baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2417874-A (GB)
Title: Customizing players in a video game using morphing from morph targets and other elements
Inventor: RUARK HOLLY LYNN
IPC: G06F19/00
Filed: 2004-05-13
Abstract: In a video game, a player is allowed to create a character in the video game by selecting feature variables that define a character feature according to two or more target features and a feature variable. The target features can be are morph targets and the feature variable might represent relative distance of the player's desired feature relative to the morph targets. In a specific example, the player might be presented with two face shapes as morph targets and an input slider for a corresponding feature variable where the resulting face feature of the character matches one of the morph targets when the input slider is at one extreme, matches the other morph target when the input slider is at the other extreme and is a combination of the morph targets when the input slider is between the extremes. The character features might include face shape, height, weight, skin color, skin texture, body build, particular sports figures' faces, clothing, hair, eyes, nose, mouth, lips, hands, feet, etc. The player can also purchase items from a shop according to restrictions on cost, sponsorship, availability, time of day, date and/or day of year.
Patent GB-2429369-A (GB)
Title: Optimising a network using quality of service and resource utilisation scores
Inventor: KANGRU PER
IPC: H04L12/24
Filed: 2006-07-07
Abstract: A computer implemented method and a system are disclosed for optimising a network. Data corresponding to a communication event is obtained from a network interface. A quality of service score and a network utilisation score are determined for the communication event and the network is optimised in dependence on the quality of service score and the network resource utilisation score.
Patent GB-2439981-A (GB)
Title: Universal controller for a generator set
Inventor: SMITH PADRAIG MICHAEL
IPC: H02J9/08
Filed: 2006-07-13
Abstract: Many installed generator sets are not equipped for synchronization with the grid network. The equipment required to synchronise a generator set with the mains is often not available or is prohibitively expensive. A controller for synchronising different types of generator sets with a grid network is disclosed. The controller is connected to a generator set by a communications link for the transmission of signals for controlling the operation of the generator set engine and for controlling the power generated by the generator. The controller has a master control unit which has several interfaces for converting generic control signals from the master control unit into signals specific to the generator set. An interfaces database having a look-up table may store interfaces for many different generator sets so that an operator can choose an interface for a particular generator set. The controller can be installed for use with different generator sets, irrespective of the make, model or brand of generator set.
Patent GB-2434245-A (GB)
Title: Tape drive with write disable microswitch plunger protector
Inventor: GUTTORM RUDI
IPC: G11B15/07
Filed: 2006-08-24
Abstract: A tape drive has a microswitch 8, with a microswitch plunger 3, that interacts with a tape cartridge 9 having a recess 11 therein that is selectively closed or opened by a sliding element 12 movable back and forth in the recess, to detect whether the recess is opened or closed and thus to enable or disenable a data transfer function between the tape drive and the tape cartridge. To protect the plunger against breakage, and to allow changing the position of the-sliding element without interference by the plunger, the tape drive has a plunger protector 13 that is pivotably mounted and interposed between the sliding element and the plunger. The plunger protector smoothly transfers forces associated with the back and forth movement of the sliding element to forces in the direction of movement of the plunger.
Patent GB-2427507-A (GB)
Title: Layered ion guide
Inventor: BATEMAN ROBERT HAROLD
IPC: H01J9/18
Filed: 2005-12-02
Abstract: A device and method of manufacturing a device, such as an ion guide 7a, ion mobility or ion collision cell, is disclosed comprising one or more layers of intermediate planar, plate or mesh electrodes 2. A first array of first electrodes 8a-8e is provided on a first side of the intermediate layers and a plate electrode or a second array of second electrodes 9a-9e is arranged on the other side of the intermediate layers. An ion transmission region is formed within the ion guide 7a. One or more transient DC voltages or potentials may be applied to the first and second array of second electrodes 8a-8e, 9a-9e in order to urge, propel, force or accelerate ions through or along the ion guide 7a.
Patent GB-2436932-A (GB)
Title: Devices and methods for preventing ice build-up and articles of manufacture that are resistant to ice build-up
Inventor: WITTMER DOUGLAS P
IPC: F25B21/02
Filed: 2007-02-26
Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention feature heat exchange surfaces having a layer or coating having a lower surface tension than water, to repel water and prevent the formation of condensate on said surface.
Patent GB-2447968-A (GB)
Title: Translating subject code with floating point operations to target code according to the precision required by the floating point operation
Inventor: BARRACLOUGH GAVIN
IPC: G06F9/45
Filed: 2007-03-30
Abstract: A computing system 10 capable of handling floating point operations during program code conversion is described, comprising a processor 13 including a floating point unit 14 and an integer unit 16. The computing system further comprises a translator unit 19 arranged to receive subject code instructions 17 including at least one instruction relating to a floating point operation and in response to generate corresponding target code 21 for execution on said processor. To handle floating point operations a floating point status unit 195 and a floating point control unit 196 are provided within the translator. These units are cause the translator unit to generate either: target code for performing the floating point operations directly on the floating point unit; or target code for performing the floating point operations indirectly, for example using a combination of the integer unit and the floating point unit. The translation may be based upon a determination of the precision actually required by the floating point operation. The translator may perform emulation of a subject processor instruction set architecture (ISA) having one floating point precision on a target processor ISA with a different (or the same) floating point precision or optimization of subject code to create optimised target code for the same processor ISA.
Patent GB-2437178-A (GB)
Title: Socket having preloaded contact pins
Inventor: KANESASHI HOKUTO
IPC: G01R1/04
Filed: 2007-04-13
Abstract: A socket for an electrical part has a socket body 14 and a contact pin 15. The contact pin 15 has a fixed portion 15e fixed to a through hole 14d of the socket body 14, a plate-like elastic piece 15b extending upward from the fixed portion 15e and a contact portion 15c to contact the electrical part, such as an IC chip under test. The elastic piece 15b is elastically deformable along a plate surface of the elastic piece, preferably by means of a vertically sliding pressing plate 16, so as to cause the contact portion to contact to and separate from a terminal of the electrical part. Each contact pin 15 preferably consists of a pair of elastic pieces 15b which cooperate to clamp onto a terminal of the electrical part. A biting portion 15f is formed between the fixed portion 15e and the contact portion 15c for biting a bitten portion 14h formed on an inner wall of the through hole 14d. Vertical movement of pin 15 is restricted when biting portion 15f, for example bulge 15f, bites the bitten portion 14h. Also when protuberance 15f bites the bitten portion 14h a preload is given to the elastic pieces 15b in a direction of closing the contact portion 15c of the elastic piece 15b such that elastic pieces 15b of contact pins are biased toward the closed position.
Patent GB-2450880-A (GB)
Title: Device for remotely monitoring a utility meter
Inventor: MIDDLETON MATTHEW CYRIL
IPC: G01D4/00
Filed: 2007-07-09
Abstract: Device 10 remotely monitors the moving magnetic field produced by a meter such as a water or gas meter. It may be up to 154.2 mm from the meter being monitored. It has a magnetic sensor 12 which comprises a pair of bridge connected magnetoresisitive elements disposed at right angels to one another, a processor 16 for processing the output signal of the magnetic sensor, and GSM-GRPS transmission means with antenna 14 for wireless transmission of a processed output signal to a remote device. Body 20 with watertight seal 26 also contains batteries 18. Dual colour LED 32 indicates when the sensors are detecting a moving magnetic field. Use of two sensors or a dual sensor allows the device to be installed in cramped conditions when optimum positioning is not possible.
Patent GB-2442826-A (GB)
Title: Fish hides
Inventor: BAKEY MICHAEL TERANCE
IPC: A01K61/00
Filed: 2007-08-17
Abstract: Devices for protecting fish, also called fish hides may have a buoyant capability and a top surface of which may either float on the surface of a pond or may be placed at a predetermined level below the water by means of weights hung or attached to the hide. The hide may be adjustable, collapsible or foldable, ie in a similar form to an umbrella which folds, rolls and unfolds. The hide may also have fabric which hangs downward to create an apron or skirt which may be flexible or rigid. The top surface of the hide may be decorated or take on the form or colour of plants. The skirt may be suspended from the top surface by means of hooks. The skirt may have holes <B>26</B> to allow the ingress and egress of fish.
Patent GB-2438768-A (GB)
Title: Microfluidics package and method of fabricating the same
Inventor: CHONG SER CHOONG
IPC: B01F13/00
Filed: 2005-02-15
Abstract: A microfluidics package (1) comprising a substrate (6) having a top surface, said top surface comprises at least one fluid channel (11, 12), at least one fluidic chip (2) having a top surface, a bottom surface, at least one side surface, and at least one passage to allow a fluid to traverse from the top surface or any side surface to the bottom surface of the chip; and a sheet (4) of which both sides are adhesive, wherein the first adhesive side of the sheet (4) is secured to the substrate (6), and the at least one fluidic chip (2) is secured by the second adhesive side of the sheet (4), said fluidic chip (2) being arranged such that the at least one passage of the fluidic chip is in fluid communication with the at least one fluid channel (11,12) of the substrate.
Patent GB-2458726-A (GB)
Title: Power transforming apparatus and power transforming method
Inventor: YAMANAKA KATSUTOSHI
IPC: H02M5/293
Filed: 2006-04-18
Abstract: A power transforming apparatus and a power transforming method wherein even in a case of a narrow PWM pulse, the distortions of the output voltage and output current can be reduced and wherein the calculating operation is simple, the cost is low and a high performance can be achieved. The power transforming apparatus, which uses bilateral switches to connect the phases of an AC power supply with the phases of an output side and which performs PWM control of the AC power supply voltages, has a single-phase-fixed switching mode and a all-phase switching mode and includes a mode switching part for switching from the all-phase switching mode to the single-phase-fixed switching mode. There are also included a vector component calculator (13) for selecting, from a hexagonal spatial vector diagram, a voltage vector, which is the same as an instantaneous voltage vector, to calculate the vector component of the instantaneous voltage vector, and a time calculator (14) for calculating the output time of the vector component.
Patent GB-2445222-A (GB)
Title: Solar tiles with interconnected thermal fluid conduits
Inventor: BESTON GUY
IPC: F24S10/70
Filed: 2007-10-24
Abstract: The solar tiles 10 overlay and are in fluid communication with one another, each tile comprising a chamber formed by a housing 11 with a light-transmitting cover 16 and fluid-conducting conduits (20, figure 2) located within the chamber arranged to be exposed to sunlight. The cover may be plastic and removable and have transparent 16 and opaque 15 sections, being held onto the housing by a clip, or sliding into the housing on guide grooves or slots (26, figure 10). The cover or housing may be provided with seals (40, figure 12). The conduit may follow a meandering path through the housing and may be a pipe with fins. It may have connectors at either end arranged to connect with conduits in adjacent tiles. The tiles may be attached directly onto a roof frame and some tiles 110 may be bent or non planar. The system may be connected to a heat exchanger, and may be used to heat fluid in a separate system or circuit.
Patent GB-2443969-A (GB)
Title: Method of transmitting scaled images using video processing hardware architecture
Inventor: EVANS SIMON JAMES WINN
IPC: G06F15/173
Filed: 2007-11-20
Abstract: A method of transmitting differently scaled images to different destinations uses a video processing hardware architecture for a multipoint control unit (MCU) wherein a motherboard 20 carries a field programmable gate array (FPGA) connected to a plurality of additional video signal processors. These additional processors, illustrated by daughterboards 22, are interconnected with a plurality of high bandwidth (ie   /  3Gb/s) links 26. Each daughterboard typically comprises a field programmable gate array (FPGA) (32, figure 4) and four digital signal processors (DSP) (28, figure 4). Also provided are stream processors P (36, figure 4) which may carry out image scaling as well as compression, composition, motion compensation, encoding and other operations, which removes some of the processing load from other DSPs 28, and avoids using up available bandwidth by passing data between processors. The hardware architecture presented ensures that data processing is ideally performed by local DSPs thereby avoiding local bottlenecks, and where necessary, data may be moved in an efficient manner using the high bandwidth links. This architecture is particularly suited to video conferencing systems wherein the MCU is required to provide differently scaled images to different participants, dependent upon the capabilities of their local equipment. This overcomes the disadvantage of present MCUs which lack the processing capability or internal bandwidth availability to meet these processing-intensive demands. By processing the data internally using intelligent multicasting decision, intelligent scaling and compression decisions and acknowledging that the video data may be compressed without loss of visual quality, processing and bandwidth requirements may be met.
Patent GB-2454928-A (GB)
Title: Light guides
Inventor: GOURLAY JAMES
IPC: F21V8/00
Filed: 2007-11-23
Abstract: This invention relates to a film layer which is suitable for use in a light guide plate and methods of forming said film layer and light guide plate. The invention also relates to the light guide plate and light guide devices made therefrom. A light guide plate comprises a first layer of light guiding material in contact with a layer of film (e.g. brightness enhancement film), wherein said layer of film has, formed on at least one surface, a series of microstructures and an ink in contact with one or more microstructures. The film and light guide plate are suitable for use in a range of applications, particularly in connection with the backlighting of displays, for example, liquid crystal displays.
Patent GB-2445108-A (GB)
Title: Microwave resonator for a textile machine, a card, draw frame, or combing machine
Inventor: PETERS STEFFEN
IPC: D01G31/00
Filed: 2007-12-20
Abstract: A microwave resonator 1 for a textile machine, especially a card, draw frame, combing machine or the like, for attachment to a measuring device for measuring the mass and/or moisture content of textile fibre material conveyable continuously through the resonator chamber, has a housing 2 with wall elements 8(a-d), wherein through-openings 10, 11 in spaced wall elements lying opposite one another are coaxially connected by a tubular element 12 and the interior space of the housing 2 is hollow. End panels 9a,9b close the resonant cavity. In order to simplify manufacture and permit an uninterrupted resonance field, the housing 2 comprises a continuous seamless hollow profile 8 with profile walls 8(a-d) in which the tubular element 12 connects the openings 10, 11 in opposite profile walls 8a, 8b with each other.
Patent GB-2446488-A (GB)
Title: Water-containing motor fuel
Inventor: LOGGERS HENDRIK
IPC: C10L1/32
Filed: 2008-01-14
Abstract: Emulsions of mineral automobile fuel, such as gasoline and diesel oil, and containing at least 77 percent by weight of water, are described as a usable motor fuel. When vegetable oil is worked into the mixture, the automotive fuel can contain a percentage of water that can vary over a wide range. The advantages in using fuel mixtures are lower fuel consumption, lower CO2 emissions, affordable automobile fuel, and a lengthening of the period for which the increasingly scarce reserves of mineral oil will be available.
Patent GB-2456346-A (GB)
Title: Obtaining customer feedback at point of sale
Inventor: WATERLOW TIM KALOS
IPC: G06Q20/00
Filed: 2008-01-14
Abstract: A method of data collection, comprises electronically reading information from a payment card of a user of a terminal; processing a financial transaction in respect of the payment card; presenting a question to a customer, e.g. to rate the service they have received, wherein the question is not related to the financial transaction; receiving a response to the question from the customer; and transmitting the response, perhaps with other information such as time, date, amount spent or characteristics of the customer, received to a processing system. Preferably the data sent to the processing system is analysed to determine results such as average rating for an establishment which can be accessed via a website.
Patent GB-2444187-A (GB)
Title: Optical encoder having slanted optical detector elements for harmonic suppression
Inventor: MITCHELL DONALD K
IPC: G01D5/38
Filed: 2006-07-24
Abstract: An optical encoder includes a source of a light beam, an optical grating that generates a spatial pattern of interference fringes, and an optical detector which includes generally elongated detector elements that sample the interference fringe pattern at spatially separated locations along the direction of motion of the grating. Each detector element has one or more segments slanted along the direction of motion of the grating by an integer multiple of the period of an undesirable harmonic component of the fringe pattern, thereby spatially integrating the harmonic component and suppressing its contribution to an output of the detector. One specific detector type includes parallel elongated rectangular elements in a rectangular array that is rotated slightly about a Z axis; another type includes detector elements arranged to form a non-rectangular parallelogram. Another type of detector includes detector elements that each have multiple elongated rectangular segments which may be arranged into two non-parallel sets. The two sets can be father arranged in an alternating fashion so as to impart a zig-zag or chevron shape to each detector element.
Patent GB-2443373-A (GB)
Title: Automotive vehicle electrical system diagnostic device
Inventor: BERTNESS KEVIN I
IPC: G01R31/00
Filed: 2006-08-29
Abstract: An automotive vehicle electrical system diagnostic apparatus (13) includes first and second electrical connections (404,418) configured to electrically couple to an electrical system of an automotive vehicle which includes a battery. Digital samples are obtained during operation of the vehicle which are related to the system. The digital samples are stored in memory (432).
Patent GB-2461535-A (GB)
Title: Electric generator for bicycle
Inventor: YEN JEN-YEN
IPC: B62J6/10
Filed: 2008-07-02
Abstract: An electric generator 1 for a bicycle 8 includes a housing 10 for attaching to a bicycle frame 80, a rotary member 20 rotatably received in the housing for engaging with an axle of the bicycle, a reduction gearing 3 received in the housing and engaged with the rotary member, a motor 40 received in the housing and having a pinion 41 attached to a spindle 42 and engaged with the reduction gearing for being driven by the reduction gearing and the rotary member and for generating an electric energy, a battery 51 electrically coupled to the motor for receiving and storing the electric energy generated by the motor and for supplying the electric energy to energize a light device 53, or other electric facilities (e.g. phone, MP3 player).
Patent GB-2449610-A (GB)
Title: Enviromentally-friendly oil/water demulsifiers
Inventor: HELLBERG PER-ERIK
IPC: C07C43/32
Filed: 2007-04-03
Abstract: The invention relates to particular orthoester based polymers as well as the use of specific orthoester based polymers as a demulsifier for water/oil emulsions. Products suitable for use according to the invention have the formula (I), wherein R1 is hydrogen or a hydrocarbyl group with 1-4 carbon atoms, R2, R3, and R4 are, independently, a group comprising C3-C4 alkyleneoxy groups and/or ethyleneoxy groups in any order, and an end group Y, which is, independently, hydrogen, a hydrocarbyl group with 1-30 carbon atoms, a group -(CH2)zNR5R6 or -(CH2)zN<+>R5R6R7, wherein each of R5, R6, and R7 is, independently, an alkyl group with 1-22 carbon atoms or -CH2CH2OH, and z is 2 or 3, provided that at least one of the groups R2, R3, and R4 comprises at least one block of at least on average 4 alkyleneoxy groups with 3 and/or 4 carbon atoms, and provided that if Y is hydrogen, then at least one of n and m is a number of 1-100, or a di- or polycondensate of the polymer via free hydroxyl groups in R2, R3 or R4.
Patent GB-2469307-A (GB)
Title: Gaming chairs and bases therefor
Inventor: POOLE EDWARD JAMES
IPC: A47C15/00
Filed: 2009-04-08
Abstract: A base 10 is disclosed for use with a gaining chair 78 of the rocker type which enables the rocker chair to be placed thereon, to be stably supported thereby, and to be readily removed therefrom. The base has a chair supporting portion 36,37; a supporting portion 20 for hand controls 86 and a supporting portion 24 for foot-controls 88. A player can use the rocker chair alone, supported directly on the floor, when playing a game which does not require foot pedals and can place the rocker chair on the base when playing driving or flying games.
Patent GB-750468-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to sheet feeding apparatus
IPC: B65H7/20
Filed: 1954-04-06
Abstract: 750,468. Feeding sheets. HARRIS-SEYBOLD CO. April 6, 1954 [April 13, 1953], No. 10030/54. Drawings to Specification. Class 100 (1). Sheet-feeding apparatus for feeding sheets successively from a stationary upright pile thereof comprises sheet separating means arranged for vertical movement and operable to separate the sheets successively from the top of said pile, sheet-conveying means arranged adjacent said pile for removing the separated sheets successively from said pile, means for lowering said separating means as the sheets are removed from said pile, and means for operating said separating means at timed intervals and for timing the operation thereof as it descends, said last-named means comprising a rotatable annular member, a vertically positioned driving element continuously engaged with said annular member for continuously rotating the latter one revolution for each feeding cycle, said annular member being movable vertically with said separating means and along said driving element, and driving connections from said annular member to said separating means, said