baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2568041-A (GB)
Title: Air flow sensor
Inventor: DARIUS RAHIMI
IPC: G01F1/684
Filed: 2017-10-30
Abstract: An air flow sensor 2 comprising: a housing 4 having an inflow aperture, outflow aperture 16, air flow pathway from the inflow aperture to the outflow aperture; a first sensing element 28 exposed to the air flow pathway; and second sensing element 30 isolated from the air flow pathway. The second element comprises a temperature sensing element 30 comprising a negative temperature coefficient (NTC) resistor, wherein the first element comprises at least one diode 28, and wherein the elements are arranged to be heated equally. A comparator may also be arranged to compare element outputs. An input air redirecting member extends from the housing to redirect air into the inflow aperture. A guiding surface may be arranged to reduce pressure at the outflow aperture. Two parallel pathways may be provided comprising a sensor and a relief pathway. An internal baffle may be situated between the inflow and outflow apertures. An internal divider may divide the sensor housing into active and isolated sections, wherein the isolated section is substantially isolated from any airflow between the inflow and outflow on a parallel path. The elements may be printed circuit board (PCB) mounted partially forming the divider. The air flow sensor may be used in a fan application.
Patent GB-2568278-A (GB)
Title: Image replacement system
Inventor: RAYMOND JOHN HUDSON
IPC: H04N7/18
Filed: 2017-11-10
Abstract: The invention relates to removal of objects in an image or sequence of images that are captured through cameras, and replaces the deleted part of the image using constructed imagery to mask the removal of the objects. Image processing, comprising: first input for receiving primary image data relating to scene observed by first camera 10; second input for receiving image data relating to scene observed by second camera 20; reference database to store object 30, 40, 50 information for identification of objects in received primary or secondary image data, reference database including replacement object information for identification of replacement objects which are to be removed; processor arranged to: identify objects in scene; determine if any identified objects correspond to the replacement objects; identify primary image object data in primary image data corresponding to portions of scene incorporating the respective replacement objects; obtain replacement data from secondary image data corresponding to of the portions of scene obscured by replacement objects in the scene as observed by first camera; and modifying the primary image data using the replacement data to replace the respective primary image object data; and an output for providing the modified primary image data.
Patent GB-2569657-A (GB)
Title: Load balancing transportation device
Inventor: BEN BOMFORD
IPC: B62M7/12
Filed: 2017-12-22
Abstract: A transportation device 50 adapted to move based on a fore-aft balance of a load 90 with respect to the transportation device 50. The axis 51a of a load platform 51 about which the load 90 rotates is offset from the axis 52a about which a ground contacting member 52d of the transportation device 90 rotates, wherein a balance control system is adapted to controllably drive the ground contacting member 52d based on a fore-aft balance of the load 90. A rotation of the load about the first axis is restricted. A gradient of the ground 95 may also be measured in order to compensate for the resultant change in the fore-aft balance point of the load platform 15.
Patent GB-2556726-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method to determine whether to unlock a delivered-package vault
Inventor: BRUCE W WILKINSON
IPC: G07F17/10
Filed: 2016-07-08
Abstract: A delivered-package vault has a selectively-lockable access portal that is configured to contain at least one package, which package has at least one recipient-specific requirement associated therewith. The delivered-package vault also includes a two-way communications interface configured to communicate with a remote source having that at least one recipient-specific requirement and further includes a control circuit that operably couples to the two-way communications interface and the selectively-lockable access portal. The control circuit is configured to communicate with the remote source regarding the at least one recipient-specific requirement for the at least one package that is presently in the delivered-package vault and to unlock the selectively-lockable access portal to thereby provide access to the at least one package by a recipient who meets the at least one recipient-specific requirement.
Patent GB-2571312-A (GB)
Title: New sample sets and new down-sampling schemes for linear component sample prediction
Inventor: GUILLAUME LAROCHE
IPC: H04N19/61
Filed: 2018-02-23
Abstract: Cross component prediction of blocks of image data for video coding, in which a first-component (chroma) sample value in a first-component block is obtained from an associated reconstructed second-component (luma) sample value of a second-component block by dividing the range of second-component sample values into a set of bands; deriving a first-component table value for each band; and obtaining the first-component sample value based on the first-component table value for the band containing the associated reconstructed second-component sample value. The first component table value is derived based on reconstructed first and second component sample values neighbouring the respective first or second component blocks. Once reconstructed sample values are binned into the bands, non-empty bands may have a first-component table value being the first-component sample value corresponding to either the first of, or the average of, all second-component sample values in the band. Empty band may be set equal to the nearest non-empty band. Preferably, the first-component table values are set based on a plurality of linear models, each model passing through two fixed points. The fixed points may be minimum A, B and maximum C, D first (luma) and second (chroma) component reconstructed points.
Patent GB-2562834-A (GB)
Title: Felt baffle with snap ends
Inventor: CALEB PATTERSON
IPC: G10K11/16
Filed: 2018-03-19
Abstract: The baffle 100 comprises a structural frame 101, a sound dampening outer layer 102 disposed around at least a portion of the frame, and at least one light source 110 disposed on the frame, the light source being directionally switchable so that light emanating from the baffle points upwards, downwards, or both. The light source may include a diffuser 111. The baffle may be beam shaped. Electrical 106 or mechanical 103, 104 linkages may link a plurality of baffles. The directionality of the light source may be switched using a controller. Two baffles may be linked by a snap-fit linear conduit and magnets 105. The sound dampening layer may comprise felted polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fibres. Also claimed is a light fixture comprising an interior frame, a hanging apparatus connected to the frame, an external sound dampening layer wrapped around at least a portion of the frame, one or more lights mounted on the frame programmable to cast light in a variety of directions, and a controller electrically coupled to the lights for directing the light in one or more specified directions. The light source may comprise LED strips. The light fixture may be attached to a ceiling.
Patent GB-2566365-A (GB)
Title: Optically readable markers
Inventor: SIMON JOHN TAYLOR
IPC: G06K19/06
Filed: 2018-08-22
Abstract: An optically readable marker 100 comprises data to be extracted 104 and an identifier 102 arranged to identify a location of the data to be extracted 104. The identifier 102 comprises a plurality of dots arranged in a set pattern, the dots being small compared to the size of the data to be extracted. The data may be text-based data. The identifier may comprise of at least three dots. The set patterns of the plurality of dots may be arranged to lack rotational symmetry such that an orientation of the data can be uniquely established. A beverage container comprising such a marker, on which the marker may be positioned on the ring pull 250, is also claimed as is a method of marking an object with such a marker is also claimed, and a method of extracting data from an image comprising the steps of acquiring an image, identifying a plurality of dots, determining a location of the data to be extracted based on the dots, and optically scanning the determined location is also claimed.
Patent GB-2576762-A (GB)
Title: Sodium bicarbonate production
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER FOXLEY
IPC: C01D7/10
Filed: 2018-08-31
Abstract: A method for the production of sodium bicarbonate, particularly for producing sodium bicarbonate on an industrial scale, is disclosed; the method comprising the steps of: a. treating a carbonaceous feedstock 2 to form a product stream 6 comprising up to 10 v/v% carbon dioxide; b. capturing at least a portion of the carbon dioxide from the product stream to form a carbon dioxide stream32 ; c. feeding the carbon dioxide stream to a reaction vessel 34; d. feeding an aqueous sodium carbonate solution 26 to the reaction vessel; e. contacting at least a portion of the carbon dioxide stream with at least a portion of the aqueous sodium carbonate solution to form a slurry comprising solid sodium bicarbonate; and f. separating the solid component of the slurry from the liquid component of the slurry to provide solid sodium bicarbonate and an aqueous liquor.
Patent GB-2578911-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle control system and method
Inventor: Samuel Richard Allsopp
IPC: G05D1/02
Filed: 2018-11-14
Abstract: A host vehicle, operable in an autonomous and a non-autonomous driving mode, enters the autonomous mode 3106 in response to a user activation signal during driving of the host vehicle. A request for user navigation input 3110 from an occupant of the host vehicle is made in response to the user activation signal. Until the requested user navigation input, such as a destination or waypoint, is received the autonomous mode controls the vehicle to remain on the current road on which the vehicle is driving. Transitioning from autonomous to non-autonomous mode may be at a junction. Locations for the destination may be suggested such as previous locations or from a pattern of use. Dynamic map or traffic data may be downloaded from a remote source.
Patent GB-2567572-A (GB)
Title: Hypoxia training device
Inventor: Jonathan Reeh
IPC: C25B1/04
Filed: 2017-05-02
Abstract: The present invention includes a device 10 for reducing the amount of oxygen in ambient air comprising one or more electrochemical stacks comprising: a cathode electrocatalyst 22, a proton exchange membrane 17, and an anode electrocatalyst 14, wherein when power is provided to the one or more electrochemical stacks, the anode electrocatalyst 14 electrolyzes water into protons 16 and oxygen 18, the protons traverse the proton exchange membrane 17, and the cathode electrocatalyst 22 reacts the protons 16 with oxygen 18 in ambient air 20 to form water, thereby reducing the amount of oxygen in the ambient air. A method for reducing the amount of oxygen in ambient air and generating gas is also provided.
Patent GB-2582939-A (GB)
Title: Stencil teaching aid
Inventor: TOBY LENEHAN
IPC: G09B11/04
Filed: 2019-04-09
Abstract: A stencil teaching aid comprising a substantially planar apparatus 10 having a hole 11 whose outline describes a letter of the alphabet or a numeral. Wherein the hole may depict more than one letter e.g. b, d, p and q, or numeral e.g. a 6 and 9, depending upon the rotation of the aid. The planar faces 13,14 have indicia 12,15 (41,42,43,44, fig 4) that are used to correctly orientate said hole. Once correctly orientated by said indicia said hole may be used as a stencil by a user to correctly form the letter or numeral on a writing surface. The indicia may be textual or pictorial, and may be printed, embossed or engraved on the planar surfaces. The stencil may be made from wood, a polymer, metal or composite material.
Patent GB-2569755-A (GB)
Title: Hands-free fare gate operation
Inventor: STEFFEN REYMANN
IPC: G07C9/00
Filed: 2017-11-22
Abstract: An access gate that controls access to a restricted area, the access gate includes a communications interface having a long range wireless beacon and a short range radio frequency beacon. The gate includes a movable physical barrier, a processing unit, and a memory. The memory has instructions stored thereon that cause the processing unit to detect, using the long range beacon, the presence of a mobile device, receive, using the long range beacon, an access credential from the mobile device, and validate the access credential. The memory also has instructions that cause the processing unit to determine, using the short range radio frequency beacon, that the mobile device is within a threshold distance of the access gate and manipulate the movable physical barrier to allow access to a user of the mobile device based on the determination that the mobile device is within the threshold distance of the access gate.
Patent GB-2585246-A (GB)
Title: Streptomyces clavuligerus
Inventor: KATHERINE J HONICKER
IPC: C12R1/465
Filed: 2019-07-05
Abstract: The invention relates to strains of Streptomyces clavuligerus comprising two point mutations in the promoter region of the ccaR gene and an amino acid substitution in the protein product ccaR. The mutations in the promoter are a C to T point mutation at position 48 of SEQ ID NO 1 and G to A at position 143 of SEQ ID NO 1. The mutation in the protein is an arginine to tryptophan substitution at position 32 of SEQ ID NO 2. Also described are methods for producing clavulanic acid using the strain.
Patent GB-2572916-A (GB)
Title: Fluid and solid material separator
Inventor: RICHARD BINGHAM
IPC: E21B21/06
Filed: 2018-01-23
Abstract: An apparatus includes a materials separator that includes a continuous filter belt disposed around a plurality of rollers. The apparatus also includes a pressure differential system operatively coupled to the separator and configured to adjust a pressure differential across the continuous filter belt. A vacuum is applied to the continuous filter belt and a fluid portion of the slurry on the continuous filter belt is drawn through the continuous filter belt. An apparatus includes a materials separator having a first deck with a first continuous filter belt and a second deck with a second continuous filter belt.
Patent GB-2580993-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle accessory mount
Inventor: LUO QIANG ZHAO
IPC: B60R11/04
Filed: 2019-09-11
Abstract: Provided is a mount suitable for vehicle accessories, such as dashcams. The mount comprises a base 1, a support bar 2, and a mounting base 3. The base 1 has a groove 4 located in a front surface; and an adhesive layer 7, for attachment to a vehicle windscreen, located on a rear surface. The support bar protrudes from the groove 4; and has one end hingedly-attached to the base 1 via a rotating shaft 10, and another end connected to the mounting base 3. The mounting base 3 has a terminal 5 for providing electrical connection to an accessory; and a magnet to which an accessory can be connected. There may be a sliding bearing 11 between the support bar 2 and the shaft 10. Also provided is a kit of parts comprising the mount and an accessory that can be attached to the mount.
Patent GB-2588147-A (GB)
Title: Security fence
Inventor: ROBERT MICHAEL WHITBY
IPC: E04H17/16
Filed: 2019-10-09
Abstract: The security fence comprises first and second square fence posts 2 and at least one mesh panel 1. The panel has three planar sections each extending between a top edge and a bottom edge, a first section being proximate a first side edge, a second section being proximate a second side edge and having substantially the same width as the first section, and a significantly wider third section disposed between the first and second sections. Each of the first and second sections is angled from the third section at substantially 45 degrees towards a rear face of the panel. Each of the fence posts is an elongate square cuboid comprising adjacent first and second side surfaces. The first and second sections of the panel are fixable to the second surface of the first post and first surface of the second post respectively, e.g. using brackets 11 and security bolts 14 engaging holes in the posts. The top of each post may have a cap 6 with front 7 and rear 8 extension arms extending diagonally upwards, preferably supporting barbed or razor wire 10.
Patent GB-2588614-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for customising a machine learning model
Inventor: XIATIAN ZHU
IPC: G06N20/00
Filed: 2019-10-29
Abstract: Machine learning (ML) model 112 on user device 102, such as smartphone, is customised by: determining whether to add a user-requested new class to the ML model; in the positive, obtaining one extracted feature from a sample of the new class from a ML learning model comprising a feature extractor 114,124 and a base portion 116,126 of a classifier; storing the extracted feature on the user device as a representation of the new class in a local portion of the classifier 118. The base portion may be on a server and is a matrix of classifier weight vectors. New classes can be shared. Samples comprise: images, videos, audio. By splitting the classifier into two portions, one base with original classes and a local portion 118 with new classes, the ML model can be updated quickly, without retraining from scratch, and locally as global changes to the classifier are not required.
Patent GB-2589335-A (GB)
Title: Integrated III-V/silicon optoelectronic device and method of manufacture thereof
Inventor: GUOMIN YU
IPC: H01S5/06
Filed: 2019-11-26
Abstract: An optoelectronic device 100 comprises a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform 104 and a III-V semiconductor-based device 102. The SOI platform comprises a silicon device layer, a substrate, an insulator layer between the substrate and the silicon device layer, a waveguide 103 in the silicon device layer, and a cavity/recess 111. The III-V semiconductor-based device is located within the cavity/recess. The III-V semiconductor-based device comprises a III-V semiconductor-based waveguide 101, which is coupled to the silicon waveguide, and a heater 108. The heater is connected to contact pads on the SOI platform by one or more electrical traces 110. The one or more electrical traces connected to the heater can be laterally spaced from one or more electrical traces 114 and 115 that are connected to one or more electro-optically active components in the III-V semiconductor-based device. The heater can be a metal region or a doped semiconductor region. A method of manufacturing the optoelectronic device includes transfer printing the III-V semiconductor-based device into the cavity in the SOI platform. The SOI platform may include a further cavity (206 in figures 2C and 2D) located at least partially below the III-V semiconductor-based device.
Patent GB-2580772-A (GB)
Title: Power umbilical with impact protection
Inventor: MEHRDAD KARIMPOUR
IPC: H01B11/18
Filed: 2019-12-02
Abstract: A subsea umbilical comprising an electrical conductor 2 and/or a fluid pipe 2 surrounded by a plurality of deformable rods 3 and an outer sheath 7. The outer sheath 7 may be harder than the rods 3, and there may be an outer layer 4 between the rods and the sheath. This outer layer may have features 4a’, such as wedges 4a’’, which mate with the rods to locate them within the cable. The rods may have a circular or other cross-section and may contact each other to prevent movement within the cable (Figure 5). There may be a ‘double’ rod (15, Figure 2). There may be a gap 9 which may carry a fibre optic cable 5. The hardness of the rods may vary, e.g. the rod(s) adjacent the fibre optic cable may be harder to protect the fibre. The deformable rods may be of elastic material such as rubber, which may be semi-conductive to drain capacitive currents, either through holes in the sheath into the sea water or through a grounding conductor 6 when used on shore.
Patent GB-2577019-A (GB)
Title: Seal for a borehole
Inventor: Naeem-Ur-Rehman Minhas
IPC: E21B33/127
Filed: 2018-04-26
Abstract: A seal including a fluid resistive cover, a structured element disposed at an inside surface of the cover and drawable with the cover between a first position and a second position.
Patent GB-2590417-A (GB)
Title: Multi-model code management
Inventor: JOHANNES NOPPEN
IPC: G06F11/36
Filed: 2019-12-16
Abstract: A computer implemented method of updating software code in a code management system, the code management system storing version-controlled software code including a current version and a plurality of historic versions of the code, each version of the software code having a codebase comprising a plurality of software modules and having associated code base characteristics including one or more metrics for the codebase and one or more indications of a performance of the code in the codebase, the method comprising: training each of a plurality of mathematical prediction models for a codebase for each version of the software code, and based on the one or more metrics of the codebase, to predict performance indications of a codebase, receiving a modification for the current version of the software code comprising an indication of changes to one or more modules in the codebase of the current version; generating a new codebase as a candidate codebase based on a combination of a codebase for the current version and the received modification; processing the candidate codebase by each of the plurality of prediction models to generate a plurality of predictions for one or more performance indications for the candidate codebase; comparing the generated predictions to identify common predictions arising from different ones of the prediction models for the candidate codebase; and responsive to identified common predictions, committing the modification for the current version to the code management system as part of a new version of the software code
Patent GB-2581874-A (GB)
Title: Polymeric material, manufacture and use
Inventor: ADAM CHAPLIN
IPC: C08L71/08
Filed: 2020-01-06
Abstract: A polyaryletherketone (PAEK), in the form of particles is a copolymer with at least 95 mole% repeat units of formula repeat units of formula and a molar ratio 1:11 from 55:45 to 80:20. The PAEK has a melt viscosity, MV, from 0.35 to 0.55 kNsrn-2 at 1000s-1. The PAEK is of use in formation of components having high elongation at break when formed by selective sintering and melt-bonding of sequentially deposited layers of powder comprising the PAEK particles. Also provided are processes for making the PAEK particles, powders including the PAEK particles and their use and methods of their use in component formation.
Patent GB-2580800-A (GB)
Title: Stand building using a horseshoe clip elevator
Inventor: ALFRED MOSS
IPC: E21B19/20
Filed: 2020-01-23
Abstract: A pipe racking system 2100 including a vertical column 2118 extending upwards from a rig floor 2116, a main arm 2108 that is movable vertically along the column, a gripper 2110 connected to a distal end of the main arm, and an elevator 2112 including a plurality of slips configured to engage an outer diameter surface of a tubular and support a weight of the tubular by gripping the outer surface of the tubular. The elevator is suspended from the gripper via one or more suspension arms 2111. The system also includes one or more guide arms 2104,2106 connected to the vertical column and configured to maintain a vertical orientation of the tubular. The suspension arms may be rigid arms pivotally coupled to the elevator. The position of the slips and main arm may be governed by a single control console. The elevator may comprise a body and a slip carrier which pivots relative to the body between open and closed positions and slips are coupled to the carrier and move radially to grip or release a tubular. A method for building a stand of tubulars is also claimed.