mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A method for symbol classification for compressing inputted digital images of scanned documents including comparing in a binary image a first pixel blob with a second pixel blob to determine whether they represent matching symbols, the method comprising the steps of: a) dilating the first blob and checking if the second blob fits inside the dilated first blob, b) dilating the second blob and checking if the first blob fits inside the dilated second blob, characterized in that c) if both said steps a) and b) result in a match, checking whether said match is erroneous or not by checking if the non-dilated first pixel blob contains a line not present in the non-dilated second pixel blob and vice versa, by checking for 3x3 crosses of two crossing lines of bits in which one line in one of the non-dilated pixel blobs has a different color from that of the other line of the other non-dilated pixel blob and declaring an erroneous match if any such cross exists. a) dilating the first blob and checking if the second blob fits inside the dilated first blob, b) dilating the second blob and checking if the first blob fits inside the dilated second blob, c) if both said steps a) and b) result in a match, checking whether said match is erroneous or not by checking if the non-dilated first pixel blob contains a line not present in the non-dilated second pixel blob and vice versa, by checking for 3x3 crosses of two crossing lines of bits in which one line in one of the non-dilated pixel blobs has a different color from that of the other line of the other non-dilated pixel blob and declaring an erroneous match if any such cross exists.
Device, namely a trolley, for regenerating playing fields made of synthetic grass, equipped with an infill and with a ballast substrate made of silica sand, said regeneration being obtained by airing and uncompacting said infill by using an air jet adapted to lift said infill, characterised in that said device contains therein a centrifugal fan, adapted to generate said air jet, connected through one or more flexible tubes to one or more blowing manifolds adapted to send pressurized air to a plurality of nozzles, placed inside a carter, said carter being connected to and dragged by said device, said nozzles directly blowing onto said playing field and lifting the infill through a rebounding air flow, said infill being projected against said carter and falling back on the ground being uniformly distributed among the filaments of the synthetic grass, said carter being preferably made of a perforated sheet, said centrifugal fan being alternatively actuated with the following means contained in the device: - an electric motor supplied by a current generator and/or an inverter; - a combustion engine keyed onto the shaft of the fan or through a drive belt; - the power take-off of a pull tractor; - a battery pack, an inverter and an electric motor; - a hydraulic motor. - an electric motor supplied by a current generator and/or an inverter; - a combustion engine keyed onto the shaft of the fan or through a drive belt; - the power take-off of a pull tractor; - a battery pack, an inverter and an electric motor; - a hydraulic motor.
A method for determining a network switching resource, the method being performed by a terminal and being characterized by comprising sending, when establishing a connection to a first operator network in at least two operator networks, pre-stored first information of a second operator network in the at least two operator networks and second information of the terminal in the second operator network to the first operator network, wherein the terminal is used to connect to the at least two operator networks; and determining, a time-domain resource for disconnecting from the first operator network and performing an activity in the second operator network according to first configuration information sent by the first operator network, and/or second configuration information sent by the second operator network after establishing a communication connection to the second operator network. sending, when establishing a connection to a first operator network in at least two operator networks, pre-stored first information of a second operator network in the at least two operator networks and second information of the terminal in the second operator network to the first operator network, wherein the terminal is used to connect to the at least two operator networks; and determining, a time-domain resource for disconnecting from the first operator network and performing an activity in the second operator network according to first configuration information sent by the first operator network, and/or second configuration information sent by the second operator network after establishing a communication connection to the second operator network.
A component for a vapour provision system comprising: a boundary wall separating a reservoir for holding a fluid from a chamber for housing a vapour generator, the boundary wall comprising two or more adjacent rigid bodies (28a, 28b) abutted against one another at edges of the adjacent rigid bodies, and sealed to one another at the abutting edges; and an elongate tubular aperture, with a length greater than a width, in the boundary wall providing a fluid transport path from the reservoir to the vapour generator, wherein the length of the tubular aperture is a dimension along a fluid flow direction and a width of the tubular aperture is a dimension orthogonal to the fluid flow direction; wherein the aperture is defined between the abutted adjacent rigid bodies, one or more of the adjacent rigid bodies being shaped on their abutting edges to define an opening for the aperture, and the rigid bodies enclosing a perimeter of the aperture along at least part of aperture's length. a boundary wall separating a reservoir for holding a fluid from a chamber for housing a vapour generator, the boundary wall comprising two or more adjacent rigid bodies (28a, 28b) abutted against one another at edges of the adjacent rigid bodies, and sealed to one another at the abutting edges; and an elongate tubular aperture, with a length greater than a width, in the boundary wall providing a fluid transport path from the reservoir to the vapour generator, wherein the length of the tubular aperture is a dimension along a fluid flow direction and a width of the tubular aperture is a dimension orthogonal to the fluid flow direction; wherein the aperture is defined between the abutted adjacent rigid bodies, one or more of the adjacent rigid bodies being shaped on their abutting edges to define an opening for the aperture, and the rigid bodies enclosing a perimeter of the aperture along at least part of aperture's length.
On a computing device, a method for reading stored data, the method comprising: obtaining a representation of a measurement performed on a data-storage medium, the representation based on a previously recorded pattern of data encoded in the data-storage medium in a layout that defines a plurality of data locations, the obtaining comprising probing the plurality of data locations of the data-storage medium to acquire the representation, the probing comprising irradiating a plurality of storage locations of an optical storage medium and concurrently imaging the optical storage medium to acquire a representation image of the stored data, the representation image comprising a layout of data locations corresponding to the plurality of storage locations of the optical storage medium; decoding the representation image via a data decoder using a machine-learning function trained to associate a plurality of probability values to each data location based on the representation image, each probability value having a corresponding data value being a birefringence value and representing a probability that the corresponding data value matches an actual data value of the previously stored data at a corresponding storage location of the optical storage medium, wherein the birefringence value of each probability value differs with respect to a birefringence value of the corresponding storage location of the optical storage medium, and obtaining from the data decoder, for each data location of the layout, the plurality of probability values. obtaining a representation of a measurement performed on a data-storage medium, the representation based on a previously recorded pattern of data encoded in the data-storage medium in a layout that defines a plurality of data locations, the obtaining comprising probing the plurality of data locations of the data-storage medium to acquire the representation, the probing comprising irradiating a plurality of storage locations of an optical storage medium and concurrently imaging the optical storage medium to acquire a representation image of the stored data, the representation image comprising a layout of data locations corresponding to the plurality of storage locations of the optical storage medium; decoding the representation image via a data decoder using a machine-learning function trained to associate a plurality of probability values to each data location based on the representation image, each probability value having a corresponding data value being a birefringence value and representing a probability that the corresponding data value matches an actual data value of the previously stored data at a corresponding storage location of the optical storage medium, wherein the birefringence value of each probability value differs with respect to a birefringence value of the corresponding storage location of the optical storage medium, and obtaining from the data decoder, for each data location of the layout, the plurality of probability values.
An X-ray imaging system element for determining a breast thickness, comprising a first compression element; and a second compression element; wherein the first compression element and the second compression element are movable relative to one another; wherein a breast is introducible between the first compression element and the second compression element; wherein the breast is compressible between the first compression element and the second compression element; wherein the breast is arrangeable asymmetrically between the first compression element and the second compression element, thereby defining a breast proximal region comprising the breast and a breast distal region not comprising the breast of the first compression element and the second compression element, wherein the first compression element is adapted to alter its geometrical shape, wherein the first compression element alters its geometrical shape according to a non-symmetrical deformation, when the breast is compressed between the first compression element and the second compression element; wherein X-radiation is adapted to penetrate the first compression element, the breast and the second compression element; wherein the first compression element comprises a plurality of marker lines, each marker line comprising at least three at least partly X-ray opaque marker element; wherein the imaging system element is adapted to allow detection of an alteration of the geometrical shape of the first compression element, by analysing the marker elements image information in an X-ray image of the breast compressed between the first compression element and the second compression element, wherein the marker elements are arranged in the breast distal region.
An IL-15 analog, wherein the amino acid sequence of the IL-15 analog comprises the amino acid sequence of IL-15, and one or more amino acids added to the C-terminal of the amino acid sequence of IL-15, wherein the one or more amino acids added to the C-terminal of the amino acid sequence of IL-15 are selected from the group of: GSGSGS-HHHHHH, GS-HHHHHH, PLASTKKR, LPKSAKKK, KKKKKKK, GAPQGAPQ-LVESAHHH, GS-LVSSAHHK, GS-LIEHHRRK, GS-IVEHRKKK, GS-VPKTGRRR, GS-LVASGKK, GS-HRKSGHHH, GS-LPKTGRHK, KKKTGRRH, LPRSGRHK, LVETHHHH, VRPETHHH, KKK, RHHHH, KRETHHHHH, GS-LPETG-GSGGSHHHHHH HLETGKKK, HVESGRRR, RRHTGKKK, HVKTGHHH, HVKSGRHH, HVKSSHRH, GSGSGSGSGS-LVKSGHHH, RPKSGHHK, KKC, LHKAGKHH, K, and KK, and wherein the amino acid sequence of IL-15 is shown in SEQ ID NO. 1.
An automatic dishwashing detergent composition comprising a sulfonated polymer and from 15% to 55% by weight of the composition of a pH regulator system wherein the pH regulator system comprises a mixture of an acid and a conjugate salt and wherein the composition has a pH as measured in 1% weight aqueous solution at 25°C of from 5 to 7.5.
A VECSEL or VECSEL array, comprising an optical element formed of a substrate, which is transparent at least in a wavelength region of optical radiation, - wherein a first interface of said substrate comprises several curved regions forming part of an array of optical lenses integrated in said substrate, - wherein said substrate further comprises several optical mirrors formed on a second interface of said substrate opposing said first interface or embedded in said substrate, - wherein said several optical mirrors are arranged and designed to back reflect between 30% and 99.5% of optical radiation in said wavelength region incident on said optical mirrors, - wherein said several optical mirrors are flat mirrors or curved mirrors having a radius of curvature different from a radius of curvature of said several curved regions, - wherein each optical lens of the array of optical lenses is formed behind a corresponding mirror of said optical mirrors such that a fraction of optical radiation in said wavelength region passes the optical lenses after passing the corresponding mirror, wherein the optical element is attached directly or via spacer elements or via a spacer layer to said VECSEL or VECSEL array, said spacer layer being optically transparent in a wavelength region in which the VECSEL or VECSEL array emits laser radiation, wherein the optical element forms an external mirror of the VECSEL or of the VECSEL array. - wherein a first interface of said substrate comprises several curved regions forming part of an array of optical lenses integrated in said substrate, - wherein said substrate further comprises several optical mirrors formed on a second interface of said substrate opposing said first interface or embedded in said substrate, - wherein said several optical mirrors are arranged and designed to back reflect between 30% and 99.5% of optical radiation in said wavelength region incident on said optical mirrors, - wherein said several optical mirrors are flat mirrors or curved mirrors having a radius of curvature different from a radius of curvature of said several curved regions, - wherein each optical lens of the array of optical lenses is formed behind a corresponding mirror of said optical mirrors such that a fraction of optical radiation in said wavelength region passes the optical lenses after passing the corresponding mirror,
Installation having a containment for the aseptic decanting of a powder, specifically for emptying a container filled with powder into a collecting container and/or for filling a container with powder from a storage container, wherein: a) the containment has a working chamber surrounded by a housing; b) a robot is installed in the containment, said robot having an arm arrangement that is movable through a pivoting range; c) when a collecting container is present, it has an inlet that leads in from the working chamber and when a storage container is present, it has an outlet that leads out into the working chamber; and d) the container is closable at least with a first closure element, characterized in that e) the arm arrangement is connected to a tool carrier which is equipped on its base at least with clamping elements for taking hold of the container, a vacuum lifter for taking hold of the first closure element, and a passive part of a double flap; f) a transfer head is mounted at the inlet into the collecting container and/or at the outlet of the storage container, said transfer head(s) projecting respectively into the working chamber; and g) the passive part together with an active part contained in the transfer head forms the double flap. a) the containment has a working chamber surrounded by a housing; b) a robot is installed in the containment, said robot having an arm arrangement that is movable through a pivoting range; c) when a collecting container is present, it has an inlet that leads in from the working chamber and when a storage container is present, it has an outlet that leads out into the working chamber; and d) the container is closable at least with a first closure element, characterized in that e) the arm arrangement is connected to a tool carrier which is equipped on its base at least with clamping elements for taking hold of the container, a vacuum lifter for taking hold of the first closure element, and a passive part of a double flap; f) a transfer head is mounted at the inlet into the collecting container and/or at the outlet of the storage container, said transfer head(s) projecting respectively into the working chamber; and g) the passive part together with an active part contained in the transfer head forms the double flap.
An isolation valve for use as part of a casing string, the isolation valve comprising: a housing having a bore and a valve cavity; a valve member movable between a closed position in which the valve member obstructs the bore of the housing and an open position in which the valve member is disposed in the valve cavity; a movable flow tube for shifting the valve member between the open and closed positions; a piston connected to the flow tube; an engagement assembly attached to the housing by a connection member and adapted to engage the flow tube to substantially prevent debris from entering the valve cavity when the valve member is in the open position; and characterized in that the isolation valve further comprises: a biasing element disposed between the piston and the flow tube and configured to bias the flow tube into contact with the engagement assembly when the valve member is in the open position, wherein the flow tube is further movable to displace the engagement assembly and lock the valve member in the open position. a housing having a bore and a valve cavity; a valve member movable between a closed position in which the valve member obstructs the bore of the housing and an open position in which the valve member is disposed in the valve cavity; a movable flow tube for shifting the valve member between the open and closed positions; a piston connected to the flow tube; an engagement assembly attached to the housing by a connection member and adapted to engage the flow tube to substantially prevent debris from entering the valve cavity when the valve member is in the open position; and characterized in that the isolation valve further comprises: a biasing element disposed between the piston and the flow tube and configured to bias the flow tube into contact with the engagement assembly when the valve member is in the open position, wherein the flow tube is further movable to displace the engagement assembly and lock the valve member in the open position.
A medical device for retrieving a clot from within a vessel lumen, the device comprising: a delivery wire sized for advancement through a blood vessel, the delivery wire having a distal region and a proximal region; a stent coupled to the distal region of the delivery wire; and an inverting funnel having a first end portion coupled to the distal region of the delivery wire and a free second end portion, the funnel having (a) a first position in which the first end portion is distal of the second end portion, and (b) a second position in which the second end portion is distal of the first end portion such that the funnel surrounds at least a portion of the stent, wherein, when the medical device is positioned within the vessel lumen such that the stent and the funnel are in an expanded state and the funnel is in the first position, proximal movement of the delivery wire causes the funnel to move from the first position towards the second position. a delivery wire sized for advancement through a blood vessel, the delivery wire having a distal region and a proximal region; a stent coupled to the distal region of the delivery wire; and an inverting funnel having a first end portion coupled to the distal region of the delivery wire and a free second end portion, the funnel having (a) a first position in which the first end portion is distal of the second end portion, and (b) a second position in which the second end portion is distal of the first end portion such that the funnel surrounds at least a portion of the stent, wherein, when the medical device is positioned within the vessel lumen such that the stent and the funnel are in an expanded state and the funnel is in the first position, proximal movement of the delivery wire causes the funnel to move from the first position towards the second position.
A method of monitoring the pressure of a tyre of an aircraft, the method comprising: taking two or more pressure readings from the tyre at different times; and calculating an estimated deflation rate based on the pressure readings, characterised in that at least one of the pressure readings is an in-flight pressure reading taken from the tyre when the aircraft is in flight with the tyre unloaded.
A method for controlling the movement of one or more transporting devices (210a, 210b, 210c) arranged to transport a plurality of containers, said devices arranged to operate in a facility, the facility comprising the plurality of containers arranged in a plurality of stacks located at respective stack locations, the facility further having a plurality of pathways arranged in a grid-like structure above the stacks, the one or more transporting devices arranged to operate on the grid-like structure, the method comprising: determining and reserving routes for moving the one or more transporting devices through the plurality of pathways; determining and reserving routes for moving the one or more transporting devices when transporting one or more of the plurality of containers; and determining and reserving routes to control one or more of the plurality of transporting devices to retrieve one or more of the plurality of containers from within one or more of the plurality of stacks, wherein retrieving the one or more containers from within the one or more stacks comprises moving one or more other containers in the one or more stacks prior to accessing the one or more containers for retrieval, and the method being characterized in that moving the one or more other containers comprises, for each of the one or more other containers, determining an optimised position within a stack of the facility, excluding the original stack from which the container was removed, and placing the container in the determined optimised position within the facility. determining and reserving routes for moving the one or more transporting devices through the plurality of pathways; determining and reserving routes for moving the one or more transporting devices when transporting one or more of the plurality of containers; and determining and reserving routes to control one or more of the plurality of transporting devices to retrieve one or more of the plurality of containers from within one or more of the plurality of stacks, wherein retrieving the one or more containers from within the one or more stacks comprises moving one or more other containers in the one or more stacks prior to accessing the one or more containers for retrieval, and the method being characterized in that moving the one or more other containers comprises, for each of the one or more other containers, determining an optimised position within a stack of the facility, excluding the original stack from which the container was removed, and placing the container in the determined optimised position within the facility.