baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2520142-A (GB)
Title: Solid-state imaging apparatus and imaging system
Inventor: YAMAZAKI KAZUO
IPC: H04N5/378
Filed: 2014-09-12
Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a pixel matrix section, 102, a column signal line, 103, which outputs a pixel signal from the pixel section, a column amplifier circuit, 105, which inverts and amplifies the pixel signal, a bypass circuit, 106, which bypasses the column amplifier circuit, an Analogue to Digital Converter (ADC), 107, and a control unit, 111, which changes an operation mode of the ADC in accordance with the operation of the bypass circuit. In one aspect of the invention the ADC includes a counter and a ramp signal generation circuit which feeds a ramp signal into a comparator for comparison with a reference signal. The control unit changes either the slope of the reference signal or the counting procedure used by the counter when the column amplifier is by-passed by the bypass circuit. Also disclosed is an imaging apparatus which includes a successive approximation ADC and a correlated double sampling (CDS) processing unit. In this aspect the processing of the CDS processing unit is changed between first and second processing modes when the column amplifier is by-passed by the bypass circuit.
Patent GB-2530288-A (GB)
Title: Switch state sensor
Inventor: SWANSON JEREMY
IPC: H05B37/02
Filed: 2014-09-17
Abstract: A switch sensor comprises a battery, an integrated circuit (IC) 4 powered by the battery and a sensor input for connection to a pole C of the switch 6. An IC input 20 is connected to the sensor input via a protection resistance 24 and to the IC output 22 via a greater bias resistance 26. The integrated circuit sets the IC output at a level reflecting a previous signal to the IC input. If the switch is left undisturbed, the IC output can reflect the immediately preceding level of the switch sensor, no current will flow and the battery will not be exhausted. When the switch is operated the levels will differ and a current will flow to or from the IC output. IC input protection resistance 24 may be provided by a resistor or the inherent resistance of a conductor connecting the input to the switch pole. Bias resistance 26 may be more than ten times protection resistance 24. Switch 6 may be a double-throw switch with the battery connected to its contacts. The sensor may be within a casing (fig 3, 2) having accessible battery and input terminals. The sensor may be used in a home automation system to control lighting and can be driven by a conventional lighting switch housed in a back box (fig 3, 15).
Patent GB-2530325-A (GB)
Title: Foodstuff and beverage vent valve protection system
Inventor: BRIDGES MARK GARY
IPC: B65D77/22
Filed: 2014-09-20
Abstract: A normally sealed food or beverage container may be fitted with a check or vent valve to allow any excess gas pressure to vent to atmosphere. In order to prevent the escape of any foodstuffs or liquid from said valve a series of weirs or baffles may be located between the contents and the vent valve.
Patent GB-2521512-A (GB)
Title: Liquid jet head and liquid jet apparatus
Inventor: HORIGUCHI SATOSHI
IPC: B41J2/14
Filed: 2014-10-17
Abstract: A liquid jet head 1 comprises: a first piezoelectric body substrate 2a and an opaque substrate 7; the first piezoelectric body substrate 2a includes n ejection grooves 3 arrayed with an identical pitch (P, fig 1B) in a reference direction K on a surface, and (n + 1) non-ejection grooves 4 arrayed alternately with the ejection grooves 3 while shifted therefrom by a half pitch; the opaque substrate 7 is bonded to the surface of the first piezoelectric body substrate and includes (j + n + k) through holes 8, 11 passing through the plate in the board thickness direction and arrayed in the reference direction. Each of the n through holes 11 communicates with each of the n ejection grooves 3, while the j and k through holes 8a do not communicate with the ejection grooves 3. The opaque substrate may form a nozzle plate or a cover plate or there may be a nozzle plate bonded to the opaque substrate; there may be a second piezoelectric body (2b, fig 5A).
Patent GB-2534539-A (GB)
Title: Delivering content
Inventor: PHILIP SHAW
IPC: H04N21/458
Filed: 2014-11-26
Abstract: A content delivery system comprising a media component configured to deliver media content for playout at a user device; an auxiliary content component for providing auxiliary content for playout at a user device; an engagement monitoring component configured to monitor user engagement with the auxiliary content; a storage component holding engagement monitoring data; and a content control module configured to receive, from a user device, a request for auxiliary content to be inserted in a playout session, and selectively control delivery of the auxiliary content based on the engagement monitoring data associated with a user identifier for the user device. In embodiments, personalised adverts are delivered to a user based on their engagement S1004 with previous ads or commercials. For example, successful engagement with an advert reduces the chance of it reappearing to the user again S1004-1008. The user may also accrue reward points based on the engagement data. A second invention is disclosed in which a playout session may be requested in a resource constrained mode which includes a reduced amount of auxiliary content if the user has permission to do so.
Patent GB-2518557-A (GB)
Title: Current differential relay
Inventor: ODA SHIGETOO
IPC: H02H3/28
Filed: 2012-06-26
Abstract: The present invention is equipped with a merging unit (3-1), a merging unit (3-2), an intelligent electric device (4-1), and an intelligent electric device (4-2). The intelligent electric devices (4-1, 4-2) each have a signal control unit (23), which determines the time difference between the sampling timing of the merging unit (3-1) and the sampling timing of the merging unit (3-2) on the basis of digital data from one end of a protection region and digital data from the other end of the protection region, and which controls the period of a sampling timing control signal so as to eliminate this time difference, and which outputs this controlled sampling timing control signal to the merging unit corresponding to each intelligent electric device. The merging units (3-1, 3-2) each have a control signal output circuit (16), which generates a sampling signal synchronized with the sampling timing control signal from the intelligent electric devices (4-1, 4-2) and outputs this sampling signal as a control signal (16a), and a data output unit (19), which converts electrical inputs to digital data and then outputs this data.
Patent GB-2518578-A (GB)
Title: Method and device for automatic creation of a location-based talk group call with reduced messaging overhead
Inventor: CHOWDHARY DIPENDRA M
IPC: H04W84/08
Filed: 2013-08-01
Abstract: Disclosed is a method of automatic establishment of a location-based talk group call with reduced messaging overhead. The initiating device may be a subscriber unit (SU). The SU determines a geographic reference location and generates location data representative of the location. The SU broadcasts a location-based talk group call header including the location data and including a location-based talk group call identifier field set to cause other SUs receiving the call header to receive and output subsequent data associated with the call header responsive to determining that its current geographic location satisfies the location criterion of the call. The location criterion may be fully determined by the initiating SU and specified in the call header, and may take the form of a specified radius that extends from the geographic reference location represented in the call header.
Patent GB-2535514-A (GB)
Title: Processor exception handling
Inventor: MATTHEW LEE WINROW
IPC: G06F9/38
Filed: 2015-02-19
Abstract: Data processing apparatus 420 comprises: a processor configured to execute instructions, the processor having a pipelined instruction fetching unit 460 configured to fetch instructions from memory 30 during a pipeline period of two or more processor clock cycles prior to their execution; exception logic 470 configured to respond to a detected processing exception 110 having an exception type, by storing a current processor status and diverting program flow to an exception address dependent upon the exception type so as to control the instruction fetching unit to initiate fetching of an exception instruction at the exception address; and an exception cache 430 configured to cache information, for at least one of the exception types, relating to execution of the exception instruction at the exception address corresponding to that exception type and to provide the cached information to the processor in response to detection of such an exception. This may facilitate reduced branch latency in interrupt handling (Figure 7). Also claimed is an exception cache, as defined above, which comprises a flag (630 in Figure 6), associated with each exception type for which it is configured to cache information, indicating whether it holds currently valid information for that exception type.
Patent GB-2526656-A (GB)
Title: Learning automated vehicle
Inventor: RAO MANOHARPRASAD K
IPC: G01C21/34
Filed: 2015-03-16
Abstract: A vehicle includes a navigation system and a processing device. The navigation system determines a route from a current location to a selected destination and the processing device applies a template to the route. The template represents driving trends associated with a geographic region. The processing device adjusts the route based on the template prior to the vehicle embarking on the route. The template may be applied consistently with user preferences, e.g. for fastest or fuel efficient routes, and may be selected by a predictive learning system. The template may define information relating to at least one of safety, infrastructure, convenience, and/or traffic flow associated with a geographic region. In a further embodiment the vehicle may comprise an autonomous driving sensor that provides signals to an autonomous mode controller that controls at least one of the vehicles subsystems.
Patent GB-2520465-A (GB)
Title: A printing ink
Inventor: RASHEED AYESHA
IPC: C09D11/30
Filed: 2013-08-23
Abstract: This invention relates to an ink-jet ink comprising: from 40 to 80 wt% of N-vinyl caprolactam (NVC), phenoxyethyl acrylate (PEA) and cyclic TMP formal acrylate (CTFA) combined, based on the total weight of the ink; 5to 25 wt% of a multifunctional (meth)acrylate monomer, based on the total weight of the ink; 1 to 12wt% of a radiation-curable oligomer, based on the total weight of the ink; a radical photoinitiator; and a colouring agent; wherein the molar ratio of NVC to PEA is 1.4-2.0:1.0 and the molar ratio of NVC to CTFA is 0.7-2.8:1.0.
Patent GB-2528748-A (GB)
Title: Asymmetric transfer and intake in two-strokes
Inventor: PATTAKOS MANOUSOS
IPC: F16J1/09
Filed: 2015-05-19
Abstract: Disclosed is a reciprocating piston two-stroke engine comprising a piston 5 located in a cylinder 4 and driven by a crankshaft 2 via a connecting rod 7, a transfer control surface 8 on the connecting rod, a transfer port 10 on the cylinder and a transfer control port 11 on the piston, wherein for a portion of a reciprocation of the piston the transfer port is communicating with a combustion chamber 6 and a space within the piston 17 through the transfer control port, and for portion of a reciprocation of the piston the transfer port is communicating with the combustion chamber while the transfer control surface is sealing the transfer control port, so that an asymmetric transfer is realized, wherein the communication of the combustion chamber with the space within the piston is substantially asymmetrical relative to a displacement of the piston before and after bottom dead centre. The connecting rod may also comprise an intake control surface for sealing an intake control port on the piston so that an asymmetric intake is realised.
Patent GB-2540781-A (GB)
Title: Improved radiotherapeutic apparatus and method
Inventor: ROBERT DAVIS
IPC: A61N5/10
Filed: 2015-07-27
Abstract: A radiotherapy apparatus comprises a source of radiation which can issue pulses of radiation at a base frequency, and a control apparatus which is arranged to achieve a time-averaged power level of x, where x is a value between 0 and 1 representing a proportion of a maximum power output of the apparatus. It does so by permitting an nth pulse if n is equal to the rounded value of (an integer times 1/x). The pulses may form a pulse train pattern. The control apparatus may comprise a processing unit that provides a pulse train pattern having a number of available slots, M, each slot being marked as a permitted pulse or a suppressed pulse. The processing unit generates a pulse train with a selected number of permitted pulses, Q by: i) dividing M by Q to calculate a factor P; ii) calculating a series of incremented multiples of P, PN = NP, until N = Q where N increments from one; ii) rounding the values of N to produce a set of values RN; and iv) marking slot positions which correspond to the values of RN as permitted pulses, and all other slot positions are marked as suppressed pulses.
Patent GB-2528588-A (GB)
Title: Telephone desk set
Inventor: IRVING ROLAND
IPC: H04R1/34
Filed: 2015-01-23
Abstract: A telephone desk set 1 is disclosed, the desk set comprising a touch screen 2, a base (4, Fig. 3) which supports the touch screen, a holder (i.e. cradle) 20 for a telephone handset 3, and a microphone 22 for hands-free operation. The touch screen is upstanding from the base, the holder is adjacent to the touch screen, and the microphone is located in a channel (23, Figure 5a & 5b) between the screen and the holder. The channel defined by the edge of the screen and the edge of the holder may define a waveguide for sound reaching the microphone. This may help to avoid feedback to the microphone, for example of output from loudspeakers 17 of the set reflected back to the microphone from an object (e.g. person) in front of the desk set, while making use of existing components of the desk set. The microphone may be located behind a hole in the channel and may therefore be recessed with respect to the screen and the holder. The loudspeaker(s) may be located in the base and below the screen such that the microphone is located rearwards of the speaker(s). The hole and waveguide channel are of the order of millimetres in dimensions.
Patent GB-2542580-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to fire suppression systems
Inventor: JAMES EDWIN MORRIS
IPC: A62C99/00
Filed: 2015-09-23
Abstract: A fire suppressant container 10 is disclosed having a first internal compartment 42 containing a first fire suppression agent and a second internal compartment 44 containing a second agent. The container is further provided with a first outlet 22 in communication with the first internal compartment, a second outlet 58 associated with the second internal compartment and in fluid communication with a flexible bladder 54 located within the second internal compartment, and an inlet 34 in communication with the second internal compartment. The second internal compartment is separated from the first internal compartment by a piston 40 of the container. In use, pressurisation of the second internal compartment causes movement of the piston in the direction of the first outlet. This, in turn, causes the first agent to be delivered via the first outlet. Residual pressure in the second internal compartment then acts to pressurise the second fire suppression agent within the flexible bladder and causes this to be delivered via the second outlet at a time after the delivery of the first agent. A method of delivering first and second fire suppression agents from a common container is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2542764-A (GB)
Title: Image processing method and apparatus for normalisation and artefact correction
Inventor: PRIYA LAKSHMI
IPC: H04N9/64
Filed: 2015-09-23
Abstract: An method comprises calculating, for each image chunk (tile, region) of a microscope pixel image of a haematoxylin and eosin stained tissue sample, a combination of the two largest contributions to the variations of colour of the chunk that approximates a representation of three colour component (RGB) data elements of the each image chunk, thereby to provide a plurality of approximated image chunks. The approximated image chunks are used to determine (i) a first item of approximated image chunk data, vMin, that corresponds to a first one of the two largest contributions, and (ii) a second item of the approximated image chunk data, vMax, that corresponds to a second one of the two largest contributions, wherein the first item of approximated image chunk data and the second item of approximated image chunk data together provide a mapping transformation; and for each image pixel, image pixel data is obtained comprising three colour component data elements, and transformed using the mapping transformation to calculate normalised image pixel data. Descriptor data, indicating tissue type, may be used.
Patent GB-2542824-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method
Inventor: ALASTAIR CLARK
IPC: G01N1/22
Filed: 2015-09-30
Abstract: A detector inlet 1 for providing a sample from gaseous fluid which carries particulates to an analytical apparatus for detecting a substance of interest, the detector inlet comprising a plenum 11 with a sampling volume 10, a sampling inlet 14 arranged in the plenum to collect samples of the gaseous fluid from the sampling volume and to provide the samples to the analytical apparatus, and a flow director arranged to create circulatory flow of the gaseous fluid around the plenum to encircle the sampling inlet and thereby vary spatial distribution of the particulates carried by the gaseous fluid to increase a relative proportion of the particulates carried past the sampling inlet without entering the sampling volume. The detector inlet further comprises flow passage, a flow inlet 2 and a flow outlet 4. The sampling inlet may be a pinhole. Ideally, the flow director comprises a curved wall of the plenum, a fin or groove within the wall of the plenum.
Patent GB-2528812-A (GB)
Title: Pipe connection and collet release tool
Inventor: BENNETT MARCUS AUSTEN
IPC: F16L37/092
Filed: 2010-06-04
Abstract: A pipe connection 10, a collet release tool (70, Fig 4), and a method of releasing a pipe 21 from a pipe connection. The pipe connection 10 is for a quick-release pipe connector 14 that uses a collet 18 based pipe gripping and pipe release mechanism. The pipe connection 10 comprises a body portion 16 and a collet 18 for selectively gripping or releasing a pipe 21 within the body portion 16. The body portion comprising a recessed shoulder 20 adjacent to its free end against which a rim 22 of the collet 18 can selectively bear, the recessed shoulder 20 being surrounded by a surrounding wall 28 that extends to or closer towards the free end of the body portion 16; the rim 22 of the collet 18 being fully recessed within the confines of the surrounding wall 28.
Patent GB-2529976-A (GB)
Title: Adaptive network optimization in an optical communications system
Inventor: MUTALIK VENKATESH G
IPC: H04B10/293
Filed: 2014-12-05
Abstract: An optical amplifier with network optimization techniques maximizes performance of a conventional optical amplifier with minimum user intervention. A circulator enables as much light as possible just below a stimulated Brillouin scattering threshold to be launched in to an optical fiber. An amount of reflected power directed by a circulator to a photo diode has a direct correlation to the quality of the received signal in a communications system.
Patent GB-2532381-A (GB)
Title: Keyless padlock, system and method of use
Inventor: LEE BRETT RANCHOD
IPC: G07C9/00
Filed: 2015-08-07
Abstract: A keyless padlock having a padlock body, a shackle, a locking mechanism located in the body and associated with the shackle to lock the shackle to the body in a locked condition and to release at least a part of the shackle in an unlocked condition, the locking mechanism including a signal receiver, at least one control assembly and at least one actuator, the locking mechanism being unlocked upon verification of a signal including an unlock code transmitted by a mobile computing device.
Patent GB-2536161-A (GB)
Title: Heat exchanger fault diagnostic
Inventor: PHILIP ERIC LAMBERT
IPC: F25D29/00
Filed: 2014-11-28
Abstract: Disclosed is a fault diagnostic method for a heat exchanger in which ambient air temperature and heat exchanger temperature are measured. Also disclosed is the use of a single temperature sensor, in combination with a microprocessor, to measure temperature emitted from a heat exchanger and ambient air temperature surrounding the heat exchanger.
Patent GB-2551707-A (GB)
Title: A misting apparatus and method of use
Inventor: ROBERT JOHN HENDY
IPC: E01H3/00
Filed: 2016-06-23
Abstract: There is disclosed a trailer (fig 1) with a misting apparatus 10 for producing a mist from a pressurized liquid, comprising: a fan shaft 134 having a rotational axis 104; a rotary jet assembly 130 configured to drive the fan shaft 134 and comprising a radially extending arm 136 configured to convey the pressurized liquid to a jet nozzle 138, wherein the jet nozzle 138 is configured to eject the pressurized liquid in a jet to generate a jet reaction force having a tangential component. The fan 140 is coupled to the fan shaft 134 for driving an airflow, and a spray nozzle 152 configured to eject the pressurized liquid into the airflow to produce a mist for dust suppression. The rotary arm positioned on the central axis further drives a liquid return pump for recirculation of excess fluid within the fluid collector of the jet containment housing, back to the fluid tank (16).
Patent GB-2537776-A (GB)
Title: Selecting equity investments using quantitative multi-factor models
Inventor: NATHAN TIDD
IPC: G06Q40/06
Filed: 2015-02-13
Abstract: The present invention provides a novel method for evaluating investment instruments using an objective actor based methodology for assessing such factors independent contribution to profits which includes the steps of: supplying, for the plurality of said businesses, datasets of historical reported corporate profits and datasets of said historical business characteristics (factors) correlated to said corporate profits; calculating, for each of said factors and for each historical period in the dataset, a weighting value for each of said businesses representing the relationship between the business and the factor; for each historical period in the dataset, applying a regression analysis to the plurality of weighting values for the plurality of factors and the reported profits for the plurality of businesses to determine the reported profits attributable to each of said factors; and calculating a profit forecast for each of said factors.
Patent GB-2552382-A (GB)
Title: Sliding door monitoring system and method
Inventor: JOHN ANDREW FORSHAW
IPC: G01S17/06
Filed: 2016-07-22
Abstract: The sliding door monitoring system has a range sensor 10 with a transmitter (fig.3,12) and receiver (fig.3,14) of electromagnetic radiation and a reflector 80 positioned to reflect the radiation (fig.2,16) from the transmitter to the receiver, both the time taken to receive the signal and the amount of radiation received is used to determine the size of the gap 190. Preferably, the sensor 10 is mounted on a printed circuit board 60 located in a metal channel 40 with a plastic cover 50; a window 20, transparent to the electromagnetic radiation, covers the transmitter and receiver; formed as a pair of cones or frustums (fig.10,21a,21b) joined to form a trough, aligned with the transmitter and receiver using locators (fig.10,24a,24b). The window is mounted in an aperture 52 with a gasket 30; an array of sensors may be provided to form a curtain of infrared radiation (fig.2,100). Preferably, the reflector 80 is black encapsulated lens tape mounted on a movable apparatus 2 opposite the sensing apparatus 1; each apparatus 1,2 may be mounted on a sliding door 70a,70b or one may be on an opposing slam post.