baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2546517-A (GB)
Title: Eye-testing method
Inventor: SUSAN YOUNG
IPC: A61B3/028
Filed: 2016-01-21
Abstract: A computer implemented method and apparatus for testing the eyes of a user. The method comprises storing at least one graphical element in a memory of a device. The method further comprises displaying the at least one graphical element on a display and in response to receiving a user input, the device determines whether the user input comprises a valid selection of the at least one graphical element. Where the user input is a validated selection, an output is generated which comprises a value indicating a visual acuity of the user. The user input may be made by touching a touchscreen of the display. The graphical element/s may be varied from a first size to a second size. Determination of whether the user input comprises a valid selection may comprise determining whether the input was proximate to a location of the displayed graphical element. The indicated acuity valve may be a quantitative result. The display may be a display of the device or may be remote of the device. Graphical element/s may be altered in size and/or animated when the input is validated. Graphical element/s may be projected onto the remote display. Described as suited to testing very young children.
Patent GB-2531682-A (GB)
Title: Ramp of catapult
Inventor: PENTTI LIPPONEN
IPC: B64F1/06
Filed: 2016-02-12
Abstract: The invention relates to a ramp of a catapult and to a catapult. The catapult comprises a carriage 4 for fastening an aircraft 5. The carriage 4 is supported on a ramp 1. The ramp is formed of one or more ramp elements 1a-1m. The ramp element comprises four frame plates, namely two parallel side plates 20a, 20b, a top plate 21 and a bottom plate 22. The frame plates are separate pieces which are connected at fastening points 25 to each other by means of mechanical fastening elements 26.
Patent GB-2534708-A (GB)
Title: Methods for treatment of a subterranean formation
Inventor: SHARATH SAVARI
IPC: E21B43/25
Filed: 2014-10-21
Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of treating subterranean formations. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of treating a subterranean formation including placing a first aqueous composition and a second aqueous composition in a subterranean formation. The placing includes injecting the first aqueous composition through a tubular passage in a wellbore. The placing also includes injecting the second aqueous composition through an annular passage in the wellbore.
Patent GB-2551170-A (GB)
Title: A method and apparatus for communicating a message provided by a computer program to a remote mobile communication device
Inventor: DEAN WHITEY
IPC: H04L12/58
Filed: 2016-06-08
Abstract: A method of communicating a message to a mobile device involves composing the message and selecting a messaging channel or service associated with the mobile device to communicate the message, e.g. Short Message Service (SMS), Multimedia Message Service (MMS), or a cross-platform thirty-party messaging application. The message is converted to a form that conforms to the protocols of the selected messaging channel and is then communicated to the mobile device. The invention allows a user to create a single campaign message and communicate this to subscribers based on their preferred form of messaging. Converted messages may be scheduled to facilitate communication of the messages to the mobile devices at a predetermined time and/or date. Converted messages may be associated with a priority attribute and communicated in priority order. The user may access the messaging system using an application program or a web application that is functionable in a web browser.
Patent GB-2551396-A (GB)
Title: Augmented reality occlusion
Inventor: DAVID WALTON
IPC: G06T19/00
Filed: 2016-06-17
Abstract: Generating an augmented reality image from first and second images, comprising: identifying a confidence region 920 in which a confident determination can be made as to which of the two images to render in that region; identifying an uncertainty region 930 in which it is uncertain as to which of the two images to render in that region; determining a blending factor 940 in the uncertainty region based upon a similarity between a first colour value in the uncertainty region and a second colour value in the confidence region; and generating an augmented reality image 950 by combining, in the uncertainty region, the first and second images using the at least one blending factor. A portion of the first and the second image is captured from a real scene. Preferably, the confidence and uncertainty regions are determined from depth value data. Blending values may form an alpha matte determined using a cross bilateral filter in which alpha blending values are filtered and weights are set based on pixel colour values. The Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm may minimise error metrics. The invention eliminates artefacts caused by erroneous depth values used to determine occlusions when a virtual object is merged with a real scene.
Patent GB-2559310-A (GB)
Title: Building technology device communication system with IoT-network devices
Inventor: ABHINAV SOMARAJU
IPC: H04W88/16
Filed: 2016-06-13
Abstract: The application discloses a network of building technology devices (lights, luminaires, sensors, actuators). Preferably the network is an ad hoc wireless mesh network using IEEE 802.15.4 and/or 6LoWPAN protocols. The network includes border routers which interconnect to external networks (e.g. the internet). The IoT devices may send identification information to the border router. The border router may be an LWM2M (light weight machine to machine) client. The external network may include a server or cloud which may deal with device identifiers, authorisation and commissioning information (e.g. in accordance with Thread Group protocols). The IoT network may include subnets.
Patent GB-2551989-A (GB)
Title: A Method of adjusting a gear lever neutral position
Inventor: THOMAS MA
IPC: F16H61/24
Filed: 2016-07-04
Abstract: A method and apparatus for adjusting the neutral position of a gear lever 11 used to manually control the selection of gears in a multi-speed manual gearbox of a motor vehicle is disclosed in which the position of neutral in a transverse neutral plane is adjusted based upon vehicle speed. The gearbox may comprise four forward gears arranged in pairs in first and second parallel planes, the location of neutral in the transverse neutral plane may adjusted by actuator 19 acting on compression spring 12c in to the 1st neutral position N1 so as to be aligned with the first plane containing the pair of forward gears having the lowest ratios if the current vehicle speed is lower than a predefined vehicle speed threshold. The neutral position can be adjusted into the second neutral position N2 to be aligned with the second plane containing the pair of forward gears having the highest ratios if the current vehicle speed is above the predefined speed threshold.
Patent GB-2544141-A (GB)
Title: Toothbrush sterilization system
Inventor: RYAN MONGAN
IPC: A61L2/10
Filed: 2015-01-25
Abstract: In one example, we describe a method and system for toothbrush sterilization and/or storage with better quality in terms of hygiene and convenience, where the brush head and the shaft that enter the user's mouth are never contacted by the chamber. Also, below the brush head and shaft, there is no chamber. If any drops of water were to fall off the brush head, they would fall all the way through the chamber and reside on the counter on which the chamber rests, which can be removed or cleaned easily later. In one example, we use a UV-C lamp as our sterilization technique. This selection has many advantages over the other sterilizations techniques. In one example, we use a single lamp, but that lamp is in a ring configuration (otherwise known as annular, torus, or donut), with good coverage of the toothbrush, from all angles.
Patent GB-2543639-A (GB)
Title: A dynamic decoration system for vehicles
Inventor: Firoz Siddiqui
IPC: B60R13/00
Filed: 2016-09-09
Abstract: The present invention describes a dynamic decoration system for a vehicle, said system 100 including a decoration mechanism 10, a prime mover, a sensor and a controller. The decoration mechanism is arranged on an inner portion of the vehicle. The prime mover is coupled to the decoration mechanism for operating the decoration mechanism when the sensor detects the working of a mechanism of the vehicle. The controller controls the working of the prime mover according to the inputs received from the sensor. The sensor upon sensing the working of the mechanism sends signal to the controller and the controller upon receiving the signals operate the prime mover, thereby operating the decoration mechanism. The decoration mechanism may comprise a gear train 12 indicating the varying speed of the vehicle, or a miniature model of the vehicle may be provided with moving doors so as to indicate when a door of the vehicle is moved.
Patent GB-2555422-A (GB)
Title: Capturing and processing sound signals
Inventor: ANDREW GRAHAM STANFORD-JASON
IPC: G10L21/0208
Filed: 2016-10-26
Abstract: An ultrasound system receives a signal 50 from a microphone (eg. a 3 MHz Pulse Density Modulation mic 3) and high-pass filters it to produce an ultrasound signal 56 which simultaneously low-pass filtering it via a second channel 5 to produce a separate human-audible (<16 kHz) audio signal 54. The audio signal may then be further processed (eg. echo-cancellation, noise reduction, wake-up word detection, direction estimation, gesture detection etc.) using the ultrasound component.
Patent GB-2555643-A (GB)
Title: Determining an intersection location of an optical axis of a lens with a camera sensor
Inventor: RADU BILCU
IPC: G01M11/02
Filed: 2016-11-08
Abstract: This specification describes a method comprising: based on a plurality of images of at least one displayed straight line captured by an image capture device (camera) 10 having at least one lens 20 and a sensor 50, the line having a different relative position in each respective image, wherein the lens introduces a degree of radial distortion to the captured images and has an optical axis, determining a location of intersection of the optical axis of the lens with the sensor by determining an intersection location of two non-parallel lines from the captured images having the smallest deviations from respective fitted straight lines. Detection module (a pc or server) 40 is configured to fit a first order polynomial to the each of the lines from the captured images. The lens may be a fisheye lens. The camera module may include an optical system with a combination of one or more lenses and mirrors.
Patent GB-2557917-A (GB)
Title: RF interference cancellation system
Inventor: STEPHEN JAMES NIGHTINGALE
IPC: H04B1/525
Filed: 2016-12-16
Abstract: Transmit leakage from a transmitter 1 to a co-located receiver 2 is reduced using the following method. A sample coupler 3 couples a proportion of a signal from the transmitter to a narrow band filter and a residue coupler 9 couples a proportion of a received signal to a second narrowband filter. The filters may be implemented digitally within digital signal processing block (DSP) 23, in which case additional anti-aliasing filters are required 20, 21. The outputs from the respective narrowband filters are correlated in correlator 12 and the correlation result is used to control a vector modulator 6 which acts on a proportion of the signal from the transmitter to provide a cancellation signal which is applied to the path between the receive antenna and the residual coupler using a cancellation coupler 7.The cancellation signal is thus applied to the signal received by the receive antenna and passed to the radio receiver to minimise the interference effects of any unwanted RF signal coupling in a frequency range defined by the bandwidth of the narrow band filters.
Patent GB-2552560-A (GB)
Title: A powered mobility vehicle
Inventor: NEIL THOMAS MEDHURST
IPC: G07C9/00
Filed: 2016-12-19
Abstract: A powered mobility vehicle has a keyless activation system including a control module 2 carried by the vehicle having an electrical input 6 connected to the vehicle power supply 8, an electrical output 18a,b connected to a vehicle motor controller 20, an electrical switch 12 between the input 6 and output 18a,b, and a signal receiver 24 electrically connected to the switch 12. The switch 12 has an active mode in which power is supplied from the input 6 to the output 18a,b, and an inactive mode in which the switch 12 electrically isolates the input 6 and output 18a,b. A remote operation transmitter wirelessly communicates with the signal receiver 24 to control the switch 12, for example by button presses on the remote operation transmitter sending an activation/deactivation signal to the signal receiver 24. The activation signal may be emitted by a radio transponder in response to a pairing signal emitted by the signal receiver 24 when the transmitter and signal receiver 24 are within a predefined distance.
Patent GB-2558236-A (GB)
Title: Image processing
Inventor: VIACHESLAV CHESNOKOV
IPC: H04N19/00
Filed: 2016-12-22
Abstract: Method comprising: receiving encoded image data and additional data to modify the image once decoded; decoding the image; adjusting the decoded image based on the extra data; wherein: graphics computer program code, associated with a graphics processor programming interface, for alteration of the decoded image, is derived from the further data; and the decoded image and graphics program code are passed to the graphics processor programming interface for modification of the decoded image. Images may be graphical or visual content, text, pictures, photographs, still or moving frames, video. Images may include pixel intensity values, greyscale or brightness levels, colour bands, colour channels, luma. The modification may translation, transformation, dynamic range adjustment, contrast adjustment, spatially variant tone mapping, shadow enhancement, alpha blending two images, detail enhancement, movement or motion simulation. Added data may be metadata including executable instructions. User input may be received and used for face or eye tracking (eg. using Kalman filter) and may include depth information indicating change in viewers viewpoint or perspective. The image format may be compatible with legacy (eg. JPEG) decoders. Portions of the image may be processed. Modification amount or strength parameter may be applied. Images may be obtained via a web browser.
Patent GB-2558669-A (GB)
Title: Communication control apparatus and method
Inventor: Ben Anyasodo
IPC: G07C5/08
Filed: 2017-01-17
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication controller (2) for controlling a vehicle initiated dialogue (VID) composed of at least one dialogue component (7). The communication controller includes at least one processor (3) configured to control output of said at least one dialogue component. A memory (4) is connected to the at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to identify a dialogue component to be output. The at least one processor outputs an advance notification signal (ANS) to generate an advance notification that the identified dialogue component is to be output. The identified dialogue component is output after said advance notification signal (ANS). The present disclosure also relates to a vehicle (1) incorporating the communication controller and a related method. The disclosure also relates to a communication controller for controlling a VID as above, where the processor is configured to output a conclusion notification signal (CNS) to generate a conclusion notification when the VID is concluded.
Patent GB-2570096-A (GB)
Title: Dry wall electrical box
Inventor: ADRIAN STRONG
IPC: H02G3/14
Filed: 2017-02-14
Abstract: A dry wall electrical box 10 comprises an open-topped generally rectangular back box (12, Figure 2) including at least one internal upstanding wall member (22, Figure 2), and a bezel plate (16, Figure 4) including at least one pair of downwardly extending flexible arms 34. The flexible arms extend over and grip the upstanding wall member to secure the bezel plate to the back box. The bezel plate is preferably annular and may have a diameter less than the major axis of the rectangular back box. A cover plate (14, Figure 3), comprising an upstanding generally annular wall (28, Figure 3) over which the bezel plate locates, may be located over the back box. A dry wall box comprising a bezel plate securable to the internal wall member of the box by one or more clip members secured to the rear face of the bezel plate is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2550644-A (GB)
Title: A side air curtain bag
Inventor: MARCUS JOHN SCOTT WARD
IPC: B60R21/232
Filed: 2016-01-19
Abstract: An airbag assembly 100 for a motor vehicle is provided, said assembly comprising an airbag 4 and a deployable ramp 102 configured to unfurl with the airbag when the airbag is deployed. The ramp transitions from a stowed configuration, in which it is stowed with the airbag before deployment, into a ramped configuration when deployed. The ramp comprises a movable element having one or more resilient elements configured to move in response to the deployment of the airbag from a first position in the stowed configuration, to a second position in the ramped configuration, the ramp having a thickness which increases when the movable element is in the second position, and the ramp is positioned and shaped in the ramped configuration to assist the airbag in riding over a component 28 of the vehicle as the airbag is deployed. The resilient elements are deformed to a planar configuration before deployment and return to an undeformed configuration when deployed. A component of a motor vehicle is also disclosed, the component being configured for placement on an interior surface of a vehicle cabin in the path of a deployable airbag (figures 15-18). The component comprises a body portion for coupling the component to the vehicle, and a movable portion.
Patent GB-2560697-A (GB)
Title: Baby feeding apparatus with bib, feeding bottle holder and feeding angle adjuster
Inventor: CHARLOTTE LEE LONNGREN
IPC: A61J9/06
Filed: 2017-02-28
Abstract: Apparatus (2) for feeding a baby, comprising a bib (4), a holder (6) for holding a feeding bottle for the baby, and a feeding angle adjuster (8), the bib comprising a wedge-shaped portion (10) for causing the feeding bottle to tilt towards the baby; the holder (6) being on a first side (12) of the bib; the feeding angle adjuster being on a second side (14) of the bib (4); the second side (14) is nearer to the baby than the first side (12) in use; the feeding angle adjuster (8) being releasably attached to the second side (14) of the bib such that the bottle is at a first angle when it is detached and at a second angle when it is attached. Preferably the angle adjuster is a pillow, a thick strip of material or an inflatable member. Preferably the bib is attached to the infants neck first and second hook shaped arms (18, 20) which are not connected together.
Patent GB-2546033-A (GB)
Title: Surface solids system
Inventor: CLINTON CHERAMIE GALLIANO
IPC: G06K19/077
Filed: 2014-12-29
Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for monitoring micro-electro-mechanical ("MEM") devices removed from a fluid flow stream from a wellbore by a component of solids control equipment used with a drilling operation. The system can include a first MEM reader. The system can also include a second MEM reader. The first MEM reader can be positionable proximate to the fluid flow stream for detecting MEM devices in the fluid flow stream. The second MEM reader can be positionable proximate to the fluid flow stream and between the fluid flow output and the wellbore for detecting at least a subset of the MEM devices in the fluid flow stream. The system can further include a computing device for determining an amount and types of the MEM devices removed from the fluid flow stream by the component of solids control equipment.
Patent GB-2552877-A (GB)
Title: Decompression panel assembly and methods of assembling the same
Inventor: DOUGLAS ALAN BROWN
IPC: B64C1/14
Filed: 2017-05-22
Abstract: A decompression panel assembly for use in an aircraft includes a frame 208 including a first surface and an opposing second surface, wherein the frame 208 defines a decompression grille opening 214 and at least partially defines a flow path opening 216 that are each defined between the first and second surfaces. A panel 222 at least partially covers the decompression grille opening and is adapted to move from this position to a position where it allows air to flow through the opening when exposed to a predefined pressure differential. A containment member 226 may retain the panel 222 during decompression. In one embodiment (figure 9), the decompression panel assembly also includes a first face panel (422) and a second face panel (424) pivotally coupled together at a central hinge (442). A retention plate (426) is releasably coupled to the first and second face panels (422, 424) and is configured to move between a closed position and an open position. The first and second face panels (422, 424) at least partially cover the grille opening in a planar position when the retention plate is in the closed position, and the first and second face panels move away from the grille opening to a folded position (figure 10) when the retention plate is in the open position.
Patent GB-2562772-A (GB)
Title: Fluid treatment
Inventor: RICHARD ANTHONY COWLEY
IPC: F24D19/00
Filed: 2017-05-25
Abstract: A strainer 101 is disclosed for use in fluid piping, which may be piping of a heating or cooling system or a fuel line. The strainer comprises a body 102 for connection to fluid piping inflow and outflow conduits 201, 202. The body comprises an interior chamber 103, fluid inlet and outlet ports 104, 105, and a fluid flow path 106 extending through the chamber between the ports. The strainer also comprises a screen collector 107 within the fluid flow path 106, and a permanent magnet collector 108 which may comprise a rare-earth magnet. Both collectors are removably locatable in the body. The strainer may be Y-shaped. The screen collector removes particles greater than a particular size from the fluid stream, while the magnet collector removes smaller magnetic particles, thus providing cleaner system flow. This prevents the formation of sludge and corrosion of pipes.
Patent GB-2563017-A (GB)
Title: A method and a system for improving safety in public transport infrastructures
Inventor: JAMES O'SULLIVAN
IPC: H04W4/40
Filed: 2017-05-26
Abstract: A method and a system 100 for monitoring occupancy of a seat arranged in a transportation vehicle 200. The method comprises transmitting a first presence status parameter, which is based upon an output from a detection device 1', such as a pressure sensor system arranged near a seat, to an occupancy management system 5 remote to the vehicle. A second presence parameter is set by the occupancy management system 5 by checking for receipt of data identifying a unit 4, such as a Bluetooth beacon, which communicates with a passengers mobile device 7, the receipt of a booking cancellation or a change of booking. A schedule parameter, such as a vehicle schedule, is also received by the occupancy management system 5. An occupancy status parameter is determined using the first and second presence parameter and the schedule parameter.