baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2404569-A (GB)
Title: Meal tray
Inventor: PHILLIPS DANIEL
IPC: A47G23/06
Filed: 2003-08-01
Abstract: A meal tray, preferably designed for children, having a generally planar major surface 11 with at least one recess 12a, 12b for receiving a foodstuff. The recess projects in a first direction away from the major surface. The tray further comprises a further receptacle 14,18 for a foodstuff which extends in a second direction opposite to the first direction away from the major surface. Preferably, there are a plurality of recesses of differing shapes and sizes and a plurality of further receptacles. The tray may carry decoration and indicia representing questions and/or instructions. Recesses or receptacles may have lids 18a. There may be retaining means such as spring fingers for additional items such as a cup 17 in the form of an animal.
Patent GB-2407945-A (GB)
Title: Cyclic redundancy checking using punctured party bits
Inventor: ROGERS ANDREW JOHN
IPC: H03M13/09
Filed: 2003-10-25
Abstract: In an iterative decoding scheme (eg. Turbo decoding), parity bits are punctured and replaced by CRC bits in order to provide a means of indicating when the decoder fails to converge on the correct codeword without being detrimental to the code rate or error rate. The punctured bits are selected by monitoring the weight spectrum of the code, where the weight (distance from 0000...) is the number of nonzero bits in the sequence (11 in fig. 1) and the weight spectrum (Table 1) is calculated according to equation 1, references [4] or [5] or the alternative method presented, with the smaller distance values largely determining the error probability. The punctured (not transmitted) bits are selected by evaluating the weight spectrum of the punctured code and choosing only those bits for which the weight spectrum is not degraded. S class interleavers may be used, and optimised by swapping adjacent entries.
Patent GB-2409598-A (GB)
Title: Mobile phone with camera and extensible grip
Inventor: RICHARDSON NIGEL
IPC: G03B17/56
Filed: 2003-12-24
Abstract: A mobile communication station includes a camera <B>3</B> and has a hand grip <B>4</B>, the grip having a first compact configuration and a second configuration in which the grip is expanded relative to the first configuration. The body <B>2</B> of the mobile communication station may be elongate about an axis, and comprise two portions which are mechanically coupled to each other by a linkage that permits rotation of one of the portions relative to the other about an axis substantially parallel to the said axis and prevents rotation of each portion relative to the other about other axes.
Patent GB-2397296-A (GB)
Title: Bottle stopper with oxygen scavenging means
Inventor: LA PORTA GIOVANNI MARIA
IPC: B65D39/00
Filed: 2004-01-14
Abstract: In one aspect the invention provides a bottle stopper for a wine bottle or the like, which bottle stopper comprises a body having a sealing member 2 which sits within the neck of the bottle in use and which extends radially outwardly from the body of the stopper to seal the bottle neck, the stopper further having a passageway extending upwardly therethrough to communicate with the interior of the bottle and which incorporates or communicates with a chamber 4,5 within the stopper in which is housed an oxygen-scavenging medium 17. In a further aspect the invention provides a bottle stopper for a wine bottle or the like, which bottle stopper comprises a body having a sealing member (30, 31, fig 7) which sits within the neck of the bottle in use and which extends radially outwardly from the body of the stopper to seal the bottle neck, the bottle stopper further having a mechanism, having a plunger (21, fig 10), for compressing the sealing member, (30, 31) substantially axially of the stopper to expand the sealing member, (30, 31) laterally/substantially radially of the stopper into sealing contact with the neck of the bottle. Chamber 5 may also contain an oxygen level indicator 6 which charges colour, and may be viewed through a transparent cap 10.
Patent GB-2400942-A (GB)
Title: Processor type determination using reset vector
Inventor: CHHEDA SACHIN N
IPC: G06F9/445
Filed: 2004-03-31
Abstract: A reset vector from a processor is detected and is used to identify the processor. The invention is particularly for use in loading the correct firmware for a particular processor. A state machine 210 preferably detects a reset vector from a processor by detecting read/write control signals 250. Reset identification 220 uses knowledge of reset vector differences among a plurality of processors to produce processor identification signals 260 which are then used to select firmware 120, 130.
Patent GB-2402079-A (GB)
Title: A gaming machine
Inventor: PAULSEN CRAIG A
IPC: G07F17/32
Filed: 2004-05-19
Abstract: A gaming machine includes a plurality of interactive player-selectable symbols which is offered to a player during a game played upon the gaming machine. The player may select one or more of the player-selectable symbols (102a-102c) to be added to one or more plurality of symbols (100a-100d) which were initially provided to the player, the symbols are then checked to see if they provide a winning combination. The method and apparatus can be applied to a video slot game, a video poker game or a video blackjack game.
Patent GB-2404896-A (GB)
Title: Ribbon transport mechanism having tensioning means
Inventor: MILLS PAUL
IPC: B41J17/28
Filed: 2004-08-11
Abstract: A printing apparatus 10 includes a ribbon transport mechanism including a path for a ribbon 14 containing marking medium between a ribbon take-up spool 11 onto which spent ribbon 14 is wound and a ribbon pay-out spool 12 on which a supply of fresh ribbon is stored, each of the take-up and pay-out spools 11, 12 being driveable simultaneously by respective first and second motors 21, 22 to effect ribbon transport, and there being a controller 30 to control the first and second motors 21, 22 to maintain the ribbon tension within boundary limits and characterised in that the first motor 21 is a DC motor and the second motor 22 is a stepper motor.
Patent GB-2417067-A (GB)
Title: Gas heat exchanger with a bypass conduit
Inventor: PENNY CHARLES
IPC: F28F1/08
Filed: 2004-08-12
Abstract: A gas heat exchanger 101 comprises a portion of a gas cooling conduit 201 disposed between a portion of a coolant conduit 102 and a portion of a gas bypass conduit 203. Cooling conduit 102 may have a coolant inlet 103 and outlet 104. In a cooling mode gas may pass through an annular space 205. In a non-cooling mode the gas may be diverted by a valve (604, fig 6B) through the bypass conduit 203 and no gas flows through the annular space 205, which now functions as a thermal barrier. The valve may be a throttle valve so that the flow of gas may be regulated through either or both the gas cooling conduit 201 or bypass conduit 203. Each conduit may have corrugations to permit bending, to promote turbulent flow, and allow for thermal expansion and flexibility of mating parts by providing positional tolerances. The conduits may be concentric and maintained coaxial by using spacers (106 and 107, fig 1), 206, 207 which may be inserts or indentations in a wall of the conduits, or may be arranged side by side (fig 8). The gas may be exhaust from a vehicle, the recovered heat may assist in warming up a vehicle cabin, and the cooled exhaust gas may be recirculated to reduce nitrous oxide compounds.
Patent GB-2418827-A (GB)
Title: Providing a volumetric representation of a three-dimensional object
Inventor: GRAU OLIVER
IPC: G06V10/10
Filed: 2004-09-28
Abstract: The invention provides a method of providing a volumetric representation of a three-dimensional object (10). A plurality of voxels (22) are defined in a three dimensional space and voxels are categorised as either foreground or background according to at least one silhouette image of the object. Foreground voxels are assigned a first binary value and background voxels a second binary value. An intermediate value is assigned to voxels, preferably according to an estimate of the ratio of background to foreground contained within said voxel, thereby providing more information than just first and second binary values. Several examples are given for how to determine the proportion, or fraction, of each voxel or portion thereof Voxels may be sub-sampled to categorise voxels as foreground or background or the volumetric representation may be provided as the intersection of generalised cones of the silhouette image with volume being removed from the representation in dependence on the geometry of the intersections. The object may also be represented over time as a four dimensional model defining a hypersurface to which a smoothing operator may be applied.
Patent GB-2403426-A (GB)
Title: Golf tees and accessories
Inventor: PELS JACQUES M A
IPC: A63B57/00
Filed: 2003-05-08
Abstract: There is provided tee having a ground engaging arrowhead spike portion (150) formed integrally with a substantially planar head portion (151) via a transition zone (152). The transition zone (152) is bored through at (153) to enable connection by cord to articles. The substantially planar head portion (151) is hexagonal and has a single, hexagonally arranged, annular array of substantially parallel bristle tufts (154) surrounding a central ball support tuft (155) of stiffer bristles. The substantially planar head portion (151) has a peripheral impact-distributing groove (156) which may optionally receive an O-ring or the like.
Patent GB-2406121-A (GB)
Title: A method and apparatus for high speed communication with a downhole tool
Inventor: LILLY DAVID HILL
IPC: E21B47/12
Filed: 2003-05-23
Abstract: The present invention provides a high-speed communication and data link between a downhole tool and a surface computer. The present invention provides a plurality of parallel data busses inside of the downhole tool for providing multiple data paths between a down hole tool memory or device and a surface computer. The present invention enables high-speed dumping of memory from the downhole tool to a surface computer. The invention also provides a web server inside of the downhole tool.
Patent GB-2421653-A (GB)
Title: System for the collection and association of image and position data
Inventor: WOOLFORD TIM
IPC: G01C21/36
Filed: 2004-12-24
Abstract: An image collecting system 1 comprises a camera 4 operable to produce data representing images; a positioning device 6; and a processor 2, whereby the image collecting apparatus is installable with a vehicle so that the camera is directed in a generally horizontal direction so as to be able to capture images of the vehicle's surroundings whilst the vehicle progresses along a route. The processor generates plural records each comprising data representing an image and information identifying the location of the image collecting apparatus at or around the time of image data production. Image annotation is carried out by using a computer to process the image data to provide data identifying one or more objects in the image; providing data identifying the location of the one or more objects; using a database and the object location data to obtain information about the one or more objects; and annotating the image with the information about the one or more objects.
Patent GB-2406271-A (GB)
Title: Baby bath seat with hanger
Inventor: SUNDBERG BRIAN C
IPC: A47K3/12
Filed: 2002-07-01
Abstract: A baby bath seat assembly includes a support member 30 having a mounting bracket 34 that clamps onto a tube wall 18 and carrying a support 36 that extends downwardly into the tub. The support 36 carries a base 38 on which the seat 40 is mounted to turn through approximately 180{, and a detent mechanisms 110 releasably locks the seat in any selected position.
Patent GB-2410197-A (GB)
Title: Dumbbell having weight attached by two securing members
Inventor: JANUSEK RICHARD ZDZISLAW
IPC: A63B21/072
Filed: 2005-01-21
Abstract: A dumbbell or barbell comprising a bar 12 and a weight assembly 16 mounted on an end portion 14 of the bar. The dumbbell or barbell comprises a first securing member 20 for securing the weight assembly on the end portion. The dumbbell or barbell further comprises an additional second securing member 30 for securing the weight assembly on the same end portion such that the first and second securing members each independently secure the weight assembly on the end portion. The first and second securing members each cooperate with a projection 18 to secure the weight assembly between the projection and the respective securing members.
Patent GB-2424492-A (GB)
Title: Computer rapid boot and shutdown system and method
Inventor: CHANG AN-SHENG
IPC: G06F9/445
Filed: 2005-03-02
Abstract: A computer rapid boot system includes a transmission interface, a volatile memory for storing computer boot information, an interface converter for converting the format of a transmission signal between the transmission interface and the volatile memory, a main memory and a central processing unit. Furthermore, when the computer is booted, the central processing unit can read the computer boot information stored in the volatile memory via the transmission interface, and then enable the computer boot information to be stored in the main memory for increasing the computer boot speed.
Patent GB-2411916-A (GB)
Title: Mining machine having primary and secondary drum cutting drives
Inventor: O'NEILL MICHAEL L
IPC: E21B/
Filed: 2005-03-10
Abstract: A mining machine including a cutting drum 42 having bits thereon, a base, and a boom 58 is characterised by a motor 70 for driving the drum 42 at a cutting speed and a motor 10 for driving the drum 42 at a low speed to provide access to dull, broken or missing bits.
Patent GB-2426393-A (GB)
Title: An AC motor drive current measurement system
Inventor: CARTER ROBERT
IPC: H02P21/00
Filed: 2005-05-20
Abstract: In an AC motor drive system (1) a motor current to be applied to a motor (2)is derived by providing shunts (10-12) and A to D converters (15-17), and processor (18), to determine the current flowing through the shunts. The average or mean current is determined for an integral number of pulse widths of the switching elements. This enables more accurate determination of the current flowing to motor (2). Embodiments provide closed and open loop control.
Patent GB-2415805-A (GB)
Title: Monitoring a fault-tolerant computer architecture at PCI bus level
Inventor: MUELLER HERBERT
IPC: G06F11/18
Filed: 2005-06-14
Abstract: A computer architecture 10, suitable for use in space travel and satellites, has three processors 12 working redundantly in parallel to control a peripheral unit 16 via PCI bus 15 by majority decision. Processors 12 are fed in parallel with a data record to be processed and each deliver output values 13 which are transmitted to PCI bus 15 via interfaces 14. A monitoring device 17 is provided downstream of the processors and retrieves output values 13 from FIFO buffer memories, e.g. pipeline registers 18. The monitoring device compares the output values with one another for matching bit patterns; if a discrepancy is established, a record is made in fault memory 20 and a reset is initiated in the malfunctioning processor 12. If no output values are available, outputs to the PCI bus are temporarily blocked via the watchdog function of a time gate 19.
Patent GB-2410882-A (GB)
Title: Plant growing apparatus
Inventor: MARCHILDON TED
IPC: A01G31/04
Filed: 2003-11-19
Abstract: A plant-growing apparatus (10) has a plurality of rotatable plant-growing modules (32) which can be moved between two positions, separated vertically or horizontally. Each module (32) comprises a cylindrical structure for holding plant-growing containers (80) in which the plants grow radially inwardly of the cylindrical structure toward a light source (68). The apparatus (10) has module support means for supporting each module and rotating it in a substantially horizontal position. The apparatus has module moving means, for example sprocket driven chains (24,25), for conveying the modules between the two positions.
Patent GB-2412338-A (GB)
Title: Surface preparation of an implant
Inventor: ROGER GREGORY JAMES
IPC: A61L27/04
Filed: 2004-02-06
Abstract: A process of forming a prosthetic implant component, such as the femoral component of a knee replacement prosthesis. The process comprises the steps of: (i) forming a prosthetic component having a shape at least approximating the desired final shape of the component from a metal alloy; (ii) subjecting the component to a relatively elevated temperature and pressure followed by a cooling regime; (iii) machining the surface of the component; (iv) polishing the surface of the component.
Patent GB-2429027-A (GB)
Title: Window sealing and guiding arrangements
Inventor: GRUETER ACHIM
IPC: B60J10/79
Filed: 2005-08-12
Abstract: A sealing or guiding strip arrangement is disclosed. A channel-shaped recess 64A is formed in a sealing strip 18. A rigid member 100 is mounted in the recess 64A. Subsequently, the assembled sealing strip 18 and rigid member 100 are mounted to the flange 58 of a vehicle door frame. The rigid member 100 serves to assist in fixing the sealing strip 18 to the door frame.
Patent GB-2429875-A (GB)
Title: Broadband carrier frequency selection
Inventor: LEONG SIEW CHUNG
IPC: H04B1/69
Filed: 2005-09-05
Abstract: The method of present invention relates to broadband wireless communication using multiple carrier frequencies, and the selection or allocation of those frequencies, and is particularly related to ultra wideband (UWB) technologies. The method of dynamically selecting carrier frequencies for carrying a broadband channel comprises: allocating a group of carrier frequencies for carrying the broadband channel; identifying a number of alterative groups of carrier frequencies; monitoring the performance of the broadband channel for the allocated group of carrier frequencies; and re-allocating one of the alternative groups of carrier frequencies to carry the broadband channel in response to the monitored channel performance degrading below a threshold level.
Patent GB-2419684-A (GB)
Title: Through transmission laser welded electro optical subassembly and lens
Inventor: LIM ALVIN TZE YEN
IPC: H01L33/48
Filed: 2005-10-20
Abstract: An electro-optical subassembly (100) includes a base (20) supporting at least one lead 10 and a lens unit (50) having a lens 52. The lead 10 supports an electro-optical component. The lens unit (50) is through transmission laser welded to the base (20) such that the lens is aligned with the electro-optical component. Through transmission laser welding may be used to join the base 20, a cylinder 40 and the lens unit 50. The electrooptical component may be an edge emitting laser 30 and a PIN monitor 32. Lens 52 may be aspherical. The base 20 and cylinder 40 may be made of liquid crystalline polymer.
Patent GB-2421882-A (GB)
Title: Adaptive channel distortion correction
Inventor: JEONG JUN-YOUNG
IPC: H04L27/26
Filed: 2005-12-22
Abstract: A multi sub-carrier receiver (100) includes a frequency equalization coefficient vector (F) optimiser (170) to adaptively correct channel distortion (H, the inverse of F) in the parallel digital frequency signals (Y) from a frequency equalizer (140) to yield the transmitted signal (X=Y.F). Subcarrier signals R0 .. RI are received at a Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) normaliser (171) and normalised to a reference coordinate value by swapping real and imaginary coordinates. A unit error correction vector U is then calculated (173) for each subcarrier from a reference signal (REF) and the received signal for that subcarrier (R=H.X.F) averaged over a number of frames N, ie. U=REF/R(avg). This vector is then compensated (174) and used (176) to update the frequency equalization coefficient vector (next F = F.U) for each subcarrier, with the last precedent F being stored in a buffer (175). The updated F is then fed back to the frequency equalizer.
Patent GB-2433887-A (GB)
Title: Pack for phenothiazine derivatives
Inventor: CAIRNS GRAHAM
IPC: A61K31/5415
Filed: 2006-01-04
Abstract: A pack contains medicinal tablets containing a phenothiazine derivative, prochlorperazine maleate, as active ingredient. The tablets are protected from damage by water. The pack is suitably a water-occlusive blister pack, and preferably contains a metallic layer.
Patent GB-2434018-A (GB)
Title: Alarm system
Inventor: MILLS NIGEL
IPC: G08B13/08
Filed: 2006-01-06
Abstract: An alarm system includes a six core (or wire) cable D extending from a magnetic contact such as a reed switch B. Each core has a plastics insulating sheath, all the sheaths being the same colour. A moveable sleeve C is provided over a small proportion of each core which is differently coloured or otherwise marked so that the separate cores can be identified during installation or servicing. The arrangement provides four operating connections and two anti-tampering connections which cannot be distinguished from one another if an outer sheath of the cable is breached. The common colour is preferably white. Typically, the reed switch B would be attached to a window or door frame to provide warning of an intruder.
Patent GB-2422460-A (GB)
Title: A sequencer for use in a logic analyser
Inventor: WOOD GLENN
IPC: G06F11/25
Filed: 2006-01-19
Abstract: An apparatus for sequencing data, comprising a plurality of sequencer elements coupled in a ripple formation. The incoming data is de-multiplexed so that each sequence element processes a subset of the original data. Each sequence element also processes a counter proxy that represents a sequence counter. Its value comprises a 1-hot representation of the low-order counter subset if the high-order counter subset is zero, and the low-order counter subset plus eight if the high-order counter subset is at least one. The processing of the counter proxy can consist of decrementing, maintaining or resetting the count value, wherein decrementing consists of shifting the one hot counter proxy towards the least significant bit.
Patent GB-2428025-A (GB)
Title: Handheld printer
Inventor: CARLSON GREGORY F
IPC: B41J3/36
Filed: 2006-06-01
Abstract: A handheld printer (10) provides an appropriate application of ink to a print medium without a bulky and complex mechanical system for positioning a print head with respect to the print medium. The handheld printer (10) includes a navigation subsystem (14) that tracks a motion of the handheld printer (10) with respect to a printing surface (20) and a print head controller (30) that causes a print head (12) to fire ink drops onto the printing surface (20) in response to the motion and in response to an image (40) contained in an image buffer (16).
Patent GB-2439962-A (GB)
Title: A method for laser scribing lines
Inventor: BANN ROBERT
IPC: B23K26/36
Filed: 2006-06-14
Abstract: A method for accurately laser scribing lines in thin coatings on a panel, typically a solar panel, where a laser beam scanner unit 13 including an optical system 14 and a scanner lens is used to move a laser beam 12 in a first direction to scribe sections of lines 15 that are a fraction of the total line length required and the scanner unit is moved continuously with resped to the panel in a direction perpendicular to the first direction to form a band 16 of scribe lines and the process repeats multiple times to form a plurality of parallel bands of scribe lines; the method providing that scanner unit is positioned so that the starting position of scribe lines in each band next to be processed overlap exactly the finishing position 17 ends of scribe lines in the last band that has been processed so that all scribe lines interconnect to cover the full area of the panel with continuous scribe lines.