baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2444407-A (GB)
Title: Player position validation interface for an object tracking system
Inventor: IRIE KENJI
IPC: G01S3/786
Filed: 2007-11-29
Abstract: A method 20 is disclosed for collating a set of valid player positions in a cricket game. The method starts in step 21 by determining a plurality of candidate player positions from a detection and tracking system. These candidate positions may then, in step 22, be overlaid on a video image of the playing field used to determine the candidate player positions, and displayed on a computer system (3,Fig.1). In step 26, a plurality of validity indicators are received, each validity indicator being associated with a single candidate object position. The validity indicators may be received through an operator (4,Fig.1) moving a pointer of a computer mouse over each candidate position illustrated, and validating positions through depressing the buttons of the mouse, whereby a left click may be designated a positive validity indicator, and a right click may be designated a negative validity indicator. Following step 26, each candidate player position has associated therewith a validity indicator. In a final step 29, a final set of valid player positions is collated based on the positive and negative validity indicators entered by the operator in step 26.
Patent GB-2448218-A (GB)
Title: Response probability calculating method
Inventor: NOBUKIYO TAKAHIRO
IPC: H04W4/06
Filed: 2008-03-27
Abstract: In a communication network reporting method a response probability is sent from the network to a plurality of terminals, and the terminals report terminal information to the communication network according to the response probability. An updated response probability is calculated by selecting between a first formula which monotonically increases the response probability and a second formula which calculates the response probability using its previous value and the number of responses from the terminals received using that value.
Patent GB-2447157-A (GB)
Title: Joint arrangement
Inventor: JACOB WERNER
IPC: F16D3/224
Filed: 2006-09-30
Abstract: The invention relates to a joint arrangement comprising a synchronisation ball-and-socket joint (1) which is embodied as a counter path joint, and an inner hub (4) comprising first inner grooves (16) and second inner grooves (17) in addition to an outer hub (7), wherein first outer grooves (20) and second outer grooves (21) are arranged in an alternating and distributed manner about the external hub axis on the internal surface. The joint arrangement also comprises a displacement unit (12), which is embodied as a rolling body guide which acts upon torque transmission and enables displacement along a longitudinal axis (9), said rolling body guide comprising inner (28) and outer paths (29) which extend in a parallel manner in relation to each other.
Patent GB-2451041-A (GB)
Title: Offshore apparatus for capturing energy
Inventor: WEST ALAN
IPC: B63B35/00
Filed: 2008-11-10
Abstract: The present invention relates to offshore apparatus (10) for capturing energy to generate an exportable product. In one embodiment, the offshore apparatus includes a mobile arrangement of energy capture devices, such as wind turbines (18), wave energy converters (14), or solar energy panels. The arrangement provides a plurality of points that may be connected to an offloading unit (26) to move the product, which can be stored electricity in batteries or a stored pressurised gas away from the energy capture devices.
Patent GB-2465776-A (GB)
Title: Cap insert with convoluted slot.
Inventor: SMITH ROBERT JAMES
IPC: H01B17/58
Filed: 2008-11-28
Abstract: A cap insert 46 has a wall 50 defining a through passage from top to bottom of the cap insert 46 for receiving a cable therethrough, the wall 50 having a slot 58 with a convoluted profile which helps to prevent the cable from being removed from the through passage. The cap insert 46 can be used in the vane (34, fig 6) for a gas turbine engine.
Patent GB-2467918-A (GB)
Title: Determining the correct value and the reliability of a data item by aggregating or combining the value of the data item from several databases.
Inventor: NERGER PAUL SHELTON
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2009-02-18
Abstract: Disclosed is a method of estimating a probability of error of a value of a particular attribute in an aggregated database. The aggregated database being compiled from several source databases, each containing values for some of the same attributes. The method starts by estimating a probability of error for each source database, the probability of error for a source database representing the chance that values of attributes in the database are incorrect. Then the probability of error of the value of the particular attribute in the aggregated database is estimated from the estimated probabilities of error for the source databases. This is done by determining the number of conflicts between respective pairs of the source databases by comparing values of attributes in the source databases, and deriving the probability of error for the source databases from the numbers of conflicts. The estimated error probabilities may be obtained using a pari-mutuel technique.
Patent GB-2455248-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for aggregating search results
Inventor: YANG TAO
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2007-09-19
Abstract: Systems and methods for aggregating search results are disclosed herein. The systems and methods include receiving a user search query, analyzing the user search query to identify a plurality of properties of the user search query, identifying a plurality of search results that match the user search query, each search result being based on a different scheme, and aggregating the search results to produce a search results list. The search results list may be a combined and selected results list. Feedback-based optimization is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2468854-A (GB)
Title: Inflatable wheel support for a buggy or pram
Inventor: MULKEEN IAN
IPC: B60B15/26
Filed: 2009-03-23
Abstract: An inflatable device 3 is attached to the wheel 5 of a buggy or pram so that it may be pushed more easily on sand, such as on a beach. A spring clamp 1 is clamped to the buggy or pram wheel which is supported by the buggy or pram frame 6. The clamp grips the wheel by means of a spring loading, and is attached to a base 2 which is permanently fixed to the inflatable device. The inflatable device may be inflated by means of valve 4, and four inflatable devices may be provided (figure 3), one for each wheel of a buggy or pram.
Patent GB-2472222-A (GB)
Title: A modular kitchen construction system
Inventor: BARTLETT THOMAS JAMES
IPC: A47B96/14
Filed: 2009-07-29
Abstract: A modular kitchen construction system comprises individual carcasses having vertical supports provided with elongate dovetailed grooves on each of four faces into which various 'tongued' components are inserted. These components may include drawer units, doors, cupboards and panels. The nature of the system is such that no screws, nuts and bolts or associated tools are required for construction.
Patent GB-2461674-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for trigger negotiation in SUPL
Inventor: BUSIN KE
IPC: H04W4/029
Filed: 2008-04-07
Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for enabling optimization of trigger parameters related to an area event triggered session between a Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) enabled terminal (SET) (22, 302) and a SUPL supported location server (20, 306). Based on detected changes of terminal conditions (step 204), trigger parameters for the area event trigger are updated (step 208). This allows for a dynamic adoption of the area event triggered parameters to changes of for instance the power status of the terminal or the set of possible positioning methods.
Patent GB-2476041-A (GB)
Title: Soft transition between the audio bandwidth of a signal before and after a switch in sampling rate
Inventor: STROMMER STEFAN
IPC: G10L21/02
Filed: 2009-12-08
Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting an audio signal over a communication channel comprising encoding the audio signal with an encoder 204 using a first sampling rate, filtering the audio signal using a first cut off frequency, the first cut off frequency being chosen in dependence upon the first sampling rate, and transmitting the encoded and filtered audio signal over the communication channel. The presence of a condition in which the sampling rate of the encoder 204 is to be switched to a second sampling rate at a switching time is determined and if the condition has been determined to be present, the cut off frequency used in the filtering step is gradually changed from the first cut off frequency to a second cut off frequency, the second cut off frequency being chosen in dependence upon the second sampling rate, such that the audio bandwidth of the transmitted signal changes gradually when the sampling rate is switched to the second sampling rate.
Patent GB-627433-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in airscrew or rotary wing jet-propulsion devices, especially for helicopters
IPC: F02K7/00
Filed: 1947-04-15
Abstract: 627,433. Rotary-wing aircraft. SOC. INDUSTRIELLE GENERALE DE MECANIQUE APPLIQUEE SIGMA. April 15, 1947, No. 10013. Convention date, April 20, 1946. [Class 4] [Also in Group XXVI] Rotary wings 1, Fig. 1, are driven by propulsion jets 3 at their tips, the gases being furnished by an internal-combustion engine 12 exhausting to a turbine 15 and by a compressor 16 driven by the turbine, the pressure of the compressor delivery being the same as that of the turbine exhaust. The internal-combustion engine may be directly coupled or geared to the turbine shaft. The supercharger 13 may receive air from the compressor delivery. In the plant of Fig. 3, combustion gases are provided by an autogenerator which takes in air through a pipe 35 from between two compressor stages 34a, 34b, or through a pipe 36a from the compressor delivery. In the plant of Fig. 1 the air and combustion gases are mixed in a pipe 38 and the mixture flows along the wing through a pipe 2 to the jet. In the plant of Fig. 3, the compressed air flows through an outer duct 39 surrounding the duct 40 for the combustion gases. These pass out of the duct 40 through holes 43 and mix with the air in front of the propulsion jet. Acetylene or other fuel may be burnt either in the combustion gases or in the mixture. The fuel may be introduced through a fixed pipe 49, Fig. 4, in the wing pivot structure and led through rotating pipes 45, 53 to the wing. The conduits are sealed together at 46 when the fuel under pressure reaches the interior of a capsule 47. Injector-like rings are used to enable the fuel to entrain air from the air duct in the wing and ignition is caused by spongy platinum. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 comprises also the subject-matter of Specification 651,329. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-376268-A (GB)
Title: Liquid transmission devices
IPC: F16H61/62
Filed: 1931-04-02
Abstract: 376,268. Hydraulic transmission of power. KLUGE, H. W. J. K., 40, Mathysstrasse, and BÍLLINGER, H. S. W., 1, Edelsheimstrasse, both in Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. April 2, 1931, No. 10022. [Class 69 (ii).] In hydraulic power transmission devices employing primary, secondary and guide wheels, means are provided whereby the guide wheel can be held stationary, coupled to the driven shaft, or allowed to rotate independently of the primary and secondary wheels. In the form shown, the guide wheel 41 is connected to a drum 45 which can be held by a brake band 46, or coupled to the driven shaft 44 by a clutch 47. The parts carried by the driving shaft 43 may have cooling fins, or the liquid may be circulated through a cooler.
Patent GB-1464669-A (GB)
Title: Reed contact
IPC: H01H51/28
Filed: 1975-03-11
Abstract: 1464669 Reed contacts INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ELECTRIC CORP 11 March 1975 [20 March 1974] 10036/75 Heading H1N A magnetic reed (which may be remanent) has its contact end shaped with channels to produce a broken contact surface 3. With identical opposite surfaces the reed may be turned through 180 degrees and have the same appearance and be produced from a strip (Fig. 2, not shown), stamped on both sides with unstamped areas for sealing in the envelope of a contact unit. The slanting strips as shown may be at 45 degrees to the reed longitudinal axis with slots and projections of equal area to provide about 25% of the overlapping area as contacting area.
Patent GB-367225-A (GB)
Title: Clamping and feed device for machine tools
IPC: B23D45/00
Filed: 1931-04-02
Abstract: 367,225. Circular saws; vices. WAGNER, K., 12, Opfersteinstrasse, and WAGNER, E., (trading as WAGNER MASCHINENFABRIK, G.), 11, Opfersteinstrasse, Reutlingen, Wurtemberg, Germany. April 2, 1931, No. 10108. [Classes 61 (ii) and 145 (ii).] The work 1 for a circular saw is secured between the upper clamping head 5 and the feed rollers 2, 2<1>, which can be turned by the hand-wheel 4. In a modification one feed roller is replaced by a flat plate raised by a cam.
Patent GB-600701-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to electric relay and/or controlling systems
IPC: G08B13/26
Filed: 1941-08-08
Abstract: 600,701. Radiolocation ; thermionic relay circuits. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., Ltd., ROLLIN, L., TOMLIN, G. N., and TURNER. H. COBDEN-. Aug. 8, 1941, No. 10133. [Classes 40 (vi) and 40 (vii)] An electric relay or controlling system of the general type disclosed in Specifications 585,911, 594,937 and 600,351 comprises an unmodulated transmitter, the changes in aerial voltage due to receipt of reflected radiation being arranged to exert a desired effect by controlling the injection of an alternating voltage into means, the output of which produces the desired effect. The oscillator 1 feeds a half-wave aerial 3 and is fed from a raw A.C. supply via the half-winding 5 of transformer 7. Resistance 9 is so adjusted that when the aerial is not at a critical distance from a reflecting body the current through rectifier 8 and half-winding 6 balances the current taken by the oscillator so that minimum voltage is developed across the secondary winding 10. If the system now approaches or is approached by a reflecting body, the balance is upset and an A.C. voltage developed across the transformer secondary may be amplified and utilized to give a desired indication or control. In an alternative arrangement, the rectifier 8 may be replaced by an oscillator similar to 1, but not provided with an aerial.
Patent GB-1284321-A (GB)
Title: Process and apparatus for the production of tubes and tubular films
Inventor: ROBINSON WILLIAM
IPC: B29C48/10
Filed: 1970-03-03
Abstract: 1284321 Cooling tubular film; extruded film IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd 19 April 1971 [3 March 1970] 10139/70 Heading B5A and B5B In the extrusion of a tubular thermoplastic film which, after initial cooling, may be reheated and subjected to longitudinal and/or inflation orientation, initial cooling is effected by passing the tube over a cooled mandrel, there being maintained between the tube and mandrel a film of liquid, the pressure of which is kept above the external pressure on the tube by means of a liquid head maintained in the tube at the downstream end of the mandrel. As shown, the tube 1 passes over a slightly tapering mandrel 4, and is kept spaced therefrom by water supplied from space 5 through line 21. The liquid head is located in space 6 between the mandrel and a rubber disc seal 7, and excess liquid leaves via pipe 22. Vacuum is applied to line 23 to remove this liquid, the position of the end of line 23 being adjustable, fluid pressure may also be applied to the liquid head. To assist in proper feed of the film to the mandrel a line 27 may supply excess or reduced pressure air. The mandrel is cooled internally by circulating water. A second rubber disc seal 8 may be present, the space between the seals being pressurized. A sponge 11 connected to a vacuum source may remove any liquid passing the seals. Line 20 supplies inflating air. The film may be cooled externally by a surrounding water bath 13. Films of polypropylene or other specified polyolefines and polyesters may be cooled.
Patent GB-875424-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in rubber and polymer mixtures and compositions
Inventor: PIKE MARSHALL
IPC: C08F279/02
Filed: 1957-03-28
Abstract: Castable fluid rubber compositions which solidify on heating in moulds comprise depolymerized rubber of viscosity 2,000-200,000 poises, one or more polymerizable organic compounds and one or more polymerizing agents.  The depolymerized rubber may be that prepared according to Specification 637,604.  Specified polymerizable compounds include chloroprene, styrene, acrylic acid esters and nitriles, and substituted acrylic acid esters.  The compositions may also include a bifunctional monomer, e.g. divinyl benzene, diallyl phthalate, ethylene dimethacrylate, or alternatively a nonpolymerizable compound capable of being copolymerized with polymerizable organic compounds, e.g. maleic anhydride, diethyl fumarate.  Suitable polymerizing agents are benzoyl peroxide and/or azobisisobutyronitrile, and vulcanizing agents for the rubber are also incorporated; if desired an agent capable of performing both the latter functions may be used, e.g. tertiary butyl perbenzoate, dicumyl peroxide.  Promoters for these agents, e.g. lauryl mercaptan, tetraethylene pentamine, are also preferably included in the compositions together with fillers, e.g. whiting, china clay, calcium and aluminium silicate, silica, asbestos, carbon black, ground fibres, ebonite dust or asbestos, softeners such as mineral or vegetable oils, plasticizers, e.g. diallyl phthalate, dioctyl sebacate, or tricresyl phosphate, mineral and vegetable waxes, vulcanizing agents, e.g. sulphur, accelerators, antioxidants and other rubber compounding ingredients, e.g. stearic acid and zinc oxide.
Patent GB-384885-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the hardness-testing of materials
IPC: G01N3/42
Filed: 1932-04-09
Abstract: 384,885. Testing hardness of materials. REICHERTER, G., Esslingen-on- Neckar, Germany. April 9, 1932, No. 10210. Convention date, Dec. 23, 1931. [Class 106 (ii).] Comprises a dead load machine of the indentation type and consists in providing means for pressing the body to be tested on to the testing table otherwise than through the medium of the indenting tool. The frame 22 is provided with a clamping socket 24 in which is arranged an axially adjustable sleeve 1, the cover 2 of which has a ball thrust bearing 3 on the upper race of which bears a flange on a threaded spindle 4. The latter may be rotated in a threaded sleeve 7 prevented from turning by a feather 6 running in a slot in the casing 1 and connected to a ring 8 secured to the sleeve 7. A spring 10 bears at one end on the ring 8 and at the other end against a bush 9 which bears against a shoulder 25 on the sleeve. This bush carries the table 21. The testing head 11 is closed by a ring 12 between which and a buffer sleeve 13 is a spring 14. The piston 27 carrying the indenting tool 26 can be loaded by means of the lever 28 and loading weights 15 which are supported by a centring head 18 engaging an opening in the lowest weight or weight carrier. The head 18 is prevented from rotating by a feather 20 but can be moved up and down by a screwed spindle 17 worked from the hand-wheel 16. In use, the body to be tested is placed on the table 21 and the casing 1 is adjusted until a small clearance exists between the body and the head 11 when the casing 1 is clamped by the screw 23. The table is next raised by turning the wheel 5 until the head 11 touches the upper surface of the body when the bush 9 is pushed out of contact with the shoulder 25 and the body subjected to the pressure of the spring which has been previously loaded. The testing load may then be applied by lowering the weight 15.
Patent GB-579216-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to instruments for determining the speed of or distance travelled by an aircraft or other navigable craft
IPC: G01P5/16
Filed: 1944-05-26
Abstract: 579,216. Pressure-responsive devices. REILLY, H. L., SCRIMSHAW, F. H., and BONE, A. G. May 26, 1944, No. 10297. [Class 106 (ii)] [Also in Group XXVI] In an instrument of the type described in Specification 565,214 for indicating or recording the speed of or distance travelled by an aircraft or other vessel relative to the surrounding fluid and according to which the pressure generated by a rotary fan is caused to act on a pressure-responsive system in opposition to the pressure produced by a pitot-head and the pressure difference controls a motor driving the fan, the accuracy of the instrument is ensured at great heights and speeds by the incorporation of a fan, the effective radius of which increases with its rotational speed. The instrument shown diagrammatically in Fig. 1 comprises a motor 1 driving a fan 3 arranged in an air-tight chamber 4 surrounded by a cooling jacket 5. Beneath the fan is arranged a casing 8 divided by diaphragms 9, 10 into three chambers 11, 12 and 13 which communicate respectively with pipes 14, 16 and 17 to apply fan pressure, static pressure and pitot-head pressure to the diaphragms. The diaphragms are connected together and carry a contact 20 to co-operate with a fixed contact 21 to make and break the circuit of the motor 1 controlling the speed of the fan. The fan as shown in Fig. 2 consists of a circular plate 23 carrying eight radial blades 24 and four shorter blades 25. At the end of each blade 25 is a bracket 26 carrying a flat plate 28 of flexible metal with bent-up ends 30 and an overlying leaf spring 29. The bent-up ends of the plates 28 act as movable tips depending on the centrifugal force and excessive movement is prevented by stops 32. Cut-away notches in the tip ends are provided to miss the fan scoop 15. In an alternative form, the blades 24 may carry guides for slidably mounted spring controlled plates.
Patent GB-269589-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to dynamo-electric machines
IPC: H02K23/40
Filed: 1927-04-14
Abstract: 269,589. Kesselring, F. April 15, 1926, [Convention date]. Exciting.-In a continuous-ourrent machine adapted to generate a constant voltage at variable speed having a wave-wound armature, a main field winding energized from the main brushes and an auxiliary field winding wound on one or more auxiliary poles and energized from one main brush and an auxiliary brush, the number of poles in the auxiliary field is less than that in the main field. In the Figure, the windings on the main poles 1, 2, 3 are conected to the brushes 5, 6 and the winding on the auxiliary pole 4 is connected across the main brush 6 and an auxiliary brush . 7. A six-pole arrangement is described in which a single pole or a pair of poles preferably situated opposite to each other carry the auxiliary field winding. Since the armature is wave-wound, the brushes may be placed in a number of positions.
Patent GB-1377411-A (GB)
Title: Dispenser
IPC: A45C11/34
Filed: 1972-03-06
Abstract: 1377411 Pencil/biro refill dispenser G SCHWANHAUSSER and O SCHWANHAUSSER [trading as SCHWAN-BLEISTIFT-FABRIK SCHWANHAUSSER & CO] 6 March 1972 [19 March 1971] 10360/72 Heading B8P [Also in Division B6] A container for dispensing pencil or biro refills comprises a tubular housing 1 provided with a partition 2 having a pair of sills 6 associated therewith. The mouth of the container is closed by a flexible plastics strip 7 provided with a thumb grip (8, Figs. 2, 4, 5). To dispense a refill, the strip 7 is slid back to expose a pair of superimposed refills and the container tilted to allow the upper refill to slide out, the lower refill being retained by the associated sill. The partition 2 may be grooved. More than one partition 2 may be provided. Protuberances and detents may be provided on the strip 7 and associated guideway (10, Fig. 1) respectively to facilitate the setting of the strip 7. The partition 2 may be held within the housing 1 by a pin (5, Fig. 1) or be integral therewith with separate sills being provided. The housing 1 may be of transparent plastics material and the partition may be of polystyrene.