baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2503658-A (GB)
Title: Method of harmonising the IPCM and Transquant modes in HEVC standard by harmonising the signalling of the two coding modes.
Inventor: FRANCOIS EDOUARD
Filed: 2012-06-29
Abstract: A method for improving the coding efficiency and reducing the complexity of a video encoder and a video decoder, by the harmonization of two coding modes (such as the Intra Pulse Code Modulation/IPCM mode and the Transquant/Lossless mode) of coding units resulting from the partitioning of an areas of pixels. The coding mode is selected as one of at least two modes that do not use quantisation and transform coding, with one of the modes (such the transquant/lossless mode) allowing pixel prediction. An associated syntax element (such as a flag) is encoded in the video bit stream which represents coding unit (CU) sizes for which the two modes are selectable. Alternative methods are also disclosed in which a syntax element indicates whether loop filtering is enabled or whether an area of pixels is encoded according to one of the coding modes.
Patent GB-2495801-A (GB)
Title: Method and device for determining a driving signal for vibroseis marine sources.
Inventor: RUET LAURENT
IPC: G01V1/00
Filed: 2012-08-28
Abstract: Controller and method for determining a driving signal of a vibro-acoustic source element that is configured to generate acoustic waves in water. The method includes estimating at least one physical constraint of the vibro-acoustic source element 1400; setting a target energy spectrum density to be emitted by the vibro-acoustic source element during the frequency sweep 1404; and determining the driving signal in a controller based on at least one physical constraint and the target energy spectrum density 1406. In an alternative aspect the drive signal can be determined by also modelling a ghost function determined by a surface of the water 1402.
Patent GB-2502648-A (GB)
Title: Hand-operated mineral and metal material cutter comprising a drive sprocket cover
Inventor: THOLKING HANNAH
IPC: B27B17/02
Filed: 2012-10-10
Abstract: A hand operated implement comprising a cutting chain 9 for cutting mineral and metal materials having a drive motor which drives a sprocket 23. A guide bar 8 with first and second turning areas (at the drive sprocket 23 and distal end, respectively) has a central longitudinal axis 38 and is secured in place by at least one fixing bolt 13, 15. The chain 9 runs around the guide bar 8 with the cutting elements 47 having their tops 52 facing away from the guide bar 8. The sides of these cutting elements 47 facing the side wall 29 define a first notional plane 78, which runs parallel to the plane of the guide bar 8. There is a device for feeding liquid to the cutting chain 9 for lubrication and/or cooling purposes. The sprocket 23 is located within a sprocket chamber 32 delineated by a sprocket cover 7, the chamber 32 having a side wall 29, an entry opening 33, an exit opening 34 and at least one outlet opening 35, which is defined over angle alpha. The cutting element 47 is laterally spaced from the side wall 29 and the peripheral wall 30 by distances k and i, respectively. There is a second notional plane 61 defined as perpendicular to the first notional plane and contains the central axis 57 of the fixing bolt 13, and this side wall is less than 0.8 cm from the side wall 29.
Patent GB-2491795-A (GB)
Title: Gene-expression profiling with reduced numbers of transcript measurements
Inventor: LAMB JUSTIN
IPC: G16B25/20
Filed: 2011-04-06
Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for making and using a transcriptome-wide gene-expression profiling platform that measures the expression levels of only a select subset of the total number of transcripts. Because gene expression is believed to be highly correlated, direct measurement of a small number (for example, 1,000) of appropriately- selected transcripts allows the expression levels of the remainder to be inferred. The present invention, therefore, has the potential to reduce the cost and increase the throughput of full- transcriptome gene-expression profiling relative to the well-known conventional approaches that require all transcripts to be measured.
Patent GB-2494323-A (GB)
Title: Module and port
Inventor: ROESNER ARLEN
IPC: G06F1/18
Filed: 2010-06-07
Abstract: A module includes a housing. The housing can include a port. The port can extend though an opening in the housing if the module is inserted in the chassis.
Patent GB-2495860-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle door component testing mount
Inventor: BISWAS UMESH
IPC: B60J5/00
Filed: 2012-11-16
Abstract: A testing arrangement 46 for a vehicle door or door component 16 in particular for a door intrusion beam, comprising a base frame holding two fixed brackets 26 on which respective mounting means 24 for mounting the door or door component 16 are attached pivotably with respect to an axis (28) perpendicular to a mounted door or door component (15). The arrangement further comprising at least two spring elements 32 for preloading a mounted door or door component 16 with a predetermined force along its axis of extension. In a rest position, the mounting means 24 are braced against respective pins 50 attached to the brackets 28 by means of angled bars 52 attached to the mounting means 24. Preferably an angle between a foot portion 52 of the bars 50 attached to the mounting means 24 abd a head portion 56 of the bars 50 is between 80 and 120 degrees.
Patent GB-2509340-A (GB)
Title: Heart rate transmitter detachable press-stud connection
Inventor: SELBY TAPIO
IPC: A61B5/274
Filed: 2013-01-29
Abstract: An electronic device (50, fig. 4) has a male connection portion 38 for connection with a low-profile female snap. The male connection portion comprises a conductive stud 38 including a head and a threaded portion. The stud 38 is in electrical contact with the electronic device, and is screwed in to the housing (51, fig. 4) of the electronic device via the threading on the stud 38. An adhesive may be added to provide a secure and water tight seal between the stud and the electronic device. The head may have a cavity/recess 42 for receiving a tool for screwing the stud 38 in to the electronic device and/or for receiving a guiding pin 22 of the female snap portion. The stud makes an electrical connection between a conductive portion of the female snap and an electronic component 76 within the electronic device. The electronic device may be a heart rate monitor transmitter, where the male connection pin 38 detachably connects the transmitter housing to a female snap on a belt or article of clothing. For example the popper fastening may provide mechanical and electrical connection between an electrode 24 on the belt/garment and the heart rate transmitter.
Patent GB-2511543-A (GB)
Title: Scaffolding clamp
Inventor: WOODWARD MICHAEL
IPC: E04G7/02
Filed: 2013-03-07
Abstract: A scaffolding clamp 1 has a centre element 2 with clamp halves 3, 4 hinged at one end and secured by fastener assemblies at the other end. The fastener assemblies having a radial lug 3 at one end and may have a nut 11, 12 at the other end so that cavities 7, 8 can be constricted whilst protruding parts such as screw threads 9, 10 are avoided. The fastener assembly may not extend beyond the centre element at one end and the nut at the other end to reduce protuberance hazard. The lug may be t-shaped and may form part of a screw extending from the centre element. The lug may be part of a sleeve or collar 5 which may have an open end and may have threads. The nut can have an open end or may have a closed end.
Patent GB-2512326-A (GB)
Title: A pressurised refill canister with an outlet valve
Inventor: HEARN ALEX
IPC: A24F15/015
Filed: 2013-03-26
Abstract: A pressurised refill canister (5, fig. 1) contains a reservoir of composition including a propellant and a nicotine or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative or salt thereof. The reservoir is at a pressure of greater than 400kPa at 20Â°C. A refill outlet valve 20 comprises a stem 6 with an axial bore 24 open at the axial end furthest from the reservoir to provide an outlet which discharges the composition in an axial direction. The stem 6 is displaceable from a closed position to which it is biased by a first resilient member with a spring force of greater than 10N when no external force is applied to a dispensing position against the action of the first resilient member to open a flow path from the reservoir to the outlet. The canister is particularly suited for refilling a simulated cigarette.
Patent GB-2517405-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for shaping wood and a method of making a fence
Inventor: BURNS MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: E04H17/14
Filed: 2013-07-01
Abstract: Apparatus for shaping wood comprising a carriage 2 having a front pair of wheels 3 and a rear pair of wheels 4, a saw blade 1 and a saw motor for driving the saw blade to perform a sawing action transversely of the carriage. The front pair of wheels is arranged to run on a first pair of guide rails 5 and the rear pair of wheels run on a second pair of guide rails 6 parallel to the first pair. The first and second guide rails have a vertically varying profile whose shape is determined by the desired cut shape of the wood. The profiles of the first pair of guide rails being displaced horizontally with respect to the profiles of the second pair of guide rails by a distance corresponding to the distance between the axes of rotation of the front and rear wheels. Drive means propel the carriage along the rails. Preferably the guide rails are removably mounted and the saw blade is a band saw driven by a combustion engine. The apparatus may be used to cut timber into fencing panels of a sinusoidal profile, so as to create fences of a woven nature.
Patent GB-2517487-A (GB)
Title: Positioning System for Radiotherapy Treatment
Inventor: CAREY PETER
IPC: A61N5/10
Filed: 2013-08-23
Abstract: A stencil for guiding the placement of an optical marker for radiotherapy onto a surface is a sheet 20 with a hole 22 therein of a size and shape to snugly receive the marker. An upper surface of the sheet has markings 24,26 (such as crosshairs) for aligning with an image projected onto the target surface. The upper surface of the sheet may carry identification markings such as a barcode 30 or text 32. The sheet may be flexible or rigid but is typically thin with releasable adhesive on its underside. In use, an image is projected onto the target surface, the sheet is aligned with the projected image, and an optical marker is placed into the hole in the sheet. The sheet may then be removed. The optical marker has a reflector, the location 28 of which coincides with the centre of the crosshairs, and may be part of a photogrammetric or optical tracking system.
Patent GB-2504862-A (GB)
Title: Handover from a relay node
Inventor: RAAF BERNHARD
IPC: H04W36/00
Filed: 2010-04-30
Abstract: In handover from an intermediate access node (relay node RN) to a new access node, the relay node transmits a handover request message which identifies a plurality of access nodes as candidates for the new access node. The number of bits used to identify the access nodes may be determined based on information collected about the environment of the intermediate access node, or it could be determined based on an explicit indication of the number of access nodes identified in the handover request message. The identifiers can be listed in an ECGI/composite target ID field in order of preference. Upon receipt of a handover request message, the donor eNB (DeNB) to which the RN is connected may send a second handover request message to all the candidates and upon receiving an indication that one access node has adequate resources available, send handover cancellation messages to at least some of the remaining access nodes. Candidate access nodes can be divided into groups and the handover request may identify a particular group. The invention means the backhaul link to the DeNB is used only once to indicate a plurality of candidate cells for handover.
Patent GB-2519094-A (GB)
Title: Data encoding and decoding
Inventor: GAMEI JAMES ALEXANDER
IPC: H04N19/91
Filed: 2013-10-08
Abstract: A method and associated apparatus for encoding/decoding video data using a residual differential pulse code modulation (RDCPM) encoder/decoder and an entropy encoder/decoder to entropy encode/decode the RDPCM data in a processing order such that any RDPCM data value in the processing order is independent on a RDPCM value later in the processing order. Further disclosed is a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding data using RDPCM and entropy encoding in which the processing order comprises a horizontal or vertical scan. In further embodiments of the invention the RDPCM decoder may clip the RDPCM decoded data to an acceptable numerical range or may abort the decoding process if the RDPCM decoded values are outside an acceptable range. The invention may be used in a High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) compliant codec to facilitate the efficient use of a rate-distortion-optimised quantisation (RDOQ) scheme in conjunction with RDPCM coding.
Patent GB-2521151-A (GB)
Title: Configurable thread ordering for a data processing apparatus
Inventor: GLAUERT TIMOTHY HOLROYD
IPC: G06F15/80
Filed: 2013-12-10
Abstract: A data processing apparatus and a method of processing data in a single program multiple data (SPMD) fashion are disclosed. Execution circuitry is configured to execute multiple threads to perform data processing on input data by reference to at least one coordinate value of points in a reference domain. Thread allocation circuitry is configured to specify a selected point in the reference domain for each thread of the multiple threads respectively in order to allocate the data processing by specifying for each thread the at least one coordinate value of the specified point for that thread. Each thread accesses the input data with reference to its selected point in the reference domain and an order in which points in the reference domain are allocated to threads for data processing is configurable in the thread allocation circuitry. The order in which points in the reference domain are allocated to threads is configurable at more than one level of granularity. The reference domain may be divided into sub domains (54) where all points in a first sub domain are allocated before a second sub domain such that points re not allocated in a raster scan order.
Patent GB-2519821-A (GB)
Title: Panel dismounting and locking mechanism of drawer
Inventor: NG TAI WAI
IPC: A47B88/00
Filed: 2014-01-14
Abstract: A front panel dismounting and locking mechanism for a drawer is disclosed. A side panel 14 of the drawer comprises a cavity for housing a mechanism for retaining a front panel 15 and for enabling rapid removal thereof. The locking mechanism comprises a main plate 1, a spring biased swinging rod 8 articulated with the main plate and a sliding block 9; wherein actuation of the swinging rod causes the sliding block to move between a locked state where it contacts a retaining element 7 of the front panel and an unlocked state where the retaining element is released. The main plate is provided with a guide slot 1.1, in which the retaining element can slide. The main plate is provided with a torsion spring 6 that urges against the swing rod. A tool 16 may be used to rotate the swing rod against the spring bias, causing the sliding block to move away from the guide slot, thus unlocking the retaining member. The locking mechanism may also be provided with vertical and lateral adjustment means (10, 13, figure 2) for adjusting the position of the front panel.
Patent GB-2507224-A (GB)
Title: A double valve block and actuator assembly including same
Inventor: ARTEAGA NICOLAS
IPC: E21B33/06
Filed: 2012-07-06
Abstract: A valve comprises a housing including a first chamber, a second chamber, and a neutral chamber. In addition, the valve comprises a stem disposed within the housing. Further, the valve comprises a first valve member at least partially disposed in the first chamber and connected to the stem and a second valve member at least partially disposed in the second chamber and connected to the stem. The first valve member has a closed position seated in a first annular valve seat and an open position spaced apart from the first valve seat. The second valve member has a closed position seated in a second annular valve seat and an open position spaced apart from the second valve seat. Moreover, the valve comprises a biasing member configured to bias the second valve member to the closed position and the first valve member to the open position.
Patent GB-2513235-A (GB)
Title: Printed circuit board arrangement for supplying antennas via a three-conductor system for exciting different polarizations
Inventor: JUNEMANN RALF
IPC: H01Q5/378
Filed: 2013-02-15
Abstract: The printed circuit board arrangement (5) serves for electrically connecting an amplifier unit (1) to at least two antenna elements (41, 42), wherein the at least two antenna elements (41, 42) are formed on the printed circuit board arrangement (5). The antenna elements (41, 42) are coupled to the amplifier unit (1) via a three conductor system (2), wherein the three conductor system (2) consists of three conductor tracks (31, 32, 33) running parallel to one another and applied on the printed circuit board arrangement (5).
Patent GB-2511933-A (GB)
Title: Paper shredder with output deflector
Inventor: THURNELL BENJAMIN T
IPC: B02C18/00
Filed: 2014-03-05
Abstract: A paper shredder has a deflector 180, proximate a shredding mechanism 40, which is angled in the same direction 150 as a shredding bin (30, fig.2) is removable from the shredder. As such it may help the removal of the bin (30, fig.2) from the shredder by preventing shreddings from jamming in or around the shredding mechanism 40.
Patent GB-2524018-A (GB)
Title: Cyclonic separation device
Inventor: BASSETT ALEXANDER ANTHONY DENNY
IPC: A47L9/16
Filed: 2014-03-11
Abstract: A cyclonic separation device comprises a plurality of cyclonic separators fluidly arranged in parallel with each other, each cyclonic separator comprising a chamber 18 having a circular-section side wall 19, a fluid inlet 20 and a fluid outlet 21 disposed at one end of the cyclone chamber 18, and an opening at the second end of the cyclone chamber 18 through which separated matter passes out of the chamber for collection. The cyclonic separators are arranged in a rotatable body 17 such that their respective cyclone axes B are outwardly inclined relative to an axis A of rotation of the body 17 and such that the second end of each cyclone chamber 18 is disposed radially outwardly of its first end with respect to the axis A of rotation. A motor 15 rotates the body 17 about its axis A of rotation and so imparts a radially outward force on separated matter forced against the side wall 19 by the cyclonic action, the radial force serving to rapidly force the matter axially of the towards the opening. The separation efficiency is thereby improved by the radial force.
Patent GB-2510071-A (GB)
Title: Shaft Connection having a collet and a resilient member
Inventor: TAVENER STUART
IPC: F16D1/05
Filed: 2012-10-26
Abstract: A torque transmitting shaft connection comprises a drive member 21 and a driven member 31 on a drive axis, one of said members comprising a collet 23 adapted to receive the other of said members. The connection further comprises a first resilient member 61, preferably an O-ring, located in a groove 62, located between the drive member 21 and the driven member 31 and a closure member 41 movable along said axis being provided to close the collet 23 to grip the other member for transmission of torque. The closure member is preferably a nut 41, connected to the drive member 21 by thread 42. The collet 23 and nut may 41 have cooperating tapers 43. The collet may have a projection, 24, in the fingers, thereof, cooperating with groove 32 of the driven member 31.
Patent GB-2529269-A (GB)
Title: Insulation module
Inventor: CLEWS SUSAN
IPC: E04C2/24
Filed: 2014-12-04
Abstract: The insulation panel has a slab of insulating material 13 and a layer of support material 11; one or more of the edges 14 extend beyond the insulation material to form a tab for attaching to a beam or joist; preferably non-permanently with an adhesive such as double sided tape. The edge may be formed from the support material or another layer attached to it, made from a different material. Preferably, there are two perforated support layers encapsulating the insulation; the first film 11 is co-planar with the edges, the second film 12 is tray shaped to fit around the insulation, but having a larger volume so that there is a cavity 9. The insulation material is preferably thermally or acoustically insulating or fire proof; is of a loose-fill or deformable type; is removable from the module via a re-sealable flap. A method is provided for the insulation of the modules between frame timbers (fig 4, 25) and to one another.
Patent GB-2533160-A (GB)
Title: Repeaters
Inventor: SILVIU PUCHIANU
IPC: H04B10/80
Filed: 2014-12-12
Abstract: This application is concerned with amplification of an optical signal, preferably one transmitted through a subsea umbilical cable. The amplifier 1 contains a first electrical-optical data converter (EODC) 6 for converting an optical signal received over the umbilical to an electrical signal, and an optical-electrical converter 7 (which the applicant calls a second EODC) for converting the electrical output of the first EODC back to an optical signal. The amplifier may be located at a termination of the umbilical, or may be located part way along the length of the umbilical. Each EODC may contain both an optical transmitter and an optical receiver, to permit bidirectional optical communication. The umbilical cable preferably also includes an AC or DC electrical line 5 for supplying power to the EODCs. The first and second EODCs may be located in the same housing, or in separate housings (21, 24, Fig. 4) connected by electrical connectors (26, Fig. 4). In a wavelength division multiplexing application (Fig. 5), each wavelength is amplified separately by a respective EODC pair.
Patent GB-2536222-A (GB)
Title: Improved condenser unit
Inventor: PHIL GILLATT
IPC: F24F13/24
Filed: 2015-03-09
Abstract: An air conditioner condensing (outdoor) unit 100 comprises a housing 110 to house an air movement means 114 comprising a propeller fan 116 and having a heat exchange area 112 to one side of the air movement means. The condensing unit also has a helical unit 300 mounted to one side of the air movement means and comprises a plurality of fins 312, each being inclined to an axial direction of the air movement means. The fins may be tapered in the radial and axial direction and may be formed from sound insulating foam material, and impart a spiral pattern on the air flow that improves the efficiency of the fan by lowering strain placed on the motor. A second helical unit may be mounted on the other side of the fan. The fan may be driven by a centrally located motor 118 to define a doughnut shaped active area through which the air passes (fig 3). An air movement guide 200 made from sound insulating material may mounted on the motor and may comprise of a tapered body that tapers to a point towards the heat exchange area.