mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
An image-capturing apparatus, comprising: an image-capturing unit arranged to capture, through an optical system, a subject image and a substantially uniform reference image different from the subject image which is used for correcting an image defect in the subject image; and a control unit arranged to generate image data files each containing a subject image or a reference image and to output the image data files to an external apparatus outside the image-capturing apparatus where image defect correction is to be performed for the subject image, wherein: the control unit is arranged to append to each image data file first information indicating whether it contains a subject image or a reference image, and second information enabling determination of the pupil position and the aperture value used in the capture of the respective subject image or the reference image, wherein the second information is used for image defect correction of the respective subject image. an image-capturing unit arranged to capture, through an optical system, a subject image and a substantially uniform reference image different from the subject image which is used for correcting an image defect in the subject image; and a control unit arranged to generate image data files each containing a subject image or a reference image and to output the image data files to an external apparatus outside the image-capturing apparatus where image defect correction is to be performed for the subject image, wherein: the control unit is arranged to append to each image data file first information indicating whether it contains a subject image or a reference image, and second information enabling determination of the pupil position and the aperture value used in the capture of the respective subject image or the reference image, wherein the second information is used for image defect correction of the respective subject image. the control unit is arranged to append to each image data file first information indicating whether it contains a subject image or a reference image, and second information enabling determination of the pupil position and the aperture value used in the capture of the respective subject image or the reference image, wherein the second information is used for image defect correction of the respective subject image.
Filler head for a storage system comprising a body to be mounted inclined according to a predetermined angle (α) regarding the gravity direction, called the filling direction, and including a main part closed by a cover part so as to form a cavity in which a separating device is received, the filler head being configured to receive, in a cylindrical wall of the separating device extending around the filling direction, a distribution nozzle of a fluid with an automatic stop sensor (39a, 39b) to prevent overfilling of the filler head, the filler head being configured to be connected to a filling line and a venting line of a fluid tank and the separating device being arranged to improve the partitioning of the flow coming from the venting line and the flow going to the filling line, characterised in that the filler head further comprises a buffer volume in one-piece with the main part in a back portion of the body so as to reduce the speed of flow coming from the venting line and, in that the cylindrical wall comprises at least one recess facing the opening of the buffer volume in the back portion of the body, the cylindrical wall guiding along a front portion of the body, located in an opposite direction to the back portion regarding the filling direction, any fluid outgoing from the nozzle so as to ensure: - a laminar flow of the fluid outgoing from the nozzle towards the filling line in the front portion of the body, and - a direct venting of fluid through the recess of the cylindrical wall in the back portion of the body coming from the venting line in order to be expelled outside the filler head into the ambient air, thus permitting to limit any fluid dispensing shut off during refilling stage. - a laminar flow of the fluid outgoing from the nozzle towards the filling line in the front portion of the body, and - a direct venting of fluid through the recess of the cylindrical wall in the back portion of the body coming from the venting line in order to be expelled outside the filler head into the ambient air,
An apparatus (10, 100) for dispensing a flowable product from a collapsible container comprising an air-tight cavity and an opening, the apparatus comprising: a reservoir comprising a chamber for storing flowable product, the chamber comprising: a product inlet for receiving flowable product delivered from the air-tight cavity of a connected collapsible container through the opening thereof; and a product outlet for the flowable product; and a piston (46, 102) positioned inside the chamber which is movable to vary the volume of the chamber; characterized in that the apparatus (10, 100) comprises a vacuum pump (62, 104) selectively operable to move the piston (46, 102) towards a first position defining a maximum chamber volume. a reservoir comprising a chamber for storing flowable product, the chamber comprising: a product inlet for receiving flowable product delivered from the air-tight cavity of a connected collapsible container through the opening thereof; and a product outlet for the flowable product; and a piston (46, 102) positioned inside the chamber which is movable to vary the volume of the chamber; characterized in that the apparatus (10, 100) comprises a vacuum pump (62, 104) selectively operable to move the piston (46, 102) towards a first position defining a maximum chamber volume.
A computer-implemented method of compiling higher level program code including load instructions for an image processor, comprising: translating higher level program code (2001; 2101) including higher level instructions having an instruction format that identifies pixels to be accessed from a memory with first and second coordinates from an orthogonal coordinate system, the instruction format specifying an offset, into lower level instructions that target a hardware architecture having an array of execution lanes and a shift register array structure including a plurality of shift registers, each execution lane in the array of execution lanes having a respective dedicated shift register of the plurality of shift registers, the shift register array structure able to shift image data along two different axes, the translating comprising replacing the higher level instructions having the instruction format with lower level shift instructions generated from the offset, the shift instructions specifying a shift distance and a shift direction for shifting input image data within the shift register array structure relative to the execution lanes.
Pipe clamp, in particular pipe saddle clamp for a main pipe conveying a medium and preferably of plastic, comprising a saddle member, bearing elements (3, 4), wherein the bearing elements (3, 4) are arranged on the saddle member and are preferably formed in one piece with the saddle member, a tension unit, wherein the tension unit comprises at least one band for encircling the main pipe, a band linkage and a clamping lever, wherein the band linkage and the clamping lever are each arranged at one end of the band or bands and are opposite one another, wherein an extension is arranged on the clamping lever, wherein the extension is preferably formed as a separate part, wherein after the tension unit is firmly clamped on the main pipe the extension can be removed from the clamping lever, wherein the bearing elements (3, 4) arranged on the saddle member are formed on one side as bearing bolts and on the opposite side as bearing shells, characterized in that the clamping lever comprises brackets for engaging round the bearing bolts.
A method for setting up a control centric device to command operations of an appliance, the method comprising: reading with a device from an RFID tag associated with the appliance an identifying characteristic of the appliance; using, at the device, the identifying characteristic of the appliance read from the RFID tag to retrieve from a network database, via a network, commands for commanding feature sets of the appliance; and supplying the retrieved commands to the control centric device, characterised in that a command/state monitor of the control centric device saves commands initiated from the device and in that the control centric device configures itself to use the commands to command operations of the appliance. reading with a device from an RFID tag associated with the appliance an identifying characteristic of the appliance; using, at the device, the identifying characteristic of the appliance read from the RFID tag to retrieve from a network database, via a network, commands for commanding feature sets of the appliance; and supplying the retrieved commands to the control centric device, characterised in that a command/state monitor of the control centric device saves commands initiated from the device and in that the control centric device configures itself to use the commands to command operations of the appliance.
An offshore system which includes a vessel hull provided with a moonpool in the form of vertical cylinder through the hull which is open at least at keel level, a cylindrical shaped turret placed within the moonpool opening and rotatably held within the moonpool via a bearing system consisting of at least one during use submerged bearing that is placed in the during use submerged part of the annulus formed between the moonpool and the turret, wherein mooring lines are connected to the lower part of the turret and to the seabed during use, so that the vessel can weathervane around the turret when the vessel is moored offshore, wherein within the annulus in the during use submerged moonpool part both the turret and moonpool are provided with extensions that imbricate each other, characterized in that the turret has a fixed part and a rotating part, the fixed part has an extension and the rotating part has an extension, such that the fixed part is imbricated with the rotational part or the rotational part is imbricated within the fixed part, the space between the fixed and the rotating part forming an annulus having an S-configuration in the form of a siphon in which fluid or gas can be trapped so to create a dry area for the submerged bearing.
A miRNA selected from the group consisting of hsa-miR-92b (SEQ ID NO.49), hsa-miR-1975 (SEQ ID NO.15), hsa-miR-99a (SEQ ID NO.52), hsa-miR-191 (SEQ ID NO.13), hsa-miR-378 (SEQ ID NO.43), hsa-miR-125a-5p(SEQ ID NO.3), hsa-miR-203(SEQ ID NO.19), and their sequence precursors SEQ ID NOS.107,117,119,123,147,153 and 156 and/or at least one complementary strand of miRNAs, optionally chemically modified selected from among hsa-miR-205, hsa-miR-17, hsa-miR-29a, hsa-miR-193b, hsa-miR-210, hsa-miR-130a: hsa-miR-205* (SEQ ID NO.72), hsa-miR-31 and hsa-miR-31* (SEQ ID NOS.37 and 89), hsa-miR-17* (SEQ ID NO.63), hsa-miR-29a* (SEQ ID NO.83), hsa-miR-193b (SEQ ID NO.66), hsa-miR-210* (SEQ ID NO.74), hsa-miR-130a* (SEQ ID NO.56), and their sequence precursors SEQ ID NOS.108, 115, 118, 124 to 126, 135 and 141 for its use for preventing and/or treating disorders related to dysfunction of the lashes of ciliated epithelial tissue.
Final communication terminal comprising means for: setting up connections with a central server and with other final communication terminals that are subscribed to a data stream to which the terminal wants access, receiving said data stream as a client of the central server or as a client of one of the other terminals that are subscribed to said data stream, transmitting, as a server, said flow to at least one of the other terminals that have subscribed to said data stream characterised in that said connections set up a hierarchical data stream distribution network and by data stream according to the subscription of terminals to said data stream, the connections being set up dynamically by said means on the basis of the load of said terminal, on the basis of the load of said other terminals that are subscribed to said data stream, as well as on the basis of the load of said central server. setting up connections with a central server and with other final communication terminals that are subscribed to a data stream to which the terminal wants access, receiving said data stream as a client of the central server or as a client of one of the other terminals that are subscribed to said data stream, transmitting, as a server, said flow to at least one of the other terminals that have subscribed to said data stream characterised in that said connections set up a hierarchical data stream distribution network and by data stream according to the subscription of terminals to said data stream, the connections being set up dynamically by said means on the basis of the load of said terminal, on the basis of the load of said other terminals that are subscribed to said data stream, as well as on the basis of the load of said central server.
A Bluetooth connection method, comprising: establishing, by a Bluetooth headset, a first connection to a first electronic device, wherein when the first electronic device has a first audio service, the Bluetooth headset is configured to process the first audio service of the first electronic device; wherein the Bluetooth headset has not established a second connection to a second electronic device; sending, by the Bluetooth headset, a Bluetooth Low Energy broadcast message while the first connection is maintained; receiving, by the Bluetooth headset, a connection request information, wherein the connection request information is automatically sent by the second electronic device to the Bluetooth headset when the second electronic device receives the Bluetooth low energy broadcast message and the second electronic device has a second audio service; establishing, by the Bluetooth headset, the second connection to the second electronic device, wherein the Bluetooth headset processes the second audio service of the second electronic device; and, wherein the Bluetooth headset disconnects the first connection when the second electronic device receives the Bluetooth low energy broadcast message and the second electronic device has a second audio service; wherein both the first connection and the second connection are asynchronous connection-oriented link, ACL, connections, or low energy asynchronous connection link, LE ACL, connections. establishing, by a Bluetooth headset, a first connection to a first electronic device, wherein when the first electronic device has a first audio service, the Bluetooth headset is configured to process the first audio service of the first electronic device; wherein the Bluetooth headset has not established a second connection to a second electronic device; sending, by the Bluetooth headset, a Bluetooth Low Energy broadcast message while the first connection is maintained; receiving, by the Bluetooth headset, a connection request information, wherein the connection request information is automatically sent by the second electronic device to the Bluetooth headset when the second electronic device receives the Bluetooth low energy broadcast message and the second electronic device has a second audio service; establishing, by the Bluetooth headset, the second connection to the second electronic device, wherein the Bluetooth headset processes the second audio service of the second electronic device; and, wherein the Bluetooth headset disconnects the first connection when the second electronic device receives the Bluetooth low energy broadcast message and the second electronic device has a second audio service; wherein both the first connection and the second connection are asynchronous connection-oriented link, ACL, connections, or low energy asynchronous connection link, LE ACL, connections.
Acquisition device comprising a pair of input terminals (58a, 58b) adapted to be connected to a set of at least one analog seismic sensor generating a useful seismic signal, and disconnection detection means enabling to detect a partial or total disconnection of the set of at least one analog seismic sensor, characterized in that the disconnection detection means comprise: - means for injecting a low current in the set of at least one analog seismic sensor, in order to generate an offset signal which depends partially on the electrical resistance of the set of at least one analog seismic sensor and is added to the useful seismic signal, said offset signal encroaching on only a part of an operating range of the acquisition device; - an analog-digital converter and filtering means, for converting and filtering a voltage measured at the pair of input terminals, in order to obtain a measured value of the offset signal; - and: * either means for analysing a temporal variation of the measured value of the offset signal and for triggering an alarm if a determined condition is satisfied, * or means for transmitting the measured value of the offset signal to a remote device adapted to analyse a temporal variation of the measured value of the offset signal and to trigger an alarm if a determined condition is satisfied. - means for injecting a low current in the set of at least one analog seismic sensor, in order to generate an offset signal which depends partially on the electrical resistance of the set of at least one analog seismic sensor and is added to the useful seismic signal, said offset signal encroaching on only a part of an operating range of the acquisition device; - an analog-digital converter and filtering means, for converting and filtering a voltage measured at the pair of input terminals, in order to obtain a measured value of the offset signal; - and: * either means for analysing a temporal variation of the measured value of the offset signal and for triggering an alarm if a determined condition is satisfied, * or means for transmitting the measured value of the offset signal to a remote device adapted to analyse a temporal variation of the measured value of the offset signal and to trigger an alarm if a determined condition is satisfied. * either means for analysing a temporal variation of the measured value of the offset signal and for triggering an alarm if a determined condition is satisfied, * or means for transmitting the measured value of the offset signal to a remote device adapted to analyse a temporal variation of the measured value of the offset signal and to trigger an alarm if a determined condition is satisfied.
High-voltage device having an inner conductor and an insulation body surrounding the inner conductor along its lengthwise direction, wherein at least one optical waveguide is guided at least in sections on the inner conductor, which is led out of the insulation body and is connectable to an evaluating unit for recording temperature measurement values, wherein the high-voltage device comprises a mounting flange for mounting the insulation body, wherein the optical waveguide is guided through the mounting flange and is provided with a connection element that is set up for connection to the evaluating unit, wherein the optical waveguide is guided in sections on the inner conductor along the lengthwise direction thereof at a distance of less than two centimeters from the inner conductor in one of the electrical insulating layers surrounding the inner conductor, wherein the high-voltage device is a high-voltage bushing and the insulation body comprises an active part with electrically conductive control inserts concentrically arranged around the inner conductor, which are separated from each other by insulating layers, the active part being at least partially surrounded by a secondary insulation, the secondary insulation being gaseous, pasty or foamy, and the optical waveguide being guided at least in sections in the secondary insulation.
A blast furnace operating method, comprising blowing air or oxygen-enriched air into a blast furnace from a tuyere; forming a gas injection portion in a shaft portion, the gas injection portion having a gas combustion and injection device (a), the gas combustion and injection device (a) having a tubular combustion chamber, an open front-end of the combustion chamber being communicated with an inside of the blast furnace; injecting a combustion gas, which serves as a preheating gas, from the gas combustion and injection device (a) into the blast furnace, so as to inject the preheating gas into the blast furnace from the gas injection portion; characterised by forming an opening in an inside wall surface of the combustion chamber for injecting a fuel gas and a combustion-supporting gas or for injecting a premixed gas of the fuel gas and the combustion-supporting gas such that a swirling gas flow generates in the combustion chamber, wherein the each of the fuel gas and the combustion-supporting gas or the premixed gas of the fuel gas and the combustion-supporting gas is injected nearly in the tangential direction of the inside wall surface.
A method for distributing power from a renewable power source having a variable output power over time between an energy storage device and a power grid, wherein the method is adapted to, for each one of a plurality of time slots: determine an output power of the power source in the respective time slot; compare the output power of the power source to the maximum input power of the energy storage device; determine a ratio for distributing the output power to the energy storage device or the power grid in the respective time slot based on the comparison, wherein distributing the output power to the energy storage device as a priority when the output power of the power source is below the maximum input power of the energy storage device; and characterised in increasing the ratio for the grid and decreasing the ratio for the energy storage device as the output power of the power source increases above the maximum input power of the energy storage device; and distribute the output power from the power source to either the energy storage device or the power grid in divisions of time in the respective time slot according to the determined ratio, wherein surplus output power produced by the power source, above the maximum input power of the energy storage device, is discarded when the output power is distributed to the energy storage device. determine an output power of the power source in the respective time slot; compare the output power of the power source to the maximum input power of the energy storage device; determine a ratio for distributing the output power to the energy storage device or the power grid in the respective time slot based on the comparison, wherein distributing the output power to the energy storage device as a priority when the output power of the power source is below the maximum input power of the energy storage device; and characterised in increasing the ratio for the grid and decreasing the ratio for the energy storage device as the output power of the power source increases above the maximum input power of the energy storage device; and distribute the output power from the power source to either the energy storage device or the power grid in divisions of time in the respective time slot according to the determined ratio, wherein surplus output power produced by the power source, above the maximum input power of the energy storage device, is discarded when the output power is distributed to the energy storage device.