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Patent GB-2546494-A (GB)
Title: Data relay authentication
Inventor: Paul Deans
IPC: H04W12/06
Filed: 2016-01-19
Abstract: An intermediate relay device 3 arranges for mutual authentication between itself and a remote terminal 4 to allow data to be exchanged between the remote terminal 4 and a server 1 through the relay 3. The server 1 sends first and second key codes CK, RK to the intermediate device (step 105), the key codes both being derived from a shared secret known to the server 1 and remote terminal 4, but not to the intermediate device 3. In response to a challenge (step 107) from the intermediate device 3, the remote terminal 4 uses the shared secret to generate a duplicate CK* of the first key code and transmits the duplicate to the intermediate device 3 (step 109). The intermediate device 3 compares the first key code CK and the duplicate CK* of the first key code received respectively from the server 1 and the remote terminal 4 to verify the authenticity of the remote terminal 4. The intermediate device 3 then transmits the second key code RK to the remote terminal 4 (step 112), to be compared by the remote terminal 4 with a duplicate RK* of the second key code to verify the authenticity of the intermediate device 3.
Patent GB-2546805-A (GB)
Title: Roller shade with light regulating function
Inventor: Ju-hai chen
IPC: E06B9/40
Filed: 2016-02-01
Abstract: A roller shade comprises frame unit 1, a guiding unit 2 and a light regulating shading member 3. The frame unit comprises a fixed track 11 with a drive shaft 14 rotatable mounted to a wheel module 13. The guiding unit comprises a weight bar 22 and a winding rod 23. The shading member attaches to the fixed track and the drive shaft after abuting the winding rod and is in a two-layer state and has light shading sections 3) and light permeating sections 32. Each light permeating section is provided with through holes 321. When the light permeating sections at one layer of the shading member align with the light permeating sections at the other layer of the shading member, ambient sunlight passes through the through holes. Moving the guiding unit downwards will result in the shading body expanding.
Patent GB-2534058-A (GB)
Title: Image pickup apparatus, method for controlling the same, and program
Inventor: TAKASHI MATSUI
IPC: H04N5/232
Filed: 2011-12-08
Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes continuous shooting means, position acquisition means, and direction acquisition means. The continuous shooting means performs multiple shooting operations and obtains multiple images. The position acquisition means acquires position information. The direction acquisition means acquires direction information. In the multiple shooting operations performed by the continuous shooting means, the position acquisition means does not acquire position information for each of the shooting operations performed by the continuous shooting means, and the direction acquisition means acquires direction information for each of the shooting operations performed by the continuous shooting means.
Patent GB-2550620-A (GB)
Title: A camera apparatus
Inventor: JOHN MICHAEL CHILD
IPC: G03B17/56
Filed: 2016-05-26
Abstract: Camera support apparatus 51 comprises a plurality of image recording devices, and a head attachment means which supports the recording devices. The head attachment means is arranged to space the devices apart around a user's head and each of the devices comprises a lens and a data connection means. The attachment means may be in the form of a belt. The image recording devices may be held by holsters 52.
Patent GB-2552318-A (GB)
Title: A stock picking device
Inventor: ROGER QUEMBY
IPC: B65G47/88
Filed: 2016-07-18
Abstract: A flow control device 10 or gate for regulating delivery of discrete solid objects, particularly for stock picking in a warehouse or distribution centre, the device having a surface 12 along which the objects can move and a regulator element 14 moveable between a first position in which it obstructs movement of the objects and a second position in which it releases at least one object; the regulator element is mechanically controlled by a pivoting system 24. The pivoting system may be biased and may be attached to an actuator 34, which may be an electromechanical or pneumatic actuator. The device may comprise a second regulator element 40 behind the first regulator element and may include sensing and a controller which accepts signals from the sensors, or instructions. The first regulator element 14 may include a protuberance 18, which may stand upright from the surface 12 and a plate 16. The second regulator element may include a protuberance 42. Protuberance 18 of the first regulator element thus prevents any objects from moving from the rear region B of the device towards the front region A of the device. The alignment of the arms 26, 28 of the linkage 24 ensures that the first regulator element is stable against a force applied to the regulator element.
Patent GB-2540294-A (GB)
Title: Reamer shoe attachment for flexible casing shoe
Inventor: SARAH MITCHELL
IPC: E21B17/20
Filed: 2015-04-08
Abstract: A drillable reamer shoe having a reamer body and a nose section having a metallic cage containing a plurality of ceramic inserts made from silicon nitride or aluminum oxide. The drillable reamer shoe is positioned on an end of a flexible wellbore casing guide comprising a tubular body having a stiffness lower than a wellbore casing.
Patent GB-2555599-A (GB)
Title: Fuel pump
Inventor: JAMES T D MCHATTIE
IPC: F02M59/46
Filed: 2016-11-02
Abstract: A fuel pump 10 of a fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine. The pump has an outlet conduit 42 controlled by an outlet valve 48; a compression chamber 28 defined at the end of a bore 32; a plunger 20 guided along the bore and an inlet conduit 26. The opening 24 of the inlet conduit is controlled by an inlet valve 12. A component 14 of the inlet valve is arranged at the end of the plunger. The inlet valve component may be arranged in a recess 16 in the plunger and may be biased by a spring. Fluid communication between the recess and the compression chamber may be permanently open. The inlet opening may define a valve seat. The top end of the plunder may expand when the pressure in the compression chamber rises. The inlet conduit may extend laterally in the pumping head which may be unpierced.
Patent GB-2540903-A (GB)
Title: Tissue bag for morcellating tissue
Inventor: JAMES ALAN DICKSON
IPC: A61B18/14
Filed: 2015-11-13
Abstract: Apparatus 1 for morcellating tissue comprises a flexible outer container 4, an electrically conductive mesh 17 disposed within the container, and one or more connections (8, 9, Fig 6) by which the mesh can be energised to form at least a part of a bipolar electrode assembly capable of cutting tissue 10 coming into contact therewith. In a first embodiment the apparatus has one or more return electrodes 19 which are located on the apparatus spatially separated from the mesh. In a second embodiment a system for morcellating tissue includes the apparatus and a generator for supplying RF waveform capable of vaporizing tissue to the mesh. The apparatus may further include an elongate shaft 2 from which the flexible outer container can be deployed, and actuators for closing the mesh around tissue to be morcellated, and for deploying and withdrawing the flexible outer container with respect to the shaft.
Patent GB-2557362-A (GB)
Title: Mathematical and scientific expression editor for computer systems
Inventor: Martin Mckay
IPC: G06F17/22
Filed: 2016-12-08
Abstract: A method of creating a mathematical or scientific expression on a computer system in which a user interface is provided on a computer display device. Input data comprising a string of alphanumeric characters is received from a keyboard. The input data is matched with one or more verbalisations of a mathematical or scientific term. The or each matching term is displayed on the display device. When a user selects one of the displayed matching terms a corresponding graphical symbol is displayed on the display device. The method allows the user to type a string of alphanumeric characters relating to a version of the desired mathematical or scientific expression and to have the corresponding mathematical or scientific notation displayed on the display device. The user input device may be that of a keyboard and the input data is taken via key strokes from a user. The matching of input data to its mathematical or scientific notation may initiate when the user has input at least two letters. The input data may be stored in an input buffer.
Patent GB-2549363-A (GB)
Title: Roadway-crossing-anomaly detection system and method
Inventor: HARPREETSINGH BANVAIT
IPC: B60W10/22
Filed: 2017-01-30
Abstract: A method for improving the safety and comfort of a vehicle 12 driving over a railroad track (22a, see fig 2), cattle guard (22b), or the like. The method may include receiving, by a computer system 10, one or more inputs corresponding to one or more forward looking sensors 16. The computer system may also receive data characterizing a motion of the vehicle. The computer system may estimate, based on the one or more inputs and the data, a motion of a vehicle with respect to a railroad track, cattle guard, or the like extending across a road ahead of the vehicle. Accordingly, the computer system may change a suspension setting, steering setting, or the like of the vehicle to more safely or comfortably drive over the railroad track, cattle guard, or the like. The sensor may provide information to the system via a CAN bus of the vehicle. Said sensors may be LiDAR or a camera.
Patent GB-2551607-A (GB)
Title: Flood defence
Inventor: PAUL DUKES
IPC: E02B7/00
Filed: 2017-03-24
Abstract: The present invention relates to flood defences 10, in particular flood defences with a foot 16 removable from a footing such as an inflatable foot or a keder system that anchors the flood defence into a trench 20 having a restricted aperture 22, for example a drain channel. The barrier also comprises a waist portion 14 and a barrier portion 12. The barrier portion and the waist portions may comprise one or more inflatable airbags. A later embodiment relates to a water drain comprising a channel for draining water and a trench suitable for restraining a keder wherein the keder is inside the channel or associated with the outside of the channel.
Patent GB-2560964-A (GB)
Title: Return temperature limiter remote sensor and actuator
Inventor: PHILLIP RICHARD BROWN
IPC: G05D23/12
Filed: 2017-03-30
Abstract: A radiator 1 has a conventional valve 46 and thermostatic sensor 46 located on a water inlet, interposed between the valve and sensor is a thermostatic actuator 33 acting on a control spindle Figures 4 and 5, 47. A capillary tube 22 connects the actuator to an adjustable temperature sensor Figure 1, 1 positioned above a lockshield valve 3 on the outlet of the radiator, having a sensing element 17. Capillary windings Figure 1, 22 react to variations in the temperature of the water leaving the radiator. As pressure within the capillary tube varies it moves actuator Fig 5, 35 modulating the incoming flow to the radiator. Further control is achieved the prior art thermostatic control 45 on the inlet. Additional control of the outlet is via dial FIG 1, 29 that acts on a diaphragm or bellows Fig 1, 26 and lever Fig 1,4 acting via piston Fig 1, 7 onto a second diaphragm 6 in fluid connection with the first bellows and the capillary tube.
Patent GB-2545605-A (GB)
Title: A modulo channel assignment technique in optical point to multipoint networks to prevent optical beat interference
Inventor: DARYOOSH REJALY
IPC: H04J14/02
Filed: 2015-07-16
Abstract: Configuring an optical point to multipoint communication network includes assigning a channel number C i by modulo-N arithmetic to each of a plurality of N access points, each of the plurality of N access points i) including a laser and ii) coupled to a hub having a shared optical receiver; and tuning the laser located in each of the plurality of N access points to a wavelength λui that is one of a set of M wavelengths as a function of the channel number assigned to the access point in which the laser is located, a channel spacing Δλ and an intrinsic wavelength λuin of the laser to prevent optical beat interference at the shared optical receiver.
Patent GB-2564466-A (GB)
Title: Graphics processing systems
Inventor: EDVARD FIELDING
IPC: G06T1/60
Filed: 2017-07-13
Abstract: A method of operating a graphics processing system 10 in which texture data to be used when rendering a render output is loaded from memory 20 into a cache 21 for use by the graphics processing system when rendering the render output comprising: when using a graphics texture that is stored in memory 20 as YUV texture data including luminance and chrominance texture data, storing said YUV texture data as a group in a cache from which that texture is to be read by the graphics processing system when generating a render output, and storing an identifier to identify and indicate the position of the chrominance (40, fig.1) and its associated set of luminance (41, fig.1) data elements in the cache. A graphics processing system 10 comprising a memory 20, a graphics processing unit, a cache 21, processing circuitry operable to store YUV texture data in the cache such that the data values for a chrominance and an associated set of luminance data elements are stored together as a group, and an identifier useable to identify and indicate the position in the graphics texture of the chrominance and luminance data elements.
Patent GB-2569578-A (GB)
Title: Keyboard sensor systems and methods
Inventor: JAMES HASTINGS CLARK
IPC: H03K17/945
Filed: 2017-12-20
Abstract: A set of sensors for a piano-style musical keyboard, where each sensor comprises a passive resonant circuit 11 for mounting on a moving part 15 of a key and an active tuned resonant circuit 10 for mounting in a fixed, reference position, for example on part of the keyboard 14. The passive resonant circuit has a resonant frequency and the active resonant circuit excites the passive resonant circuit at the resonant frequency. Each sensor further comprises a detector, which may be shared between multiple sensors, to detect variation of a resonant signal in the active resonant circuit with relative position of the active and passive resonant circuits to thereby detect a position and/or velocity of the key. The variation may be a variation in amplitude of signal in the resonant signal. The set of sensors comprises sensors having two or more different resonant frequencies arranged such that sensors having the same resonant frequency are non-adjacent when mounted to sense keys of the keyboard. The keyboard may include damping and time multiplexing functions, along with a processor configured to distinguish between a note-off position, note-on position and a polyphonic after-touch position.
Patent GB-2561281-A (GB)
Title: Roller cover adapter
Inventor: MATTHEW LEE ROE
IPC: B05C17/02
Filed: 2018-02-02
Abstract: A paint roller adapter 10 enabling a large diameter paint roller cover (34 figure 8) to be used on a paint roller frame (1 figure 1) having a cage (2 figure 1) configured to receive smaller paint roller covers. The adapter 10 is generally cylindrical in shape and comprises a cylindrical internal surface 16 having a diameter sized to fit onto the cage of the roller frame and a substantially cylindrical external surface 22 having a diameter sized to fit within the large paint roller cover. At least one gripping member 24 projects outward, beyond the external surface of the adapter such that, in use, the gripping members 24 press against an internal surface of the large paint roller cover. The gripping members of the adapter serve to prevent the roller cover slipping about the external surface of the adapter. A pair of such adapters thereby enables a conventional paint roller frame to be used with large diameter roller covers.
Patent GB-2565920-A (GB)
Title: Enhanced two dimensional inversion
Inventor: MICHAEL THIEL
IPC: G01V3/38
Filed: 2017-02-23
Abstract: A method for characterizing a subterranean formation, the method comprising: performing electromagnetic logging measurements along a portion of a borehole traversing the subterranean formation using an electromagnetic logging tool to obtain electromagnetic data; determining one or more initial approximations for one or more electromagnetic properties associated with a two dimensional imaging plane modeling the subterranean formation; determining one or more initial approximations for a relative orientation between the two dimensional imaging plane and an orientation of a trajectory along the portion of the borehole; and performing a first inversion using (i) the one or more initial approximations of the one or more electromagnetic properties, (ii) the one or more initial approximations for the relative orientation between the two dimensional imaging plane and the orientation of the trajectory, and (iii) the electromagnetic data to estimate an orientation of the two dimensional imaging plane relative to the orientation of the trajectory.
Patent GB-2589815-A (GB)
Title: Telemetry safety & life of well monitoring system
Inventor: PHILIP HEAD
IPC: E21B47/14
Filed: 2019-06-03
Abstract: An apparatus for disposing telemetric equipment in drillpipes comprising a drill pipe 102 having an uppermost drill pipe joint when drilling commences, a riser, a continuous length of wire extending through the drill pipe from a bottomhole assembly to the uppermost drill pipe joint, the length of wire having a wet connector 122 at the bottomhole assembly, and having an acoustic receiver/transmitter at the uppermost drill pipe joint. The receiver/transmitter may be mounted to an ROV with positions it against the riser to listen for an acoustic transmission from a transmitter/receiver fitted into the drillpipe.
Patent GB-2593122-A (GB)
Title: Cellular telecommunications network
Inventor: ROBERT MACKENZIE
IPC: H04W88/08
Filed: 2019-06-11
Abstract: This invention provides a method of operating a base station in a cellular telecommunications network, the base station having a central base station unit, CU 10 and a distributed base station unit, DU 20; the CU and DU communicate over a fronthaul link 40, and the cellular telecommunications network includes User Equipment, UE 30, consuming a service via the base station in which communications between the CU and UE utilise a configurable error mitigation technique. The method steps are: communicating data samples over the fronthaul link at a first bit width; determining that a latency, or related, measure of the service satisfies a threshold; and, in response, reconfiguring the samples to use a second bit width, different from the first bit width, and reconfiguring the error mitigation technique; communicating samples over the fronthaul link at the second bit width; and communicating between the CU and UE using the reconfigured error mitigation technique. Another embodiment involves the capacity of the fronthaul link being reconfigured along with the bit-width in response to the error rate. Optionally, the data samples are In-Phase and Quadrature (QS) samples.
Patent GB-2573237-A (GB)
Title: Control of aftertreatment of an internal combustion engine
Inventor: NEIL BEVAN
IPC: F01N9/00
Filed: 2016-04-15
Abstract: Apparatus 100 and a method for controlling an after treatment system of an internal combustion engine 101. The apparatus comprises a processing means 102 configured to receive a temperature from upstream of an exhaust component 104 (such as a lean NOx trap (LNT) or diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC)), and a flow rate of the exhaust gases from the engine, and to calculate an approximated value indicative of a second temperature of exhaust gases downstream of the exhaust component. The processing means is further configured to calculate a rate of heat loss from the exhaust gases to the substrate of the exhaust gas component as they pass there through, the rate of heat loss being calculated in dependence on a stored value for the heat transfer coefficient of the exhaust gases to the substrate. The processing means is further configured to provide a control signal to control the after treatment system, in dependence of the calculated approximated value. The control signal may control a rate of fuel injection. The exhaust component may be part of an exhaust system of a vehicle.
Patent GB-2592875-A (GB)
Title: Bicycle shelter
Inventor: MICHAEL ANTHONY RICHARD ROWLEY
IPC: E04H6/00
Filed: 2019-11-11
Abstract: The shelter comprises a structural frame 12 including a rear member 30 and a front member 26 defining an opening for a bicycle. A cover (18, figure 1) having a higher longitudinal than transverse stiffness extends between the front and rear members. The frame may comprise a further, intermediate member 28 and/or a longitudinal beam spacing front and rear members. There may be a longitudinal track or rail 24 to guide a bicycle wheel within the shelter, optionally with a caddie which moves along the track holding the wheel. There may be rear 16 and front 14 end panels, the latter optionally with integral hinge 76. One or both end panels may comprise vertical slots 66,70 for the wheel. The front and rear members may have equal lengths at their bases and diverge upwards. The front member may be wider than the rear. The frame and/or cover may comprise corrugated polypropylene sheet.
Patent GB-2575611-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for model-assisted cohort selection
Inventor: BENJAMIN EDWARD BIRNBAUM
IPC: G16H50/70
Filed: 2018-04-12
Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for selecting cohorts. In one implementation, a model-assisted selection system for identifying candidates for placement into a cohort includes a data interface and at least one processing device. The at least one processing device is programmed to access, via the data interface, a database from which feature vectors associated with an individual from among a population of individuals can be derived; derive, for the individual, one or more feature vectors from the database; provide the one or more feature vectors to a model; receive an output from the model; and determine whether the individual from among the population of individuals is a candidate for the cohort based on the output received from the model.
Patent GB-2591236-A (GB)
Title: A method for determining a charging strategy for a high voltage battery of an electrically powered motor vehicle, as well as a battery charging management sys
Inventor: Bahaaeldeen Hafez
IPC: B60L58/24
Filed: 2020-01-21
Abstract: A method for determining a charging strategy (profile) for an electric vehicle, comprising determining a: user setting S1; power source limitation S4; and use of the battery’s thermal conditioning (heating/cooling) device S7. The user setting may be parking time, departure time or charging time. The utility (power source) limitation may be cost or charging power. The charging profile may consider passive heating and/or cooling features of the battery of the vehicle. The charging profile may consider the thermal preconditioning needed to prepare the battery for driving. In a preferred embodiment a user inputs a setting (parking time) S1. If the charging time is shorter than the parking time S2 the vehicle determines at least one charging profile based on the utility limitation S4. If more than one charging strategy is produced S5 a strategy which uses the least active cooling/heating of the battery is selected S7. The method reduces the need to heat and/or cool the battery during the charging process.
Patent GB-2593450-A (GB)
Title: A sink unit
Inventor: PAUL DELANEY
IPC: E03C1/186
Filed: 2020-03-16
Abstract: The sink unit includes a bowl 12 section and a draining section 14 which has a top surface. The draining section has a stowed condition (Figure 2c) or a deployed condition where the top surface is in a different plane compared to in the stowed condition. The sink unit may have a cavity 19 into which the board is stowed by pivoting or sliding. In the two conditions the top surfaces may be non parallel to each other or parallel to each other (Figure 1).