; wherein the locking arrangement is coupled with said fastening arrangement such that in the locked configuration the clasps of the restraint loops engage with the locking portion of the leash to prevent the clasps from being released from the fastening arrangement and wherein in an unlocked configuration, each clasp only be released from the fastening arrangement after the leash connector has been uncoupled from the connector and by additionally actuating a clasp release mechanism provided on said harness body.
Patent GB-2606302-A (GB)
Title: Combination lock
Inventor: YIJIAN LI
IPC: E05B37/02
Filed: 2019-12-27
Abstract: Disclosed is a combination lock, comprising: a rotatable knob capable of relative rotation, a panel, a bolt, and a dial assembly. The dial assembly comprises a base having an accommodation cavity, a dial shaft, multiple sets of bushings and dials, a position resetting mechanism, a positioning member, and a protection frame. The base is mounted on the panel. The dial shaft passes through a movement cavity and is movable in an axial direction. The bushings are sleeved on the dial shaft and can rotate jointly or relatively. The dials are sleeved on the bushings and can rotate jointly or relatively. The position resetting mechanism is used to reset positions of the dials. The positioning member is used to limit resetting of the positions of the dials. The protection frame is used to change the manner of engagement between the dials and the bushings. The rotatable knob can be rotated relative to the panel to a first position, second position, third position, or fourth position, so as to achieve locking, automatic password resetting, automatic dial position resetting, and manual password setting. The present invention has functions of automatic password resetting and automatic dial position resetting, and uses one-time temporary passwords, thereby achieving superior security performance.
Patent GB-2611178-A (GB)
Title: Exhaust silencer
Inventor: GERD REISINGER
IPC: F01N1/16
Filed: 2022-08-24
Abstract: An exhaust silencer for an internal combustion engine with flow-guiding built-in components arranged in a functional (gas flow) space delimited by an outer wall comprising first 2 and second 3 casing pipes comprising a flap 32 arrangement with a flow guide 14 and a bypass 29 arrangement fluidically connected in parallel with the flow guide. The flow path thereof comprises four spiral helical channels (21, 22, 27 and 28) through which a flow can pass in series, in the direction opposing the main gas flow in channels 1 and 3, and in the direction of the main gas flow in channels 2 and 4, via two deflection zones and a transition zone and are fluidically connected to the inflow pipe 4 via passage 24, and the outflow pipe 5 via passage 35 respectively.