mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
Method for authenticating or identifying an individual, characterised in that it comprises the implementation by data processing means of a terminal of the following steps: (a) Obtaining a visible image, an infrared image, and a depth image on each of which a biometric trait of said individual appears; (b) Selecting at least one of said visible, infrared and depth images as a function of the ambient lighting conditions; (c) Detecting said biometric trait of the individual in each selected image; (d) Merging the detected biometric trait or traits; (e) Authenticating or identifying said individual on the basis of the result of the merging of the detected biometric trait or traits. (a) Obtaining a visible image, an infrared image, and a depth image on each of which a biometric trait of said individual appears; (b) Selecting at least one of said visible, infrared and depth images as a function of the ambient lighting conditions; (c) Detecting said biometric trait of the individual in each selected image; (d) Merging the detected biometric trait or traits; (e) Authenticating or identifying said individual on the basis of the result of the merging of the detected biometric trait or traits.
Use of one or more synthetic esters for improving the air release rate of lubricating oils comprising a Gas-to-Liquids base stock or base oil which GTL base stock or base oil has a kinematic viscosity at 100°C of at least 5.6 mm 2 /s, as determined by the test method of ASTM D 445, by combining into the lubricating oil said esters in a total amount from 0.5 to 50 wt%, based on the weight of the GTL base stock or base oil, wherein the esters are selected from mono-, di-, tri- or polyesters of mono- or di- carboxylic acids containing from 4 to 24 carbon atoms reacted with mono alcohols or polyols containing from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, and wherein the esters have a kinematic viscosity at 100 °C in the range of from 2 mm 2 /s to 6 mm 2 /s, as determined by the test method of ASTM D 445.
A structure of a vehicle body comprising: a fuel filler inlet for supplying a fuel to be provided to an engine mounted on a vehicle; a solution filler inlet, being adjacent to the fuel filler inlet, for supplying an additive to purify an exhaust gas from the engine; a fixed member comprising a first hole that receives the fuel filler inlet and a second hole that receives the solution filler inlet, and being fixed to the vehicle body; a fuel filler boot having a first sealer that is disposed on one of a front side and a back side of the fixed member and seals a space between the fixed member and the fuel filler inlet; and an additive filler boot having a second sealer that is disposed on another one of the front side and the back side of the fixed member and seals a space between the fixed member and the solution filler inlet, the structure being characterized in that: the fuel filler boot and the additive filler boot are formed separately from each other; and at least a part of the first sealer and a part of the second sealer are arranged so as to overlap each other while sandwiching a portion of the fixed member. a fuel filler inlet for supplying a fuel to be provided to an engine mounted on a vehicle; a solution filler inlet, being adjacent to the fuel filler inlet, for supplying an additive to purify an exhaust gas from the engine; a fixed member comprising a first hole that receives the fuel filler inlet and a second hole that receives the solution filler inlet, and being fixed to the vehicle body; a fuel filler boot having a first sealer that is disposed on one of a front side and a back side of the fixed member and seals a space between the fixed member and the fuel filler inlet; and an additive filler boot having a second sealer that is disposed on another one of the front side and the back side of the fixed member and seals a space between the fixed member and the solution filler inlet, the structure being characterized in that: the fuel filler boot and the additive filler boot are formed separately from each other; and at least a part of the first sealer and a part of the second sealer are arranged so as to overlap each other while sandwiching a portion of the fixed member. the fuel filler boot and the additive filler boot are formed separately from each other; and at least a part of the first sealer and a part of the second sealer are arranged so as to overlap each other while sandwiching a portion of the fixed member.
An animal feed composition comprising unbranched beta-(1,3)-glucan and an animal feed component, wherein the animal feed composition comprises algae meal derived from heterotrophically grown Euglena gracilis, the algae meal comprising the unbranched beta-(1,3)-glucan, wherein the algae meal comprises greater than 20% beta glucan, as measured on a dry weight basis, and the beta glucan comprises greater than 90% unbranched beta-(1,3)-glucan, and wherein the unbranched beta-(1,3)-glucan is present in an amount of from 0.001% to 1% of the total weight of the animal feed composition. wherein the animal feed composition comprises algae meal derived from heterotrophically grown Euglena gracilis, the algae meal comprising the unbranched beta-(1,3)-glucan, wherein the algae meal comprises greater than 20% beta glucan, as measured on a dry weight basis, and the beta glucan comprises greater than 90% unbranched beta-(1,3)-glucan, and wherein the unbranched beta-(1,3)-glucan is present in an amount of from 0.001% to 1% of the total weight of the animal feed composition.
Placental stem cells for use in a method for treatment of a disease, disorder or condition of the lung, wherein the method comprises the administration of the placental stem cell to an individual in a therapeutically effective amount, wherein the therapeutically effective amount is an amount sufficient to cause a detectable improvement in one or more symptoms of said disease, disorder or condition, wherein the placental stem cells are CD10 +, CD34 -, CD200 +, and CD105 +, as detectable by flow cytometry, and wherein the method comprises detecting said improvement by one or more of peak flow meter, detection of CO 2 levels in the blood, radiography, CT scanning, magnetic resonance imaging, bronchoscopy, or broncheolar lavage.
A process for the removal of carbon dioxide (CO 2) from a feed mixture comprising methane and carbon dioxide (CO 2), the process comprising: (a) subjecting the feed mixture to a first distillation step in a first distillation column (T-1) or a first section of a distillation column, at a pressure of at least 45 bar, yielding after distillation a first bottom product stream comprising CO 2 and a first top product stream comprising CO 2 and methane, (b) heating (E-1) said first top product stream or a part of said first top product stream to yield a heated first top product stream respectively a heated part of said first top product stream, wherein heating is done to a temperature higher than the dew point of the stream at the pressure of the subsequent second distillation step, (c) subjecting the heated first top product stream or the heated part of said first top product stream, respectively, to a second distillation step in a second distillation column (T-2) or a second section of the distillation column, at a pressure lower than 45 bar, yielding thereby a second top product stream comprising methane and a second bottom product stream, (d) feeding said second bottom product stream (6,7) to said first distillation column or said first section of the distillation column. (a) subjecting the feed mixture to a first distillation step in a first distillation column (T-1) or a first section of a distillation column, at a pressure of at least 45 bar, yielding after distillation a first bottom product stream comprising CO 2 and a first top product stream comprising CO 2 and methane, (b) heating (E-1) said first top product stream or a part of said first top product stream to yield a heated first top product stream respectively a heated part of said first top product stream, wherein heating is done to a temperature higher than the dew point of the stream at the pressure of the subsequent second distillation step, (c) subjecting the heated first top product stream or the heated part of said first top product stream, respectively, to a second distillation step in a second distillation column (T-2) or a second section of the distillation column, at a pressure lower than 45 bar, yielding thereby a second top product stream comprising methane and a second bottom product stream, (d) feeding said second bottom product stream (6,7) to said first distillation column or said first section of the distillation column.
Display case for foods comprising at least a display compartment containing a plurality of containers said display compartment being defined by a lower base, by an upper covering element, by two sides and by a front wall, said sides extending below the display plane of said containers, said display case is of the refrigerated type to display and preserve ice cream in the containers consisting of tubs, the tubs are transparent; said display case also comprising a support frame keeping the tubs in suspension, characterized in that the front wall is transparent, said sides are totally transparent so that said display compartment, can also be observed from a lateral position and the support frame is made entirely of transparent material.
A medical product coated with a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of the formula R-Lys-X and at least one pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, polymer matrix, solvent and/or diluents, wherein X represents an oligopeptide selected from the group comprising Pro-Thr, Pro-Ala, Pro-Arg, Pro-Asn, Pro-Asp, Pro-Cys, Pro-Glu, Pro-Gln, Pro-Gly, Pro-His, Pro-Ile, Pro-Leu, Pro-Lys, Pro-Met, Pro-Phe, Pro-Pro, Pro-Ser, Pro-Trp, Pro-Thr-Thr, Pro-Thr-Val, Pro-Thr-Ala, Pro-Thr-Arg, Pro-Thr-Asn, Pro-Thr-Asp, Pro-Thr-Cys, Pro-Thr-Glu, Pro-Thr-Gln, Pro-Thr-Gly, Pro-Thr-His, Pro-Thr-Ile, Pro-Thr-Leu, Pro-Thr-Lys, Pro-Thr-Met, Pro-Thr-Phe, Pro-Thr-Pro, Pro-Thr-Ser, and Pro-Thr-Trp and wherein R represents a peptide comprising the tetrapeptide His-Phe-Arg-Trp and/or wherein R represents a peptide comprising the tripeptide Phe-Arg-Trp and/or wherein R represents a peptide comprising the tripeptide His-Phe-Arg
A printing apparatus, comprising: a medium supporting part configured to support a printing medium, a white ink printing part configured to discharge white ink from a nozzle onto the printing medium, a color ink printing part configured to discharge color ink having a color different from white from a nozzle onto the printing medium; and a control part configured to perform image printing in which an image is printed onto the printing medium by controlling discharge of the color ink from the color ink printing part on the basis of print data (Dp) representing the image to be printed onto the printing medium and performing flushing in which the color ink printing part is caused to discharge the color ink, separately from the discharge of the color ink on the basis of the print data (Dp), in parallel with the image printing, wherein the control part controls a flushing print rate (F1, F2, F3, F4) indicating the area to which the color ink discharged in the flushing is adhered per unit area of the printing medium characterised in that the control part controls the flushing print rate (F 1, F 2, F 3, F 4) in accordance with a result of determining a white region (Id) to which only white ink is adhered and a color region (Is, Ib, Ic) to which the color ink is adhered in the printing medium on the basis of the print data (Dp), and the flushing print rate (F1, F2, F3, F4) for the white region (Id) is lower than the flushing print rate (F1, F2, F3, F4) for the color region (Ia, Ib, Ic). a medium supporting part configured to support a printing medium, a white ink printing part configured to discharge white ink from a nozzle onto the printing medium, a color ink printing part configured to discharge color ink having a color different from white from a nozzle onto the printing medium; and a control part configured to perform image printing in which an image is printed onto the printing medium by controlling discharge of the color ink from the color ink printing part on the basis of print data (Dp) representing the image to be printed onto the printing medium and performing flushing in which the color ink printing part is caused to discharge the color ink, separately from the discharge of the color ink on the basis of the print data (Dp), in parallel with the image printing, wherein the control part controls a flushing print rate (F1, F2, F3, F4) indicating the area to which the color ink discharged in the flushing is adhered per unit area of the printing medium characterised in that the control part controls the flushing print rate (F 1, F 2, F 3, F 4) in accordance with a result of determining a white region (Id) to which only white ink is adhered and a color region (Is, Ib, Ic) to which the color ink is adhered in the printing medium on the basis of the print data (Dp), and the flushing print rate (F1, F2, F3, F4) for the white region (Id) is lower than the flushing print rate (F1, F2, F3, F4) for the color region (Ia, Ib, Ic).
Pressure exchanger comprising a housing, a drive shaft, and a cylinder drum rotatably arranged in the housing, the cylinder drum comprising two front faces and at least one cylinder between the front faces, wherein the housing comprises a port flange (7, 8) at each end of the cylinder drum and at least at one end of the cylinder drum a pressure shoe is arranged between the cylinder drum and the port flange of this end, characterized in that an adjustable stop arrangement is arranged between the pressure shoe and the cylinder drum, the stop arrangement limiting the movement of the pressure shoe between the port flange and the cylinder drum thus limiting the size of a gap between the pressure shoe and the port flange during start of the pressure exchanger.
A tire and electronic device assembly, the tire having a cavity defined by an tire inner surface and the electronic device comprising at least one sensor for monitoring at least one tire parameter, the assembly comprising a foam strip insert member having a radially outward surface attached against an inward facing tire inner surface region, wherein, in a cross sectional view parallel to the axial direction of the tire, a the foam strip member having raised regions (32, 34) defining a recess therebetween, wherein the electronic device is attached to the foam strip member within the recess between the raised regions (32, 34), wherein the electronic device comprises lateral sides and an outward surface exposed and uncovered by the foam strip insert member within the recess, characterized in that in said cross sectional view the outward exposed surface of the electronic device is radially recessed and offset from raised extremities (32A, 34A) of the raised regions (32, 34) of the foam strip insert member and in that in said cross-sectional view the lateral sides of the electronic device are axially offset from the raised extremities (32A, 34A) of the raised regions (32, 34) of the foam strip insert member.
A process for preparing a compound of formula I: comprising: a) contacting an acid solvate of a compound of formula II: with an amide under conditions suitable for forming an amide solvate of the compound of formula II; and b) contacting the amide solvate with an aqueous base comprising sodium ions under conditions suitable for forming the compound of formula I. a) contacting an acid solvate of a compound of formula II: with an amide under conditions suitable for forming an amide solvate of the compound of formula II; and b) contacting the amide solvate with an aqueous base comprising sodium ions under conditions suitable for forming the compound of formula I.
An evaluating method comprising: obtaining a two-dimensional reflected light amount distribution of a surface of a target coated by a coating film containing base coating materials and glittering materials; characterized by: classifying an image of the surface into a particle area where influence of the glittering materials is greater, and a base area where influence of the base coating materials is greater, on the basis of chromaticity information of the two-dimensional reflected light amount distribution; and evaluating (S110, S111) appearance characteristics of the coating film on the basis of respective sets of chromaticity information of the areas. classifying an image of the surface into a particle area where influence of the glittering materials is greater, and a base area where influence of the base coating materials is greater, on the basis of chromaticity information of the two-dimensional reflected light amount distribution; and evaluating (S110, S111) appearance characteristics of the coating film on the basis of respective sets of chromaticity information of the areas.
A combustor section for a gas turbine engine comprising: a combustion chamber; a combustor vane which extends at least partially into said combustion chamber; characterised in that said combustion vane includes a swirler, said swirler being located along a leading edge thereof and including a multiple of supply air chambers, wherein each of said multiple of supply air chambers communicates with an annular inner jet compartment. a combustion chamber; a combustor vane which extends at least partially into said combustion chamber; characterised in that said combustion vane includes a swirler, said swirler being located along a leading edge thereof and including a multiple of supply air chambers, wherein each of said multiple of supply air chambers communicates with an annular inner jet compartment.
An image encoding apparatus comprising: a transform unit adapted to remove spatial redundancy by transforming an original image; an allowable noise obtaining unit adapted to obtain an allowable noise from the original image in units of predetermined blocks, in particular in units of coding blocks; a quantization parameter determination unit adapted to determine a quantization parameter by using the allowable noise; a quantization unit adapted to generate a quantized coefficient, by quantizing a transform coefficient provided from the transform unit by using the quantization parameter; and an entropy encoding unit adapted to entropy encode the quantized coefficient to remove statistical redundancy in units of coding blocks; wherein the allowable noise obtaining unit is adapted to obtain the allowable noise for each coding block, by using the result of color quantization of the original image in units of the coding blocks; wherein the allowable noise obtaining unit determines a minimum color number in which an error image between the original image and a color quantized image can satisfy a predetermined cost function defined by gradually increasing the color number, and obtains the allowable noise from respective pixel values or their absolute values, existing in an error image obtained by the minimum color number; and wherein the quantization parameter determination unit is adapted to determine the quantization parameter of each of the coding blocks so that the quantization noise generated as a result of quantization of the coding block can be equal to or less than the allowable noise. a transform unit adapted to remove spatial redundancy by transforming an original image; an allowable noise obtaining unit adapted to obtain an allowable noise from the original image in units of predetermined blocks, in particular in units of coding blocks; a quantization parameter determination unit adapted to determine a quantization parameter by using the allowable noise; a quantization unit adapted to generate a quantized coefficient, by quantizing a transform coefficient provided from the transform unit by using the quantization parameter; and an entropy encoding unit adapted to entropy encode the quantized coefficient to remove statistical redundancy in units of coding blocks; wherein the allowable noise obtaining unit is adapted to obtain the allowable noise for each coding block, by using the result of color quantization of the original image in units of the coding blocks; wherein the allowable noise obtaining unit determines a minimum color number in which an error image between the original image and a color quantized image can satisfy a predetermined cost function defined by gradually increasing the color number, and obtains the allowable noise from respective pixel values or their absolute values, existing in an error image obtained by the minimum color number; and wherein the quantization parameter determination unit is adapted to determine the quantization parameter of each of the coding blocks so that the quantization noise generated as a result of quantization of the coding block can be equal to or less than the allowable noise.
Device for connecting at least one tube to a pipe, including a tubular body defining a passage having an end provided with means for connection to the pipe and an opposite end including a housing (4.1) provided with means for receiving and sealingly retaining an end portion of the tube, the housing including a terminal shoulder and receiving an annular sealing member that is disposed in the vicinity of the shoulder and is deformable from a first state wherein the sealing member defines a first passage section and a second state wherein the sealing member defines a second passage section less than the first passage section, characterised in that the receiving and retaining means include a ring which is provided internally with an abutment against entry of the tube into the ring and which is axially movable in the housing between a first position contacting the sealing member and a second position retracted relative to the first position and in that the device includes releasable means (16, 20) for blocking movement of the ring toward its first position that are adapted to be released from outside the body.
Gas-insulated surge arrester comprising an insulating gas-filled encapsulation which is of predominantly axially symmetrical design and is composed of electrically conductive material, and comprising an active part which is arranged in the encapsulation and is oriented along the encapsulation axis and has varistors, an electrode which can be connected to high-voltage potential, an electrode which can be connected to earth potential, at least one intermediate electrode (10, 11, 13), tensioning means and an element, which is arranged between the active part and the encapsulation and can be connected to the high-voltage potential, for controlling an electrical field which acts in the interior of the encapsulation during operation of the arrester, wherein the active part has at least one mechanically stable varistor column (3, 3', 3") which is formed by clamping at least one stack of the varistors which is arranged between two of the electrodes (4, 5, 10, 11, 13), characterized in that the tensioning means contain at least one loop which is composed of a material which is resistant to cleavage products of the insulating gas, which loop is mounted on two electrodes (4, 5, 10, 11, 13) of the varistor column (3, 3', 3") which are either the high-voltage electrode or the electrode which can be connected to earth and an intermediate electrode (10, 11, 13) or two intermediate electrodes, in that the high-voltage electrode is electrically conductively connected to a contact element of a sliding contact arrangement which can be connected to high-voltage potential, in that a stationary mating contact of the sliding contact arrangement is held on a bushing insulator, which closes off the encapsulation in a gas-tight manner, and can be connected to the high-voltage potential by way of an end which is located outside the encapsulation, and in that the control element is mounted flush on a casing surface of the mating contact.