mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
An image encoding device adapted to segment an image into blocks and encode the image in units of blocks resulting from segmenting the image, comprising: a block segmentation unit that recursively segments the image into rectangles of a predetermined size to generate a target block subject to encoding; and an encoding unit that encodes block segmentation information of the target block, wherein the block segmentation unit includes: a quartering unit that quarters the target block in recursive segmentation in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction to generate four blocks; and a halving unit that halves the target block in recursive segmentation in a horizontal direction or a vertical direction to generate two blocks, characterized in that, when previous recursive segmentation is halving and the target block is of a predetermined size or smaller, the halving unit prohibits the target block subject to current recursive segmentation from being segmented in the same direction as a direction in which the target block was segmented in the previous recursive segmentation. a block segmentation unit that recursively segments the image into rectangles of a predetermined size to generate a target block subject to encoding; and an encoding unit that encodes block segmentation information of the target block, wherein the block segmentation unit includes: a quartering unit that quarters the target block in recursive segmentation in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction to generate four blocks; and a halving unit that halves the target block in recursive segmentation in a horizontal direction or a vertical direction to generate two blocks, characterized in that, when previous recursive segmentation is halving and the target block is of a predetermined size or smaller, the halving unit prohibits the target block subject to current recursive segmentation from being segmented in the same direction as a direction in which the target block was segmented in the previous recursive segmentation. a quartering unit that quarters the target block in recursive segmentation in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction to generate four blocks; and a halving unit that halves the target block in recursive segmentation in a horizontal direction or a vertical direction to generate two blocks, characterized in that, when previous recursive segmentation is halving and the target block is of a predetermined size or smaller, the halving unit prohibits the target block subject to current recursive segmentation from being segmented in the same direction as a direction in which the target block was segmented in the previous recursive segmentation.
Immunoassay device comprising a first capture reagent comprising SEQ ID NO:141, a second capture reagent comprising SEQ ID NO:145, a third capture reagent comprising SEQ ID NO: 147; and a fourth capture reagent comprising SEQ ID NO:98, wherein said capture reagents comprising a polypeptide R 1 -X-R 2, wherein X is a peptide selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs. 141, 145, 147 and 98, R 1 being selected from the group consisting of the amino terminus of said polypeptide, an amino acid or a polypeptide chain of from 2 to 20 amino acids in length, and R 2 being selected from the group consisting of the carboxy terminus of said polypeptide, an amino acid or a polypeptide chain of from 2 to 20 amino acids in length.
Method for manufacturing a vehicle wheel, comprising the following steps: providing a rim made of sheet metal, comprising on its axially outer side an outer flange, an outer bead seat and a retaining hump, through which the outer bead seat is connected to a rim well, providing a disc made of aluminum alloy, comprising a cover part and a connection part protruding axially from the cover part and having an end provided with an undercut, applying a structural adhesive to areas of at least one of said disc and rim intended to come in contact with corresponding areas of the other of said disc and rim, and mounting the disc to the rim by interference press-fitting the connection part of the disc within the rim, in such a way that the cover part abuts against an axially outer side of the rim and the undercut goes within the concave inner side of the retaining hump, said undercut radially extending outwardly past a radially more inward area of the outer bead seat. providing a rim made of sheet metal, comprising on its axially outer side an outer flange, an outer bead seat and a retaining hump, through which the outer bead seat is connected to a rim well, providing a disc made of aluminum alloy, comprising a cover part and a connection part protruding axially from the cover part and having an end provided with an undercut, applying a structural adhesive to areas of at least one of said disc and rim intended to come in contact with corresponding areas of the other of said disc and rim, and mounting the disc to the rim by interference press-fitting the connection part of the disc within the rim, in such a way that the cover part abuts against an axially outer side of the rim and the undercut goes within the concave inner side of the retaining hump, said undercut radially extending outwardly past a radially more inward area of the outer bead seat.
Connection for realization of communication in a power line 230V by means of modulation and demodulation of a mean value of a half cycle of supply voltage consisting of a modulator's block influencing the positive half cycle, a demodulator's block with an integration segment, a block of power control unit and an appliance's block that are interconnected, wherein the output voltage amplitude from modulator's block is unchanged during duration of the positive half cycle, whereby it is being limited the form of supply voltage curve by a level that is proportional to the information which is being transmitted, whereby the demodulator's block with integration segment for detection uses as information carrier the positive half cycle of the supply voltage amplitude and as a reference value, the negative half cycle of the supply voltage amplitude and for transmission of instruction more cycles of the supply voltage can be used, whereby for transmission of information it is used as synchronization the frequency of line voltage.
Nozzle body of a fuel injector, said body having a generally elongated shape extending along a main axis, the body having a peripheral wall defining an inner blind bore adapted to receive a needle valve, the body extending from a first end wherein opens the bore to a tip end wherein the peripheral wall closes forming a sac volume at the extremity of the bore, the nozzle body being further provided with injection holes arranged through the wall and extending from an inlet opening in the sac, to an outlet opening on the outer face of the wall, wherein at least one of the injection holes comprises an inner portion and an outer portion, said two portions joining together in a short length intersection zone wherein the cross-section of the inner portion is smaller than the cross-section of the outer portion, so that said intersection area forms an abrupt step in the injection hole and wherein, said step is a micro step comprised between 1μm and 10μm, and preferably between 2μm and 5μm to the radius. wherein the length of the inner portion is longer than the length of the outer portion and, characterised in that the outer portion is tapered, the cross section in the intersection zone being larger than the cross-section of the outlet opening and in that at least one of the injection holes comprises two steps such that said hole comprises an inner portion, a first step, a middle portion, a second step and an outer portion.
Firearm comprising a projectile barrel, a firing chamber body fixed to the barrel, a breech mechanism for loading a projectile in the firing chamber and ejecting the spent cartridge from the firearm after detonation, a mobile bolt, and a receiver structure that supports and guides the mobile bolt, the mobile bolt comprising lateral bearings projecting laterally from opposite sides of the bolt, a first pair of lateral bearings (4, 4') positioned towards a front portion of the bolt and a second pair of the lateral bearings (10, 10') positioned towards a rear portion of the bolt, the receiver structure comprising sidewalls (2, 2') each have bolt bearing raceway grooves (3, 3') slidably receiving and guiding the lateral bearings of the bolt, the bolt bearing raceway grooves comprising a first portion parallel to a barrel axis, and a second portion transverse to said barrel axis, the first and second portions connected together to form a "V" shape, the second pair of lateral bearings slidably received and guided in the second portion, characterized in that a profile of a the first portion of the bolt bearing raceway groove defines a non-constant height (H(y)) between upper and lower guide edges (18, 19) that varies as a function of the distance (y) from the firing chamber body, said profile comprising a velocity control portion with a slope configured to impart a braking effect on the bolt during its sliding movement to slow down the rate of fire.
An image processing device that executes an image processing on an original image incorporating an image of a metal piece obtained by the radiation imaging of the subject having an implanted metal piece inside comprises; a standard deviation image generation means that generates a standard deviation image, wherein the standard deviation is mapped relative to the pixels constituting said original image by repeating an operation to calculate the standard deviation of the pixel values of an attention pixel of said original image and the periphery of said attention pixel while changing said attention pixel, an image calculation means that generates a calculation image by addition or subtraction between said original image and said standard deviation image, a calculation image binarization means that generates the binarization calculation image by binarization of said calculation image, a graph cut processing means that comprehends the distribution of the metal piece on the original image based on said binarization calculation image, obtains the representative value of pixel values of the metal piece region of said original image and the representative value of pixel values of the region other than the metal piece, and generates a map showing the distribution of the metal piece relative to said original image by execution of the graph cut processing on said original image referring to each representative value. a standard deviation image generation means that generates a standard deviation image, wherein the standard deviation is mapped relative to the pixels constituting said original image by repeating an operation to calculate the standard deviation of the pixel values of an attention pixel of said original image and the periphery of said attention pixel while changing said attention pixel, an image calculation means that generates a calculation image by addition or subtraction between said original image and said standard deviation image, a calculation image binarization means that generates the binarization calculation image by binarization of said calculation image, a graph cut processing means that comprehends the distribution of the metal piece on the original image based on said binarization calculation image, obtains the representative value of pixel values of the metal piece region of said original image and the representative value of pixel values of the region other than the metal piece, and generates a map showing the distribution of the metal piece relative to said original image by execution of the graph cut processing on said original image referring to each representative value.
A method for copy protection of video content comprising: identifying video content of a video signal suitable to be extracted, wherein said identifying comprises the identification of encoded blocks having motion vectors; extracting said video content from said video signal; replacing extracted video content with marred video content in said video signal; placing said extracted video content in a second channel of a program stream for transmission to a receiver; and transmitting portions of said video signal containing said marred video content in a first channel and said extracted video content in said second channel of said program stream to said receiver for synchronized presentation in a display of said receiver. identifying video content of a video signal suitable to be extracted, wherein said identifying comprises the identification of encoded blocks having motion vectors; extracting said video content from said video signal; replacing extracted video content with marred video content in said video signal; placing said extracted video content in a second channel of a program stream for transmission to a receiver; and transmitting portions of said video signal containing said marred video content in a first channel and said extracted video content in said second channel of said program stream to said receiver for synchronized presentation in a display of said receiver.
A vacuum insulation panel comprising: (a) a porous insulating core having an upper surface and a lower surface and sides; wherein the porous insulating core is constructed from a microporous powder material selected from silica, such as fumed silica and/or precipitated silica, perlite, diatomaceous earth and combinations thereof; (b) an envelope about the core arranged to envelop the core, and to maintain an applied vacuum within the envelope; and (c) a non-foam polyurethane coating layer applied to the envelope, wherein the coating layer is formed over the entire external surface area of the envelope, wherein the polyurethane coating is from 0.1 mm to less than 5 mm thick, and (d) wherein the envelope and the polyurethane coating layer form a barrier layer about the insulating core, said barrier layer having a moisture vapour transmission rate of from 1.5 × 10 -3 g/m 2.day to 3.0 × 10 -3 g/m 2.day when measured in accordance with ASTM F1249-90; said vacuum insulation panel having a thermal conductivity of from 3.0 mW/(m·K) to 4.0 mW/(m·K) when measured in accordance with BS EN 12667:2001. (a) a porous insulating core having an upper surface and a lower surface and sides; wherein the porous insulating core is constructed from a microporous powder material selected from silica, such as fumed silica and/or precipitated silica, perlite, diatomaceous earth and combinations thereof; (b) an envelope about the core arranged to envelop the core, and to maintain an applied vacuum within the envelope; and (c) a non-foam polyurethane coating layer applied to the envelope, wherein the coating layer is formed over the entire external surface area of the envelope, wherein the polyurethane coating is from 0.1 mm to less than 5 mm thick, and (d) wherein the envelope and the polyurethane coating layer form a barrier layer about the insulating core, said barrier layer having a moisture vapour transmission rate of from 1.5 × 10 -3 g/m 2.day to 3.0 × 10 -3 g/m 2.day when measured in accordance with ASTM F1249-90;
Composition comprising one or more organic light emitting materials having a molecular weight of at most 5000 g/mol and one or more charge transport materials having a molecular weight of at most 5000 g/mol, one or more organic solvents, and one or more polymers, characterized in that said one or more polymers comprise 100 mol% acrylic acid ester and/or methacrylic acid ester units and in that said one or more polymers have a weight average molecular weight M w in the range from 750,000 to 3,000,000 g/mol.
A magnetic brake assembly for use with a wheel rim, the wheel rim rotatable about a rotational axis, the magnetic brake assembly comprising: at least one rotor secured to rotate with the wheel rim; at least one stator secured to be rotationally stationary relative to the rotor; one of the rotor and stator comprising an electrically conductive body and the other of the rotor and stator comprising a magnetic array comprising a plurality of magnets (333, 444) configured to generate a magnetic flux; and an actuator operably connected to at least one of the electrically conductive body and the magnetic array to selectively effect a brake mode and a non-brake mode, wherein in the brake mode the magnetic array induces eddy currents in the electrically conductive body to cause a magnetic braking force therein when the rotor rotates above a threshold speed and in the non-brake mode the induced eddy currents cause a negligible or no magnetic braking force as the rotor rotates above the threshold speed, characterized in that: the plurality of magnets (333, 444) comprises a plurality of permanent magnets and a plurality of electromagnets; and the actuator comprises an electrical relay that turns on the plurality of electromagnets in the brake mode and turns off the plurality of electromagnets in the non-brake mode. at least one rotor secured to rotate with the wheel rim; at least one stator secured to be rotationally stationary relative to the rotor; one of the rotor and stator comprising an electrically conductive body and the other of the rotor and stator comprising a magnetic array comprising a plurality of magnets (333, 444) configured to generate a magnetic flux; and an actuator operably connected to at least one of the electrically conductive body and the magnetic array to selectively effect a brake mode and a non-brake mode, wherein in the brake mode the magnetic array induces eddy currents in the electrically conductive body to cause a magnetic braking force therein when the rotor rotates above a threshold speed and in the non-brake mode the induced eddy currents cause a negligible or no magnetic braking force as the rotor rotates above the threshold speed, characterized in that: the plurality of magnets (333, 444) comprises a plurality of permanent magnets and a plurality of electromagnets; and the actuator comprises an electrical relay that turns on the plurality of electromagnets in the brake mode and turns off the plurality of electromagnets in the non-brake mode. the plurality of magnets (333, 444) comprises a plurality of permanent magnets and a plurality of electromagnets; and the actuator comprises an electrical relay that turns on the plurality of electromagnets in the brake mode and turns off the plurality of electromagnets in the non-brake mode.
An electro-optic device comprising: a first electrode structure comprising: a first electrode layer comprising a concentric first plurality of electrode rings, each adjacent pair of electrode rings from said first plurality of electrode rings separated by a corresponding first layer separator from a concentric plurality of first layer separators; and a second electrode layer comprising a concentric second plurality of electrode rings, each adjacent pair of electrode rings from said second plurality of electrode rings separated by a corresponding second layer separator from a concentric plurality of second layer separators; wherein, in an operative embodiment: said first electrode layer is positioned parallel to said second layer; said first electrode layer is conductively connected to a first electrical power source; a rotational axis of the first electrode layer is co-incident with a rotational axis of the second electrode layer; and, when viewed from a point along the rotational axis, an electrode ring from the first layer is not optically aligned with a spatially nearest electrode ring of the second layer; characterized in that: said second electrode layer is not conductively connected to any power source. a first electrode layer comprising a concentric first plurality of electrode rings, each adjacent pair of electrode rings from said first plurality of electrode rings separated by a corresponding first layer separator from a concentric plurality of first layer separators; and a second electrode layer comprising a concentric second plurality of electrode rings, each adjacent pair of electrode rings from said second plurality of electrode rings separated by a corresponding second layer separator from a concentric plurality of second layer separators; wherein, in an operative embodiment: said first electrode layer is positioned parallel to said second layer; said first electrode layer is conductively connected to a first electrical power source; a rotational axis of the first electrode layer is co-incident with a rotational axis of the second electrode layer; and, when viewed from a point along the rotational axis, an electrode ring from the first layer is not optically aligned with a spatially nearest electrode ring of the second layer; said first electrode layer is positioned parallel to said second layer; said first electrode layer is conductively connected to a first electrical power source; a rotational axis of the first electrode layer is co-incident with a rotational axis of the second electrode layer; and, when viewed from a point along the rotational axis, an electrode ring from the first layer is not optically aligned with a spatially nearest electrode ring of the second layer; characterized in that: said second electrode layer is not conductively connected to any power source. said second electrode layer is not conductively connected to any power source.
A method for controlling an inverter in an inverter system, wherein the inverter includes a rectifier, a direct current-link capacitor, and an inverting unit including a plurality of switching elements, wherein the inverter system includes a control unit for controlling the inverting unit, wherein the method comprises: checking, by the control unit, whether a direct current-link voltage of the direct current-link capacitor is equal to or greater than a predefined first voltage; checking, by the control unit, whether the direct current-link voltage is greater than or equal to a predefined second voltage greater than the predefined first voltage; calculating, by the control unit, a value (V 2 t) which is derived by multiplying the square of the direct current-link voltage and a unit time (t), wherein the unit time (t) indicates time required for an overvoltage fault to occur based on the direct current-link voltage, and generating, by the control unit, a cumulative value by accumulating the calculated value when the direct current-link voltage is greater than or equal to the predefined first voltage and is smaller than the predefined second voltage; when the cumulative value is greater than or equal to a predefined first value, blocking, by the control unit, an output of the inverting unit; and when the direct current-link voltage is smaller than the predefined first voltage, obtaining, by the control unit, a value by subtracting a predefined second value from the cumulative value, and updating, by the control unit, the cumulative value as the obtained value. checking, by the control unit, whether a direct current-link voltage of the direct current-link capacitor is equal to or greater than a predefined first voltage; checking, by the control unit, whether the direct current-link voltage is greater than or equal to a predefined second voltage greater than the predefined first voltage; calculating, by the control unit, a value (V 2 t) which is derived by multiplying the square of the direct current-link voltage and a unit time (t), wherein the unit time (t) indicates time required for an overvoltage fault to occur based on the direct current-link voltage, and generating, by the control unit, a cumulative value by accumulating the calculated value when the direct current-link voltage is greater than or equal to the predefined first voltage and is smaller than the predefined second voltage; when the cumulative value is greater than or equal to a predefined first value, blocking, by the control unit, an output of the inverting unit; and when the direct current-link voltage is smaller than the predefined first voltage, obtaining, by the control unit, a value by subtracting a predefined second value from the cumulative value, and updating, by the control unit, the cumulative value as the obtained value.