baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2583292-A (GB)
Title: Method and device for evaluating degree of neutron irradiation embrittlement of nuclear power plant reactor pressure vessel
Inventor: GUOGANG SHU
IPC: G21C17/003
Filed: 2017-11-29
Abstract: A method and device for evaluating the degree of neutron irradiation embrittlement of a nuclear power plant reactor pressure vessel. The initial electrical resistivity of the steel of a reactor pressure vessel is measured and the electrical resistivity of the steel of the reactor pressure vessel of any arbitrary point in time after being embrittled by neutron irradiation is acquired in real-time to calculate the macroscopic mechanical properties and/or neutron irradiation fluence; and, the degree of irradiation embrittlement of the reactor pressure vessel is analyzed and evaluated on the basis of the macroscopic mechanical properties and/or neutron irradiation fluence. The method and device are economical, environmentally friendly, safe, and highly efficient, allow real-time monitoring of the degree of irradiation embrittlement of a specific part of the reactor pressure vessel, and allow simultaneous monitoring of the degree of irradiation embrittlement of multiple parts of the reactor pressure vessel.
Patent GB-2586542-A (GB)
Title: Bidirectional video communication system and operator terminal
Inventor: Kazuyuki Horio
IPC: H04N7/18
Filed: 2019-02-07
Abstract: [Problem] To completely eliminate anxiety over peeping when a user is operating a kiosk terminal and thereby make it possible for the user to concentrate on operating the kiosk terminal. [Solution] According to the present invention, upon receiving frontal video of a user from a kiosk terminal 1 via a communication part 42, the frontal video having been captured of the user from the front by a camera 14 of the kiosk terminal to include the background of the user, a control part 41 of an operator terminal 2 displays the frontal video of the user on a monitor 22. The control part 41 also performs face authentication on people in the frontal video of the user and, upon detecting a suspicious person by means of the face authentication, generates an image in which person identification information that identifies the user and the suspicious person has been added to the frontal video of the user and displays the image on the monitor.
Patent GB-2598761-A (GB)
Title: Domain adaptation
Inventor: AKHIL MATHUR
IPC: G06N3/08
Filed: 2020-09-11
Abstract: An apparatus for domain adaptation comprises a source dataset comprising source data items associated with a source domain and a target dataset comprising target data items associated with a target domain. The apparatus comprises a first computational model (34,41) associated with the source domain dataset, the first computational model being associated with source domain classes. The apparatus generates, for each of a series of target data items x_{t} input to the first computational model, a target weight delta^{T} indicative of a confidence value that said target data item belongs to a class which is shared with known classes of the first computational model, and generates, for each of a series of source data items x_{s} input to the first computational model a source weight delta^{S} indicative of a confidence value that said source data item belongs to a known class of the first computational model shared with the target domain. The apparatus adapts the first computational model (34,41) to generate a second computational model by training a discriminator (42) to seek to decrease a discriminator loss function, the discriminator loss function being computed using the source and target data items respectively weighted by the source and target weights delta^{S}, delta^{T}.
Patent GB-2599714-A (GB)
Title: Sanitisation
Inventor: JACOB PETER BOSTON
IPC: A61L2/26
Filed: 2020-10-09
Abstract: A sanitising apparatus 10 for sanitising mobile device is provided, along with a method of sanitisation. The sanitising apparatus 10 comprises: a radio frequency (RF) shielded receptacle 30 having an open configuration and a closed configuration, wherein the RF shielded receptacle 30 is for receiving one or more mobile devices when in the open configuration; at least one sanitiser arranged to sanitise one or more mobile devices positioned in the RF shielded receptacle 30; a transmitter configured to transmit a signal to the one or more mobile devices located in the RF shielded receptacle 30; and control circuitry configured to activate the at least one sanitiser and control the transmitter to transmit the signal. The at least one sanitiser is preferably one or more ultraviolet (UV) light sources or an ozone generator. In one embodiment the RF shielded receptacle 30 defines a Faraday cage when in the closed configuration.
Patent GB-2596878-A (GB)
Title: A coating structure of blackout advertising cloth
Inventor: I-CHIEN LIN
IPC: G09F15/02
Filed: 2020-10-12
Abstract: A blackout advertising fabric 40 comprises a warp knitted fabric 10, a front coating layer 20 and a rear blackout coating 30. The front coating layer is an adhesive slurry layer made of polyacrylic resin mixed with a fireproof agent and a waterproof agent which is coated on the front surface 12 of the warp knitted fabric and penetrates the gaps, so that the warp knitted fabric and the front layer are firmly bonded. The rear blackout layer 30 is a shading slurry layer made of acrylic resin mixed with blackout material which is coated on the rear surface 13, so that the warp knitted mesh fabric and the rear blackout layer are firmly bonded.
Patent GB-2590166-A (GB)
Title: Radiant conveyor drying system and method
Inventor: William j wood
IPC: F26B25/22
Filed: 2020-10-16
Abstract: A radiant conveyor drying system for plant products comprises an input assembly 12, a drying assembly 14 and an exit assembly 16 mechanically fixed to one another. The drying assembly comprises a plurality of drying units 50 with a chamber 60 in layered communication with one another and each unit having a conveyer 54 providing for the passage of product between the respective drying units and a heater assembly 52. Each chamber is defined by a barrier 67 having a triangular cross-section with an apex 76 and sides 74. Each heating assembly comprises a plenum 68 and a heating chamber 70, with each drying unit comprising a burning unit 64 in communication with the heating chamber providing radiant heat to contact the product travelling on the conveyor through the drying unit. Each drying unit further comprises a fan 62 in communication with the plenum to provide for convective air advancing from the plenum to the conveyer via holes (110, fig 5b) of a floor (86). In a first embodiment heat generated by each burning unit is controlled and the conveyer speed is constant, and in a second embodiment each burning unit is controlled and each conveyer speed is independently controlled.
Patent GB-2600994-A (GB)
Title: Assembly and method of installing an assembly
Inventor: MICHAEL HODGES
IPC: F24F13/15
Filed: 2020-11-17
Abstract: An assembly 1 comprises a mounting device 6 configured to be attached to a wall, an air pressure stabiliser 2 which comprises at least one control member 22 pivotably supported in an opening in a frame 21 for movement in response to differential air pressure across opposite sides of the frame. A damper 8 is used to substantially block airflow to or from the air pressure stabiliser. The damper is attached to the mounting device, partially inside a cavity defined by a wall when the mounting device is fixed thereto. There may be a housing 4 that can enclose the pressure stabiliser in an enclosure 42. The damper may comprise a series of blades (81, figure 3) which may be controlled by an actuator assembly 10 that is formed of a controller 110 and a support 120 that mounts the actuator assembly to a casing 82 of the damper.
Patent GB-2591689-A (GB)
Title: Child Safety Seat
Inventor: DAVID A LEHMAN
IPC: B60N2/28
Filed: 2019-01-23
Abstract: A child safety seat with a seat shell 104 having a backrest 108 has a latch belt 154 disposed transversally across the seat shell 104 and having two opposite ends respectively provided with connectors 156 for attachment to an anchorage in a vehicle, and a storage compartment 170 on a rear of the backrest 108 to receive the connectors 156. The compartment 170 can be in the middle, can have a door 172, and also store a top tether connector 166 (figure 5).
Patent GB-2612009-A (GB)
Title: Synchronised multi-processor operating system timer
Inventor: FRODE MILCH PEDERSEN
IPC: G06F1/3287
Filed: 2021-07-13
Abstract: An integrated-circuit device (1, fig. 1) comprises a plurality of processor cores (2, 3, fig 1) and a system timer 10. The system timer includes a first oscillator 32 that outputs a first clock signal at a first frequency, a first counter register 34 incremented by the first clock signal and a plurality of event registers 52. Each event register triggers an event when a value held therein is determined to be equal to a value held in the first counter register. The first counter register is readable by each of the plurality of processor cores, and each of the processor cores are capable of writing to at least one of the event registers.
Patent GB-2612022-A (GB)
Title: Motor
Inventor: JOHN DALTRY
IPC: B63H20/12
Filed: 2021-10-06
Abstract: An outboard boat motor 10 mountable on a transom of a watercraft comprises a tiller 12, a shaft 20 with a propulsion arrangement 22, and a transom mount 30 for attachment to a transom. The transom mount 30 comprises a transom-mounting subassembly 40 and a motor-receiving subassembly 32, wherein the transom mount is detachable, for example slidably detachable, on the shaft. The motor-receiving sub-assembly is connectable to the outboard shaft in a translatable engagement allowing positioning of the motor-receiving sub-assembly at a plurality of shaft locations. In another arrangement, the tiller is articulatable, for example pivotable, into a position extending, axially aligned, from the shaft, to serve as a lever for pivoting the shaft into a use position.
Patent GB-2604211-A (GB)
Title: Casing for insulation material and method of manufacture
Inventor: HAMISH DUNN
IPC: B32B7/08
Filed: 2021-11-12
Abstract: A method for producing a casing for insulation material comprising providing a first layer of material, a second layer of material, and a third layer of material positioned between the first and second layers; joining the first layer to the third layer by formation of a first joint and joining the second layer to the third layer by formation of a second joint, wherein the first and second joints are offset relative to each other. There may be a plurality of first and second joints, all the first joints may be offset relative to all the second joints and there may be no points of intersection between any of the first and second joints, the joints may be elongate and may extend along all or part of the length or width of the layers or material. The joints may be formed by any suitable means such as sewing, lamination, welding and bonding. There may be formed a plurality of open ended chambers formed between the first layer and third layer of material and the second and third layers of material formed by said joints. These chambers may be filled with insulation material, which may be fibrous fill, and then sealed. The first and second materials may be a woven nylon fabric, the third material may be the same or may be a non-woven scrim comprising aluminium. Fourth and fifth layers of material may also be present contacting the first and/or second material. Also include are claim to the casing made by such a method.
Patent GB-2614932-A (GB)
Title: Exercise device
Inventor: KEITH TOULE
IPC: A63B23/035
Filed: 2022-04-11
Abstract: An exercise device comprises an elongate hollow body containing first and second carriages 6, each mounting an arm projecting laterally from the body on opposed sides thereof, the carriages 6 run in parallel respective tracks and are linked together at each end of the body through a flexible link passing around a pulley 5, the body comprising a pair of body parts separated by a tubular bush (4, fig 2) the body parts fixed together by screws (22, fig 2) passing through the bush (4) and each bush (4) mounting a pulley 5. The carriages preferably include multiple rollers that contact channels in the track at axes normal to each other.
Patent GB-2608674-A (GB)
Title: Cyrogenic cooler
Inventor: DANIEL A NEMETH
IPC: F25D19/00
Filed: 2022-04-29
Abstract: A cryogenic cooler 10 comprises a cold finger 12 thermally coupled to a cooling source 12, and positioned in an interior area 20 of an insulating vessel 16 having an inner wall 22 and an outer wall 24. A fitting on the outer wall 26 is coupled to a gas source, with a passageway 30 formed between the coupling and the inner wall allowing gas to flow into the interior area. An opening 32 formed in the interior area allows the transfer of the gas around the cold finger and out of the interior area. A freezing disk 34 may be in thermal contact with the cold finger and a port 36 in the freezing disk may allow the passage of gas. The transfer of gas, typically an inert gas, around the cold finger may purge the interior area of room air. An insulating lid 38 may partially cover the opening of the interior area. The cooling source may be a mechanical cooler or liquid nitrogen. The cold finger is typically made of copper. A method of cooling a freezing disk for vitrification of biological materials is also claimed.
Patent GB-2618611-A (GB)
Title: A tire performance monitoring system
Inventor: ANDREW BILL
IPC: B60C23/04
Filed: 2022-05-13
Abstract: Disclosed is a tire performance monitoring system including a tire monitoring device configured to obtain, over a time period, a plurality of values indicative of a tire parameter of a tire. The tire monitoring device includes a local memory configured to store a performance coefficient corresponding to performance of the tire. The tire performance monitoring system includes a processing system configured to determine a tire performance characteristic based on the second plurality of values and the performance coefficient.
Patent GB-2619042-A (GB)
Title: Multiplayer video game systems and methods
Inventor: MICHAEL REYNOLDS
IPC: A63F13/33
Filed: 2022-05-25
Abstract: A game server 110 is connected to a game client 120 via a network 150. A plurality of players 131-133 are connected to the client. The server executes a separate instance of a game for each player (221-223, fig.2), synchronizing game data between the multiple instances of the game to link the generated game environments of the game. The client transmits player inputs to the game server to initiate interactive gameplay. The server generates a video stream of the linked game environment from each player’s perspective and mixes the video streams for individual players into a split screen view which is sent to the display 140 via the client (see fig.6). In other embodiments the stream mixing is done at the client.
Patent GB-2619057-A (GB)
Title: Portable water service vehicle
Inventor: RONAN MALLAGHAN
IPC: B60P3/22
Filed: 2022-05-26
Abstract: A potable water vehicle has a wheeled chassis (2, fig 1), a water tank 6, a filler pipe 16 at a forward end on one side for connection to a water supply, an overflow pipe 20 adjacent the filler pipe extending downwardly and terminating beneath the tank, a valve 26 in the overflow pipe to allow the overflow pipe to be closed when the vehicle is moving to prevent spillage, and an air vent 30,32 in a central region of an upper wall of the tank to prevent a partial vacuum when the valve 26 is closed. The valve 26 can have an electric actuator 28 causing valve 26 to close when a hand brake is released. Air vent 30,32 can have a dome shaped cap 34,36 to exclude contaminant entry. The vehicle can be a trailer or have a driver's cab, and have an operator's platform with a lifting mechanism for connection to aircraft.
Patent GB-2610894-A (GB)
Title: Conditional processing of annotated documents for automated document generation
Inventor: GABRIEL AVILES
IPC: G06F40/186
Filed: 2022-05-27
Abstract: A computer implemented method, system, or program conditionally processes a template document to produce finished documents wherein annotations in the template document are identified 430, each annotation indicating an instruction name and a portion of the template document to which the annotation is applied, the template document is processed using one or more structured data feeds 420 that indicate, for each annotation, instructions for transforming the portion of the template document associated with the annotation; the instructions are indicated by the instruction name of the annotation; finished documents are generated by executing the instructions to transform the template document into each finished document 440, wherein transforming includes: replacing data from, adding data to, and/or removing data from the template document. An annotation may include an XPath expression evaluated against an XML formatted structured data feed. Finished documents may be PDF, HTML, ePUB, or similar formats. The invention can be performed by a word processing module. Transformation of the template may cause inclusion of images, audio, and/or video. Annotations may be made in the form of named styles applied to a document or as comments. Applications include production of customer-specific sale price documents.
Patent GB-2611402-A (GB)
Title: Devices, methods and graphical user interfaces for three-dimensional preview of objects
Inventor: DAVID A LIPTON
IPC: G06T19/20
Filed: 2022-07-26
Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) preview, 434, of content can be generated and presented at an electronic device in a 3D environment. The 3D preview of content can be presented concurrently with a two-dimensional (2D) representation of the content in a content generation environment presented in the 3D environment. While the 3D preview of content is presented in the 3D environment, one or more user interface elements (affordances), 440, can be provided for interacting with the one or more computer-generated virtual objects of the 3D preview. The one or more affordances may be displayed with the 3D preview of content in the 3D environment. The 3D preview of content may be presented on a 3D tray, 436, and the one or more affordances may be presented in a control bar, 438, or other grouping of controls outside the perimeter of the tray and/or along the perimeter of the tray. The 2D representation may be displayed on a laptop. Desktop or tablet computer whilst the 3D representation may be displayed on a head-mounted display.
Patent GB-2607747-A (GB)
Title: Air conditioner
Inventor: KAZUKI SUZUMURA
IPC: F24F110/10
Filed: 2020-04-21
Abstract: An air conditioner (1) comprises an outdoor unit (2), a plurality of indoor units (3,4,5,6), a plurality of detectors (32,42,52,62), an operating device (7) for receiving an instruction about a method of using all prediction results obtained for all spaces, a determination unit for determining whether all the prediction results are identical to one another, and a decision unit for deciding on an air conditioning method on the basis of a determination result obtained by the determination unit. Each of the plurality of detectors detects a state associated with the temperature of a space corresponding to each of the detectors. A prediction result obtained for each of the plurality of spaces is a temperature that is predicted for, on the basis of a detection result obtained by one of the plurality of detectors, the space corresponding to one of the detectors after a predetermined time since the time when the detection result was obtained. If it is determined that all the prediction results are not identical to one another, the decision unit decides on an air conditioning method on the basis of some or all of the prediction results in response to the instruction that the operating device (7) has received.
Patent GB-2614121-A (GB)
Title: Hearing assistance device with smart audio focus control
Inventor: Raghuveer Prasad Nagar
IPC: H04R3/00
Filed: 2021-03-05
Abstract: A method includes providing a smart contact lens including an array of beamforming microphones, wherein the smart contact lens is worn by a user and the array of beamforming microphones receive sound from different directions, determining a gaze direction of the user, filter the sound received by the array of beamforming microphones based on the gaze direction of the user to determine filtered sound, and output the filtered sound via a bone conduction hearing device.
Patent GB-2611427-A (GB)
Title: Predicting awake-time alertness
Inventor: TOPI KORHONEN
IPC: A61B5/16
Filed: 2022-11-04
Abstract: A method comprises: performing a recursive alertness prediction procedure by: obtaining 201 measurement data measured, from a user, by at least one sensor device; determining 202 at least a sleep time, a sleep quality, and a circadian phase of the user; selecting 204, in response to a preceding awake-time alertness pattern enabled for usage in the recursive alertness prediction procedure, the preceding awake-time alertness pattern as an alertness pattern template; selecting 205, otherwise, a default alertness model as the alertness pattern template; determining 206 an awake-time alertness pattern by determining an alertness grades per time interval; and determining 207 whether to enable or disable the awake-time alertness pattern determined for a subsequent recursive alertness prediction procedure; and displaying 208, to the user via a user interface, the awake-time alertness pattern determined. In another aspect there is an apparatus to carry out the method.
Patent GB-2610133-A (GB)
Title: Electronics module for a wearable device
Inventor: MICHAEL JOHN LYNCH
IPC: G06F1/3231
Filed: 2021-05-05
Abstract: The electronics module (100) comprises a controller (103). The controller (103) is arranged to operate in a first power mode and a second power mode. The first power mode consumes less power than the second power mode. The controller (103) is arranged to transition from the first power mode to the second power mode in response to an input unit of the electronics module (100) detecting an input event. In the second power mode, the controller (103) is arranged to receive a signal from a sensing unit of the wearable article, determine from the signal whether the wearable article is being worn. In response to determining that the wearable article is not being worn, the controller (103) is arranged to transition from the second power mode to the first power mode.
Patent GB-2612557-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to patient care
Inventor: SEBASTIAN BROWN
IPC: G06F3/048
Filed: 2021-09-03
Abstract: A portable ventilator module is provided and includes a data module capable of artificial intelligence (AI) and/or machine learning (ML). The ventilator module is detachably attachable to an anaesthesia module to enable a single device to collect data from a patient in critical care and theatre environments. Also provided is a system for the unbroken acquisition of data from the entire patient stay in critical care, emergency areas and theatres in a single device by including a data module capable of AI or ML within a portable ventilator module, wherein the portable ventilator module can provide life-sustaining ventilation support to a patient in critical care and wherein the portable ventilator can dock with an anaesthesia module to provide anaesthesia during operations in theatre so that a machine change from an ICU ventilator to a separate anaesthesia machine and back again is not required, thereby avoiding data loss.
Patent GB-2615018-A (GB)
Title: Cement plug fragmentation enhancement
Inventor: Alexander schultz
IPC: E21B33/13
Filed: 2021-10-08
Abstract: A liner plug assembly includes liner plug for use in a casing. The liner plug includes a body for plugging the casing and a body fragmentation feature in the body for catching a cutter of a drill bit used to cut the body. The liner plug assembly includes the lead plug.