baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2575958-A (GB)
Title: Smokeless cigarette having decreased vapor temperature and preventing heat-caused collapse of cigarette holder
Inventor: HUACHEN LIU
IPC: A24D3/17
Filed: 2018-05-25
Abstract: A smokeless cigarette having a decreased vapor temperature and preventing the heat-caused collapse of a cigarette holder comprises a filter tip, a heat-resistant hollow section and a tobacco section sequentially connected, wherein the heat-resistant hollow section consists of a heat-resistant hollow section cover and a heat-resistant hollow section hollow layer. The heat-resistant hollow section is made by rolling a high-temperature resistant material into a hollow tubular structure; the high-temperature resistant material forms the heat-resistant hollow section cover. The heat-resistant hollow section hollow layer is a cavity structure formed and surrounded by the heat-resistant hollow section cover. An inner layer of the heat-resistant hollow section cover is coated with a layer of phase-change heat-absorbing material, or the heat-resistant hollow section hollow layer is filled with a phase-change heat-absorbing material. The smokeless cigarette of the present invention can achieve a better fit with a peripheral heater, is adapted to an inner core heater, and will not result in the heat-caused collapse of a cigarette holder contacting tobacco shreds due to heat conducted by a cover when the periphery is heated.
Patent GB-2593435-A (GB)
Title: Respiratory monitoring device
Inventor: JOHN PAUL MOSZYNSKI
IPC: A61B5/08
Filed: 2020-02-11
Abstract: Respiratory monitoring device 200 comprises respiratory-related sensors 110, separated from and in communication with a first circuit board 204 comprising a controller. The respiratory sensors may include physiological and environmental sensors e.g. radar, movement, microphone, temperature or humidity detectors. These may be components of a second circuit board 202 on a side 202A facing away from and spaced from the first circuit board by columnar spacers 208. Heat-generating components 216 of the controller, e.g. the processor, may be arranged at an end portion of the first circuit board. Also disclosed are a monitoring device with input means arranged to trigger suspension of sensing for a predetermined time and a respiratory monitor having a front surface indicating an intended orientation of the device, e.g. towards a subject. The device 200 may be placed on a nightstand to monitor a sleeping user.
Patent GB-2592967-A (GB)
Title: A method for monitoring a network
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER PATRICK QUIGLEY
IPC: H04L29/06
Filed: 2020-03-12
Abstract: A method for monitoring operation of network and in particular a controller area network (CAN) comprising a plurality of nodes. The method comprises measuring a voltage associated with a CAN message transmitted on the network, determining a message signature (voltage characteristic) in dependence on the measured voltage, and comparing the message signature with a node signature to determine the authenticity of the CAN message. One or more actions may be taken in dependence on the determined authenticity (e.g. disable source node, shut down network, flag an issue etc). The voltage measurement is obtained for a data field of the message and may relate to the CAN High (CANH) and CAN Low (CANL) characteristics of the message. The node signature relates to voltage characteristics associated with one or more previously measured messages on the network. The arrangement acts to detect malicious access or attempts to control the network. The network may not be a CAN network as other types of networks using differential signalling are also encompassed. A start-of-frame field may be used as a trigger to start measurement of the voltage characteristics for a measurement time period.
Patent GB-2593166-A (GB)
Title: A Decorative Panel or Tray
Inventor: AMER FERZOLI
IPC: B32B37/12
Filed: 2020-03-16
Abstract: A 0.2-1 mm thick stone layer 2 bonded to a 1-3 mm thick substrate 4 to form a laminate 5. The laminate 5 is bonded (10, figure 3) to a backing board 6 that is thicker than 5 mm. Preferably the substrate 4 is flexible and comprises polyester fibres in a resin. The preferred backing board 6 comprises a relatively thick polystyrene foam layer 7 between relatively thin outer layers 7, 9. The preferred outer layers 7, 9 comprise cement reinforced by a fibreglass mesh. Preferably, all the layers are waterproof. The preferred panel is 5-25 (8-15) mm thick, 2400 mm long and 1200 or 900 mm wide. The panel is used for covering walls or studwork. The tray is a shower or sink tray. An automated system for producing the panel or tray is also claimed.
Patent GB-2593757-A (GB)
Title: Control of processing node operations
Inventor: OLA TØRUDBAKKEN
IPC: G06F9/52
Filed: 2020-04-02
Abstract: A data processing system and method wherein there is a plurality of processing nodes configured to perform operation to implement a multi-stage process over a plurality of time periods. A first of the plurality of processing nodes loads data required during a subsequent time period S1910, and a second of the plurality performs calculations using the loaded data S1920. At least one of the two processing nodes receives data from the other S1930 and during a subsequent time period performs calculations associated with a stage of the multi-stage process using the received data S1940. The processors may alternate between a compute phase and an exchange phase wherein data is exchanged between the processing nodes and each of the nodes executes a synchronisation instruction indicating a barrier between the compute and exchange phase wherein the data is received during the exchange phase. The data loaded from memory of the result of the computations may be weights of a neural network. Biases of a neural network or activations of nodes of a neural network.
Patent GB-2581925-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for providing user-activity-based rewards and customized recommendations
Inventor: GARRETT LANG
IPC: G06Q30/00
Filed: 2018-10-23
Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed herein for providing customized product recommendations to vendors based on user activity information, such as product purchases and product reviews. The embodiments may be further adapted to provide rewards to users based on such activity information. Moreover, the embodiments may further track and update vendor and user locations to allow for targeted searches to be performed and/or to facilitate interactions among any number of vendors and users.
Patent GB-2597645-A (GB)
Title: Smart heated clothes drying airer racking units
Inventor: MD ARIFUL ISLAM
IPC: D06F58/32
Filed: 2020-06-26
Abstract: An electrically heated clothes airer with internet connection comprises a clothes airer or dryer which is controlled by a mobile app operating in Android and IOS. Longitudinal bars support the clothes.
Patent GB-2590754-A (GB)
Title: Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and program
Inventor: AKIRA TAKEUCHI
IPC: G06F13/10
Filed: 2020-08-11
Abstract: An information processing apparatus 1 includes a controller 1a. A peripheral 2 includes a converter 2a and a device 2b, which can be a relay device with an expansion bus, and preferably a manual switch which sets whether the relay device is in an updateable state. The converter performs conversion of communication interface S3 for inputs into the device based on a mode setting. When updating the embedded software of the device, the controller sets the converter to conversion mode S1 to have the converter execute conversion of embedded software outputted using a first communication interface S2 from the first communication interface to the second communication interface, and performs updating of the embedded software using the second communication interface S4. When not updating the embedded software, the controller sets the converter in non-conversion mode S5, stops the conversion from the first communication interface to the second communication interface S6, and stops the updating of the embedded software. The conversion can be from a general-purpose serial bus to an asynchronous serial bus.
Patent GB-2589680-A (GB)
Title: Reconfigurable furniture unit
Inventor: MARC DE GRAAF
IPC: A47D11/00
Filed: 2020-08-17
Abstract: A reconfigurable furniture unit 100 comprises first and second leg assemblies at opposing ends of the unit 100. A frame 150 for supporting upholstery is attached to the leg assemblies in a first configuration the and is configured to be extendable in a first direction extending between the leg assemblies and the second direction different to the first direction. The frame 150 may comprise telescoping or lengthening portions for expanding it in the first and/or second directions. The furniture 100 may include at least two redirecting portions each with two angularly offset fixing points configured to engage with the support 150 such that a portion of the frame 150 is vertically offset from the rest of the frame 150 and angularly offset from its position in the first configuration. Also disclosed is a furniture unit 100 with these redirecting portions but not necessarily with an extendable frame.
Patent GB-2602140-A (GB)
Title: A wearable device
Inventor: CHARLES LEWINTON
IPC: G08B21/02
Filed: 2020-12-18
Abstract: A wearable device 400 for tracking a subject includes a flexible member, such as a wrist band, attachable to a limb of the subject, an electronic circuit 410 and a connector (230 fig. 2B). The flexible member has a first portion 420a comprising a first set of conducting channels 360, 361, 360’, 361’ and a second portion 420b comprising a second set of conducting channels 370, 371, 370’, 371’. The electronic circuit is coupled to the first portion and the second portion. The connector is adapted to connect the first portion to the second portion and at least one channel from the first set is connected to a channel from the second set to obtain a channel connection. The device may be used to track low risk offenders or individuals under curfew. The electronic circuit may store a series of predetermined channel connections between pairs of channels and compare a channel connection with a predetermined channel connection. An alarm signal may be sent when a channel connection is different from the predetermined connection.
Patent GB-2604341-A (GB)
Title: Agricultural composition for enhanced silicon uptake and distribution in plants
Inventor: DAVID J MARKS
IPC: C05G3/40
Filed: 2021-02-26
Abstract: The invention relates to an agricultural composition which comprises (i) a water-soluble source of silicon and (ii) a silicon transport stimulant comprising an aryl substituted urea. The water-soluble source of silicon may be a salt of silicon or silicic acid, such as potassium silicate or sodium silicate. The silicon transport stimulant may be a phenyl substituted urea, such as diphenyl urea (DPU), CPPU 2-nitro DPU (NDPU), methyl DPU, dimethyl DPU, ethyl DPU, diethyl DPU or a combination thereof. The composition may additionally comprise urea. A method of supply silicon to plants by applying to the plants, the composition or a formulation comprising the composition dispersed or dissolved in a medium. The medium may be water or a water-miscible liquid. Also claimed is the use of diphenyl urea as a silicon transport material.
Patent GB-2610801-A (GB)
Title: A system and method for audio recording
Inventor: DAVID PHELAN
IPC: H04L65/75
Filed: 2021-07-28
Abstract: A first producer device S502-506 sends audio data packets S501 to a second artist (musician, vocalist) device S507-510, probably containing a backing track, for playout. The second devices records audio 511 and creates data packets S512-514 which are returned across the packet network to the first device S515-517 for playout. The playout at the producer device occurs at a pre-set fixed latency after transmission of the backing audio packets, the correct delay may be achieved by buffering the packets until the preset time. Playback of the backing audio may be subject to a fixed delay relative to transmission using a buffer S509 as the artist device. The packets may be timestamped and/or compressed. Network transmission may use WebRTC. In the event of a late packet or buffer underflow the session may be terminated and in channel packets discarded. The first producer device may be a digital audio workstation (DAW).
Patent GB-2608868-A (GB)
Title: Power distribution method and apparatus
Inventor: MICHAEL LAMBERT
IPC: H02J3/18
Filed: 2021-08-18
Abstract: Apparatus for and method of distributing electricity to one or more consumers including providing a voltage adjustment device 22 located between a transformer 16 in a power distribution network 10 and at least one consumer 20 connection point, carrying out voltage adjustment at the voltage adjustment device 22. The voltage adjustment device 22 may be a transformer, and may be controlled in response to a signal from a consumer
Patent GB-2603999-A (GB)
Title: Projected memory device with reduced minimum conductance state
Inventor: BENEDIKT KERSTING
IPC: H01L45/00
Filed: 2021-11-09
Abstract: A projected phase change memory device 100 has phase change material and a projection layer (liner) between first and second electrodes (104, 106). Device conductivity states depend on a ratio between crystalline and amorphous phases of the phase-change material. A size of a conductive portion 110 of the projection layer along an amorphous phase (112, 114, 116) in a reset state of the device is confined to less than a size of the amorphous phase. The projection layer may include a low conductivity, high resistance portion 118, doped differently to the conductive portion, whereby hydrogen or nitrogen doping may change along a gradient for a smooth resistance change. A discontinuity in conductance states of the memory device is created and minimum conductance in the reset state is reduced. The device may be a mushroom cell, lateral cell (fig. 5) or confined cell (fig.6) type, for in-memory and neuromorphic computing.
Patent GB-2599532-A (GB)
Title: System and method for depiction and counting of external structures on a fish
Inventor: Frank Robert Wiik Prytz
IPC: G06T7/593
Filed: 2020-06-18
Abstract: A system (1) for in-situ monitoring and recording of fish health of fish in a fish cage (9), the system (1) comprising at least one camera housing (3). The camera housing (3) is provided with a camera group (2) comprising at least two cameras (21) arranged to take synchronized pictures for digital close- range photogrammetry; the system (1) comprises a central data-processing unit (7), the central data-processing unit (7) being arranged to calculate a three-dimensional model (6, 60, 69) of an object (5) photographed synchronously by the at least two cameras (21); and the data- processing unit (7) is arranged to report the number of structures (53; 61-63) deviating from the smooth surface of the object (5) in the three-dimensional model (6, 60).
Patent GB-2600047-A (GB)
Title: Reverse single working medium steam combined cycle
Inventor: HUAYU LI
IPC: F25B7/00
Filed: 2020-06-11
Abstract: A reverse single working medium steam combined cycle, relating to the technical fields of thermodynamics, refrigeration, and heat pumps. The reverse single working medium steam combined cycle refers to, on a working medium consisting of M1 kg and M2 kg, a closed process consisting of seven processes performed separately or jointly: an M1 kg of working medium endothermic vaporization process (12), an (M1+M2) kg of working medium endothermic process (23), an (M1+M2) kg of working medium pressure boosting process (34), an (M1+M2) kg of working medium exothermic process (45), an M2 kg of working medium pressure reduction process (52), an M1 kg of working medium exothermic condensation process (56), and an M1 kg of working medium pressure reduction process (61).
Patent GB-2604999-A (GB)
Title: Image processing as a function of deformable electronic device geometry and corresponding devices and methods
Inventor: VIVEK TYAGI
IPC: H04N5/232
Filed: 2022-01-20
Abstract: A method comprises: detecting, with one or more sensors, geometry of a deformable electronic device having at least two imagers; capturing at least one image with at least one imager and at least one other image with at least one other imager; and processing the images as a function of deformable electronic device geometry. Also, a similar device in which respective imagers are disposed on first and second sides of a deformable portion of an electronic device; processor(s) combine images captured by the imagers to create a composite image as a function of geometry. Further, a method comprising: detecting, with one or more sensors, a bending operation deforming an electronic device at a bend, with at least one imager to one side of the bend and at least one other imager to another side of the bend; capturing at least one image with the imager and at least one other image with the other imager(s); and synthesizing the images as a function of a bend angle, creating a composite image. Device housing portions with respective imaging devices may abut such that the imaging devices have opposite fields of view. Panoramic or superimposed images, or three dimensional (3D, depth map, stereo) images may be produced.
Patent GB-2600362-A (GB)
Title: NPR steel reinforcement bar treatment process
Inventor: MANCHAO HE
IPC: B23P15/00
Filed: 2020-09-28
Abstract: An NPR steel reinforcement bar treatment process, the NPR steel reinforcement bar being cold worked, and the NPR steel reinforcement bar having a yield strength of 800 MPa - 950 MPa, a tensile strength of 900 MPa - 1100 MPa, and a percentage of extension at maximum force of ≥ 10-40%. The steps of the treatment process comprise: I-shaped material feeding processing L20: uncoiling processing L30: leveling processing L40; butt welding processing L50; sand blasting processing L60; straightening processing L70; pointing processing L80; hydraulic pushing processing L90; cold-drawn spiral processing L10; in-line continuous wire drawing pulling processing L11; pre-straightening processing L12; fine straightening processing L13; and cutting processing L14. The treatment process is able to satisfy the requirements for fully-automatic smart production of NPR steel reinforcement bars, NPR cold rolled spiral steel reinforcement bars, and NPR pre-stressed steel reinforcement bars.
Patent GB-2616254-A (GB)
Title: A device
Inventor: MARK WEST
IPC: B65D90/10
Filed: 2022-02-18
Abstract: A preformed, reusable utility mains and services installation chamber consisting of a base unit (figure 8b), an upper unit (figure 8d), a removable or hinged door (13 on figure 8c) and a removeable lid (figure 8e). Optionally the base and upper unit may be in one piece as figure 1 and figure 3.
Patent GB-2614098-A (GB)
Title: Methods and hardware logic for writing ray tracing data from a shader processing unit of a graphics processing unit
Inventor: DANIEL BARNARD
IPC: G06T15/06
Filed: 2022-03-31
Abstract: Shader processing units for a graphics processing unit that are configured to execute one or more ray tracing shaders that generate ray data associated with one or more rays. The ray data for a ray includes a plurality of ray data elements. The shader processing unit comprises local storage, and store logic. The store logic is configured to receive, as part of a ray tracing shader, a ray store instruction that comprises: (i) information identifying a store group of a plurality of store groups, each store group of the plurality of store groups comprising one or more ray data elements of the plurality of ray data elements, and (ii) information identifying one or more ray data elements of the identified store group to be stored in an external unit). In response to receiving the ray store instruction, the store logic retrieves the identified ray data elements for one or more rays from the storage. The store logic then sends one or more store requests to an external unit which cause the external unit to store the identified ray data elements for the one or more rays.
Patent GB-2604498-A (GB)
Title: Improving audio quality of speech in sound systems
Inventor: ALEXANDER JOHN NAYLOR-TEECE
IPC: G10L25/69
Filed: 2020-10-05
Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for a sound system. Speech recognition is performed on input audio data comprising speech input to a sound system. Speech recognition is additionally performed on at least one instance of output audio data comprising speech reproduced by one or more audio speakers of the sound system. A difference between a result of speech recognition performed on the input audio data and a result of speech recognition performed on an instance of corresponding output audio data is determined. The quality of the reproduced speech is determined as unsatisfactory when the difference is greater than or equal to a threshold. A corrective action may be performed, to improve the quality of the speech reproduced by the sound system, if it is determined that the speech quality of the reproduced sound is unsatisfactory.
Patent GB-2609075-A (GB)
Title: Intelligent flow controllers with hot-swappable cold plates in datacentre cooling system
Inventor: ALI HEYDARI
IPC: H05K7/20
Filed: 2022-05-12
Abstract: A datacentre cooling system comprising a plurality of flow controllers 362 associated with cold plates 326, 326A. The flow controllers have direct ports 364A and bypass ports 364B so that when the direct ports are disabled to change a first cold plate 326, the bypass ports are enabled to bypass the first cold plate, the direct ports and the bypass ports enable a second cold plate 326A to be continuously cooled. The flow controllers may function through push coupling and pull decoupling. The cold plates may be connected in series. At least one processor, which may utilise neural networks, of the cooling system receives sensor inputs and is able to change the state of the flow controllers and/or to shut down at least one computing device associated with the cold plate. There may be intermediate configurations between the direct ports and the bypass ports.
Patent GB-2619068-A (GB)
Title: Optically readable physical unclonable functions
Inventor: BENJAMIN ROBINSON
IPC: C09D11/03
Filed: 2022-05-26
Abstract: A method of making an optically-readable physical unclonable function (PUF) coating composition comprises increasing the entropy of a coating composition by adding a first optically-readable material. The first material may be non-uniformly dispersed in the coating composition and is typically insoluble therein. Typically, the coating composition is a clear lacquer and the PUF coating composition is an ink. The first material may be a fluorescent compound, e.g. rhodamine dye, cyanine dye, phthalocyanine dye, porphyrin dye, or quinacridone. The method may also comprise uniformly mixing a second optically-readable material and a solvent to form a mixture, which may be added to the coating composition. The solvent may be a ketone or alcohol. Preferably, the first material is added to a first portion of the coating composition and the mixture is added to a second portion, wherein the first and second portions are then combined. A method of producing an optically-readable PUF by applying the optically-readable PUF coating composition to a surface is disclosed.