baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2578243-A (GB)
Title: Display device
Inventor: MI-NA SHIN
IPC: G09F9/30
Filed: 2019-06-28
Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic display device with a flexible OLED display panel DP. The display panel has a back cover with a plurality of openings that allow the cover to be flexible and relieve the stress applied to the back cover when rolled up. The display panel has a roller unit 151 that winds or unwinds the display panel, and a lifting unit 160 that moves the display panel in a vertical direction. The displays have a housing HP for the panel and the roller unit. The back cover has support areas with a malleable area between the support areas and the back cover is larger than the display panel. The malleable area having openings and the display panel is disposed on it. The back cover may have several support areas with malleable areas between them. The malleable areas may have reinforcement areas which extend in the length direction of the openings, and have protrusions on the surface opposite to the display panel. The openings in the back cover may have a width in the column direction that is smaller than in the row direction.
Patent GB-2581259-A (GB)
Title: Door
Inventor: MARTIN JOHNSON
IPC: F24C15/02
Filed: 2019-12-20
Abstract: An oven door 1 comprises a door fascia 2 with an intermediate panel 3 fixed or fixedly secured to the door fascia defining a first cavity A between the door fascia and the intermediate panel. An inner panel 4 is removably secured to the intermediate panel and defines a second cavity B between the inner panel and the intermediate panel. The first cavity may contain insulating material I. Spacers (35, Fig. 3) may be located around the periphery of the intermediate or inner panels to maintain a gap between the intermediate and inner panels. The intermediate panel may be fixed to the door fascia by securements (2c, 26, Fig. 3). A portion of the intermediate panel may nest within the inner panel. The inner panel may be secured to the intermediate panel by resilient retaining means (34, Fig. 2) comprising retaining elements (34b, Fig. 2) on a side wall (32, Fig. 2) of the intermediate panel and receiving elements (43, Fig. 4) on a side wall (42, Fig. 4) of the inner panel. An oven, range oven, an oven door assembly, a kit of parts, and a method of installing an oven door assembly are also claimed.
Patent GB-2578390-A (GB)
Title: Saponin compound targeting PD-1 and application thereof
Inventor: HONGLIN LI
IPC: A61P35/00
Filed: 2018-07-12
Abstract: Provided are use of a saponin compound of formula (I) or (II), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, prodrug or solvate thereof, in the manufacture of a medicament targeting PD-1. The medicament targeting PD-1 is one which treats a disease by inhibiting PD-1 from binding to a ligand thereof. The disease may be a tumor, an infection caused by a bacterium, a virus or a fungus, or an inflammatory disease.
Patent GB-2583580-A (GB)
Title: Easily dismountable heat pump and method of manufacturing a heat pump
Inventor: ADRIAN ZAJAC
IPC: F25B31/02
Filed: 2020-03-25
Abstract: A heat pump and method of manufacturing, assembling or disassembling a heat pump. The heat pump comprises a liquefier and evaporator inside a housing 10. A compressor is provided in fluid flow between the evaporator and liquefier, the compressor comprising a motor 42, impeller 48 and diffuser. The diffuser comprises a diffuser portion 45 extending between the motor and impeller and comprising a first part 46 connected to the housing and second part 47 connected to the motor. The first part has an opening which is closed by the second part, and the impeller can be removed from the housing through the opening. The first and second parts may be releasably connected by screws. The first part may be connected to the housing via a mechanical decoupling to at least partially damp vibration of the second part. An elastic seal 70 may be provided between the first and second parts, or the second part may be not or only flexibly connected to the housing to allow movement between the second part and the housing.
Patent GB-2595512-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle driver assistance control system and method
Inventor: ANTONIO DE GONZALO
IPC: B60Q9/00
Filed: 2020-05-29
Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to a control system (120) for controlling a vehicle lighting system (130) to assist a driver in passing an object (510) in a path of the vehicle (100), the control system (120) comprising one or more controllers (121), the control system (120) being configured to control the lighting system (130) to project a clearance zone indication (550) on a driving surface (500) ahead of the vehicle (100), the clearance zone indication (550) providing an indication of an area of the driving surface (500) to be avoided by the vehicle (100) whilst passing the object (510), wherein the system (120) is configured to: receive object position information indicative of a position of an object (510) in a path of the vehicle (100); determine a position of the clearance zone indication (550) to be projected on the driving surface (500) in dependence at least in part on the object position information; and output a clearance zone indication signal to cause the clearance zone indication (550) to be projected at the determined position.
Patent GB-2596803-A (GB)
Title: Expression vector production & high-throughput cell screening
Inventor: Vilella Abert
IPC: C40B60/06
Filed: 2020-07-06
Abstract: A method of expression vector production as well as application to the production of host cells for protein repertoire expression and high-throughput screening, wherein the protein repertoires comprise canine immunoglobulin chains, which are prepared suing amplification methods using primers against the antibody V region 5’ UTR and against the constant region such as the lamda constant region. The invention also relates to primers useful for PCR amplification of nucleotide sequences encoding canine antibody variable domains.
Patent GB-2597328-A (GB)
Title: Methods and apparatus for processing media content
Inventor: MARTIN TRIMBY
IPC: H04N21/81
Filed: 2020-07-20
Abstract: Methods and apparatus for processing media content to be rendered as a presentation for a user at a set of one or more media devices 60 in an arrangement at a point in time, the presentation being based on layout rules (e.g. whether, when, where and how rendered) 66b defining suitability and configuration of media (e.g. video, audio, text, graphics) objects 55 for rendering, the arrangement and one or more user-associated characteristics and/or attributes constituting a context for the presentation which is formed of selected media objects from a set, the context having one or more constraints 66c, each constraint defining a property of the context affecting the rendering of at least a subset of the selected media objects 55. The method comprises configuring, for each media object in the set, a characteristic of the media object (e.g. size, screen position, colour, transparency and layering order) satisfying a utility condition based on a measure of utility of the media object 55 in the context at the point in time, the measure of utility being evaluated in respect of the constraints 66c of the context; and identifying the selected media objects from the set based on the utility metrics and layout rules 66b.
Patent GB-2589426-A (GB)
Title: A gasification apparatus and method
Inventor: EDWARD MCNAMARA
IPC: F23G7/10
Filed: 2020-08-19
Abstract: Gasifier 10 comprises a primary chamber 20 with feedstock augers 38 and a floor comprising a hearth (24, Fig. 5) which forms a roof of a secondary chamber 35. A mixing chamber 30 has an opening suitable for receiving synthetic gases from the primary chamber and comprises an air inlet fan 26 for adding oxygen for ignition. Heat from combustion of gases is delivered from the mixing chamber to the hearth in the secondary chamber. The secondary chamber includes baffles (29, Fig. 6) under the hearth, and an outlet valve 40. A controller 100 controls flow of gases in the chambers according to sensed pressures and temperatures in the chambers, so that flow through the secondary chamber around the baffles optimises combustion in an after-burner phase, and controls flow rate caused by a downstream fan 80. A heat exchanger 60 may be downstream of the secondary chamber and a feedback circuit (110, Fig. 7) may feed a portion of exhaust gases back into the secondary chamber. A corresponding method is also claimed. The gasifier is particularly suitable for treating organic feedstock.
Patent GB-2599917-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for covering opening
Inventor: RICHARD PEARSON
IPC: E04G21/32
Filed: 2020-10-13
Abstract: The apparatus 100 comprises a length-adjustable first beam 102 and one or more length-adjustable second beams 104. The first beam is removably securable with its ends 108,110 at respective first and second sides 122,124 of the opening 101A. Each second beam has a bracket 120 (e.g. U-shaped) at a first end 114, removably couplable to and movable along the first beam. Each second beam is removably securable at a second end 116 to a third side 126 of the opening, substantially orthogonal to the first and second sides. Each end of the first beam and the second end of the second beam may each comprise an L-shaped bracket, a first bracket portion extending longitudinally from the beam. Optionally the first portion is positioned above the beam axis such that the beam rests substantially within the opening when the first portion is seated on a side thereof. Also claimed is a method.
Patent GB-2600958-A (GB)
Title: Semiconductor imaging apparatus and method
Inventor: DANIEL GÄBLER
IPC: H04N5/335
Filed: 2020-11-12
Abstract: A semiconductor imaging apparatus 2 comprises: a light detection device 4 (e.g. a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) or avalanche photodiode) in a silicon substrate 6; an optical filter 12 arranged to filter light incident on said light detection device (e.g. in the infra-red range) and comprising a gap 14 for allowing unfiltered light to reach said silicon substrate 6; an isolation structure 8 for stopping light generated charge carriers in said silicon substrate 6 from reaching said light detection device 4; and a photodiode 24 for detecting said charge carriers. The imaging apparatus 2 may be arranged to perform time of flight measurements based on the output of the light detection device 4 and visible light imaging based on the output of the photodiode 24.
Patent GB-2601134-A (GB)
Title: Optical modulator
Inventor: HELMUT PREISACH
IPC: H04J14/08
Filed: 2020-11-18
Abstract: Disclosed is an optical modulator and an associated optical modulation method. The optical modulator comprises, as optical modulator components, first and second transmitter chains and a first optical time division multiplex, OTDM, generator arranged to receive time interleaved optical pulses generated by one of said optical modulator components. In further embodiments, the optical modulator may comprise a first OTMD generator upstream of the transmitter chains and second and third OTDM generators downstream of the transmitter chains. The OTDM generators may be Mach-Zehnder modulators, MZM, which may be segmented with a resonator per segment. The modulator may be implemented in complimentary-metal-oxide- semi-conductor, CMOS, and may further comprise a semi-conductor, SisCap, modulator. The modulator may further comprise an electrical chip arranged to provide correction signals generated by a finite impulse response, FIR, filter. A FIR filter parameter may be adapted based on an AD converted signal and further adapted based on a TX signal received at a coherent optical receiver.
Patent GB-2598166-A (GB)
Title: Rapid and efficient method for expanding human mesenchymal stem cells in vitro and application thereof
Inventor: JIANHUI XIAO
IPC: C12N5/078
Filed: 2020-11-18
Abstract: Disclosed is a rapid and efficient method for expanding human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in vitro, comprising co-culturing the MSCs with immune cells in human peripheral blood. In the method, the immune cells may comprise human peripheral blood mononuclear cells, monocytes or lymphocytes. The cells may be co-cultured in either a contact or non-contact mode. Optionally the immune cells in human peripheral blood and human mesenchymal stem cells are co-cultured at a cell number ratio of 1:1 to 400:1.
Patent GB-2603471-A (GB)
Title: Mitigating errors in algorithms performed using quantum information processors
Inventor: ASHLEY MONTANARO
IPC: G06N10/00
Filed: 2021-01-29
Abstract: A method for mitigating errors caused by noise in an algorithm executed using a quantum information processor (QIP). The method comprises, for each fermionic linear optics (FLO) circuit, executing that FLO circuit to determine a first value of an observable; and classically simulating that FLO circuit to determine a second value of the observable. A training set comprising a plurality of tuples is established, each tuple comprising a set of parameter(s) for defining a FLO circuit, and the corresponding first and second values of the observable determined for that FLO circuit. A noise inversion function is determined using the training set. The method further comprises executing, using the QIP, a quantum circuit for implementing at least part of the algorithm to determine a noisy value of an observable. The noise inversion function is applied to the noisy value. A corrected value of the observable is determined from the output of the noise inversion function.
Patent GB-2603225-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for encapsulating images in a file
Inventor: Hervé Ruellan
IPC: H04N21/854
Filed: 2018-09-24
Abstract: Encapsulating samples (images) in a file and parsing or reading samples (images) in a file, comprising: determining a grouping type based on a capture mode of the samples (images); generating a data structure describing the properties of the samples (images), the data structure comprising the grouping type; and embedding the data structure, the grouping type and samples (images) in the file. The data structure may ISO-BMFF and may be a second data structure (i.e. list of tie identifiers) ‘SampleGroupDescription’ box 402, within a first data structure (i.e. grouping information box) ‘SampleToGroup’ box 401. The grouping type may be defined for different image capture modes using four-character codes, such as: ‘auto exposure bracketing mode’ aebr; ‘white balance bracketing mode’ wbbr; ‘focus bracketing mode’ fobr; ‘flash exposure bracketing mode’ afbr; ‘depth or field bracketing mode’ dobr; ‘iso bracketing mode’ isbr; ‘time lapse mode’ tila; ‘panorama mode’ ‘pano’; ‘image burst mode’ imbu or brst; ‘user collection mode’ ucol; ‘super resolution mode’ sres; ‘multi-exposure mode’ mult; ‘noise reduction mode’ nois; ‘long-exposure noise reduction mode’ dark; ‘vignetting compensation mode’ flat; and/or ‘HDR capture mode’ ‘hdr ’.
Patent GB-2598668-A (GB)
Title: A gaming system
Inventor: ANDREW CAMMEGH
IPC: G07F17/32
Filed: 2021-05-24
Abstract: A gaming system comprising a roulette wheel including a rotating wheel and a ball which generates a random number; one or more wager receiver to receive wagers placed by one or more players; a plurality of first winning event tokens; and a prize pool server, wherein the prize pool server includes a data receiver to receive details of the wagers placed by the players via the or each wager receiver, a processor for determining a prize pool and a data storage module for storing data relating to the prize pool; wherein if the random number generated by the roulette wheel does not satisfy a predetermined condition a losing event is defined and the monetary value of the wagers placed by the player(s) are added to the prize pool; and if the random number satisfies the pre-determined condition then a winning event is defined and the or each winning player receives one of the first winning event tokens which is used to select a number from an array of numbers that correspond to the numbers of the rotating wheel for a subsequent spin of the roulette wheel, wherein if the random number generated by the roulette wheel on its subsequent spin matches the selected number, a second winning event is defined and the player then wins a portion of the prize pool.
Patent GB-2596718-A (GB)
Title: Shaped nonwovens that exhibit high visual resolution
Inventor: ARMAN ASHRAF
IPC: A61F13/514
Filed: 2020-03-12
Abstract: A nonwoven fabric is disclosed. The nonwoven fabric can include a first surface and a second surface and at least a first visually discernible zone of three-dimensional features on one of the first or second surface. Each of the three-dimensional features can define a microzone comprising a first region and a second region. The first and second regions can have a difference in values for an intensive property, and the first visually discernible zone can exhibit a high visual resolution.
Patent GB-2604041-A (GB)
Title: Gas detection device with a detector and with a compensator and gas detection process with such a gas detection device
Inventor: Jürgen Osswald
IPC: G01N33/00
Filed: 2022-02-21
Abstract: A gas detection device for monitoring a combustible target gas, comprises; a housing 4, detector 10, compensator 11.1, and sensor array; the detector comprises an electrically conductive wire with helical heating segment 20, electrical insulation 21 with catalytic material around the heating segment; the compensator extends in a plane and comprises electrical strip conductor 32 with heating segment on carrier plate 31; the device being configured to apply voltage U10 to the detector so that current flow through the wire heats the heating segment, and apply voltage U11 to the compensator so that current flow through the strip conductor heats the heating segment; the detector being configured to oxidise combustible target gas in the housing by heating the heating segment; the sensor array is configured to measure detection variables which depend on temperatures of the detector and compensator; the device being configured to determine presence and/or concentration of target gas as a function of the measured detection variables.
Patent GB-2620356-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and system for generating thermal energy using concentrated solar panels
Inventor: MUSTAPHA HAMDAN
IPC: F24S60/00
Filed: 2022-03-01
Abstract: A thermal energy generation apparatus has a compact unitary structure provided with a fluidized bed and a solar energy receiver 4. A circulating unit continually circulates solid particles around the solar receiver and the solid particles, which may be desert sand, function as a thermal energy storage material. The fluidized bed may include a heat exchanger and may include baffles 6 in a baffle enclosure unit 12 that wraps around the baffle section of the assembly and acts as a secondary heat exchanger for micro/nanoparticles. The baffle enclosure unit is generally a rectangular box-shaped structure with each side wall having outwardly angled panel sections 14 extending to apertures (16 Fig. 5) in the centre of each side wall which provide an inlet/outlet for micro/nano particles on either side of the unit. The base (8 Fig. 3) of the unit has apertures to provide a hot gas inlet into a primary heat exchanger. The solid particles may be stored in a tank (18 Fig. 5) for use in the absence of solar energy, for example in poor weather conditions or at night.
Patent GB-2603864-A (GB)
Title: Class-D amplifier with multiple independant output stages
Inventor: ZHAOHUI HE
IPC: H03F3/72
Filed: 2018-11-08
Abstract: A method for reducing distortion in a class D amplifier having multiple different supply level output stages, the class D amplifier comprising a loop filter 302 having an output and a driver stage 34 operable in a plurality of modes having different respective output impedances. The class D amplifier also comprises a circuit 900 configured to sense a current at a load 332 of the class D amplifier, determine an IR drop for a respective output impedance of the driver stage based on the sensed current and add the IR drop to the loop filter output to compensate for the respective output impedance of the driver stage. The output impedance of the driver stage may be changeable at a location of a zero crossing of the sensed load current or changeable at a location of a zero crossing of a sensed voltage of the load.
Patent GB-2605699-A (GB)
Title: Methods and apparatus for multi-stage activation of communication devices
Inventor: ALEXANDER MUEGGENBORG
IPC: H04W76/10
Filed: 2020-09-18
Abstract: An example disclosed method includes, in response to receiving a first signal at a communication device when the communication device is in a deep sleep mode, changing the tag from the deep sleep mode to an awake mode for a period of time, wherein the communication device consumes a first amount of power in the deep sleep mode, and the communication device consumes a second amount of power in the awake mode, and the second amount of power is greater than the first amount of power; in response to receiving a second signal during the period of time when in the awake mode, changing the communication device from the awake mode to a fully functional mode, wherein the communication device consumes a third amount of power in the fully functional mode, and the third amount of power is greater than the second amount of power; and, in response to not receiving the second signal during the period of time, changing the communication device from the awake mode to the deep sleep mode.
Patent GB-2619006-A (GB)
Title: UAV flight path optimisation
Inventor: WILLIAM HITCHCOCK
IPC: G05D1/10
Filed: 2022-05-18
Abstract: A method for optimising the flight path of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)configured to carry out inspection of solar or photovoltaic (PV) modules in large-scale solar array installations. The method comprises using a sensor mounted to a UAV to capture image 32 of at least part of table of solar modules 30 in a solar array installation. Using a processor, operatively connected to the sensor, the image is converted into image data. Using a machine learning model the boundary of the at least part of the table is detected and UAV perturbation values determined, from the image data. A control algorithm is used to process the UAV perturbation values and to calculate corrected flight path values and the flight path values are passed to a flight controller to navigate the UAV. The UAV perturbation values may comprise a lateral offset, an angular offset and an altitude offset. The altitude of the UAV may be determined using photogrammetry. The machine learning model may perform semantic segmentation of the image data to detect the boundary of the row of PV modules and to determine UAV perturbation values
Patent GB-2606504-A (GB)
Title: Portable field maintenance tool with resistor network for intrinsically safe operation
Inventor: ROGER BENSON
IPC: G05B23/02
Filed: 2017-06-23
Abstract: A portable field maintenance tool 100 interact with field devices configured according to a number of different communication protocols, such as the HART protocol and the Fieldbus protocol. The tool The tool includes a circuit 609 connected to a field device 1010 via a wired link, powered by a power supply 1020, preferably a power supply 602 within the tool, whereby a communication signal is superimposed on the supplied power. A power monitor 408 of the tool is connected to the field device in parallel with the power supply so that it can measure electrical characteristics of signals sent or received by the field device without disconnecting the field device from the power supply. The field device may be an actuator or a transmitter; and includes a positive terminal 1012, a negative terminal 1014, and preferably a test terminal 1015. The test terminal 1015 may enable detection of current through the field device and/or detection of voltage across the terminals 1012 and 1014.