baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2544287-A (GB)
Title: Anchor system for off-shore use
Inventor: PETER GERARD ALLAN
IPC: B63B21/26
Filed: 2015-11-10
Abstract: An anchor system connected to a floating or submerged structure has a chain or cable 3 connecting an anchor 1 engaged in a hole 5, drilled into the seabed, to the floating or submerged structure. The tension in the chain or cable is borne by the chain or cable being embedded in the sea­bed 8 adjacent the wall of the hole. A method of anchoring a floating or submerged structure using the anchor system is also disclosed. The anchor may be grouted in place or may be held in position by flukes extending from the anchor into the hole wall. The anchor may be combined with a drill bit and the hole may be drilled such that it is inclined to the vertical.
Patent GB-2545017-A (GB)
Title: A lighting device
Inventor: PAUL DOMINIC WHITTAKER
IPC: F21V14/04
Filed: 2015-12-04
Abstract: A lighting device includes a baffle 24 surrounding a light source, and a reflector module 40 is connected to the baffle. The reflector module 40 includes a main reflector (44, Fig. 1) having a light exit opening (46, Fig. 5a) from which light output is projected towards a target area. Reflective surfaces 52 are adjacent to the opening for reflecting light away from the opening. The reflector module 40 has a plurality of auxiliary reflectors 60, 62 for adjusting the shape of the light output of the lighting device. Each auxiliary reflector 60, 62 is moveable relative to the main reflector 44 between a stowed position and a deployed position in which at least part of the reflective surface of the auxiliary reflector is exposed beside the light exit opening 46 of the main reflector 44 to reflect light away from the target area.
Patent GB-2550602-A (GB)
Title: Optical device
Inventor: GIHAN RYU
IPC: G01N33/543
Filed: 2016-05-24
Abstract: An optical device for the quantitative determination of the concentration of at least one analyte in a liquid sample. The liquid sample is provided in an assay device (20, Fig. 1) with a lateral flow membrane (4, Fig. 1) having a plurality of test regions (8, 12, Fig. 1) for retaining tagging particles in the plurality of test regions (8, 12, Fig. 1) in dependence on the concentration of the analyte in the liquid sample. The optical device features a housing 52 defining a first chamber 56 and a second chamber 60. A sample port 64 is defined in the first chamber 56. The sample port 64 receives light from a plurality of test regions of the assay device when the optical device is engaged with the assay device. The optical device further features a plurality of optical detectors 75, 76, 77 provided in the second chamber 60 and a mask member 66 interposed between the first chamber 56 and the second chamber 60 and having an aperture 68 and configured to direct light from the sample port 64 onto the optical detectors 75, 76, 77. Optionally, an optical emitter 71, 72 is provided in the first chamber.
Patent GB-2551143-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable hinge assembly
Inventor: DAVID MOLYNEUX
IPC: E05D7/04
Filed: 2016-06-07
Abstract: An adjustable hinge assembly 10 for securing a boot lid to the body of a vehicle has a mounting member 22 for attachment to the body. An adjustment member 24 is connected to the mounting member for pivotal movement about a first axis X and a hinge arm 18 on which the boot lid is mounted is connected to the adjustment member for pivotal movement about a second axis Y parallel to but spaced from the first axis. An adjusting mechanism 26 is operative to selectively adjust the pivotal position of the adjustment member 24 relative to the mounting member 22 in order to adjust the position of the boot lid relative to a body in a vertical direction.
Patent GB-2537278-A (GB)
Title: Network access security system and method
Inventor: SAMUEL JOHN CROWTHER
IPC: G06F21/36
Filed: 2014-12-24
Abstract: A method of providing for access to a computer resource, the method including the steps of: (a) providing an initial registration process including the identification and downloading of a user selected candidate image; (b) creating a first derived identifier from the candidate image; (c) upon a user requesting access to the computer resource, requesting from the user a second candidate image, and deriving a second derived identifier from the second candidate image; and (d) comparing the first and second derived identifier and where they are equivalent, granting the user access to the computer resource.
Patent GB-2544627-A (GB)
Title: Self-recognition of autonomous vehicles in mirrored or reflective surfaces
Inventor: BRIELLE REIFF
IPC: G08G1/16
Filed: 2016-10-05
Abstract: A controller (102, Fig.1) for an autonomous vehicle 300 receives an image stream from one or more imaging devices (e.g. camera 120, Fig.1) and identifies vehicle images 304a in the image stream (402, Fig.4). The vehicle images are compared to the color, shape, badging, markings, license plate and driver of the autonomous vehicle and if they match with certainty exceeding a threshold then the vehicle image is ignored as a potential obstacle (404-418, Fig.4). The color and shape of a vehicle in a vehicle image may be evaluated first and only if there is a match are other factors such as badging, markings, license plate, and driver considered. The location of a reflective surface 302 that generated the vehicle image may be determined and added to a set of potential obstacles along with vehicle images not matching the autonomous vehicle. Steering, accelerator or brake (122, Fig.1) may be actuated to avoid collision. The autonomous vehicles own reflection is thus not falsely identified as a collision hazard.
Patent GB-2559120-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for determining impedance of live-earth loop of an electrical power supply
Inventor: JAMES WALLACE
IPC: G01R31/50
Filed: 2017-01-20
Abstract: A method and apparatus 20 are disclosed for determining the impedance of a live-earth loop of an electrical power supply circuit having live, earth and neutral conductors 4, 12, 16. The method comprises: determining values of voltage between live and neutral terminals 6, 10 and between live and earth terminals 6, 14 both while a resistive load 38 is connected between the terminals and while no load is connected; applying two test current pulses of different magnitude and duration to the neutral and earth terminals 10, 14, neither pulse having sufficient magnitude and/or duration to activate a residual current device (RCD) circuit breaker 18 connected between the live and neutral terminals; determining values of voltage and current between neutral and earth terminals while the test current is applied; and determining the impedance of the live-earth loop by using the measured values. The live-earth impedance may be calculated by first obtaining impedances RL and RN for the live and neutral conductors, and RNE, the combined impedance of the neutral and earth conductors. A more accurate value of RNE may be obtained by correcting for uplift resistance, due to the presence of the RCD, and for residual voltage and/or current.
Patent GB-2545351-A (GB)
Title: Identifying multiple resources to perform a service request
Inventor: JUN ZENG
IPC: G06F9/50
Filed: 2014-10-23
Abstract: Examples herein disclose receiving a service request including a latency associated with a publication of a result of the service request. The examples disclose computing a workload for the service request and indentifying multiple resources which are to perform the service request by applying the latency to the multiple resources.
Patent GB-2554121-A (GB)
Title: Image processing
Inventor: Charles Montague Fuller
IPC: G06T11/60
Filed: 2017-06-23
Abstract: The invention is related to an image processing product, comprising the machine-executable instructions, for the processing of images of skin lesions 5. An image 2 of a mole is depicted by way of a graphic user interface 1 on a visual display. This is followed by instructions to display a locating feature 4, which is graphically represented, and which is overlain or superimposed on the displayed image, wherein the feature is substantially circular. User input then changes the relative position of the lesion image with respect to the locating feature. The user is allowed to position the lesion within the target area and crop a sub-image comprising the lesion 8 and at least a portion of the surrounding skin. The product may be computer software such as a graphic user interface (GUI). The locating feature may comprise indicia, such as cross-hairs (3,fig.3). The cropped picture may be stored or output.
Patent GB-2566465-A (GB)
Title: Valve apparatus
Inventor: PETER BARNES MOYES
IPC: E21B34/10
Filed: 2017-09-13
Abstract: A valve apparatus, which can be a downhole ball valve 40, having a housing 32 with a flow path 24 therein and a valve member mounted within the housing, being operable between closed and open configurations to control flow along the flow path. An actuator assembly 48 is moveable from a first position to a second position to sequentially perform first and second actuation functions. The first actuation function is associated with the operation of an auxiliary system, which can be a pressure relief arrangement 46, and the second actuation function opens the valve member from its closed configuration. Optionally, the pressure relief arrangement operable between closed and open configurations to selectively permit pressure communication on opposing sides of the valve member when said valve member is in its closed configuration. Optionally, the pressure relief arrangement comprises a bypass flow path at least partially defined between the seat sleeve and the housing such that when the pressure relief arrangement is configured in its open configuration the bypass flow path provides pressure communication between opposing sides of the valve member
Patent GB-2569276-A (GB)
Title: Compiler method
Inventor: SIMON KNOWLES
IPC: G06F15/173
Filed: 2017-10-20
Abstract: A compiler 70 receives fixed graph structure 60 representing a computerised function and compiles multiple codelets into local programs 72, each loaded into a tile of a multi-tiles processor. The compiler generates time deterministic programs, i.e. local programs linked in time. The compiler accesses tile data 74 indicative of the delays which the compiler needs to understand in generating local programs. The compiler schedules: a send instruction in a local program to execute with a predetermined delay relative to a synchronisation signal to transmit a data packet without destination identifiers to a recipient tile; and a switch control instruction in a local program of a recipient tile to execute at a predetermined time to receive the data packet from a switching fabric. Uses comprise knowledge models represented as graphs of interconnected nodes running learning and inference algorithms implemented via bulk synchronous parallel (BSP) protocols, where time deterministic guarantees optimise computation.
Patent GB-2554576-A (GB)
Title: Method for determining nucleotide sequence
Inventor: PAUL GORDON
IPC: C12Q1/6869
Filed: 2016-05-14
Abstract: The present invention provides a method for determining a nucleotide sequence of at least a portion of an oligonucleotide. In one particular embodiment, the method of the invention uses Dynamic Time Warping and/or additional algorithm to improve both the sensitivity and the speed of nucleotide sequencing.
Patent GB-2559036-A (GB)
Title: Marker airbrush
Inventor: DOUGLAS A BRAND
IPC: B05B7/24
Filed: 2017-12-01
Abstract: A marker airbrush device (160) includes an airbrush housing (162) having a first end (164) and a second end (166). The housing (162) comprises an air outlet through which air travels at the first end (164) and a dual-action trigger (168) that is configured to control an amount of air traveling through the air outlet by rotation of the dual-action trigger (168) in a first direction or rotation of the dual-action trigger (168) in a second direction opposite the first direction. The device (160) also includes a marker positioner (176) coupled to the airbrush housing (162). The positioner (176) has an opening (184) through which air traveling through the air outlet exits the device (160). The positioner (176) positions a marker first end comprising at least a marker nib of a marking device at a particular angle relative to the airbrush housing (162) such that air traveling through the air outlet contacts at least a portion of the marker nib of the marking device at the particular angle to transfer marking solution from the marking device onto a writing surface external to the airbrush housing (162). Also disclosed is a rotatably collar that couples the marking device to the marker positioner.
Patent GB-2560073-A (GB)
Title: Improvements to additive manufacturing
Inventor: Joseph Gwilliam Crabtree
IPC: B33Y40/00
Filed: 2017-12-20
Abstract: Apparatus for post-processing an additively manufactured polymer part, comprising a solvent reservoir 402; a processing chamber 404 in controllable fluid communication with the reservoir; and a controller 418 configured to controllably post-process the polymer part responsive to at least one parameter associated with the part 406. Parameters could include desired surface finish and/or a geometric property such as surface area, volume, dimension and/or part complexity. The chamber may have a heating element on at least one inner surface. A method for post-processing an additively manufactured polymer part is also provided. The part in the chamber, may be placed under vacuum 412 before the pre-determined amount of solvent is transferred in 416. The solvent may condense on the polymer surface 418, which may be cooled, for a pre-determined exposure time. After this, a vacuum may be applied to remove the solvent from the polymer part 420. The solvent may be recovered using a condenser and returned to the reservoir 422, which may include a separate chamber for recovered solvent. The vacuum pump may vent the processing chamber to atmosphere.
Patent GB-2565172-A (GB)
Title: Subsea valve, flow system and method of use
Inventor: Stephen Barron
IPC: E21B43/01
Filed: 2014-10-30
Abstract: A flow system 200 (fig 4), a subsea valve 100, and a method of use in subsea pipeline filling, flooding or pigging operation. The flow system comprises a subsea valve comprising a main housing 101, with first 102 and second 103 ends, inlet 104 and outlet 105 configured to be coupled to subsea pipeline 13 (fig 4). A pump (112, fig 4) comprises a pump inlet connected to a fluid source and a pump outlet connected to the valve inlet. The pump is operable to pump fluid from the fluid source and into the subsea pipeline via the subsea valve. The subsea valve comprises a movable valve member 133 and biasing mechanism 135, by which the valve member is urged by a biasing force towards a closed position that prevents flow of fluid through the valve and into the subsea pipeline. The valve member is operable to be moved to an open position on activation of the pump to provide pressure increase at the valve inlet sufficient to overcome the biasing force. In use, opposing sides of the valve member are exposed to ambient subsea pressure such that the subsea valve is pressure balanced. The valve may be used in a flow system with pump 112 (fig 4), comprising a pump inlet connected to a fluid source and a pump outlet connected to the valve inlet, operable to pump fluid from the fluid source and into the subsea pipeline via the valve.
Patent GB-2572222-A (GB)
Title: A speech recognition method and apparatus
Inventor: CONG THANH DO
IPC: G10L25/63
Filed: 2018-03-23
Abstract: An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system for noisy environments processes received speech S101 to produce a conspicuity or human-auditory saliency map 105 of the speech in order to enhance salient words or phrases by weighting them before converting them to graphemes or phonemes by extracting acoustical parameters FBANK according to a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) acoustic model S113. The salience map may be constructed according to speech intensity or contrast via a log-spectral (307) Gabor filter (S311) and the determined words output to a dialogue system for query response or command recognition. It may first be trained (fig. 2 ‘A’ path) via a Kaldi training set (fig. 6).
Patent GB-2560665-A (GB)
Title: Multiple downhole sensor digital alignment using spatial transforms
Inventor: RICHARD JIN YAO
IPC: E21B49/00
Filed: 2016-10-21
Abstract: Wellbore sensor systems and related methods are disclosed. A wellbore sensor system includes a first sensor node and a second sensor node. The first sensor node is operably coupled to a drill string at a first location. The second sensor node is operably coupled to the drill string at a second location. A method includes taking first sensor readings from the first sensor node relative to a first spatial frame of reference, and taking second sensor readings from the second sensor node relative to a second spatial frame of reference, and using the first sensor readings and the second sensor readings to estimate parameters of a mathematical transform configured to transform the second sensor readings into the first spatial frame of reference. The method also includes transforming the second sensor readings into the first spatial frame of reference with the estimated mathematical transform.
Patent GB-2562628-A (GB)
Title: Process for making granules and agglomerates from mineral powders
Inventor: LESLIE JAMES DRURY
IPC: D21H21/10
Filed: 2017-02-10
Abstract: A method of processing a mineral powder (e.g. a zeolite in powdered form) comprises (a) contacting the powder with (i) water or a solution of sulphuric acid or phosphoric acidor a mixture thereof, or (ii) one or more alkaline earth metal oxides, carbonates or hydroxides, or a mixture thereof; (b) combining the product of (a)(i) with one or more alkaline earth metal oxides, carbonates or hydroxides, or a mixture thereof; or combining the product of (a)(ii) with water or a solution of sulphuric acid or phosphoric acid or a mixture thereof and optionally with further of the alkaline earth metal oxides, carbonates or hydroxides, or a mixture thereof; (c) granulating the combination of (b) to form granules of mass median diameter (MMD) from 1 mm to 10mm; and (d) allowing the resulting granules from step (c) to cure.
Patent GB-2560138-A (GB)
Title: Automatic booking of transportation based on context of a user of a computing device
Inventor: CAYDEN MEYER
IPC: G06Q10/02
Filed: 2016-08-25
Abstract: A system is described that infers that a user will need to complete a trip and selects a transportation service that the user can use to complete the trip. The system, predicts a time to request a vehicle associated with the transportation service for completing the trip such that the request has sufficiently high degree of likelihood, of causing the vehicle to arrive at a future location by a final departure time: the final departure time being a latest time at which the user is predicted to need to begin traveling. Responsive to determining that a current time is within a threshold amount of time of the predicted time, the system sends, to a reservation system associated with the transportation service, a reservation request for the vehicle associated with the transportation service for completing the trip.
Patent GB-2575975-A (GB)
Title: Computer implemented methods for generating and selecting media data
Inventor: Shane Monahan
IPC: G11B27/02
Filed: 2018-07-27
Abstract: Selecting data of a digital audio file comprises receiving a first signal associated with a first touch input of a first timing position marker 210 on a touch sensitive GUI interface 200 displaying a graphical representation 204 of at least a portion of the digital audio file. The first touch input corresponding to a spatial position of a first predefined set of positions 206 on the touch sensitive interface. A second signal associated with a second touch input of a second timing position marker 212 on the touch sensitive interface is received. The second touch input corresponding to a spatial position of a second pre-defined set of positions 208. The first pre­defined set of positions being spatially separate to the second pre-defined set of positions. A portion 216 of the digital audio file is selected based at least on the second timing position and includes the first timing position. The separation of the markers on the GUI prevents accidentally engaging an unintended marker. A method for generating media on a mobile device includes recording first and second media data upon first to fourth inputs from a touch screen and merging the first and second media data.
Patent GB-2577878-A (GB)
Title: Transition disable indicator
Inventor: THOMAS CHRISTOPHER GROCUTT
IPC: G06F21/74
Filed: 2018-10-08
Abstract: Data processing with processing circuitry (4, fig 1) capable of processing in one of a plurality of security domains including secure S and less-secure NS domains, for which checking of allowable memory accesses depends on a current domain, and within a given domain, the circuitry is capable of processing in one of a plurality of modes, including handler H and thread T modes, for exception and background processing respectively. The processing comprising, in response to an exception condition, performing one of exception entry transitions selected based on a current mode and domain, and a domain associated with the exception condition. The exception entry transitions including at least one ST mode to SH mode exception entry transition. Further, in response to an exception return condition, performing one of exception return transitions selected based on the mode and domain associated with the exception return condition; in which, in response to the ST mode to SH mode exception entry transition, a transition disable indicator is set; and, for at least one type of exception return transition to processing in the secure domain and the thread mode when the transition disable indicator (42, fig 3) is set, a fault is signaled.
Patent GB-2581385-A (GB)
Title: Gas turbine fuel and gas turbine system
Inventor: ASBJOM STRAND
IPC: F02C3/34
Filed: 2019-02-15
Abstract: A first aspect is disclosed concerning fuel for use in a combustor of a gas turbine, wherein the fuel is a gas mixture that comprises hydrogen gas and exhaust gas from a total combustor 1917. A second aspect is disclosed concerning a gas turbine comprising a first combustor 1922 that, in use, receives fuel according to the first aspect. Also disclosed is a gas turbine system comprising a gas turbine of the second aspect, and a hydrogen producing system. The hydrogen producing system comprises the total combustor which is distinct from the first combustor. The hydrogen producing system further comprises an air intake 1901 for receiving air, the system arranged to perform a reforming process on a carbonaceous gas, wherein the reforming process generates a reformate that comprises hydrogen. The total combustor generates heat and an exhaust gas, and the combustor of the gas turbine is arranged to receive reformate output from the hydrogen producing system (in particular from compressor 1908), exhaust gas from the total combustor and air from the air intake. Also disclosed is a method of generating fuel and a use of the fuel.