baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2524402-A (GB)
Title: Augmented Reality Apparatus and Method
Inventor: KNIGHT CHRISTOPHER GEORGE
IPC: G06T7/00
Filed: 2015-03-20
Abstract: A method of teaching, coaching or demonstrating a task to a student in which an image of the student 200 performing the task is recorded and displayed together with an exemplary demonstration of the task 202 as performed by a tutor, which has been pre-recorded and is sized and positioned with reference to the student. The two recordings are synchronised by the user using a scrubbing technique and the user then identifies one or more reference or node points 204 one the recorded image that correspond with points on the exemplary image for comparison by computer software that presents to the user, based on the comparison, recommendations as to how the action can be improved. A second invention of the application is described as follows: At 400 a live broadcast is depicted, in this case a golf tournament. The broadcast 400 is depicted on a television screen 410 of a user 420, substantially in real time. In a television studio, represented by 430, which may be close to the site of the live broadcast, or may be remote there from, a commentator or pundit 440 records segments of video analysis. The video image is sent to a server 450. The video clip of the commentator 440 is then downloadable by the user 420 using a device such as a mobile phone or tablet 460. The user can then view the additional content the video segment of the commentator 440on his device 460. Using the techniques of positioning and anchoring as described herein, the user 420 can enjoy the video segment 440 as though the commentator were present in the room, by viewing the room through a camera of the device 460.
Patent GB-2526916-A (GB)
Title: Aircraft airframe assembly
Inventor: COOKSON ANDREW PETER
IPC: B64F5/00
Filed: 2015-04-13
Abstract: An assembly tool 60 for assembling an assembly (6, Figure 1), typically an aft fuselage, is produced by providing at least a portion of a jig frame 62, fixing support plates 65 to the jig frame 62, machining support plates 65 so that a surface of each of the support plates 65 lies in a common plane (130, Figure 13), positioning the jig frame 62 so that the machined surfaces of the support plates 65 contact a supporting surface (138, Figure 14), typically the floor or ground, fixing pickup device mounting plates (140a, 140b, Figure 14) to the jig frame 62; machining the pickup device mounting plates to a predetermined position and orientation, and fixing to the machined surfaces of the mounting plates, a respective pickup device 66, 68, 70, 72 to the machined surfaces of each pickup device mounting plate. Typically the method produces an upper portion of a jig frame, and may be repeated to also produce a lower portion which can be attached to the upper portion.
Patent GB-2538307-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning appliance
Inventor: THOMAS JAMES DUNNING FOLLOWS
IPC: A61C17/36
Filed: 2015-05-15
Abstract: A dental cleaning appliance such as an electric toothbrush includes a handle body 16, a fluid delivery system with an extendable rinse nozzle 36 for delivering bursts of working fluid to the teeth of a user and a brush unit with bristles 32 mounted on a bristle carrier which extends at least partially about the nozzle 36 and is driven for movement relative to the nozzle. The nozzle 36 is biased for movement relative to the brush unit from a retracted proximal position to an extended distal position, urged against the users teeth in use, with a burst of fluid conveyed through a fluid conduit system 230,232 in the stem 26 and through the nozzle 36 upon a sensor detecting movement of the nozzle 36 entering an interproximal gap to dislodge matter therein. The fluid may be pumped from a refillable reservoir surrounding the stem into an accumulator which has a solenoid valve controlling the bursts fluid to the nozzle based upon the sensor output.
Patent GB-2540959-A (GB)
Title: A carton
Inventor: PHILIP ALLEN
IPC: B65D5/66
Filed: 2015-07-31
Abstract: A carton 21 comprises a carton body 201, a first flap portion 222 arranged to cover an end 201a of the carton body and an appendix 270 coupled to the first flap portion via a first fold line 281. A main panel 214 of the carton body includes a second flap 261 arranged such that the first flap appendix engages with the second flap as the carton is closed. The carton body main panel 214 includes a break line 285 that is configured to break as the carton is opened. Also claimed is a carton 20 comprising a carton body (10, fig 2a; 200, fig 3a), a flap (16; 222) configured at least partially to cover an end (10a; 200a) of the carton body and an appendix (17; 270) coupled to the flap via a fold line (18; 280). The appendix is arranged resistively to engage with the carton body as the carton is closed, and the fold line between the flap and the appendix is configured to break when the flap is separated from the end of the carton body as the carton is opened.
Patent GB-2541885-A (GB)
Title: A method and apparatus for generating a data profile for a medical scan
Inventor: Catherine Kelly
IPC: G06T7/00
Filed: 2015-08-28
Abstract: A data profile for a medical scan (100) is generated by obtaining (210) data point values for a plurality of data points representing spatial locations within the medical scan and determining data point classification parameters (225) defining data point value ranges for a plurality of classes. Each data point is assigned (235) to a class having a data point value range corresponding to the value for that data point. A data profile (e.g. an indication of the number of assigned data points) for the medical scan is then generated based on the assignment of the data points to classes (240). The generated data profile for the medical scan is finally output (255), e.g. to a store, printer or display. A (or multiple) region of interest may be determined (220) within the scan, and the assigning may be done to those data points within the RoI, with a data profile for the RoI on the assignment. The data profile may be generated based on a computed proportional contribution value (245) for each class, or on a comparison of the proportional contribution with a reference contribution parameter, e.g. reference range, reference proportional contribution value, or reference deviation value.
Patent GB-2540021-A (GB)
Title: An open-front refrigerator and a method of cooling items therein
Inventor: MICHAEL NICHOLLS
IPC: F25D25/02
Filed: 2016-05-06
Abstract: An open front refrigerator 1 comprises an air inlet 9 and outlet 7 opposite thereof and adjacent the front of the refrigerator whereby air is blown and communicated therebetween (i.e. an air curtain) 5. Between the inlet and outlet the air is communicated through a conduit 17, through at least one shelf 3 and back to the conduit before being passed to the outlet. The air may pass within the shelf / shelves in a zig zag / serpentine path. All of the air may communicate from and back to the conduit through each shelf before passing to the outlet. A first portion of the air communicates through the shelf / shelves and a second portion bypass them (19, fig 2). Flow direction may be reversed whereby air leaving the outlet now located below the inlet and towards the top is warmer and used to defrost the shelf / shelves. The shelf / shelves may have uprights (21, fig 4) located at the front thereof preventing cold dense air from rolling off into the air curtain, and vents (29, fig 5) in an underside (13) or upper side (15) of the shelf / shelves may blow air over items thereon.
Patent GB-2540256-A (GB)
Title: System and method for stress inversion via image logs and fracturing data
Inventor: OVUNC MUTLU
IPC: E21B47/00
Filed: 2016-05-18
Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting an in-situ stress field in a wellbore in a formation. The in-situ stress field is calculated using an optimizing process that takes into account parameters relating to induced tensile fractures that are derived from wellbore image logs and other input data relating to the wellbore. The wellbore parameters preferably relate to the type of wellbore faulting such as normal, strike-slip or reverse faulting. Once values for the in-situ stress field are predicted, those values can be used to generate synthetic image logs and fracturing data which can then be compared to the original image logs and fracturing data to determine the accuracy of the results and if needed repeat the operation to obtain more accurate results.
Patent GB-2554048-A (GB)
Title: Connectors
Inventor: ANDREW STUART BURNS
IPC: F16B7/04
Filed: 2016-06-21
Abstract: A connector 10 for connecting together parts 14 of a chimney or drain cleaning apparatus 12 includes a male part 16 and a female part 18. The male part 16 includes a mounting 52 for mounting the male part 16 to a part 14 of the chimney or drain cleaning apparatus 12. The female part 18 includes a mounting 54 for mounting the female part 18 to another part 14 of the chimney or drain cleaning apparatus 12. The male part 16 includes a projecting formation 20 and the female part 18 defines a passage 24 which, in an assembled condition receives the projecting formation 20.
Patent GB-2547735-A (GB)
Title: Digital microphones
Inventor: JOHN PAUL LESSO
IPC: H04R19/04
Filed: 2016-06-30
Abstract: A digital microphone apparatus 300 for outputting a digital output signal DATA at a sample rate defined by a received clock signal CLK includes a band splitter 302 to receive a microphone signal SMA indicative of an output of a MEMS microphone transducer and split said microphone signal into a first signal path SP1 for frequencies in a first band and a second signal path SP2 for frequencies in a second band, the frequencies of the second band being higher than the frequencies in the first band. A modulation block 304 is configured to operate on the second signal path to apply a selective gain modulation to signals in the second signal path.
Patent GB-2541997-A (GB)
Title: Thermoelectric-enhanced, inlet air-cooled thermal conductors
Inventor: LEVI CAMPBELL
IPC: H05K7/20
Filed: 2016-08-04
Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes a thermal conductor first portion 410 coupled to the heat-dissipating components, and a second conductor portion 420 positioned along the enclosure's air inlet side. The apparatus further includes air-cooled heat sinks coupled to the second conductor portion, to facilitate transfer of heat from the second conductor portion to the airflow ingressing into the enclosure, and thermoelectric devices coupled to at least one of the first or second conductor portions to selectively provide supplementary cooling. A controller controls operation of the thermoelectric devices and selectively switches operation of the cooling apparatus between an active cooling mode, where the thermoelectric devices are active, and a passive cooling mode, where the thermoelectric device is inactive.
Patent GB-2553503-A (GB)
Title: Self-referential machine architecture
Inventor: ROBIN MITCHELL HOWE
IPC: G06N99/00
Filed: 2016-08-20
Abstract: A machine or component thereof executing some autonomous behaviour connected in parallel with one or more external sensory inputs to the second part comprising a learning device that models and subsequently predicts the environment observed at its inputs in order to develop one or more outputs that best promote its preservation in that environment. The model subsequently and necessarily infers the machine (itself) as an autonomous agent acting in its external environment just as it represents any other agent in that externally sensed world. A further aspect of the invention provides sensory-emulating feedback of the model's relatively stable perception that is indiscernible from real external sensory input such that the machine effectively senses itself in its environment and is therefore rendered "self-aware".
Patent GB-2553510-A (GB)
Title: A handheld appliance
Inventor: DANIEL JOHN THOMPSON
IPC: A45D20/50
Filed: 2016-08-30
Abstract: Disclosed is a hand held appliance (10, figure 3) comprising a handle 210 and a user interface (180, figure 2a) comprising at least one user operated button 38, 138. The handle has an elliptical cross section with major and minor axes B, C. The user interface is provided on a first vertex of the major axis B. The handle 210 comprises a further user operated button 100, provided on a second vertex of major axis B. An attachment (20, figure 1) may be provided for connection to the handle 210, the further user operated button 100 operating a mechanism for removing the attachment from the handle. The user interface may comprise three user operated buttons 38, 138 that may be arranged in a triangular configuration, whereby one button is located at each vertex of the triangle. The second user operated button 138 may be an on/off switch, may be located at an apex of the triangle, and may be on a vertex of the user interface distal to the further user operated button 100. The first and third user operated buttons 38 may be radially spaced around the handle. The hand held appliance may be a hot hair styling appliance.
Patent GB-2538689-A (GB)
Title: Mixture that includes compound containing mesogenic group
Inventor: MASAHIRO HORIGUCHI
IPC: C09K19/32
Filed: 2015-02-24
Abstract: The present invention provides a mixture that includes a compound containing a mesogenic group and that satisfies formula 1 (1,0≦YI/Δn≦50,0) (in the formula, YI represents the yellowness of the mixture, and Δn represents the refractive-index anisotropy of the compound containing a mesogenic group). When the compound is used to configure a composition and manufacture an optical anisotropic body, repellence is prevented, and the optical anisotropic body exhibits superior alignment properties. Also provided are a composition that includes the mixture, and an optical anisotropic body that uses the composition.
Patent GB-2545055-A (GB)
Title: Point-in-time copy with chain cloning
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER BARRY BEEKEN
IPC: G06F11/14
Filed: 2016-10-10
Abstract: A method for storage copy with chain cloning includes providing a volume 301 with snapshots 302, 303 forming volume nodes in a dependency chain with associated metadata required to maintain the snapshots. The dependency chain is cloned to create a sparse copy chain including sparse copies of the volume 321 and the one or more snapshots 322, 323 forming sparse volume nodes, resulting in a lattice structure of the dependency chain of volume nodes and one or more sparse copy chains of cloned volume nodes. A node in the lattice 323 can be mapped to a source node 321, a target node 322, and source 303 and target 313 nodes in neighbouring dependency chains. High water mark metadata defines which dependency chain to go to if a desired piece of data is not on a particular node.
Patent GB-2545057-A (GB)
Title: Velocity based control in a non-periodically updated controller
Inventor: TERRENCE L BLEVINS
IPC: G05B19/418
Filed: 2016-10-11
Abstract: A control signal is provided for controlling a process using slow or non-periodically received process variable measurements 306 and setpoint changes. The signal is generated by multiple iterations of a control routine. During each iteration an integral or reset feedback contribution is generated by using an iterative filter 316 to determine a current integral feedback contribution value. However, this contribution value is used only in iterations where a new measurement of the controlled process variable is received at switch 318. If no new measurement is received, the reset feedback contribution output by switch 318 is maintained at zero or some other previous value. Proportional and derivative feedback contributions may also be generated during each iteration. A differential or velocity based control routine is also provided, which may generate a difference-based proportional contribution using gain 310 and differential 320, and a summed control signal from 322 to iterative filter 316.
Patent GB-2546580-A (GB)
Title: Sliding door mechanism
Inventor: Jose Luis Beltran Romero
IPC: E05D15/06
Filed: 2016-11-17
Abstract: A shower enclosure sliding door mechanism 1 includes a first member provided on a door 3 of a shower enclosure, and a second member provided on a frame of the shower enclosure. A first bearing surface 33 of the first member slidably engages a second bearing surface 27a/b of the second member. The first and second bearing surfaces are formed from first and second low friction materials respectively, such that a low friction interface is formed between the two. The first and second bearing surfaces may comprise pairs of sloped surfaces in a V-shape. The first bearing surface may be provided on a carrier 31 configured for adjusting the position of the door relative to the frame. The first and second bearing surfaces may be substantially symmetrical. The second member may be a channel for receiving a portion of the first bearing surface. The low friction material may be a polymer, metal or alloy, and may be provided as a tape or coating.
Patent GB-2545989-A (GB)
Title: Network connectivity switching utilizing an authentication device
Inventor: MURALI NARASIMHA
IPC: H04W12/06
Filed: 2016-11-22
Abstract: In embodiments of network connectivity switching utilizing an authentication device (202) for switching network connectivity from a first device (104) to a second device (106), the authentication device maintains an address (212) of the first device with a memory (210) of a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag (208), and the first device is authenticated for wireless communication via the cellular network (118). The authentication device receives an interrogation (216) of the RFID tag from the second device, which can communicate via the cellular network, and responsive to an RFID tag response (610) indicating the address of the first device, the second device communicates a device switch order (612) to the first device, communicates an attach request (616) to the cellular network, and writes an address (622) of the second device to the memory of the RFID tag. The authentication device can then authenticate (618) the second device to switch the network connectivity to the second device for wireless communication via the cellular network.
Patent GB-2561853-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for and method of assembling flexible articles
Inventor: PAUL WONG
IPC: D05B35/04
Filed: 2017-04-25
Abstract: A method of assembling a flexible article includes arranging first and second flexible panels 1, 2, having a first edges 1-2, 3-4, on respective lower and upper shuttle plates LSP, USP, so that so that the first edges have a flat configuration and are in alignment with one another. The first edge of the first flexible panel is then seamed to the first edge of the second flexible panel to form a sub-assembly of flexible panels. A gripper device G removably fixed to the second edge 3-4 of the second panel 2 then repositions the second flexible panel so that the second flexible panel can be seamed with either a third flexible panel, or with the first flexible panel in order to produce a fully seamed garment. A gripper device is also disclosed. The gripper may include first and second gripping elements GE1, GE2 adapted to grip the flexible panel on opposite sides thereof (figure 10). The gripper elements may be configured to grip either side of the panel independently and may be adaptable to conform to the shape of the panel.
Patent GB-2546918-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle roof structure and method for manufacturing vehicle roof structure
Inventor: HIROKI KUWAHARA
IPC: B62D25/06
Filed: 2015-09-30
Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to provide a vehicle roof structure and a method for manufacturing the vehicle roof structure such that undulation is prevented from occurring in an edge portion of a brazing filler material that bonds a roof panel and a side outer panel. This vehicle roof structure is provided with: an adjacent counter portion (11) that is positioned on both sides of a roof panel (10) in a vehicle width direction and is in contact with or adjacent to a side outer panel (21); a negatively curved surface portion (12) that is positioned on the roof panel (10) inward of the adjacent counter portion (11) in the vehicle width direction and has a concave surface (121) that is recessed downward; and a mounting surface (215) that is downwardly formed on the inner side of the side outer panel (21) in the vehicle width direction and is in contact with or adjacent to the adjacent counter portion (11). The vehicle roof structure is characterized in that the roof panel (10)-side edge portion (42) of a solidified brazing filler material (40) that bonds the roof panel (10) and the side outer panel (21) is positioned on the negatively curved surface portion (12).
Patent GB-2548047-A (GB)
Title: Shift register, level-transmission gate drive circuit, and display panel
Inventor: SHANGCAO CAO
IPC: G11C19/28
Filed: 2014-12-29
Abstract: Provided are a shift register, a level-transmission gate drive circuit, and a display panel, which are capable of reducing the size of a transistor, preventing the deterioration of the transistor, and increasing circuit output capability. The shift register comprises a down-transmission module (110), an output module (120), a first pull-down maintenance module (130), a second pull-down maintenance module (140), a first pull-down module (150), and a second pull-down module (160); the down-transmission module (110) is used for receiving a level-transmission signal (ST(n-1), CST(n-1)) of an upper-level shift register; the output module (120) is used for outputting a level-transmission signal (ST(n), CST(n)) and a scan signal (G(n)); the first pull-down maintenance module (130), second pull-down maintenance module (140), first pull-down module (150), and second pull-down module (160) are used for keeping the output signal at a low electric potential after the output module (120) outputs the scan signal (G(n)).
Patent GB-2553411-A (GB)
Title: Electrochemical compression of ammonia using ion exchange membranes
Inventor: BAMDAD BAHAR
IPC: H01M50/489
Filed: 2017-06-20
Abstract: An electrochemical compressor comprises a working fluid comprising ammonia and hydrogen; one or more electrochemical cells electrically connected to each other through a power supply; each electrochemical cell comprising a gas pervious anode, a gas pervious cathode, an electrolyte e.g. an ion conducting membrane, disposed between and in electrical contact with the anode and cathode, wherein the ammonia and hydrogen are transported through the electrolyte from the anode to the cathode to create a high pressure side of the electrochemical cell. The ion conducting membrane may include perfluorosulfonic acid ionomer, polystyrene sufonic acid ionomer and/or carboxymethyl cellulose. Also shown is a refrigeration system incorporating the electrochemical compressor.
Patent GB-2555010-A (GB)
Title: Determining loads on a wind turbine
Inventor: EVGENIA GOLYSHEVA
IPC: F03D17/00
Filed: 2017-10-09
Abstract: A computer implemented method for estimating turbine loads where there are multiple turbines, having the steps of: providing a 3D airflow database, providing a turbine loads transfer function, measure operating data for each turbine, process the operating data with the 3D airflow database and the transfer function, where the turbine loads and obtained indirectly in real time without direct instrumentation. The 3D airflow database may be a look-up table relating operating conditions and turbine loads, the transfer function may link the operating state of the turbine (ie idling, running, shutting down) to the turbine loads. The 3D airflow database may be formed by running CFD analysis for wind turbines which are located at a number of spots in a wind park for a variety of wind conditions. Also included is a method of designing a wind farm layout by iteratively analysing and optimising turbine locations versus turbine loads.