baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2536032-A (GB)
Title: Method for processing video clip for live-broadcast replay
Inventor: CHONGGUANG PAN
IPC: H04N5/76
Filed: 2015-03-05
Abstract: A method for processing video clips for live-broadcast replay involves establishing OUT-point setting rules, viewing the captured game video and setting an IN point (mark-in / edit point) when a critical motion/event occurs to indicate the beginning of a clip. An OUT-point setting rule is automatically chosen and applied, from which a corresponding OUT point (mark-out) is calculated, so as to form a clip record to be loaded into a playlist for use in a later replay. During replay, the required clip records are sought from the playlist, and contents stored in the clip record are obtained, thus providing the corresponding video, start position and end position required to access to defined clip. The playlist is arranged such that multiple clips of the same critical motion/event (captured by different cameras) are played successively to provide seamless playback of the action/event from different viewpoints/angles. During live broadcast, the start position and the end position of a clip can be tuned forward or backward according to needs. The simplified operation significantly reduces manual intervention and reduces the risk of human error.
Patent GB-2536049-A (GB)
Title: Advanced thermal treatment apparatus
Inventor: DANIEL MICHAEL DONEGAN
IPC: F23G5/027
Filed: 2015-03-05
Abstract: A system for pyrolysis or gasification has a first pyrolysis or gasification unit 50 connected to a second pyrolysis or gasification unit 53 by a hermetically sealed gas path. The first or second units may be a rotatable retort and each unit may be enclosed in a thermally insulated housing 40, 1040 with an exhaust duct 7, 59 connecting the interior of the first thermally insulated housing 40 to the interior of the second thermally insulated housing 1040. Exhaust from a heating system (52, Fig. 5) of the first unit 50 may heat the second unit 53. The gas produced by the first pyrolysis or gasification unit 50 may have a moisture content which may reach a supercritical state such as superheated steam in the second unit 53 if the temperature and pressure in the second unit are sufficient. A pyrolysis method is also claimed where gas produced in a first pyrolysis or gasification unit 50 undergoes further pyrolysis or gasification in a second unit 53.
Patent GB-2537132-A (GB)
Title: Pedestrian crossing control method and apparatus
Inventor: David Hoslett
IPC: G08G1/083
Filed: 2015-04-08
Abstract: A means for controlling a pedestrian crossing comprising a kerbside radar detector arranged to detect the presence of one or more pedestrians in a waiting area. A crossing controller is connected to receive signals from the kerbside radar detector and to control generation of safe-to-cross signals. The crossing controller is operable, in dependence on the volume of pedestrians detected in the waiting area by the kerbside radar, to provide a crossing priority balance between vehicle traffic and pedestrian traffic. The crossing priority balance may be adjusted through alterations to pedestrian inter-green periods or to the duration of safe-to-cross signals.
Patent GB-2537414-A (GB)
Title: Pyrotechnic valve
Inventor: PAUL DAVID SMITH
IPC: A62C13/64
Filed: 2015-04-17
Abstract: A fire extinguishing apparatus comprises a container 100 for holding a fire suppressant, a valve 200 sealing said container and comprising a diaphragm 130 configured to perforate so as to release fire suppressant from said container. The apparatus further includes a pyrotechnic charge 140 arranged to combust to produce combustion products that form a shockwave directed onto the surface of said diaphragm. A device 150 encasing the pyrotechnic charge is also provided. The device comprises a hollow, elongate channel 155 located over the pyrotechnic charge and is directed at the centre of the diaphragm to focus or direct the combustion products onto the centre of the diaphragm. The elongate channel has a length that is at least 1.5 times its smallest width.
Patent GB-2539224-A (GB)
Title: Method of forming a chemical sensor device and device
Inventor: LUIGI GIUSEPPE OCCHIPINTI
IPC: G01N33/84
Filed: 2015-06-09
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for detecting simultaneously the pH and the concentration of chemical substances in a solution (e.g. a biological fluid). The chemical may be glucose, lactate, or carbon dioxide. The method utilises a multi-electrode sensing device 100 with two or more electrodes, wherein a first electrode is used for pH detection, and wherein further working electrodes are enzyme-coated electrodes for sensing the chemical (e.g. glucose or lactate), wherein the measurements from the enzyme electrodes are compensated using the measurements from the pH electrode. The enzyme electrode may comprise glucose dehydrogenase, lactate dehydrogenase, or carbonic anhydrase. The method is suitable for use both in stand-alone sensor devices, where the solution is deposited or conveyed by fluidic transport means to the sensing layers, and in implantable and skin patch-like sensor devices, where the device is applied for measuring the pH and the concentration of given substances in situ. The measurements may be poteniometric.
Patent GB-2535558-A (GB)
Title: Computer system and data control method
Inventor: NOBUHIRO YOKOI
IPC: G06F3/06
Filed: 2013-11-07
Abstract: In the present invention, a computer system has a first storage control module and at least one server module. The first storage control module has a plurality of storage processors. Each server module has a server processor and a server I/F that connects to the server processor and to at least two of the plurality of storage processors. A server I/F of an issuing server, that is any one server of the at least one server module, identifies a storage processor by referencing allocation information that associates issuing server identification information for an I/O request issued from a server processor of the issuing server, identification information for a destination storage memory area for the I/O request, and identification information for the storage processor that handles the destination storage memory area. The server I/F sends a command based on the I/O request to the identified storage processor.
Patent GB-2525126-A (GB)
Title: Communications plugs and patch cords with mode conversion control circuitry
Inventor: HASHIM AMID I
IPC: H01R24/64
Filed: 2014-03-07
Abstract: Patch cords include a communications cable that has first through eighth conductors that are arranged as four twisted pairs. A TIA 568B type plug may be attached to the cable. This plug includes a housing that receives the cable and first through eighth plug contacts that include plug contact regions that are substantially aligned in a row in numerical order. The plug further includes a printed circuit board that has first through eighth conductive paths that connect the first through eighth conductors to the respective first through eighth plug contacts. A first portion of the first conductive path and a first portion of the second conductive path are routed as a transmission line, and a first portion of the sixth conductive path is routed therebetween.
Patent GB-2526991-A (GB)
Title: Components for medical circuits
Inventor: MILNE ROBERT ANDREW DAVID
IPC: A61M16/08
Filed: 2014-03-14
Abstract: An expiratory limb is provided that is configured to remove humidified gases from a patient and configured to provide improved drying performance by providing a tailored temperature profile along the limb. Limbs for providing humidified gases to and/or removing humidified gases from a patient are also provided, the limbs having improved gas residence time at constant volumetric flow rate. The improved residence time can be achieved by providing a limb comprising multiple lumens.
Patent GB-2541955-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable fence with illuminating effect
Inventor: Chun-yin wu
IPC: H02S20/20
Filed: 2015-10-27
Abstract: An adjustable fence comprising two posts, each having a post body 11 and a first mounting slot (12, Fig. 4), at least a first posts having a second mounting slot (13, Fig. 5), the slots extending longitudinally in the posts, the fence having a slat assembly 20 comprising multiple slats 21, the ends of which are slidably and detachably received in the first mounting slots of adjacent posts, an illumination module 40 having a case 41 mounted to the top of the first post, the module having a solar panel 42, a charge controller and rechargeable battery (43, 44 Fig. 12), and an illumination piece 45 embedded in the second mounting slot. The illumination piece may have a body with wings (451, 452, Fig. 5) engaged with mounting pits 1121 of the second mounting slot. Each post may have an expanding slot 16 closed by a side strip (14, Fig 5). There may be a bottom bracket 22 having buffers (50, Fig. 3) to absorb thermal expansion. The slats and brackets may have position members (211, 212, Fig. 9) for engaging adjacent slats/brackets. A limit 30 may press against the top of the slat assembly.
Patent GB-2533252-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for gradiational seismic volume classification
Inventor: NAM XUAN NGUYEN
IPC: G01V1/30
Filed: 2013-11-27
Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method for classifying seismic attributes, including generating data points by cross plotting seismic attributes from a first data volume and a second data volume, encompassing at least one of the generated data points within a polygon, generating a reference line, determining an interpolation direction relative to the reference line, and assigning an attribute value to the at least one generated data point encompassed within the polygon wherein the assigned attribute value is interpolated based on the combination of its position to the reference line along the interpolation direction and the shape of the polygon.
Patent GB-2549738-A (GB)
Title: Animal assessment device
Inventor: Lawrence Moon
IPC: A01K29/00
Filed: 2016-04-26
Abstract: An animal assessment device 10 for use in a cage (20, fig 2) containing at least one animal. The animal assessment device includes a task assessment module 100 comprises a wall (102, fig 3) that defines a space inside the task assessment module. The wall defines an opening (104, fig 3) that permits an animal within the cage to access the space inside the task assessment module. The task assessment module comprises a positioning member 108 having an incentive receptacle 110 for holding an incentive, for example a sugar pellet. The positioning member is moveable within the space defined by the wall. The device may be provided with an incentive dispensing device 300 comprising an incentive reservoir 302 and a conveyor (308, fig 12) to deliver the incentive to a dispensing portion. Animal identification means 200 may be provided. A process of monitoring an animals attempts to retrieve the incentive wherein the success and failure rates are stored is claimed. The device may be used for single pellet grasping/reaching tasks (SPG).
Patent GB-2553260-A (GB)
Title: A ready-to-use, hydrophilic, self-dispersive, fragmentable and biodegradable porous sponge matrix and a method of manufacturing thereof
Inventor: Rajan Datt
IPC: A61L15/64
Filed: 2016-05-17
Abstract: A ready-to-use, hydrophilic, self-dispersive, fragmentable and biodegradable porous sponge matrix with high flexibility and absorbent capacity, wherein said sponge is porous by having interconnected vesicular micro-voids for holding or encapsulating therapeutic agents/drugs/cells inside, and wherein said sponge is obtained by lyophilizing a blend of polymers. Preferably, at least one of the polymers is in powdered form. The polymers may be selected from gelatin, chitosan, alginate, polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene glycol and/or synthetic or naturally derived molecules including mucilaginous polysaccharides. The mucilaginous polysaccharides may be obtained from plant sources, for example Irish moss, marshmallow roots, fenugreek seed, flax seeds or psyllium husk seed. The sponge matrix is preferably in the form of a plug, tampon or sheet. Also disclosed is a method of making the porous sponge matrix, the method comprising sequentially blending the polymers together, blending at least one of the polymers in powdered solid form and then lyophilizing the blend of polymers. The porous sponge matrix may be used for controlling bleeding, wound closure, prevent tissue adhesion and/or support tissue regeneration. In particular, for nasal packing following surgery and for treating epistaxis.
Patent GB-2537317-A (GB)
Title: Soil and rock grouting using a hydrajetting tool
Inventor: JIM BASUKI SURJAATMADJA
IPC: E02D3/12
Filed: 2014-04-07
Abstract: Methods including providing a hydrajetting tool comprising a housing having a top end and a bottom end and having a plurality of jetting nozzles disposed thereon, the top end of the housing fluidly coupled to a tool string; providing at least one sub-soil-surface cavity adjacent to or in unstable soil, the unstable soil having a plurality of channels therein; introducing the hydrajetting tool into the at least one sub-soil-surface cavity; injecting a cement slurry through at least one of the jetting nozzles and into the sub-soil-surface cavity; permeating the cement slurry into the plurality of channels in the unstable soil; filling the at least one sub-soil-surface cavity with the cement slurry; and curing the cement slurry, thereby forming a stable soil and a cement pillar in the at least one sub-soil-surface cavity.
Patent GB-2553324-A (GB)
Title: A machine for dispensing a flowable substance
Inventor: BRENDAN WYMBS
IPC: B05C9/06
Filed: 2016-09-01
Abstract: There is disclosed a machine (1, fig 1) for dispensing a flowable substance, which in one embodiment comprises a manifold 5, a first piston 4a arranged for reciprocating movement within a respective first cylinder 24a, a second piston 4b arranged for reciprocating movement within a respective second cylinder 24b, first and second supply chambers 27a and b, for holding respective volumes of a said flowable substance, and a moveable valve 8 member provided within said manifold. The manifold defines or is fluidly connected to an outlet nozzle and is fluidly connected to said cylinders and to the supply chambers. The valve member is moveable between: i) a first position in which it fluidly connects the first cylinder to the outlet nozzle, and fluidly connects to the second cylinder to the second supply chamber, and ii) a second position in which it fluidly connects the second cylinder to the outlet nozzle and fluidly connects the first cylinder to said the supply chamber.
Patent GB-2553326-A (GB)
Title: An apparatus for transporting a load
Inventor: SAM DANCE
IPC: B62D11/00
Filed: 2016-09-01
Abstract: An apparatus 10a for transporting a load, including (i) a ground-engaging device for effecting movement of the load over a surface, (ii) a transmitter 32 and a receiver 34 module and (iii) a controller 30 capable of conducting a status check of components and/or devices of the apparatus in order to provide an apparatus operative or apparatus non-operative signal to the transmitter module, wherein the transmitter module transmits said signal and the receiver module receives from another, second such apparatus 10d its respective apparatus operative or apparatus non-operative signal. The transmitter may transmit the first apparatus status signal to both its own receiver and that of another apparatus 10b. According to a second aspect, the invention relates to a system (1, fig. 1) including at least three apparatus as described above, and a central command module 4 (CCM) for sending movement instructions to the ground-engaging device (wheel 18, fig. 1) of each apparatus. According to a third aspect a method of operating the system is claimed, wherein, if any of the apparatus are in a non-operative state, the controllers of all apparatus either shut them down or cease to respond to any movement instructions received from the CCM (emergency halt).
Patent GB-2544639-A (GB)
Title: Continuous heat stripping and cracking apparatus having three-section reacting furnace system background
Inventor: JUI-YUNG CHANG
IPC: F27B9/20
Filed: 2016-10-21
Abstract: A continuous heat stripping and cracking apparatus comprises a three-section reaction furnace. First horizontal furnace body 21 comprises multiple first reactors 212 in a heat resistant jacket 211, each reactor having an axial conveyor 212a, 212b to transport an object from first upward opening feeding ports 2121 to first downward opening discharge ports 2122. Second furnace body 22 comprises a second reactor 222 in a second heat resistant jacket 221, an axial conveyor 222a to transport the object from a second feeding port 2221, which is in communication with the first discharge ports 2122, to a second discharge port 2222, and a process gas output port 2223. Third furnace body 23 comprises a third reactor 232 in a third jacket 231, and an axial conveyor 232a that transports the object from a third feeding port 2321, which is in communication with the second discharge port 2222, to a third downward opening discharge port 2322. The first furnace body 21 and the second furnace body 22 are at 90 degrees to each other when viewed from above.
Patent GB-2552725-A (GB)
Title: Method for control of optical intensity and extinction ratio of laser modulation in an optical transmitter
Inventor: Dominic Coue
IPC: H04B10/564
Filed: 2017-02-01
Abstract: Controlling the optical intensity and the extinction ratio of the modulation of a laser diode of an optical data transmitter comprising: current driver circuitry configured to supply a drive current to a laser diode wherein said current comprises a fixed component and a modulated component, said modulated component having a magnitude related to an input data stream. The monitor circuitry comprising a photodiode and a first transimpedance amplifier coupled to said photodiode, said monitor circuitry configured to provide an output signal related to an optical intensity of said laser diode. The system further comprising replica monitor circuitry comprising a replica capacitor with a replica capacitance and a second transimpedance amplifier configured to be substantially identical in construction to said first transimpedance amplifier, said second transimpedance amplifier coupled to said replica capacitor. The system further comprising replica capacitance control circuitry configured to control said replica capacitance of said replica capacitor to match a capacitance associated with said photodiode. The parallel replica signal path allows for the effects of gain and bandwidth on data to be taken into account. The probability density function (PDF) of the monitor signal may then be used to infer the extinction ratio. (Extinction ratio, or modulation depth, being the ratio of optical intensity for data 1 and data 0).
Patent GB-2545584-A (GB)
Title: Acid-soluble cement composition
Inventor: TRISSA JOSEPH
IPC: E21B33/16
Filed: 2014-12-02
Abstract: A cement composition for use in a well that penetrates a subterranean formation comprising: cement; and water, wherein the water is in a concentration in the range of about 220% to about 800% by weight of the cement, wherein the cement composition is acid soluble. A method of treating a subterranean formation comprising: introducing the cement composition into the subterranean formation; allowing the composition to set; and contacting the set cement composition with an acid.
Patent GB-2564082-A (GB)
Title: Thermal ablation apparatus and method
Inventor: MARK WHITELEY
IPC: A61B18/00
Filed: 2017-04-28
Abstract: The apparatus comprises a catheter 30 configured to enter an internal region of a subject's body and a cooling device 24 configured to cool internal tissue to a desired temperature of between -15 degrees C and +15 degrees C. The cooling device may be based on the Peltier effect or comprise liquid cooling means. The tip of the catheter 10 may include the cooling device and the device may be configured to cool a first region of tissue and ablate a further region of tissue within the first. The apparatus may emit electromagnetic radiation, laser light or radiofrequency radiation to ablate internal tissue and have a controller (32, fig 2) which initiates ablation after the tissue has been cooled to the desired temperature. The catheter may be a venous ablation catheter.
Patent GB-2549629-A (GB)
Title: Constitutionally dynamic polymer for treatment of subterranean formations
Inventor: PETER JAMES BOUL
IPC: C09K8/588
Filed: 2015-02-11
Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed relate to constitutionally dynamic polymer for treatment of subterranean formations. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of treating a subterranean formation, the method including placing in the subterranean formation a composition including a constitutionally dynamic polymer.
Patent GB-2563576-A (GB)
Title: Method
Inventor: GRAHAM ALEXANDER YOUNG
IPC: B65D81/20
Filed: 2017-06-12
Abstract: A method for increasing shelf life of fruit comprises treating the fruit with UV light from a UV light source, packaging the fruit in a modified atmosphere, or MA, within a film, and storing the packaged fruit. The UV light may be applied before and/or after the fruit is packaged. The film may comprise a modified atmosphere packaging. The MA may comprise ozone, increased CO2, and/or decreased O2. The fruit is preferably avocado, and the method may be intended to reduce instances of stem end rot. Apparatus, comprising a UV light source 40, a fruit packer 30 capable of packaging the fruit in a MA packaging film, and a conveying surface 20 for holding and moving the fruit between the UV light source and the fruit packer, is also claimed. The apparatus may include receptacles 50 for holding the fruit prior to entry into the UV source 40 and packer 30. The method may increase the shelf life of packaged fruit by at least one day when the packaged fruit is stored at ambient temperature, or at least five days when the packaged fruit is stored at chilled temperature.
Patent GB-2565590-A (GB)
Title: Method of flicker reduction
Inventor: DAVID HANWELL
IPC: H04N5/235
Filed: 2017-08-18
Abstract: Image capture is performed to produce data corresponding to a scene, the data including a first image having a first exposure and a second image having a second exposure. The data is processed to: (a) detect a discrepancy in the second image with respect to the first image; and (b) determine flicker indication data indicative of a presence of flicker in the second image. The discrepancy is corrected in dependence upon the flicker indication to produce a flicker reduced version of the second image. A high dynamic range image (HDRI) may be output based on the first image and the flicker reduced version of the second image. The images may be video frames in successions of video frames. The images may be captured with arrays of sensor pixels with the pixels of the second image having a lower sensitivity than the first.
Patent GB-2566023-A (GB)
Title: Controller for an unmanned aerial vehicle
Inventor: ADAM HUSSEIN ADWAN
IPC: G05D1/00
Filed: 2017-08-30
Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) 60 captures image data which includes an image of part of a vehicle 40 which is obscured from a field of view 73 of a user 50 of a user device 70. The UAV controller uses positional data relating to the UAV, the vehicle and the user device, processes that data to determine the relative locations, and outputs image data that is received from the UAV. The relative locations may be used to determine the obscured portions of the vehicle, and the positional data may comprise (differential) GPS data. The UAV may have an inertial navigation system (INS). Time-of-flight measurement data or image recognition algorithms may also be used. The UAV may be controlled to keep it on the opposite side of the vehicle to the user, or to capture images of a part of the vehicle near an obstacle detected by a vehicle sensor.