mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A method of estimating chlorophyll content of a leaf, which method comprises: providing a device, wherein the device comprises: a mobile computing device comprising a digital camera; and a peripheral removably attached to the mobile computing device, the peripheral comprising a light source aligned with the digital camera when the peripheral is removably attached to the mobile computing device such that the light source may illuminate a lens of the digital camera, wherein the light source is adapted to emit light at least partly absorbable by chlorophyll pigments, chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b, and wherein the peripheral provides for a space between the light source and the digital camera such that the leaf may be interposed between the digital camera and the light source; capturing by the digital camera a first image of the light source turned on without the leaf interposed between the digital camera and the light source; retrieving exposure data of the first image; capturing by the digital camera a second image with the leaf interposed between the digital camera and the turned on light source; retrieving exposure data of the second image; and using a processor, estimating the chlorophyll content of the leaf based on the retrieved exposure data of the first and second images (34a, 34b), wherein the processor estimates the chlorophyll content of the leaf based on at least one of exposure time, F-number, and ISO value of the first and second images. providing a device, wherein the device comprises: a mobile computing device comprising a digital camera; and a peripheral removably attached to the mobile computing device, the peripheral comprising a light source aligned with the digital camera when the peripheral is removably attached to the mobile computing device such that the light source may illuminate a lens of the digital camera, wherein the light source is adapted to emit light at least partly absorbable by chlorophyll pigments, chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b, and wherein the peripheral provides for a space between the light source and the digital camera such that the leaf may be interposed between the digital camera and the light source; capturing by the digital camera a first image of the light source turned on without the leaf interposed between the digital camera and the light source; retrieving exposure data of the first image; capturing by the digital camera a second image with the leaf interposed between the digital camera and the turned on light source; retrieving exposure data of the second image; and using a processor, estimating the chlorophyll content of the leaf based on the retrieved exposure data of the first and second images (34a, 34b), wherein the processor estimates the chlorophyll content of the leaf based on at least one of exposure time, F-number, and ISO value of the first and second images.
A biometric authentication system comprising: headwear comprising an optical sensor configured to capture a series of images of an area of skin on the face of a user so as to obtain an image signal characteristic of the area of skin imaged in the captured series of images, the optical sensor being configured to compare images of the series of images captured apart in time so as to detect movement of the skin relative to the sensor between those points in time, the series of images being processed to extract at least a velocity of movement of the area of skin being imaged as an image signal characteristic; a data store for storing a data set representing skin characteristics for one or more users the skin characteristics including one or more of: wrinkles, glyphic patterns, pigmentation, hair follicles, sebaceous pores, congenital lesions, sun spots, sun tanning, scars, infections, and inflammation; and a processor configured to: process the image signal in dependence on the stored data set so as to determine a correspondence between the image signal and the skin characteristics of one of the one or more users; and in dependence on the determined correspondence, authenticate the image signal as being associated with that user. headwear comprising an optical sensor configured to capture a series of images of an area of skin on the face of a user so as to obtain an image signal characteristic of the area of skin imaged in the captured series of images, the optical sensor being configured to compare images of the series of images captured apart in time so as to detect movement of the skin relative to the sensor between those points in time, the series of images being processed to extract at least a velocity of movement of the area of skin being imaged as an image signal characteristic; a data store for storing a data set representing skin characteristics for one or more users the skin characteristics including one or more of: wrinkles, glyphic patterns, pigmentation, hair follicles, sebaceous pores, congenital lesions, sun spots, sun tanning, scars, infections, and inflammation; and a processor configured to: process the image signal in dependence on the stored data set so as to determine a correspondence between the image signal and the skin characteristics of one of the one or more users; and in dependence on the determined correspondence, authenticate the image signal as being associated with that user. process the image signal in dependence on the stored data set so as to determine a correspondence between the image signal and the skin characteristics of one of the one or more users; and in dependence on the determined correspondence, authenticate the image signal as being associated with that user.
An apparatus configured to code video information, the apparatus comprising: a memory unit configured to store video information associated with a reference layer and an enhancement layer, the EL comprising an EL video unit and the RL comprising a RL video unit corresponding to the EL video unit; and a processor in communication with the memory unit, the processor configured to: perform spatial upsampling and bit-depth conversion on pixel information of the RL video unit in a single process to determine predicted pixel information of the EL video unit, wherein the single process comprises a set of operations performed in connection with the spatial upsampling, wherein one of the operations comprises an upsampling process in which a right-shift of a right-bit-shift is reduced by a bit-depth difference between a bit-depth of the BL and a bit-depth of the EL so as to also accomplish the bit-depth conversion wherein the right-bit-shift is by T-K bits where T is a left-bit-shift parameter of the upsampling process and K is the bit depth difference between the base layer and enhancement layer; and determine the EL video unit using the predicted pixel information. a memory unit configured to store video information associated with a reference layer and an enhancement layer, the EL comprising an EL video unit and the RL comprising a RL video unit corresponding to the EL video unit; and a processor in communication with the memory unit, the processor configured to: perform spatial upsampling and bit-depth conversion on pixel information of the RL video unit in a single process to determine predicted pixel information of the EL video unit, wherein the single process comprises a set of operations performed in connection with the spatial upsampling, wherein one of the operations comprises an upsampling process in which a right-shift of a right-bit-shift is reduced by a bit-depth difference between a bit-depth of the BL and a bit-depth of the EL so as to also accomplish the bit-depth conversion wherein the right-bit-shift is by T-K bits where T is a left-bit-shift parameter of the upsampling process and K is the bit depth difference between the base layer and enhancement layer; and determine the EL video unit using the predicted pixel information.
A card manufacturing system, comprising: a locating device configured to identify a position of one or more information carrying cards formed integrally with a laminate sheet, wherein the locating device is configured to generate information corresponding to the position of the one or more information carrying cards and comprises a computer configured to generate a digital mapping file that comprises the information corresponding to the position of the one or more information carrying cards; and a separation device comprising at least one singulation mechanism configured to separate each of the one or more information carrying cards from the laminate sheet, wherein the singulation mechanism separates the one or more information cards based on the information corresponding to the position of the one or more information carrying cards. a locating device configured to identify a position of one or more information carrying cards formed integrally with a laminate sheet, wherein the locating device is configured to generate information corresponding to the position of the one or more information carrying cards and comprises a computer configured to generate a digital mapping file that comprises the information corresponding to the position of the one or more information carrying cards; and a separation device comprising at least one singulation mechanism configured to separate each of the one or more information carrying cards from the laminate sheet, wherein the singulation mechanism separates the one or more information cards based on the information corresponding to the position of the one or more information carrying cards.
A machine tool for precision machining of a workpiece, wherein the machine tool has a setup location for providing the workpiece and a machining position for machining the workpiece, and comprising handling means by means of which the workpiece can be transferred from the setup location to the machining position, characterized in that the machine tool comprises in the region of the setup location a tempering apparatus with an enclosure (12.1), which encloses the workpiece at least in sections, and that the tempering apparatus comprises means for setting the temperature of the workpiece to a predetermined temperature or temperature range.
A method of writing software objects into a rewritable nonvolatile memory of an electronic control unit of an internal combustion engine, wherein the method comprises: - receiving an access request from a memory writing device, - generating a seed code, - transmitting the seed code to the memory writing device, - generating a first key code on the basis of the seed code and a first identification code stored into the rewritable nonvolatile memory, - generating a second key code on the basis of the seed code and a second identification code stored into the rewritable nonvolatile memory, - receiving a reference key code from the memory writing device, - comparing the reference key code with the first key code and/or with the second key code, - enabling the memory writing device to write software objects into the rewritable nonvolatile memory, if the reference key code corresponds to the first key code or to the second key code, and - enabling the memory writing device to overwrite the second identification code stored on the rewritable nonvolatile memory with a new identification code, if the reference key code received from the memory writing device corresponds to the second key code. - receiving an access request from a memory writing device, - generating a seed code, - transmitting the seed code to the memory writing device, - generating a first key code on the basis of the seed code and a first identification code stored into the rewritable nonvolatile memory, - generating a second key code on the basis of the seed code and a second identification code stored into the rewritable nonvolatile memory, - receiving a reference key code from the memory writing device, - comparing the reference key code with the first key code and/or with the second key code, - enabling the memory writing device to write software objects into the rewritable nonvolatile memory, if the reference key code corresponds to the first key code or to the second key code, and - enabling the memory writing device to overwrite the second identification code stored on the rewritable nonvolatile memory with a new identification code, if the reference key code received from the memory writing device corresponds to the second key code.
A method of producing a molded article, comprising the steps of: blending, before or during polymerization of an olefin monomer, a phenolic antioxidant, which is represented by the following Formula and masked with an organoaluminum compound, in an amount of 0.001 to 0.5 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of an olefin resin obtained by the polymerization; and blending, at any one point of before, during or after the polymerization of the olefin monomer, a phosphorus-based antioxidant in an amount of 0.001 to 3 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the olefin resin obtained by the polymerization, wherein an olefin resin composition obtained by the polymerization is molded and then sterilized by irradiation with radiation: (wherein, R represents an alkyl group having 12 to 24 carbon atoms which is optionally branched and/or substituted, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 12 carbon atoms which is optionally substituted, or an aryl group having 6 to 18 carbon atoms which is optionally substituted). blending, before or during polymerization of an olefin monomer, a phenolic antioxidant, which is represented by the following Formula and masked with an organoaluminum compound, in an amount of 0.001 to 0.5 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of an olefin resin obtained by the polymerization; and blending, at any one point of before, during or after the polymerization of the olefin monomer, a phosphorus-based antioxidant in an amount of 0.001 to 3 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the olefin resin obtained by the polymerization, wherein an olefin resin composition obtained by the polymerization is molded and then sterilized by irradiation with radiation: (wherein, R represents an alkyl group having 12 to 24 carbon atoms which is optionally branched and/or substituted, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 12 carbon atoms which is optionally substituted, or an aryl group having 6 to 18 carbon atoms which is optionally substituted).
A therapeutic medical garment having a variable pressure profile along a length thereof, and comprising: (a) a knitted tubular body; (b) a knitted anti-slip portion formed proximate one end of the tubular body with an inner surface adapted for residing against a wearer's skin; (c) the knitted anti-slip portion including at least first, second and third yarns (14, 16, 18, 20, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 54, 56, 58, 74, 76, 78) simultaneously knitted to form a repeat (12, 32, 52, 72) of a knit structure (10, 30, 50, 70) having a raised surface texture on the inner surface of the anti-slip portion, wherein one of the first, second and third yarns (14, 16, 18, 20, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 54, 56, 58, 74, 76, 78) is a low-friction yarn (14, 16, 34, 36, 54, 74), and further wherein two of the first, second and third yarns (14, 16, 18, 20, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 54, 56, 58, 74, 76, 78) are high-friction yarns (18, 20, 38, 40, 42, 56, 58, 76, 78) knitted to reside on and form the raised surface texture on the inner face of the anti-slip portion, characterized in that the first high-friction yarn (18, 38, 56, 76) is knit as an inlay yarn, and the second high-friction yarn (20, 40, 58, 78) is either knit as an inlay yarn offset to the first high-friction yarn (18, 38, 56, 76) or forms part of the knit structure (10, 30, 50, 70) and acts to lock the first high-friction yarn (18, 38, 56, 76) into the repeat (12, 32, 52, 72).. (a) a knitted tubular body; (b) a knitted anti-slip portion formed proximate one end of the tubular body with an inner surface adapted for residing against a wearer's skin; (c) the knitted anti-slip portion including at least first, second and third yarns (14, 16, 18, 20, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 54, 56, 58, 74, 76, 78) simultaneously knitted to form a repeat (12, 32, 52, 72) of a knit structure (10, 30, 50, 70) having a raised surface texture on the inner surface of the anti-slip portion, wherein one of the first, second and third yarns (14, 16, 18, 20, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 54, 56, 58, 74, 76, 78) is a low-friction yarn (14, 16, 34, 36, 54, 74), and further wherein two of the first, second and third yarns (14, 16, 18, 20, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 54, 56, 58, 74, 76, 78) are high-friction yarns (18, 20, 38, 40, 42, 56, 58, 76, 78) knitted to reside on and form the raised surface texture on the inner face of the anti-slip portion, characterized in that the first high-friction yarn (18, 38, 56, 76) is knit as an inlay yarn, and the second high-friction yarn (20, 40, 58, 78) is either knit as an inlay yarn offset to the first high-friction yarn (18, 38, 56, 76) or forms part of the knit structure (10, 30, 50, 70) and acts to lock the first high-friction yarn (18, 38, 56, 76) into the repeat (12, 32, 52, 72)..
A high carbon steel wire rod consisting of, as chemical components, by mass%: C: 0.60% to 1.20%; Si: 0.10% to 1.5%; Mn: 0.10% to 1.0%; P: 0.001% to 0.012%; S: 0.001% to 0.010%; Al: 0.0001% to 0.010%; N: 0.0010% to 0.0050%; and optionally including, as a chemical component, by mass%: one or more kinds selected from the group consisting of B: 0.0001% to 0.0015%; Cr: 0.10% to 0.50%; Ni: 0.10% to 0.50%; V: 0.05% to 0.50%; Cu: 0.10% to 0.20%; Mo: 0.10% to 0.20%; Nb: 0.05% to 0.10%; and a remainder of Fe and impurities, wherein an area ratio of pearlite is 95% or more and a remainder is a non-pearlite structure which includes one or more of a bainite, a degenerate pearlite, a proeutectoid ferrite and a proeutectoid cementite in a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction; wherein an average block size of the pearlite is 15 μm to 35 μm and an area ratio of the pearlite having a block size of 50 μm or more is 20% or less; wherein an area ratio of a region where a lamellar spacing of the pearlite is 150 nm or less is 20% or less in a region within a depth from a surface of the high carbon steel wire rod of 1 mm or less; and wherein when C[%], Si[%] and Mn[%] represent an amount of C, an amount of Si and an amount of Mn respectively in a following equation and a Ceq. is calculated by the following equation, a tensile strength of the high carbon steel wire rod is 760 × Ceq. + 325 MPa or less and a standard deviation of the tensile strength is 20 MPa or less, Ceq. = C % + Si % / 24 + Mn % / 6 C: 0.60% to 1.20%; Si: 0.10% to 1.5%; Mn: 0.10% to 1.0%; P: 0.001% to 0.012%; S: 0.001% to 0.010%; Al: 0.0001% to 0.010%; N: 0.0010% to 0.0050%; and B: 0.0001% to 0.0015%; Cr: 0.10% to 0.50%; Ni: 0.10% to 0.50%; V: 0.05% to 0.50%; Cu: 0.10% to 0.20%; Mo: 0.10% to 0.20%; Nb: 0.05% to 0.10%; and
Method for producing a complex moulded sheet metal part by means of a press-bound tool, the tool lower part of which comprises a punch, a hold-down device surrounding the punch and several moveable punch inserts (131, 132, 133) and the tool upper part of which comprises a matrix and a matrix ring surrounding the matrix, having the following sequence: - inserting a metal sheet and closing the tool by downward stroke of the tool upper part, wherein the metal sheet is clamped in the edge region between the matrix ring and the hold-down device; - further downward stroke in which the matrix ring displaces the hold-down device downwards, wherein the metal sheet firstly is pulled over the extended punch inserts (131, 132, 133) and therein local material reserves are generated in the metal sheet; characterised by the following steps: - further downward stroke until the matrix ring and the hold-down device reach their lower dead points, wherein simultaneously the punch inserts (131, 132, 133) are actively moved back and the previously generated local material reserves release and wherein the metal sheet is already formed in regions between the matrix ring and the punch; - further downward stroke until the matrix ring also reaches its lower dead point, wherein, through a double edge-side clamping of the metal sheet between the matrix ring and the hold-down device as well as between the matrix ring and the punch, flow from the edge region is prevented and the metal sheet is completely formed solely using the local material reserves between the matrix and the punch. - inserting a metal sheet and closing the tool by downward stroke of the tool upper part, wherein the metal sheet is clamped in the edge region between the matrix ring and the hold-down device; - further downward stroke in which the matrix ring displaces the hold-down device downwards, wherein the metal sheet firstly is pulled over the extended punch inserts (131, 132, 133) and therein local material reserves are generated in the metal sheet; - further downward stroke until the matrix ring and the hold-down device reach their lower dead points, wherein simultaneously the punch inserts (131, 132, 133) are actively moved back and the previously generated local material reserves release and wherein the metal sheet is already formed in regions between the matrix ring and the punch; - further downward stroke until the matrix ring also reaches its lower dead point, wherein, through a double edge-side clamping of the metal sheet between the matrix ring and the hold-down device as well as between the matrix ring and the punch, flow from the edge region is prevented and the metal sheet is completely formed solely using the local material reserves between the matrix and the punch.
Dental prophylaxis-treatment unit, comprising: a prophylaxis-contra angle handpiece having a handle portion extending along a longitudinal axis, a head part adjacent to the handle portion, a tool holder rotatably arranged in the head part and extending along a rotational axis, wherein the longitudinal axis of the handle portion and the rotational axis of the head part are arranged at an angle to one another, and a dental tool having a tool shank and a prophylaxis-treatment portion connected to the tool shank, wherein the tool shank has a length extending from an end at a contra angle handpiece side of the dental tool to the prophylaxis-treatment portion, wherein at least a portion of the tool shank can be received detachably in the tool holder, such that the dental tool is rotatable together with the tool holder about the rotational axis, wherein the tool shank is made of plastic and wherein the length of the tool shank is a maximum of 10,0 mm, characterized in that the tool holder comprises a chucking device which is configured to fasten the tool shank of the dental tool in a force-fit manner or frictionally to axially retain the tool shank relative to the rotational axis of the tool holder and to exert a rotatable entrainment of the tool shank so that the dental tool is rotatable together with the tool holder about the rotational axis, wherein the force-fit or frictional chucking device comprises a hollow shaft having a bore which extends along the rotational axis of the tool holder, wherein at least a portion of the tool shank can be received detachably in the bore, and at least one clamping lug projecting into the bore to clamp the tool shank in the hollow shaft.