baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2516171-A (GB)
Title: A tracking assistance device, a tracking assistance system and a tracking assistance method
Inventor: HIRASAWA SONOKO
IPC: H04N7/18
Filed: 2014-07-08
Abstract: A tracking assistance device including a target-to-be-tracked setting unit that causes captured images stored in a recorder to be displayed and, in response to an input operation performed by a monitoring person, sets a designated moving object as a target to be tracked; a candidate selection unit that selects a candidate target 47; a candidate image presenting unit that extracts, as a candidate image 51a-d, a captured image in which the candidate target 47 is included, and causes the monitor to display the candidate image such that the monitoring person can select an appropriate candidate image; and a tracing information correction unit that changes the target to be tracked to the selected candidate and corrects the tracing information accordingly. The device may include a confirmation unit that presents an image of the target being tracked for confirmation by the user. The device allows for surveillance of a person being tracked across a multi-camera CCTV system and, when errors may occur in the transition between cameras, prompts the user to identify the target from a list of candidate targets. A claim is also included for a system comprising a surveillance camera, a display device and the tracking assistance device.
Patent GB-2523439-A (GB)
Title: Radiation generating apparatus
Inventor: CHEN YEN-CHUN
IPC: H01J35/28
Filed: 2014-11-27
Abstract: A radiation generating apparatus includes a target base 110, a target 120, a holding assembly 130 and an electronic beam generating device 140. The target is disposed on the target base. The holding assembly holds the target base. The electronic beam generating device is adapted to generate an electronic beam, wherein the electronic beam is emitted to the target to generate a radiation. The target, the holding assembly and the electronic beam generating device are located at the same side of the target base. The device may also be provided with a first driving unit 160 which is to adapted to drive the target base to move along the radial direction. The device may then have a second driving unit 132 and a rotation member 134, which are adapted to drive the rotational member and the target base to rotate along the axial direction.
Patent GB-2530354-A (GB)
Title: An energy management device and an electrical installation
Inventor: HOUGH MICHAEL
IPC: H02J3/38
Filed: 2014-12-03
Abstract: An energy management device for use in an electrical installation having an energy store 48 such as a battery, a connection to a mains electrical grid 14, and a generator such as a wind turbine 10 or photovoltaic array 12 coupled to a generator inverter 18, 20 which converts the generators electrical output to AC for driving a load 56 via an AC bus comprises at least one bi-directional inverter 26. An AC side 28 of the bi-directional inverter is connectable to the AC bus. The bi-directional inverter is controllable by means of a signal 36 taken from the mains electrical grid to provide on its AC side an AC voltage synchronised with that of the mains electrical grid. The DC side 30 of the bi-directional inverter is connectable to the energy store to supply energy thereto or to supply energy from the energy store to the load.
Patent GB-2524641-A (GB)
Title: A foot measurement device and method
Inventor: TOWNS CHRIS
IPC: A61B5/107
Filed: 2015-02-09
Abstract: A carriage 12 with an end abutment 21 moveable relative another end abutment 14 and with a window (26, fig 4) arranged to move relative to a scale 17, wherein a camera 23 may be directed at the window and a foot size measurement may be made from the image of the camera 23. Also disclosed is a method comprising moving the carriage 12 and calculating a foot measurement from an image of the carriage 12 taken by the camera 23. Alternatively a footgauge 11 comprises a first end abutment 14, a carriage 12 with a second end abutment 21 moveable relative the first abutment 14, the carriage 12 having a support portion 22 receiving and directing a camera 23 towards a fixed scale 17. The camera may be in a touch screen device TCD or a mobile phone. The footgauge may be foldable and in a shoebox (fig 6-8).
Patent GB-2539188-A (GB)
Title: A jewellery box
Inventor: ADAM BUNSTON
IPC: B65D85/00
Filed: 2015-06-04
Abstract: A jewellery box comprises an Inner cylindrical sleeve housing (6, figure 5) and an outer cylindrical sleeve housing 5 co-axially arranged, the outer sleeve housing disposed about the inner sleeve housing, said sleeve housings being movable circumferentially with respect to each other; one of said sleeve housings having an axial slot (6A, figure 5), the other having a helical slot 7. The jewellery box also comprises a display mounting 9 within the volume of the sleeve housings mounted for axial movement along the inside of the sleeve housings, said mounting including one or more projections 8 extending through both the axial and the helical slots. The jewellery box also comprises a lid 2A covering the open end of the sleeve housings and pivotally mounted to a sleeve housing for motion perpendicular to the cylindrical axis, to move between a closed position covering the end of the sleeve housings and an open position to uncover the end of the sleeve housings and allow contents of the jewellery box to be seen. Relative circumferential movement of the inner and outer cylindrical sleeve housings causes the or each projection 8 to move within the slots 6A & 7 and the display mounting 9 to move axially, and the lid 2A simultaneously to pivot about the pivot mounting.
Patent GB-2540397-A (GB)
Title: Fuel cell system
Inventor: ZACHARY ELLIOTT
IPC: H01M8/0606
Filed: 2015-07-16
Abstract: A fuel cell system 200 comprises a housing 201 having a first, non-expanded configuration (fig 2a), and a second, expanded configuration for receiving a removable fuel cartridge (202, fig 2c), and a fuel cell for receiving fuel from the removable fuel cartridge. The fuel cell is preferably integrally formed with the housing 201. In one preferred embodiment, the housing 201 forms part of a mobile device such as a telephone, which is powered by the fuel cell supplied with fuel from the removable fuel cartridge. The expanded configuration may include an extending part 206 which pivots away from a main housing part 204, along with a shelf interface 216 which also pivots away from the housing 201. In a second preferred embodiment, the housing (101, figs 1a-d) may comprise a pair of flexible walls (104, 106; fig 1a) joined by connecting members (112, 114; fig 1a), which housing may be squeezed in order to create a space which accommodates a removable fuel cartridge (102, figs 1c-d). This embodiment may be used to provide a charging device for a mobile device.
Patent GB-2533457-A (GB)
Title: Display system with semi-transparent screen shared by two observers
Inventor: PHILIPPE CONI
IPC: G02B30/25
Filed: 2015-10-02
Abstract: A display system (10) comprises a means (16), such as a projector (11), for generating images of a predetermined object and a display device comprising a semi-transparent projection screen (12). The image generating means generates a first image of a first object and a second image of a second object, and the display system comprises two pairs of glasses worn by the first and second observer, arranged such that the first observer sees only the first image and not the second image and the second observer sees only the second image and not the first image. Each pair of glasses allows the exterior light to pass through. The display system comprises a means for detecting the relative positions of the glasses and displaying the first and second images accordingly.
Patent GB-2544793-A (GB)
Title: Cryogen pumping system
Inventor: ANTHONY MATTHEWS
IPC: F04B49/035
Filed: 2015-11-27
Abstract: Disclosed is a cryogen pumping system 1 comprising a cryogen pump 10 with an inflow element 12, an outflow element 14 and a conduit 30 connected between the inflow element and the outflow element and comprising a flow restriction 34. The flow restriction is configured to limit the rate of cryogenic fluid flow through the conduit to less than the rate of flow producible by the pump when in use so as to maintain an operational pressure differential in the cryogenic fluid between the inflow element and outflow element. The flow restrictor may be a throttle, a static flow impedance, a narrower bore diameter or a sheet with an orifice. Preferably the flow restriction allows fluid to flow from the outflow side of the pump to the inflow side of the pump when the pump is inactive so as to equalise any pressure differential across the pump that may cause the pump to stall on start-up. Also claimed is a dilution refrigeration system and a cryostat system.
Patent GB-2532615-A (GB)
Title: Fire and smoke curtain
Inventor: ANDREW PAUL COOPER
IPC: E06B9/80
Filed: 2014-06-02
Abstract: A barrier comprising a roller, a curtain 2, a bottom bar and a friction brake. The curtain arrangement 1 includes a curtain 2, which when not deployed is wound on a roller 4. The roller is provided within a headbox 6, in a ceiling 8. The curtain is provided with a bottom bar 10 which weighs the curtain for descent, but can also be used to close the headbox when the curtain is retracted onto the roller. Side guides 12 are also provided to contain side edges 14 of the curtain. They extend from the headbox 6 on the ceiling to the floor 18. The curtain is held in its retracted position on the roller, by a fusible link 20. An extension 22 of the roller 2 is provided extending out of the headbox 6. The fusible link 20 is provided between the outside of the headbox and the extension 22 of the roller. A peg 24 mounted on the headbox 6 holds one portion 26 of the fusible link, while the other portion 28 of the fusible link is connected to the extension. These portions are held together by a material 30 having a low melting point range typically between 57-150°C. This acts to hold the curtain on the roller under normal condition, preventing rotation of the roller within the headbox, but on sufficient temperature rise, the material 30 will melt, releasing the portions 26, 28 of the fusible link, allowing rotation of the roller and deployment of the curtain.
Patent GB-2536996-A (GB)
Title: Process
Inventor: JOHN DAVID PACH
IPC: C01C1/18
Filed: 2016-01-11
Abstract: The production of ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3) from ammonia and nitric acid (HNO3) comprising the steps of: a) providing a reaction gas mixture comprising hydrogen 20 and nitrogen 18; b) passing the reaction gas mixture over a catalyst to form ammonia 34; c) catalytically oxidising a first portion of the ammonia to form a gas mixture comprising nitrogen, oxygen and nitric oxide (NO); and d) converting the NO into HNO3 40, thereby forming a vent gas mixture 14 comprising nitrogen, oxygen and nitrogen oxides (NOx), wherein the process comprises treating the vent gas mixture to produce a nitrogen gas stream and using at least a portion of the nitrogen gas stream 18 (e.g. having less than 10 ppm oxygen) in the reaction gas mixture, and reacting a second portion of the ammonia recovered 44 in step (b) with a portion of the nitric acid recovered in step (d) to form NH4NO3 46. The hydrogen may be generated by steam reforming of hydrocarbons 30 to produce syngas, followed by water-gas shift (WGS) stage, carbon dioxide removal and methanation stage. The vent gas treatment of NOx may comprise reducing it with ammonia from the ammonia production unit 22 to form nitrogen.
Patent GB-2549708-A (GB)
Title: A reduction-oxidation flow battery
Inventor: TIMOTHY HUGHES
IPC: H01M8/20
Filed: 2016-04-21
Abstract: A reduction-oxidation flow battery 1 is described wherein the catholyte 22 and/or the anolyte 18 are selected from among respective defined groups of polyoxometalate compounds. The anolyte 18 may include the following species: i. C4SiW12O40, ii. C4SiMoO40, iii. C3PW12O40, iv, C5AlW12O40. The catholyte 22 may contain the following species: i. C6V10O28, ii. C9PV14O12. In both the anolyte and catholyte cation C is present and is either: H, Li, Na, or a mixture thereof. An ion selective membrane 14 may be present comprising a cation exchange membrane based on a perfluorosulfonic acid polymer membrane 14.
Patent GB-2550336-A (GB)
Title: Build material management station
Inventor: ISMAEL CHANCLON
IPC: B33Y40/00
Filed: 2016-05-12
Abstract: A build material management station 106 comprises: a processing unit which comprises a first conduit 150a, 150b, 152a, 152b and at least one pump for pumping build material through the first conduit; and at least one external build material storage tank 110, 114a, 114b. The processing unit further comprises at least a first port and a second port 154a, 154b, both ports being located on the exterior of the processing unit such that the external build material storage tank can be connected to the first conduit through the first port and the external build material storage tank can be connected to the first conduit through the second port. The processing unit may provide a third port or further ports through which the external build material storage tank may be connected; wherein the ports may be provided on different surfaces of the processing unit to allow for modular construction giving different configurations to provide a required footprint of the station (see fig 3A-3J). The first conduit may be connected to the first and second port; wherein the conduit comprises a valve which selectively connects the pump to the first or second ports and seals of the other port respectively. The external build material storage tank may comprise fresh build material or recycled build material.
Patent GB-2544835-A (GB)
Title: Current sense amplifier with common mode rejection
Inventor: VAMSIKRISHNA PARUPALLI
IPC: H03M1/10
Filed: 2016-06-08
Abstract: Apparatus and method to measure current through a device or transducer (e.g audio speaker 202), comprising two analog-to-digital converter (ADC/A2D) paths 210, 230, providing digitized signal outputs. The first ADC path comprises IMON ADC 220 210 and measures the current derived voltage developed across a series sense resistor 204. The second path 230 comprises CM ADC 240 which measures the common mode CM voltage component value V(204B) on device 202 or sense resistor 204. Cancellation of the common mode value (common mode rejection) results from summing (or addition subtraction of) the digitized signals from the first and second ADC paths, by means of a summer block. The digitized common mode value is subtracted from the measured current value (voltage derived current component plus common mode component) to leave a corrected and accurate measurement of the device current. Calibration of the system is necessary and a memory element 270 stores a calibration gain value utilized in the summing block 290, preferably by digitally multiplying the digitized common mode value using multiplication block 260. The first and second ADC paths may include front end amplifiers or differential input operational amplifier (op-amp) circuits which comprise of series resistors 214A, 214B , 234 and series feedback resistors 218A, 218B 238. The two separate op amps circuits may feed the ADC inputs, and may comprise single or differential outputs. The gain of the current measuring path (differential measurement) is preferably high due to the small differential signal (voltage) developed across the resistors, whilst the gain of the common mode second ADC path is low or negative due to the high value of the common mode voltage on the sense resistor 204. The calibration also compensates for the resistor and op-amp component mismatch, in particular if due to the series input and feedback resistors. A phase equalization circuit may be used in the second ADC path. Application include protection and linearization of the speaker as well as forming a part of a haptic feedback control system.
Patent GB-2551499-A (GB)
Title: A speech processing system and speech processing method
Inventor: IOANNIS STYLIANOU
IPC: G10L21/045
Filed: 2016-06-17
Abstract: A speech processing system enhances the intelligibility of speech by inserting pauses to account for reverberation of previous utterances. Portions of received speech 101 (eg. word beginnings or transitions) are extracted 102 and have their power calculated 104 and a reverberation contribution estimated 103, then a time ti for the late reverberation to decay to a target power calculated and used to determine a pause duration 106 for insertion into the enhanced speech output. Phone segmentation and prosodic break information may be derived from corresponding text (fig. 4) and used to calculate a pause strength 105 based on insertion suitability.
Patent GB-2541518-A (GB)
Title: Sound transmitting system for a motor vehicle and method for a sound transmitting system
Inventor: TOBIAS HILLERS
IPC: G10K15/04
Filed: 2016-07-04
Abstract: The invention relates to a sound transmitting system for a motor vehicle, having a sound generator (2) and a sound-conducting first sound duct (6), wherein the first sound duct (6) is designed to transmit a sound generated by the sound generator (2), and wherein the first sound duct (6) is connected at a first end (7) to the sound generator (2) in order to transmit sound, and wherein the first sound duct (6) has a third end (21) which is embodied facing away from the first end (7) and via which a sound which results from the generated sound enters a passenger compartment (19) or external region (20) of a bodywork (26) of the motor vehicle (12). According to the invention, in order to bring about a specific sound characteristic of the resulting sound, 15 a first length (L1) of the first sound duct (6) and/or a first diameter (D1) of the first sound duct (6) and/or a first cross-sectional area (Q1) of the first sound duct (6) are/is adapted as a function of the generated sound.
Patent GB-2552693-A (GB)
Title: Umbilical end termination
Inventor: ALAN RUTHERFORD
IPC: E21B41/00
Filed: 2016-08-04
Abstract: An umbilical end termination 20 for a subsea umbilical 30 comprising a plurality of functional elements and including at least one fluid line 22, wherein the umbilical end termination includes a pressure boosting system 26 in line with the at least one fluid line. The pressure boosting system may be a pump and may be powered by a fluid line or electrical line within the umbilical. Optionally, multiple pressure boosting systems may be provided to boost pressure in multiple fluid lines. The fluid line may be a chemical injection line or hydraulic line. The umbilical termination may be used at a midline connection between umbilicals.
Patent GB-2552799-A (GB)
Title: Improved packer
Inventor: CAMERON HILL RADTKE
IPC: E21B33/128
Filed: 2016-08-09
Abstract: A morphable packer 10 having a tubular member 12 defining a throughbore 24 and having first and second end sections 26a&b and a central section 30. The packer 10 is run in and secured to a larger diameter cylindrical member which may be a borehole or pipeline. The central section 30 has an anchoring arrangement having a recess 32 with tapered side walls 36a&b, extending from the bottom 38 of the recess 32 to the outer surface 34. There is a gripping element 40, preferably triangular in cross section, initially located in recess 32, the gripping element 40 having an inclined edge 42a&b abutting a side wall 36a&b of the recess 32 and an outward facing surface 44 that preferably comprises a plurality of ridges making a gripping surface 48. Upon morphing of the packer 10 the gripping element 40 is moved radially outwards to engage with the cylindrical structure and a seal is created between the central section 30 and the cylindrical structure. The gripping elements 40 may comprise a plurality of sections and there may be a plurality of gripping elements on the central section 30.
Patent GB-2552953-A (GB)
Title: Communication system
Inventor: YASSIN ADEN AWAD
IPC: H04W16/28
Filed: 2016-08-12
Abstract: A communication system is disclosed in which a base station serves a communication area, wherein the communication area is formed by a plurality of directional beams each covering a respective portion of the communication area and each having a different respective beam identifier. The base station communicates control information, for a communication device (UE), using at least one directional beam associated with that communication device (e.g. a UE-specific operational beam set, OBS). Control information comprises beam specific reference signals transmitted via each beam. The base station is operable to receive from at least one UE results of OBS specific measurements (e.g. channel state indicator, CSI, measurements) for beams that are included in the OBS for that UE, and operable to control a handover for a particular communication device based on at least one of: the OBS associated with that UE and beam specific reference signals. The base station may comprise a massive antenna for forming a plurality of directional beams of a next generation, NextGen, 5G radio access network.
Patent GB-2553566-A (GB)
Title: Control of output devices
Inventor: David Anthony Eves
IPC: G05B15/02
Filed: 2016-09-09
Abstract: A method of controlling output devices 10 comprises receiving inputs 12 from sensor devices 14, accessing location information 16 defining the location of each sensor device 14, generating a grid 18 from the received inputs 12 and the accessed location information 16, the grid 18 containing non-zero values 20 at the locations of the sensor devices 14 for which an input 12 has been received and containing non-zero values 20 at locations related to the locations of the sensor devices 14 for which an input 12 has been received, accessing location information 22 defining the location of each output device 10, and transmitting outputs 24 to those output devices 10 whose value at the location of the respective output device 10 within the grid 18 is above a predetermined threshold. Preferably the sensors detect the presence of a person or object and the output devices are lights.
Patent GB-2554749-A (GB)
Title: Plasma-magnetic fields emitter of transmitter antenna
Inventor: CARLOS AFONSO LAY
IPC: H04N1/00
Filed: 2016-10-09
Abstract: A multifunction antenna transmitter capable of transmitting electric power and television broadcast signals by way of electromagnetic fields. The antenna is made of quartz and mica with a metal core. The transmitter coverts voltage to magnetic fields by oscillation of the voltage. The receiver converts magnetic fields into voltage by oscillating plasma-kinetic force. The vacuum tube increases the speed of light up to the speed of light squared.
Patent GB-2562446-A (GB)
Title: Wall Fixing
Inventor: DANIEL BAMFORD
IPC: F16B13/12
Filed: 2016-12-12
Abstract: A fixing for securing an item to a wall, in particular a wall of limited strength such as a dry-lined wall (50, 52), is disclosed. The fixing comprises a tubular plug (10) having that has an axial bore that extends from an open end (20). The plug has a gripping portion (22) that isspaced from the open end (20) by a tubular section (30), the bore of the gripping portion being of diameter lesser than the diameter of the tubular section. A spacer (12) is a close sliding fit within the tubular section (30), but cannot enter the bore in the gripping portion (22). A fastener (14) has a shank and a head. The shank can be driven into engagement with the bore of the gripping portion to cause radial expansion thereof, and the head that canclamp an object against the spacer to transmit forces through the spacer (12) to the gripping portion (22).