mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A device to determine the quality of a thin film material by calculating its conductivity, the thin film material (140, 340) provided on a substrate (135, 335), said thin film material (140, 340) and said substrate (135, 335) forming a thin film material structure, the device comprising: a housing; a THz module (120, 320) comprising a THz source emitter and a THz detector; and a reflective base (130, 330), moveable relative to the THz module (120, 320) and configured to support the thin film material structure, wherein the THz source emitter is configured to irradiate the thin film material (140, 340), the THz detector is configured to measure a signal reflected from the thin film material structure and the device is configured to calculate the conductivity of the thin film material (140, 340) as a function of said signal, characterized in that said signal comprises a first reflection that contains information from the air-film-substrate interface and a second reflection that contains information from the substrate-reflective base interface, wherein the device is configured to calculate the conductivity, at an irradiated point of the thin film material (140, 340), based on the first reflection and the second reflection a housing; a THz module (120, 320) comprising a THz source emitter and a THz detector; and a reflective base (130, 330), moveable relative to the THz module (120, 320) and configured to support the thin film material structure, wherein the THz source emitter is configured to irradiate the thin film material (140, 340), the THz detector is configured to measure a signal reflected from the thin film material structure and the device is configured to calculate the conductivity of the thin film material (140, 340) as a function of said signal, characterized in that said signal comprises a first reflection that contains information from the air-film-substrate interface and a second reflection that contains information from the substrate-reflective base interface, wherein the device is configured to calculate the conductivity, at an irradiated point of the thin film material (140, 340), based on the first reflection and the second reflection
A nanoparticle, comprising: (a) a lipid; (b) a polyalkylene-containing lipid; and (c) a lipid-containing metal chelator with a chelated metal ion, wherein the lipid-containing metal chelator is expressed on the surface of the nanoparticle, wherein the nanoparticle is not a liposome, and wherein the nanoparticle comprises one of the following combinations: 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DSPC), mPEG-phosphatidyl ethanolamine (mPEG-PE), and Gd 3+ chelated to diethylenetriaminepentaacetyl-PE (Gd 3+ -DTPA-PE); 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DSPC), mPEG-1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine (mPEG-DSPE), and Gd 3+ chelated to diethylenetriaminepentaacetyl-PE (Gd 3+ -DTPA-PE); and 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DSPC), mPEG-1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine (mPEG-DSPE), and Gd 3+ chelated to 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine-N-diethylenetriaminepentaacetyl (Gd 3+ -DSPE-DTPA). (a) a lipid; (b) a polyalkylene-containing lipid; and (c) a lipid-containing metal chelator with a chelated metal ion, wherein the lipid-containing metal chelator is expressed on the surface of the nanoparticle, 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DSPC), mPEG-phosphatidyl ethanolamine (mPEG-PE), and Gd 3+ chelated to diethylenetriaminepentaacetyl-PE (Gd 3+ -DTPA-PE); 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DSPC), mPEG-1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine (mPEG-DSPE), and Gd 3+ chelated to diethylenetriaminepentaacetyl-PE (Gd 3+ -DTPA-PE); and 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DSPC), mPEG-1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine (mPEG-DSPE), and Gd 3+ chelated to 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine-N-diethylenetriaminepentaacetyl (Gd 3+ -DSPE-DTPA).
A lens, comprising a substrate layer and a metal layer, wherein at least one surface of the substrate layer is a concave surface or a convex surface; the metal layer exists on the at least one surface of the substrate layer; the metal layer comprises a metal part and a hollow-out part, and the metal part or the hollow-out part is forming a graphics array; the graphics array comprises a plurality of first rings, each first ring comprises a plurality of graphic units, and a larger ring in the plurality of first rings encircles a smaller ring in the plurality of first rings, wherein graphic units comprised in a same first ring in the plurality of first rings have a same size and a same rotation angle; and graphic units comprised in two adjacent first rings are different in at least one of size and rotation angle, and/or two adjacent first intervals are different, wherein the first interval is an interval between two adjacent first rings. at least one surface of the substrate layer is a concave surface or a convex surface; the metal layer exists on the at least one surface of the substrate layer; the metal layer comprises a metal part and a hollow-out part, and the metal part or the hollow-out part is forming a graphics array; the graphics array comprises a plurality of first rings, each first ring comprises a plurality of graphic units, and a larger ring in the plurality of first rings encircles a smaller ring in the plurality of first rings, wherein graphic units comprised in a same first ring in the plurality of first rings have a same size and a same rotation angle; and graphic units comprised in two adjacent first rings are different in at least one of size and rotation angle, and/or two adjacent first intervals are different, wherein the first interval is an interval between two adjacent first rings.
A method performed by a Relay Node, RN, for managing a state of the RN, characterized in that the method comprises: switching the state of the RN from a connection state of serving as a User Equipment, UE, to a connection state of enabling a relay function, after the RN in the connection state of serving as a UE acquires information that a base station schedules the RN through a Relay-node Physical Downlink Control Channel, R-PDCCH, or after the RN in the connection state of serving as a UE sends to the base station a state-switching request of requiring to switch to the connection state of enabling a relay function; wherein the connection state of serving as a UE is a state in which the RN has no relay function; and the connection state of enabling a relay function is a state in which the RN has a relay function.
Method for forcing fail-silent behavior of a periodically functioning, distributed real-time computer system which may be connected to one or more sensors (101, 102,103), which real-time computer system comprises at least two redundant NSCFCUs, non-self-checking fault-containment units, characterized in that a global time is made available by the distributed real-time computer system, which time establishes the beginning of a frame, and wherein the at least two redundant NSCFCUs (110, 111) are supplied with the same input data from the sensor or the sensors at the beginning of a frame, wherein each of the redundant NSCFCUs calculates a result, preferably by means of a deterministic algorithm, particularly from the input data, and wherein this result is packed into a CSDP, closed signed data packet, with an end-to-end signature, and wherein the CSDPs of the NSCFCUs (110, 111) are transmitted to an SCFCU, self-checking fault-containment unit, at a tick of the global time that has been established a priori, and wherein the SCFCU checks whether the bit patterns of the received CSDPs are identical, and, if disparity of the bit patterns is found, prevents further transmission of the CSDPs, particularly those CSDPs in which disparity was found.
A computer implemented method comprising: - reconstructing a point cloud representing a 3D object from an inverse-projected point cloud (IPPC) obtained by inverse-projecting at least one depth image (DI i,j) of an original point cloud, said at least one depth image (DI i,j) being obtained by projecting the points of the original point cloud onto at least one surface (F i,j), said reconstructing comprising: - determining a group of points called boundary points surrounding a missing part (MP q) in the inverse-projected point cloud (IPPC), and - completing said missing part (MP q) by, for every two boundary points in said group of boundary points, adding at least one point along a line connecting said two boundary points of said group of boundary points. - reconstructing a point cloud representing a 3D object from an inverse-projected point cloud (IPPC) obtained by inverse-projecting at least one depth image (DI i,j) of an original point cloud, said at least one depth image (DI i,j) being obtained by projecting the points of the original point cloud onto at least one surface (F i,j), said reconstructing comprising: - determining a group of points called boundary points surrounding a missing part (MP q) in the inverse-projected point cloud (IPPC), and - completing said missing part (MP q) by, for every two boundary points in said group of boundary points, adding at least one point along a line connecting said two boundary points of said group of boundary points.
Lifting sliding door element comprising at least one lifting sliding leaf in a first plane and at least one stationary leaf in a second plane, in parallel the first plane, which each have a glass element (10 and 11 respectively), wherein the at least one lifting sliding leaf and the at least one stationary leaf are held in a joint frame and the joint frame forms a part of the leaf frame of the stationary leaf, wherein the frame has two horizontal profiles (5, 6) and two vertical profiles (7, 8) as well as at least one further vertical profile, wherein the at least one further vertical profile forms a further part of the leaf frame of the stationary leaf and in the closed state the lifting sliding leaf is in contact with the further vertical profile, wherein, in relation to the installation positon of the frame, the frame also has an outer side and an inner side, wherein the glass element of the at least one stationary leaf is installed from the direction of the outer side, for which the further vertical profile and at least one part of the two horizontal profiles (5, 6) of the frame comprise a first profile element part and, detachable therefrom, a second profile element part, wherein the second profile element parts each form a cover profile for the glass rebate and the second profile element parts have a breadth in the horizontal direction which at least corresponds to a breadth of the first profile element parts in the same direction, characterised in that the frame is formed by hollow chamber profiles and that a glass rebate of the vertical profile of the frame for the stationary leaf is designed in one piece.
A controlled-environment telephone system for routing an inbound telephone call to a personal device associated with a resident of a controlled environment, the system comprising: a central processing center, comprising: a network interface configured to receive the inbound telephone call from a validation gateway; and one or more processors and/or circuits configured to: prompt a caller associated with the inbound telephone call for first identification information when the caller identification is available and, when the caller identification is not available, prompt the caller associated with the inbound telephone call for an account number associated with the caller; prompt the caller for resident identification information of the resident; validate the caller based on the first identification information or the account number and the resident identification information stored in a validation gateway, wherein the resident identification information is any one of the inmate's phone number or Personal Identification Number, PIN; connect the caller to the personal device associated with the resident in response to the caller being validated to establish a call. a network interface configured to receive the inbound telephone call from a validation gateway; and one or more processors and/or circuits configured to: prompt a caller associated with the inbound telephone call for first identification information when the caller identification is available and, when the caller identification is not available, prompt the caller associated with the inbound telephone call for an account number associated with the caller; prompt the caller for resident identification information of the resident; validate the caller based on the first identification information or the account number and the resident identification information stored in a validation gateway, wherein the resident identification information is any one of the inmate's phone number or Personal Identification Number, PIN; connect the caller to the personal device associated with the resident in response to the caller being validated to establish a call. prompt a caller associated with the inbound telephone call for first identification information when the caller identification is available and, when the caller identification is not available, prompt the caller associated with the inbound telephone call for an account number associated with the caller; prompt the caller for resident identification information of the resident; validate the caller based on the first identification information or the account number and the resident identification information stored in a validation gateway, wherein the resident identification information is any one of the inmate's phone number or Personal Identification Number, PIN; connect the caller to the personal device associated with the resident in response to the caller being validated to establish a call.
A method of coding video data using wavefront parallel processing, the method comprising: storing motion information for a first coding tree unit, CTU, row in a first history motion vector predictor, MVP, buffer of a memory, wherein the first history MVP buffer is associated with a slice of a picture; resetting a second history MVP buffer of the memory to be empty prior to coding a second CTU row, wherein the second CTU row is different than the first CTU row and the second history MVP buffer is associated with the slice of the picture; and after resetting the second history MVP buffer, storing motion information for the second CTU row in the second history MVP buffer. storing motion information for a first coding tree unit, CTU, row in a first history motion vector predictor, MVP, buffer of a memory, wherein the first history MVP buffer is associated with a slice of a picture; resetting a second history MVP buffer of the memory to be empty prior to coding a second CTU row, wherein the second CTU row is different than the first CTU row and the second history MVP buffer is associated with the slice of the picture; and after resetting the second history MVP buffer, storing motion information for the second CTU row in the second history MVP buffer.
Mobile cigarette butt container for a cigarette box, characterized in that a container of the cigarette butt container is held magnetically on the lid of the cigarette box, the cigarette butt container having a magnet which holds the container through the lid of the cigarette box.
An isolated nucleic acid consisting of a nucleic acid sequence having at least 98% identity to the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, said nucleic acid not differing in length from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1.
A urinary catheter (1, 20, 40, 50, 60, 70) comprising: - a tube part (2, 21, 41, 51, 61, 71) having a proximal end (6, 22, 43) and a distal end (4, 23, 44) and having a wall defining an inner lumen of the tube portion, - a tip part (3, 24) having a proximal end and a distal end where the proximal end of the tip part is the most proximal part of the urinary catheter and the distal end of the tip part abuts the proximal end (6, 22, 43) of the tube part,, where the tip part closes off the proximal end of the tube part - at least one through-going opening (9, 10, 25, 26) where the through-going opening (9, 10, 25, 26) is positioned in the wall of the tube part distal to the proximal end of the tube part, characterized in that the tube part (2, 21, 41, 51, 61, 71), at its proximal end (6, 22, 43), has a first outer diameter (i) that is smaller than a second outer diameter (j) at the distal end (4, 23, 44) of the tube part, and the outer diameter of the tube part increases constantly along the entire length of the tube part from its proximal first outer diameter end to its distal second outer diameter where the outer surface is at an angle α in relations to the central longitudinal axis of the tube part. - a tube part (2, 21, 41, 51, 61, 71) having a proximal end (6, 22, 43) and a distal end (4, 23, 44) and having a wall defining an inner lumen of the tube portion, - a tip part (3, 24) having a proximal end and a distal end where the proximal end of the tip part is the most proximal part of the urinary catheter and the distal end of the tip part abuts the proximal end (6, 22, 43) of the tube part,, where the tip part closes off the proximal end of the tube part - at least one through-going opening (9, 10, 25, 26) where the through-going opening (9, 10, 25, 26) is positioned in the wall of the tube part distal to the proximal end of the tube part,
A needle cylinder for a single-cylinder knitting machine, comprising a plurality of tracks where latch needles slide, wherein: - an annular channel with an undercut is provided along one end of the needle cylinder; - between each pair of adjacent tracks a respective substantially radial groove is provided, formed in the needle cylinder and intersecting the annular channel, in each said groove a respective insert being housed, the inserts housed in the grooves defining a stitch forming surface with respective upper edges; - each insert has an appendix that is inserted in the undercut of the annular channel; characterised in that - at least one blocking element holds the inserts in a working position in their respective grooves, in the working position the appendices of the inserts being pushed in the undercut of the annular channel by said at least one blocking element, so as to maintain the inserts fixed during the knitting process, preventing the inserts from exiting the grooves. - an annular channel with an undercut is provided along one end of the needle cylinder; - between each pair of adjacent tracks a respective substantially radial groove is provided, formed in the needle cylinder and intersecting the annular channel, in each said groove a respective insert being housed, the inserts housed in the grooves defining a stitch forming surface with respective upper edges; - each insert has an appendix that is inserted in the undercut of the annular channel; characterised in that - at least one blocking element holds the inserts in a working position in their respective grooves, in the working position the appendices of the inserts being pushed in the undercut of the annular channel by said at least one blocking element, so as to maintain the inserts fixed during the knitting process, preventing the inserts from exiting the grooves.
A computer-implemented method for estimating a time-varying pitch of a speech signal, the method comprising: obtaining a sequence of frames from the speech signal, wherein each frame comprises a portion of the speech signal and wherein each frame corresponds to a time; computing an estimated fractional chirp rate for each frame of the sequence of frames; computing a frequency representation for each frame of the sequence of frames; computing a pitch template for the sequence of frames by computing sums of the estimated fractional chirp rates; computing a scale factor for the pitch template using frequency locations of peaks in the frequency representations; computing a first pitch estimate for each frame of the sequence of frames using the scale factor and the pitch template, wherein the first pitch estimate for a frame is a product of the scale factor and the pitch template for the frame; identifying peaks in the frequency representations using the first pitch estimates; fitting a parametric function to the peaks in the frequency representations; computing second pitch estimates using the parametric function; and processing the speech signal using the second pitch estimates. obtaining a sequence of frames from the speech signal, wherein each frame comprises a portion of the speech signal and wherein each frame corresponds to a time; computing an estimated fractional chirp rate for each frame of the sequence of frames; computing a frequency representation for each frame of the sequence of frames; computing a pitch template for the sequence of frames by computing sums of the estimated fractional chirp rates; computing a scale factor for the pitch template using frequency locations of peaks in the frequency representations; computing a first pitch estimate for each frame of the sequence of frames using the scale factor and the pitch template, wherein the first pitch estimate for a frame is a product of the scale factor and the pitch template for the frame; identifying peaks in the frequency representations using the first pitch estimates; fitting a parametric function to the peaks in the frequency representations; computing second pitch estimates using the parametric function; and processing the speech signal using the second pitch estimates.
Interior component which has a composite layer with a decorative layer, which comprises a plurality of openings, and a transparent layer, wherein a light source (2, 9) is provided on the side of the decorative layer facing away from the transparent layer, wherein a light-influencing material is introduced into at least some openings and/or at least some openings only partly pass through the decorative layer, wherein the opening diameter is 0.002 mm to 0.5 mm, characterised in that the opening gap is 0.1 mm to 0.7 mm and the layer thickness of the decorative layer is 0.15 mm to 0.75 mm, wherein the decorative layer consists of leather and is weakened at least in the region of the openings in order to produce a lower layer thickness.
Piston rod attachment having a piston which is arranged displaceably in a bore of a cylinder, and a piston rod, the piston rod having a spherical end in the contact region with the piston, and the piston having a spherical depression of complementary configuration with respect to the spherical end of the piston rod in the contact region with the piston rod, into which depression the spherical end of the piston rod can be inserted partially, a ring part being provided which is connected to the piston in a positively locking manner by way of axially projecting latching elements and which comprises a spherical recess which is open towards both axial sides and into which the spherical end of the piston rod can be inserted in order to produce a fixed axial connection between the piston and the piston rod, in such a way that the spherical depression of the piston and the axially adjoining spherical recess of the ring part enclose the spherical end of the piston rod which passes through the recess, characterized in that a securing bracket which runs in the transverse direction is provided on the cylinder, which securing bracket forms an axial stop for the ring part on the side which faces away from the piston, and in that the latching elements latch into the recesses of the piston which are formed by virtue of the fact that the piston has a bore which runs concentrically with respect to the spherical depression and, at the end thereof, has a further bore which runs transversely with respect to the axis of the piston, into which bores (6, 14) the latching elements engage.