baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2575328-A (GB)
Title: Dispensing and disposal unit
Inventor: IAN MUIR
IPC: B65F1/00
Filed: 2018-07-06
Abstract: A dispensing and disposal unit 10 for storing wipes comprises a wipe dispensing compartment 12, a wipe disposal compartment 14 with a bin receiving area 14b for a wheeled bin 100, a partition 16 between the compartments 12, 14, and a wheeled bin 100. The wipe dispensing compartment 12 is disposed over the wipe disposal compartment 14 and includes a dispensing means for the wipes. The wipe disposal compartment 14 includes a metal enclosure 14b for protecting the bin 100, and the bin 100 is storable in the enclosure 14b. An opening (28a, Fig 4A) allows movement of the bin 100 into/out of the enclosure 14b, with a movable upright closure element (28, Fig 3) for closing the opening (28a, Fig 4A). A disposal aperture (30, Fig 4B) leads into an upper region of the enclosure 14b, and a second closure element 38 is provided for closing the disposal aperture 30. Also included is a wipe dispensing unit characterised by a projection below the disposal aperture to direct wipes into the bin, and also a unit characterised by at least one foot to raise the unit off the ground with a ramp to facilitate the movement of the bin in and an out of the enclosure.
Patent GB-2561515-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for encoding image, and method and apparatus for decoding image
Inventor: BAE KEUN LEE
IPC: H04N19/119
Filed: 2012-11-02
Abstract: Reference samples (e.g. a(0,0), to r(0,0)) are generated for a 4x4 prediction block by deriving a first sub-sample (e.g. a(0,0), b(0,0), c(0,0)) based on a horizontal interpolation filter and then deriving a second sub-sample (e.g. e(0,0) to r(0,0)) based on a vertical interpolation filter, where the vertical filter uses values calculated from the first sub-sample. The first sub-sample is derived using a first shifting value and an 8-tap horizontal interpolation filter. The second sub-sample is one of two quarter position samples and a half position sample, and is vertically aligned below the first sub-sample. The second sub-sample is derived based on a second shifting value and an 8-tap vertical interpolation filter. The first and second shifting values are based on a bit-depth of a luma component and a constant value respectively. Prediction samples of a current block are obtained using the reference samples. Residual samples of a current block are derived by inverse-quantizing residual coefficients obtained from a video signal and performing an inverse transform on the inverse-quantized residual coefficients. The current block is reconstructed using the residual samples and the prediction samples. A deblocking filter is applied to the reconstructed samples of the current block.
Patent GB-2570019-A (GB)
Title: Plastic recycling process
Inventor: THOMAS ROSE
IPC: C08J99/00
Filed: 2018-09-17
Abstract: A process for the extraction of one or more colour pigments from waste plastic comprisies mixing a waste plastic feedstock with a solvent in a reactor having a high shearing mechanism and where the solvent is separated out and recycled in the process. The shearing mechanism provides high shear, high contact mixing so as to move the pigment to the surface of the plastic for contact with the solvent to give efficient colour pigment removal. A reactor with a high shearing mechanism comprises a bore with at least two blades, a first inlet, a second inlet, a first outlet and a second outlet wherein the first outlet is fluidly connected to the second inlet for recycling of a processed component. The fluid connection may also include ameans for removing a pigment from a solvent prior to the solvent being recycled into the reactor.
Patent GB-2577912-A (GB)
Title: Digital endoscope
Inventor: Fareed Iqbal
IPC: A61B1/31
Filed: 2018-10-10
Abstract: A rigid scope comprising a head portion 1 for releasable attachment to a rigid sigmoidoscope, a single use lumened manifold (22 Fig 2) and an articulated handle 2. Preferably the handle has a ball and socket joint and is lockable 5 in a fixed position. Within the lumened manifold may be a channel in which could be located a camera, biopsy forceps, source of pressurized gas (e.g. air), a flatus tube, cauterizing coil or light source. The scope may also have a bellows and air filter system. A biopsy port 10 may be located on the head portion. In use the scope is for single handed use to view the anus, rectum and distal sigmoid colon in people with anorectal symptoms. Also claimed in a single use lumened manifold for use with the scope and methods of treatment and diagnosis using the scope.
Patent GB-2571405-A (GB)
Title: Optical corrosion sensor
Inventor: STEPHEN MUNN
IPC: G01N21/88
Filed: 2018-12-13
Abstract: An optical sensing apparatus 100 for mounting in a water system 104 for monitoring corrosion in the water system comprises a metal sample 112 having uniform thickness and a first planar surface and an opposing second planar surface, wherein the first planar surface is arranged to be in contact with water 106 within the water system. The apparatus is arranged to prevent water within the system leaking around the metal sample to contact the second planar surface. The apparatus further comprises a light source 108 to emit light 110 towards the second planar surface of the metal sample, and a light sensor 116 to receive reflected light 114 and output a signal indicative of the intensity of the reflected light. A metal sample is also disclosed having a portion of the first surface provided with a corrosion resistant coating for providing a seal location between the sample and the sensor.
Patent GB-2580387-A (GB)
Title: Adapter, tyre parameter monitoring system and method for mounting a tyre parameter monitoring system onto a wheel rim
Inventor: ILIE ATANASOE
IPC: B60C23/04
Filed: 2019-01-09
Abstract: A tyre parameter monitoring system 2, e.g. tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS), comprises: an electronic module 4 with a fitting 6 for a snap-in valve, a ball joint 8 coupled to the fitting 6, and a valve stem 10 for a clamp-in valve. The valve stem 10 has a ball socket 12 that is coupled to the ball joint 8 allowing the valve stem 10 to be positioned at different angles to the electronic module, i.e. pivotably articulated for angle variation. The module may include a pressure sensor with a housing including an aperture 18, with the ball joint including a connection stem 16 extending through the aperture with an inner thread to engage a screw (22, fig. 2). There may also be a nut 34, washer 32 and seal 30 to mount the valve stem to the wheel rim. Also claimed is an adapter including the ball joint and connection stem, and a method of mounting the tyre parameter monitoring system to a wheel rim.
Patent GB-2582803-A (GB)
Title: System and method for monitoring a wastewater treatment works
Inventor: TERRY WILLIAMS
IPC: C02F11/00
Filed: 2019-04-03
Abstract: A method for monitoring and optionally for maintaining operating conditions at a wastewater treatment works comprises: detecting a media signature relating to a wastewater performance assessment station T1-T4 via a media detection device, storing a plurality of media signatures relating to the wastewater performance assessment station via data storage means 102, comparing the detected media signature relating to the wastewater performance assessment station with a plurality of reference media signatures via comparison means 104, determining whether the detected media signature corresponds to conditions associated with a wastewater performance action via the comparison means, and receiving at a control means 106 data indicative of a determination that the detected media signature corresponds to a condition which requires the associated wastewater performance action. Suitably, the wastewater treatment station comprises an activated sludge process tank, a final settlement tank or a sludge treatment process. The media detection device may be an image detection device (132, Fig. 2) to record still images and/or video footage, via a camera, and/or an audio detection device (134, Fig. 2) to record audio signatures, via a microphone. The invention allows poor operating conditions to be diagnosed in real-time or near real-time.
Patent GB-2574111-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to container carriers
Inventor: STEPHEN BATES
IPC: B65B17/02
Filed: 2019-04-04
Abstract: A carrier, preferably of plastics film, has apertures 15a-h for receiving and holding together containers such as bottles, and has longitudinally spaced drive-pin holes 35a, 40a. Each aperture 15a-h is positioned longitudinally between drive-pin holes and has a centre 20a which is longitudinally offset from a mid-point between successive drive pin holes. The offset may be in the range 2% to 50% and towards the trailing drive-pin hole 40a. Each aperture may have a geometry comprising a tab 31a facing the aperture centre. The tab 31a may act like a flap which hinges to fold upwards as the aperture is applied to a container. The tab 31a may be defined by truncated circular cut-outs 32a, 33a.The carrier may be applied to the sides of a bottle to fit a relief or recess (70, Figure 3) formed in the bottle sidewall. A continuous length of the material may be applied to containers from a drum at an application station, where the containers are carried by a conveyor at a generally constant speed and height to and through the station. The drum may separate carriers from the continuous length such as by cutting with a blade (393, Figure 8)
Patent GB-2584917-A (GB)
Title: Wearable device
Inventor: Richard Dinan
IPC: G07C9/00
Filed: 2019-07-29
Abstract: A wrist watch 100 comprising a mechanical watch movement 104 located in a metal watch housing. First and second straps connected to the watch housing. The first strap has a coin cell battery 106 located in a cavity, and the second strap has an electronic transceiver 108,109, located in a cavity. The coin cell and the transceiver are connected by a flexible circuit board 120, e.g. flexible PCB. The transceiver 108,109 is able to communicate with a vehicle security system, e.g. to unlock the vehicle or to activate a keyless go system.
Patent GB-2579265-A (GB)
Title: A method and system for dyeing material
Inventor: JONATHAN MARK BROOK
IPC: D06P1/00
Filed: 2019-08-20
Abstract: Material is dyed in a first dye liquor within a vat. The used first dye liquor is removed from the vat. The removed used first dye liquor is passed through an aerator. The aerated used first dye liquor is mixed with water. This is preferably used to form a second dye liquor. The dyed material is preferably fibrous. The preferred process involves extracting heat from some of the first dye liquor using heat exchangers and using this preheat the water and vat. Boilers are preferably used to further heat water. The preferred system uses venturi aerators.
Patent GB-2576650-A (GB)
Title: A tactile security feature for a banknote
Inventor: GARY FAIRLESS POWER
IPC: B42D25/45
Filed: 2018-05-16
Abstract: A tactile security feature for a banknote and a method for its production using in-line on a web based process are disclosed. The security feature comprises a printed indicia layer including a design element and a printed enhanced tactility layer, which has at least a first enhanced tactility area overlapping the design element, such that the design element appears to have tactility due to the overlap with the enhanced tactility area. Preferably the tactile layer contains tactile particles. In addition, a banknote produced by the above method, a banknote having a single-ink system, and a coating for banknotes including a tactile security feature are disclosed.
Patent GB-2579466-A (GB)
Title: Vacuum chamber seal
Inventor: Paul Holligan
IPC: H01J5/32
Filed: 2020-01-24
Abstract: A seal for a vacuum chamber is formed from two outer insulation blocks 14, 16, an intermediate insulation block 34, 36, interior insulation sheets 74, 76, 78 and exterior insulation sheets 80, 82, 84. A first outer insulation block 14 seals between a first wall 2 of the vacuum chamber and a first power transmission plate 10. A second outer insulation block 16 seals between a second wall 4 of the vacuum chamber and a second power transmission plate 12. The intermediate insulation block seals between the first and second power transmission plates. The interior insulation sheets are arranged in slots 62, 64, 66 in a first side of the intermediate insulation block. The exterior insulation sheets are arranged in the slots 68, 70, 72 in a second side of the intermediate insulation block.
Patent GB-2593927-A (GB)
Title: Homogeneous colour lighting device
Inventor: JAMES GOURLAY
IPC: G02B6/42
Filed: 2020-04-09
Abstract: A lighting device 21 has a light guide 12 with two or more LED packages 1 which have two or more LED chips. The LEDs generate two or more separate output wavelengths, their output light 15,16 being optically coupled into the light guide and a portion also exiting via a light output surface 14. The light intensity of at least one LED is modified by one or more wavelength dependent features 22 to homogenise the colour of the output light at the light output surface. The one or more wavelength dependent features may be located on the light output surface or within the light guide. The lighting device may include a diffuser and an opaque mask with aperture(s) located between one of the LED packages and the diffuser. The LED packages may include an RGB LED package having red, green and blue LED chips emitting light from five surfaces or a single surface of the package. One of the wavelength dependent features may be cyan / magenta / yellow coloured and closer to the red / green / blue LED chip respectively than either of the green or blue / red or blue / red or green LED chips respectively.
Patent GB-2584550-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for person identification and motion direction estimation
Inventor: Sirajum Munir
IPC: H04W24/08
Filed: 2020-04-20
Abstract: An apparatus 100 comprising a wireless transceivers 101, 103 configured to communicate packet data with a mobile device associated with one or more persons in a vicinity of the wireless transceiver, and a controller in communication with the wireless transceiver and the camera, the controller configured to receive a plurality of packet data from one or more person, wherein the packet data includes at least amplitude information associated with the wireless channel communicating with the wireless transceiver, identify the one or more persons as a customer 107 or employee 115 in response to the packet data, and determine the character of the motion of the one or more persons in response to the packet data and identification indicating the customer in order to predict and track the motion. The wireless transceiver may be configured to receive a media access control (MAC) address associated with the mobile device to determine whether the person is an employee or customer. An LSTM (Long Short Term Memory) model may be used to identify the movements, and a heat map may be utilized to represent customer traffic.
Patent GB-2589417-A (GB)
Title: Display apparatus
Inventor: HONGJAE KIM
IPC: G09G3/36
Filed: 2020-08-07
Abstract: A display apparatus comprising a display panel including a display (active) area and a non-display (non-active) area surrounding the display area. The display area includes a plurality of pixels connected to a plurality of gate lines. The non-display area includes first to fourth non-display area and has a pad part disposed in the first non-display area. A first gate driving circuit, 310, is disposed in the second non-display area to drive a first gate line group, GL1, GL3, GL(2n-1) among the plurality of gate lines and a second gate driving circuit, 320, is disposed in the third non-display area to drive a second gate line group, GL2, GL4, GL(2n), among the plurality of gate lines. A third gate driving circuit, 330, is disposed in the fourth non-display area to drive the first and second gate line groups. The display panel further comprises a plurality of connection lines connecting gate lines of the first and second gate line groups to the third gate driving circuit.
Patent GB-2589732-A (GB)
Title: Lighting arrangement
Inventor: LAWRENCE FAGG
IPC: F21S9/03
Filed: 2020-11-03
Abstract: A lighting arrangement comprises a post 10 and an arm 12 projecting from the post 10. The post 10 carries a housing 16 including a plurality of flat external support surfaces 18, and substantially planar photovoltaic panels (18a, Fig. 4) supported by the support surfaces 18 of the housing 16. The post may carry a wind turbine 20. The photovoltaic panels and wind turbine may charge a battery within the housing 16 to power a lamp 14.
Patent GB-2601331-A (GB)
Title: Low Dropout Regulator
Inventor: MALLIKARJUN BANAPPAGOL
IPC: H03F3/45
Filed: 2020-11-26
Abstract: A low dropout regulator 100 has a supply voltage connection 101 and load voltage output control circuitry 110 comprising output connection 112 and pass transistor 111 to regulate the load voltage. Adaptive biasing circuitry comprises biasing transistor 150 to regulate the voltage provided to the pass transistor. Operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) circuitry 120 where a first OTA transistor 121 receives a reference voltage and second OTA transistor 122 receives a voltage indicative of the load voltage. Adaptive compensation circuitry 130 where a second electrode of a first compensation capacitor 131 is coupled to a first region of a first compensation transistor 133, and a first electrode of a second compensation capacitor 132 is coupled to both a second and a gate region of the first compensation transistor. A first region of the second OTA transistor is coupled to: the supply voltage, the first electrode of the first compensation capacitor, and the gate region of the biasing transistor, and a second electrode of the second compensation capacitor is coupled to a first region of the biasing transistor. Sensing circuitry may be provided comprising a sense transistor 141 coupled to supply voltage and pass transistor.
Patent GB-2589477-A (GB)
Title: Removal of near DC errors in a peak-controlled boost converter using a low bandwidth secondary control loop
Inventor: ERIC J KING
IPC: H02M3/157
Filed: 2019-06-17
Abstract: A method may include controlling switching behavior of switches of a switch-mode power supply based on a desired physical quantity associated with the switch-mode power supply, wherein the desired physical quantity is based at least in part on a slope compensation signal, generating the slope compensation signal to have a compensation value of approximately zero as seen by a compensation control loop of the switch-mode power supply, and modifying the slope compensation signal on successive switching cycles of the switch-mode power supply to account for differences in an output of the compensation control loop and an average current of an inductor of the switch-mode power supply in at least one phase of a switching period of a switching cycle of the switch-mode power supply.
Patent GB-2603120-A (GB)
Title: A method for creating a unified view of the surroundings of an autonomous machine by a sensor fusion system, as well as a corresponding sensor fusion system
Inventor: SURESH GOVINDACHAR
IPC: G06V20/56
Filed: 2021-01-21
Abstract: The invention relates to a method/system for analyzing the surroundings of an autonomous machine 10 by a sensor fusion system 12 of the autonomous machine 10, the method comprising the steps of: capturing data of the surroundings by at least one capturing device 14 of the sensor fusion system 12 and processing a plurality of information of the data by the capturing device 14, S1, S2, summarizing each information of the at least one capturing device 14 in at least one cell out of a plurality of cells to a common cell information, wherein a cell describes a predetermined region of the surroundings captured by the capturing device 14, S3, S4, determining a state of each cell depending on the cell information by using an innovative particle filter termed a glint filter, which treats each input data as a separate item of information about a glint and estimates this information using a collection of particles, by an electronic computing device 16 of the sensor fusion system 12, S5, S6 and clustering the plurality of cells depending on the determined state of each cell for analyzing the surroundings S7.
Patent GB-2598427-A (GB)
Title: Tapered attenuation total internal reflection optical sensor for downhole production logging
Inventor: SANDIP MAITY
IPC: G01N21/84
Filed: 2019-07-19
Abstract: The present disclosure is for a tool for measurement of phases in fluid in downhole applications. The tool includes a light coupler for providing a first light and for detecting a second light. The first light is provided to an optical interface and the second light is received from the optical interface. The optical interface is between the tool and the fluid. An optical path is provided that is integral or coupled to the optical interface. The optical path allows transmission of the first light into the fluid at the optical interface and also allows receiving the second light from the optical interface. The second light includes one or more light components disturbed by the fluid. A processor provides digital data associated with the measurement of phases in the fluid using optical data from at least the second light.
Patent GB-2602679-A (GB)
Title: Data-driven domain conversion using machine learning techniques
Inventor: Samiran Roy
IPC: G06N20/00
Filed: 2020-04-09
Abstract: Optimizing seismic to depth conversion to enhance subsurface operations including measuring seismic data in a subsurface formation, dividing the subsurface formation into a training area and a study area, dividing the seismic data into training seismic data and study seismic data, wherein the training seismic data corresponds to the training area, and wherein the study seismic data corresponds to the study area, calculating target depth data corresponding to the training area, training a machine learning model using training inputs and training targets, wherein the training inputs comprise the training seismic data, and wherein the training targets comprise the target depth data, computing, by the machine learning model, output depth data corresponding to the study area based at least in part on the study seismic data, and modifying one or more subsurface operations corresponding to the study area based at least in part on the output depth data.
Patent GB-2609184-A (GB)
Title: Updating mobile devices
Inventor: MARK JONATHAN BERNSTEIN
IPC: H02J7/00
Filed: 2021-05-14
Abstract: A method of updating executable instructions stored by a plurality of mobile devices, comprises the steps of retaining a mobile device within a charging apparatus configured to charge a set of mobile devices and simultaneously updating a proportion of said set of mobile devices. Upon detecting that a mobile device is located in the charging apparatus, the mobile device is configured to determine a delay interval, wait for the delay interval, attempt communication with a support station, download updated instructions upon successfully establishing communication, and repeating the steps of determining a delay interval, waiting for said delay interval and attempting to communicate if communication cannot be established. Multiple devices may simultaneously perform the steps by identifying and waiting for first and second delay intervals, with the device that is unsuccessful in making the data connection identifying a third delay interval and making a further attempt to make a data connection for receiving the updated executable instructions. The mobile device may be a control unit connected to a loom with an industrial garment.