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Patent GB-2535445-A (GB)
Title: Audio - visual conferencing systems
Inventor: DAVID JOHN GWILT
IPC: H04N7/15
Filed: 2015-01-20
Abstract: A method and control system 150 of conducting an audio-visual (AV) conference call between at least two participants, the method involving establishing a call between a first AV conferencing device 152 at a first endpoint (100, fig 1b) and a second endpoint (102, fig 1b); providing an AV pairing code to the first device via the conference call for output to a first endpoint user; receiving at the first endpoint an audio call and an audio pairing code from a second device; linking the audio and AV calls using the pairing codes; and replacing an audio stream in the AV call with an audio stream derived from the second device. The applicant claims that the invention is intended for a participant to switch from a combined audio-visual call to use a more reliable telephone network for the audio part of the call when the quality of the combined AV call is degraded. Other aspects of invention relate a first participant to establishing or joining a call, the participant having first conferencing equipment for capturing and displaying video of an AV call, and second conferencing equipment for receiving and sending audio of an AV call; wherein password matching initiates the call.
Patent GB-2529010-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle seat for an automobile
Inventor: WIEGELMANN JOERG
IPC: B60N2/62
Filed: 2015-03-16
Abstract: A vehicle seat 1 comprising a seat depth adjuster 4 for an automobile 2, comprising a seat portion 5 comprising a base portion 14 and an adjusting portion 15, wherein the adjusting portion is movable relative to the base portion in a longitudinal direction 20, a mounting 21 for the movable mounting of the adjusting portion relative to the base portion, a means 22 for applying an adjusting force to the adjusting portion for moving the adjusting portion, a back portion 10, seat covers 13 for the seat portion and back portion, wherein the vehicle seat comprises a receiving element 29 for a reel of a constant force spring as the means, such as a scroll or spiral spring, and a geometry for fastening the receiving element (Fig.3). The means may also be a helical spring having fixing elements and suitable fastening geometries at its ends (Fig.5), or a pneumatic element such as a piston or bladder having fixing elements and suitable fastening geometries at its ends, or an electric motor driving a threaded rod and a spindle nut (54,55 Fig.6). Further claims to method and vehicle comprising the device.
Patent GB-2520881-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for patching
Inventor: LI LI
IPC: G06F9/445
Filed: 2013-05-23
Abstract: The present invention belongs to the computer field and discloses a method for patching, the method comprising: in response to that there is a need to patch a first content and the first content has been in the memory, distinguishing between a new content and an old content, the new content being the patched first content, the old content being the first content that has been in the memory; and in response to that the new content is loaded to the memory, mapping to the new content a new process that needs to apply the first content, wherein the new process comprises a process that is started after loading the new content to the memory. The present invention further discloses an apparatus for patching. With the technical solution provided by the present invention, it is possible to perform dynamic patching to a virtual machine or a physical machine without stopping a running process.
Patent GB-2540725-A (GB)
Title: Surgical prosthesis for treating inguinal hernias
Inventor: FELIX CHECA AYET
IPC: A61F2/02
Filed: 2015-04-13
Abstract: An internal prosthesis for treating inguinal hernias, the prosthesis comprising a flat portion 1 divided into two asymmetric portions 1, 1 by means of a central dividing line 2, each of the asymmetric portions 1, 1 being formed of a semi-oval body 11, 11 provided at their lower edge with an oval slot 12, 12 from which extends an oval and oblong lower wing 13, 13. Each of the asymmetric portions 1, 1 is further capable of being helicoidally folded over the other to define a pair of double-resistance areas 110, 130 such that the prosthesis is capable of treating two of the areas most commonly affected by hernias; an upper double-resistance area 110 obtained by overlapping of the semi-oval surfaces 11, 11, and a lower double resistance area 130 obtained by overlapping of the lower wings 13, 13. The heliocoidal folding of the asymmetric portions 1, 1 also causes the oval slots 12, 12 formed at the lower edge of the asymmetric bodies 11, 11 to overlap to form an oval opening 120 for receiving the spermatic cord 5.
Patent GB-2521985-A (GB)
Title: Improvements to cycle cranks
Inventor: BAILEY JOHN
IPC: B62M3/00
Filed: 2013-11-29
Abstract: A cycle crank comprises a pair of crank arms, each crank arm comprising a sensor for determining, in use, a value representative of a force applied to said crank arm during a revolution of said crank arm; and a wireless transmitter; wherein both said crank arms are configured to operate in a first mode of operation and in a second mode of operation; in said first mode of operation the wireless transmitters of said crank arms communicate together and in said second mode of operation said wireless transmitters of said crank arms communicate directly to a receiver located remotely from said crank arms.
Patent GB-2539515-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in oven used roasting trays and dishes
Inventor: ANNA MICHELLE CARROLL
IPC: A47J37/01
Filed: 2015-06-20
Abstract: A single roasting tray and 1 for meats and savoury puddings may be formed from metal to house meat joints and also includes circular moulds 2 for savoury puddings such as Yorkshire puddings to be cooked in each corner of its body 8. A meat joint may be placed in the centre of the tray 3 whilst savoury puddings or Yorkshire puddings are being cooked at the same time, or the joint may be removed first and the puddings may then be cooked, using the one single roasting tray. The tray may be perforated with drainage holes (15, figure 5) to enable meat juices to drain into a receiving dish (H, figure 5) below and may also provide an area for cooking other food items beneath the single roasting tray whilst the single roasting tray is cooking meat and puddings above.
Patent GB-2539692-A (GB)
Title: Launching devices from submerged launch platforms
Inventor: THOMAS WILLIAM SMOKER
IPC: F42B15/01
Filed: 2015-06-24
Abstract: A launch system includes a launch canister apparatus 100 which is ejected from a submerged launch platform. The canister apparatus 100 comprises a buoyancy and stabilization device, and is configured to carry at least one unmanned aerial device 102, such as an anti aircraft/surface missile, and provide a floating launch platform for the at least one unmanned aerial device 102 subsequent to surfacing of the launch container apparatus 100. The system further comprises control apparatus configured to, subsequent to launch of the at least one unmanned aerial device 102 from the launch canister apparatus 100, control on-air operation of the at least one unmanned aerial device independently from controls of the submerged launch platform.
Patent GB-2540955-A (GB)
Title: Patch for person's skin
Inventor: SIMON RICH
IPC: A61F13/02
Filed: 2015-07-31
Abstract: The present invention relates to a patch or plaster 110 that may be adhered to the skin of a person. In particular embodiments the present invention relates to a wound dressing comprising such a patch 110 that may be applied to skin wounds. A patch 110 for application to a person's skin comprises a carrier 112 having a first surface 114 and an opposite second surface 116, at least a portion of the first surface 114 being adhesive for adhesion of the patch 110 to the person's skin; a release liner 118 releasably attached to the first surface 114 of the carrier and extending over and fully covering said adhesive portion; and a connecting part 120 connecting the release liner to the second surface 116 of the carrier 112. This enables the user to apply the plaster without a finger or glove coming into contact and contaminating the adhesive surface.
Patent GB-2542142-A (GB)
Title: Vacuum nozzle
Inventor: LUKE MICHAEL SMITH
IPC: G01N33/38
Filed: 2015-09-08
Abstract: An apparatus for picking up cut gemstones which have been orientated table down includes a vacuum wand 20 having a generally cylindrical body 22 with a central bore 18 culminating in a nozzle 24 through which a vacuum may be applied, a retractable outer sleeve 23 configured to slide axially over the nozzle 24 and a biasing mechanism 25 for biasing the sleeve 23 towards a position in which it extends beyond the nozzle 24. Flat surfaces 36 on the body 22 and sleeve 23 may prevent relative rotation. Contact surfaces 26, 27 at the lower end of the body 22 and sleeve 23 may be tapered inwards to retain a relatively small or larger cut gemstone respectively. Contact surfaces 26, 27 may include transverse profiled grooves 28, 29. Outer sleeve 23 may retract from a position level with or below the nozzle 24 to a position above the nozzle, biased by a spring 25. Retraction of sleeve 25 may be limited by a shoulder 35.
Patent GB-2527237-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for collecting industrial waste
Inventor: JIN WOO KEUN
IPC: B01D45/18
Filed: 2014-04-01
Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for collecting industrial waste. The apparatus for collecting industrial waste of the present invention comprises: a separator (20) for separating dust from the waste sucked up by vacuum pressure; an upper hopper (30) to be filled with the waste falling from the separator (20); a first valve (40) comprising a pair of semicircular valve plates (41) provided to open and close the lower end of the upper hopper (30), and a cylinder (42) for operating the semicircular valve plates (41); a lower hopper (50) in which the upper end of the lower hopper (50) is connected to the lower portion of the upper hopper (40), and the inner volume of the lower hopper (50) is larger than that of the upper hopper (40); a flange pipe-shaped second valve (60) of which the upper end is coupled to the lower end having a decreased diameter of the lower hopper (50), and which controls and intermits the discharge amount of waste inside the lower hopper (50) by rotating an internal butterfly handle (62) through the operation of a handle (63) formed at one side; and an outlet nozzle (70) of which the upper end is rotatably connected to the lower end of the second valve (60), and the lower end is extended so as to be adjacent to the upper end of a plurality of drums (D) for disposal on the same diameter as the plurality of drums (D) for disposal, which are loaded on a palette (P). Therefore, waste can be safely collected by preventing the scattering of waste to the outside and spontaneous combustion.
Patent GB-2543526-A (GB)
Title: Blade positioning
Inventor: DANIEL KEMPF
IPC: F01D25/06
Filed: 2015-10-20
Abstract: An apparatus for radially outwardly urging rotor blades 100 that extend radially from a root 120 that cooperates with a slot 620 in a rotor disc. The apparatus comprises a fluid-tight bag or bladder 700 for locating in a radial gap 750 between a radially inner surface 140 of a respective root and the slot. A fluid supply source 720 connects to the fluid-tight bag in order to inflate or provide positive pressure to the fluid tight bag. A method of urging blades of a rotor stage of a gas turbine engine radially outwards is provided which may be used to grind blade tips of blades of a rotor stage of a gas turbine engine. The method comprises locating a fluidtight bag in the radial gap, inflating the fluid-tight bag and rotating the rotor stage relative to a grinding surface so as to grind any blade tips that contact the grinding surface during rotation. This results in more accurate positioning of the blades during the grinding process and/or during operation.
Patent GB-2537198-A (GB)
Title: A Step ladder
Inventor: RONALD ARTHUR MAINE ROBINS
IPC: E06C1/383
Filed: 2015-10-20
Abstract: A step ladder 50 comprises two triangular ladder frames 50 and 52. The first frame has an outer side rail 53 connected to a central rail 54 at one of its ends 55, 56 to form an apex. The second frame 52 has an outer has an outer rail 62 also connected to the central rail to form its apex 64. Corresponding rungs 68 are at the same height in both frames. The opposite ends of the rails 60, 61 and 63 form three legs which are in contact with the ground. Both frames can rotate on hinges 69 about the longitudinal axis of the middle rail from a closed position, where the two frames are superimposed, to an open position with a generally V-shaped orientation. The rungs may be fixed at one end to their respective outer rails and pivotally connected at the other end to the central rail.
Patent GB-2535606-A (GB)
Title: Wavefield separation based on a matching operator between sensor responses in multi-component streamers
Inventor: STIAN HEGNA
IPC: G01V1/36
Filed: 2015-12-16
Abstract: A pressure wavefield and a particle motion wavefield emitted from a subterranean formation are measured using co-located pressure and particle motion sensors located along one or more streamers of a seismic data acquisition system. A matching operator that relates pressure sensor and particle motion sensor responses for co-located pressure and particle motion sensors is computed 1609 based on depth of the co-located pressure and particle motion sensors and on the measured pressure and particle motion wavefields. The matching operator and the measured pressure and particle motion wavefields may then be used to compute up-going 1608 and down-going wavefields 1610.
Patent GB-2534036-A (GB)
Title: Cement set activators for set-delayed cement compositions and associated methods
Inventor: PETER JAMES BOUL
IPC: C09K8/467
Filed: 2014-09-08
Abstract: Disclosed herein are cement compositions and methods of using set-delayed cement compositions in subterranean formations. In one embodiment, a method of cementing in a subterranean formation is described. The method may comprise providing a set-delayed cement composition comprising water, pumice, hydrated lime, and a set retarder; activating the set-delayed cement composition with a liquid additive to produce an activated cement composition, wherein the liquid additive comprises a monovalent salt, a polyphosphate, a dispersant, and water; and allowing the activated cement composition to set.
Patent GB-2545753-A (GB)
Title: Crosstalk mitigation
Inventor: JOHN PAUL LESSO
IPC: H04S7/00
Filed: 2016-02-16
Abstract: Methods and apparatus for mitigating the effects of crosstalk in multichannel audio. An audio driver circuit 200 for driving first and second audio loads 103 having a common return path Rc, has first and second signal paths (Left and Right). A crosstalk compensation block 205 is configured to add a first compensation signal to the first signal path and add a second compensation signal to the second signal path. The first compensation signal is generated based on the second audio signal and a first compensation function and the second compensation signal is generated based on the first audio signal and a second compensation function. Each of the first and second compensation functions is based on a predetermined impedance value for at least part of the common return path RH1 and is also based on a determined DC impedance value ZL, ZR for one of the first and second audio loads which is modified by a band correction factor (y). The band correction factor modifies the measured DC impedance value so it is a better estimate of impedance across the frequency band of interest.
Patent GB-2547906-A (GB)
Title: A bladed rotor arrangement
Inventor: MARK R GIBSON
IPC: F01D5/30
Filed: 2016-03-02
Abstract: A bladed rotor arrangement 32 comprises a rotor 34, a plurality of rotor blades 36 and a plurality of lock plates 48. The rotor blades are mounted in circumferentially spaced axially extending slots 44 in the periphery of the rotor. A plurality of lock plates 48 are arranged at a first axial end of the rotor whereby its radially outer ends 48A engage corresponding grooves defined by flanges 54 of the rotor blades and radially inner ends 48B of the lock plates also engage a circumferentially extending groove 50 of the rotor. The radially outer end of at least one lock plate at the first axial end of the rotor has at least one projection (56, fig 3B) extending axially away from the rotor. Each projection locates against a corresponding anti-rotation feature (58, fig 4). The rotor arrangement may be used in gas or steam turbines.
Patent GB-2533728-A (GB)
Title: Method for assigning an agent device from a first device registry to a second device registry
Inventor: William Allen Curtis
IPC: H04W12/06
Filed: 2014-10-15
Abstract: An agent device (4) is registered in a first device registry maintained by a first registry apparatus (8) for authenticating agent devices (4) for communicating with application providing apparatuses. The agent device (4) can be assigned to a second device registry maintained by second registry apparatus (80). The method of assignment comprises the first registry apparatus (8) receiving from a requestor device a device assignment request (250). In response to the device assignment request, the first registry apparatus (8) checks whether the agent device (4) is allowed to be assigned to the second device registry (80), and if so, the agent device (4) transmits second authentication information for authenticating the identity of the agent device (4) to the second registry apparatus (80)(290) which registers this in the second device registry.
Patent GB-2549970-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for generating a composite video from a pluarity of videos without transcoding
Inventor: Preben Holm Nielsen
IPC: H04N21/8547
Filed: 2016-05-04
Abstract: Generating a composite video by splicing at an I-frame without transcoding. Obtaining primary 301 and secondary 302 videos each comprising a sequence of intra-coded I frames 304 and predicted P frames 305, 306; time-aligning the primary and the secondary videos by associating timelines 311, 312 of the videos; identifying, using the associated timelines, a start merge time t′_1 in the primary video of a first anchor I frame 304 of the secondary video; and merging frames of the primary video and frames of the secondary video, without transcoding, to generate a composite video 303 based on the start merge time and the first anchor I frame. The first anchor I frame may be the first I frame in the second video. Preferably, the same method is used to merge back to the primary video at an end merge time t′′_2 in the second video. More preferably, the end merge time corresponds to a second anchor I frame 314 which is the last I frame of the first video prior to the time of the last frame of the secondary video. The secondary video may be chosen based on its spatial resolution, frame rate, bitrate or the available bandwidth. The second video may have a higher resolution than the primary video.
Patent GB-2554631-A (GB)
Title: Access point
Inventor: PETER STRONG
IPC: H04B7/04
Filed: 2016-05-13
Abstract: This application is concerned with adjusting the Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) beam pattern 3 formed by an array 14 of an access point 1 to correct for a change in orientation of the array. The access point may be a base station and the array is preferably mounted on a mast or tower. The change in orientation may be a rotation due to wind loading. An output of a gyroscopic sensor 12 is processed to generate a first phase value measured at a first time and second phase value measured at a second time. Signal propagation characteristics (e.g. channel estimates) are obtained at the first time for each subscriber module. Based on the measured signal propagation characteristics, the first phase values and the second phase values, a MU-MIMO beam pattern is formed for the second time interval having a main lobe towards a first 2 subscriber module and a null towards a second 4 subscriber module. This preferably involves using the gyroscope measurements to determine a phase correction to be applied to beamforming weights.
Patent GB-2541078-A (GB)
Title: A vacuum cleaner
Inventor: KULRAJ DHANJAL
IPC: A47L9/00
Filed: 2016-05-27
Abstract: A vacuum cleaner 2 comprises a container 10 for receiving a bag 12 into which the collected dirt is deposited and transport means 28 for facilitating transportation of the vacuum cleaner 2 between different cleaning locations. The container 10 is a collapsible container 10, for example telescopic or foldable, which is movable between a collapsed condition for providing a basic bag-receiving capacity and at least one erected condition providing an increased bag-receiving capacity. The transport means 28 is a trolley arrangement 28 and the trolley arrangement 28 comprises wheel means 30, 32 for enabling the vacuum cleaner to be moved over a surface with the container 10 extending vertically with respect to the surface, and also for enabling the vacuum cleaner 2 to be moved over the surface with the container 10 extending horizontally with respect to the surface.
Patent GB-2551726-A (GB)
Title: Low-area fixed-point polynomials
Inventor: THEO ALAN DRANE
IPC: G06F17/50
Filed: 2016-06-27
Abstract: An error bound is used by a synthesizer module to solve an optimisation problem for all nodes, so that a hardware representation of a binary logic circuit to implement a fixed point polynomial can be generated, based on an optimised single summation array for each node. This may involve distributing a defined error bound for the whole polynomial between operators in a data-flow graph for the polynomial by solving an optimization problem which outputs an accuracy parameter and a precision parameter for each node. Each operator is then itself optimized to satisfy the part of the error bound allocated to that operator and as defined by the accuracy and precision parameters. This enables optimisation of resource usage, such as the area of hardware logic, or gate level description, required to provide a guaranteed bounded error for a polynomial evaluated to a truncated finite precision, sometimes described as lossy.
Patent GB-2552781-A (GB)
Title: A galleried manifold for a bundle of high pressure gas cylinders
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER MARK JACKSON
IPC: F17C13/08
Filed: 2016-08-01
Abstract: A bundle of high pressure gas cylinders 1 are supported in a frame 2 and have a manifold comprising a manifold pipe system 11. The pipe system has a plurality of connectors each for connecting a respective cylinder to the manifold pipe. The manifold has an upper external port and a lower external port for connecting the manifold pipe system to external gas handling equipment. There is also a valve system to selectively control flow to and from the upper and lower external ports. The upper and lower external ports are at different heights with the lower external port being below the height of the connectors.