mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A method of operating a digital radiographic, DR, detector (40, 300, 400, 2100), the method comprising: capturing image frames in the detector (40, 300, 400, 2100) including capturing at least one dark image frame in the detector (40, 300, 400, 2100) and storing a dark image frame in the detector (40, 300, 400, 2100); detecting an x-ray beam impacting the detector (40, 300, 400, 2100), wherein the step of detecting an x-ray beam comprises: selecting subsets of pixels in the image frames to each consist of a same subset of consecutive columns of pixels and a same subset of consecutive rows of pixels, and storing at least one statistical measure for each subset of pixels;comparing a statistical measure for each subset of pixels in a current captured image frame (2305, 2310) with the same statistical measure of the same subset of pixels in the stored dark image frame; and in response to the step of comparing, determining that the current captured image frame (2305, 2310) is an x-ray exposure image frame; capturing at least one more image frame in the detector (40, 300, 400, 2100) after the step of detecting an x-ray beam; adding the current captured image frame (2305, 2310) and the at least one more image frame; and subtracting the stored dark image frame, to form an exposed image frame (1310, 1320). capturing image frames in the detector (40, 300, 400, 2100) including capturing at least one dark image frame in the detector (40, 300, 400, 2100) and storing a dark image frame in the detector (40, 300, 400, 2100); detecting an x-ray beam impacting the detector (40, 300, 400, 2100), wherein the step of detecting an x-ray beam comprises: selecting subsets of pixels in the image frames to each consist of a same subset of consecutive columns of pixels and a same subset of consecutive rows of pixels, and storing at least one statistical measure for each subset of pixels;comparing a statistical measure for each subset of pixels in a current captured image frame (2305, 2310) with the same statistical measure of the same subset of pixels in the stored dark image frame; and in response to the step of comparing, determining that the current captured image frame (2305, 2310) is an x-ray exposure image frame; selecting subsets of pixels in the image frames to each consist of a same subset of consecutive columns of pixels and a same subset of consecutive rows of pixels, and storing at least one statistical measure for each subset of pixels;comparing a statistical measure for each subset of pixels in a current captured image frame (2305, 2310) with the same statistical measure of the same subset of pixels in the stored dark image frame; and in response to the step of comparing, determining that the current captured image frame (2305, 2310) is an x-ray exposure image frame; capturing at least one more image frame in the detector (40, 300, 400, 2100) after the step of detecting an x-ray beam; adding the current captured image frame (2305, 2310) and the at least one more image frame; and subtracting the stored dark image frame, to form an exposed image frame (1310, 1320).
A method of selective sintering additive manufacturing comprising, (i) providing a powder comprising composite particulates comprising a first thermoplastic polymer and a second thermoplastic polymer interspersed with each other, wherein the second thermoplastic polymer is a continuous matrix and the first thermoplastic polymer is discontinuously dispersed as grains within the continuous matrix of the second thermoplastic polymer; or wherein the first thermoplastic polymer is a continuous matrix and the second thermoplastic polymer is discontinuously dispersed as grains within the continuous matrix of the first thermoplastic polymer; and wherein the grains have a median size of 0.05 micrometer to 5 micrometers; (ii) depositing a layer of said powder at a target surface, (iii) irradiating a selected portion of said powder so that said powder sinters, bonding the composite particles of said portion within the layer to form a sintered layer, (iv) repeating steps (i) to (iii) to form successive sintered layers that are also bonded to one another, and (v) removing the unbonded portions of the powder to yield an additive manufactured part. (i) providing a powder comprising composite particulates comprising a first thermoplastic polymer and a second thermoplastic polymer interspersed with each other, wherein the second thermoplastic polymer is a continuous matrix and the first thermoplastic polymer is discontinuously dispersed as grains within the continuous matrix of the second thermoplastic polymer; or wherein the first thermoplastic polymer is a continuous matrix and the second thermoplastic polymer is discontinuously dispersed as grains within the continuous matrix of the first thermoplastic polymer; and wherein the grains have a median size of 0.05 micrometer to 5 micrometers; wherein the second thermoplastic polymer is a continuous matrix and the first thermoplastic polymer is discontinuously dispersed as grains within the continuous matrix of the second thermoplastic polymer; or wherein the first thermoplastic polymer is a continuous matrix and the second thermoplastic polymer is discontinuously dispersed as grains within the continuous matrix of the first thermoplastic polymer; and wherein the grains have a median size of 0.05 micrometer to 5 micrometers; (ii) depositing a layer of said powder at a target surface, (iii) irradiating a selected portion of said powder so that said powder sinters, bonding the composite particles of said portion within the layer to form a sintered layer, (iv) repeating steps (i) to (iii) to form successive sintered layers that are also bonded to one another, and (v) removing the unbonded portions of the powder to yield an additive manufactured part.
A muscle treatment device, comprising: a compression garment; a stretchable garment substrate comprising a compression fabric comprising at least one of spandex and lycra; and one or more biocompatible electrodes, wherein the biocompatible electrodes comprise a first array comprising a first pattern of microcells formed from a first conductive material, and a second array comprising a second pattern of microcells formed from a second conductive material, wherein the first array and the second array spontaneously generate a low level electric field (LLEF), wherein the first array and the second array spontaneously generate a low level electric current (LLEC) when contacted with an electrolytic solution, and wherein the compression garment is configured to exert a pressure of between 20 mmHg and 70 mmHg, wherein the compression garment is configured to apply greater pressure on the quadriceps than on a subject's lower leg. a compression garment; a stretchable garment substrate comprising a compression fabric comprising at least one of spandex and lycra; and one or more biocompatible electrodes, wherein the biocompatible electrodes comprise a first array comprising a first pattern of microcells formed from a first conductive material, and a second array comprising a second pattern of microcells formed from a second conductive material, wherein the first array and the second array spontaneously generate a low level electric field (LLEF), wherein the first array and the second array spontaneously generate a low level electric current (LLEC) when contacted with an electrolytic solution, and wherein the compression garment is configured to exert a pressure of between 20 mmHg and 70 mmHg, a stretchable garment substrate comprising a compression fabric comprising at least one of spandex and lycra; and one or more biocompatible electrodes, wherein the biocompatible electrodes comprise a first array comprising a first pattern of microcells formed from a first conductive material, and a second array comprising a second pattern of microcells formed from a second conductive material, wherein the first array and the second array spontaneously generate a low level electric field (LLEF), wherein the first array and the second array spontaneously generate a low level electric current (LLEC) when contacted with an electrolytic solution, and wherein the compression garment is configured to exert a pressure of between 20 mmHg and 70 mmHg, wherein the compression garment is configured to apply greater pressure on the quadriceps than on a subject's lower leg.
A shield system for a given ordnance having a fuse sensitivity, the system comprising: a frame; a flexible net subsystem supported by the frame and including: lines (56, 62, 66) of net material intersecting at nodes (58, 68) forming mesh openings, a hard point attached to at least select nodes (58, 68), and characterized by: the net line material having a breaking strength such that a line (56, 62, 66) will break upon impact of the ordnance fuse with the line (56, 62, 66) for a predetermined percentage of ordnance fuse impacts. a frame; a flexible net subsystem supported by the frame and including: lines (56, 62, 66) of net material intersecting at nodes (58, 68) forming mesh openings, a hard point attached to at least select nodes (58, 68), and characterized by: the net line material having a breaking strength such that a line (56, 62, 66) will break upon impact of the ordnance fuse with the line (56, 62, 66) for a predetermined percentage of ordnance fuse impacts. lines (56, 62, 66) of net material intersecting at nodes (58, 68) forming mesh openings, a hard point attached to at least select nodes (58, 68), and characterized by: the net line material having a breaking strength such that a line (56, 62, 66) will break upon impact of the ordnance fuse with the line (56, 62, 66) for a predetermined percentage of ordnance fuse impacts.
System, consisting of: - a goods support for the arrangement of goods on a front end of the goods support - at least two dividers (4, 4', 4", 4"') for lateral delimitation of a goods track of a goods support, with a. a front fixing element (5, 5', 5", 5'") and b. a rear fixing element (6, 6', 6", 6"') which has a rear engagement flange (60, 60') facing towards the front fixing element (5, 5') and has an upper engagement surface (61, 61') inclined down towards the goods support and a lower engagement surface (62, 62') inclined down towards the goods support, - at least one goods track which is delimited laterally by the dividers (4, 4', 4", 4'") and of which the track width is adjustable, - a front fixing section arranged on the front end for fixing the front fixing element (5, 5', 5", 5'"), and - a rear fixing section arranged on a rear end of the goods support for fixing the rear fixing element (6, 6', 6", 6'"), characterized in that the rear fixing section has a row of grooves extending lengthwise with respect to the goods track for guiding the rear engagement flange (60, 60', 60", 60'"). - a goods support for the arrangement of goods on a front end of the goods support - at least two dividers (4, 4', 4", 4"') for lateral delimitation of a goods track of a goods support, with a. a front fixing element (5, 5', 5", 5'") and b. a rear fixing element (6, 6', 6", 6"') which has a rear engagement flange (60, 60') facing towards the front fixing element (5, 5') and has an upper engagement surface (61, 61') inclined down towards the goods support and a lower engagement surface (62, 62') inclined down towards the goods support, a. a front fixing element (5, 5', 5", 5'") and b. a rear fixing element (6, 6', 6", 6"') which has a rear engagement flange (60, 60') facing towards the front fixing element (5, 5') and has an upper engagement surface (61, 61') inclined down towards the goods support and a lower engagement surface (62, 62') inclined down towards the goods support, - at least one goods track which is delimited laterally by the dividers (4, 4', 4", 4'") and of which the track width is adjustable, - a front fixing section arranged on the front end for fixing the front fixing element (5, 5', 5", 5'"), and - a rear fixing section arranged on a rear end of the goods support for fixing the rear fixing element (6, 6', 6", 6'"),
Hand-held and hand-guided random orbital polishing or sanding power tool, comprising a static body, a motor, an eccentric element driven by the motor and performing a rotational movement about a first rotational axis, and a plate-like backing pad connected to the eccentric element in a manner freely rotatable about a second rotational axis, wherein the first and second rotational axes (10, 16) extend essentially parallel to one another and are spaced apart from one another, wherein at least part of an external circumferential surface of the eccentric element has an at least discrete rotational symmetry in respect to the first rotational axis; and wherein the power tool comprises at least one first bearing provided between the rotationally symmetric part of the external circumferential surface of the eccentric element and the static body of the power tool so that the eccentric element is guided in respect to the body in a manner rotatable about the first rotational axis, characterized in that the motor of the power tool is an electric motor with electric windings of a stator of the motor attached to the static body of the power tool and permanent magnets of a rotor of the motor attached to the eccentric element. wherein at least part of an external circumferential surface of the eccentric element has an at least discrete rotational symmetry in respect to the first rotational axis; and wherein the power tool comprises at least one first bearing provided between the rotationally symmetric part of the external circumferential surface of the eccentric element and the static body of the power tool so that the eccentric element is guided in respect to the body in a manner rotatable about the first rotational axis, characterized in that the motor of the power tool is an electric motor with electric windings of a stator of the motor attached to the static body of the power tool and permanent magnets of a rotor of the motor attached to the eccentric element.
A semiconductor apparatus comprising: a semiconductor device; an on-semiconductor-device metal pad electrically connected to the semiconductor device; a metal interconnect electrically connected to the semiconductor device; a through electrode electrically connected to the metal interconnect; a solder bump electrically connected to the metal interconnect; a first insulating layer on which the semiconductor device is placed; a second insulating layer formed on the semiconductor device; a third insulating layer formed on the second insulating layer, wherein the metal interconnect is electrically connected to the semiconductor device via the on-semiconductor-device metal pad at an upper surface of the second insulating layer, and the metal interconnect penetrates the second insulating layer from the upper surface of the second insulating layer and is electrically connected to the through electrode at an lower surface of the second insulating layer, the first insulating layer is formed by a photo-curable dry film or a photo-curable resist coating film, the second insulating layer is formed by the photo-curable dry film, and the third insulating layer is formed by the photo-curable dry film or a photo-curable resist coating film.
A self-locking screwing attachment device (1a, 1b) including a nut (2a, 2b) screwed onto a threaded tip (3a, 3b) extending along a screwing axis, characterised in that the nut (2a, 2b) includes: - a first element (6a, 6b) rotating relative to the tip (3a, 3b) during screwing, - a second element (13a, 13b) engaged for common rotation with the tip or an adjacent part to be assembled, the tip passing therethrough, - a stop member (23a, 23b) rotatably secured against rotation with respect to the first element (6a, 6b), - a releasable coupling means (26a, 26b, 27a, 27b, 28a, 28b) between the stop member (23a, 23b) and the second element (13a, 13b), this coupling means consisting of two groups of axially directed teeth, secured for a first group to the stop member (23a, 23b), and for the second group to the second element (13a, 13b), the nut being further provided with an area for direct clamping of a first clamping surface (20a, 20b) of the first element (6a, 6b) and a second clamping surface (21a, 21b) of the second element (13a, 13b) against each other, when the second element (13a, 13b) axially engages the tip (3a, 3b) or said adjacent part to be assembled, the second element (13a, 13b) being movable in the axial direction with respect to the first element (6a, 6b), between an axial stop (15a, 15b) carried by the first element and the stop member (23a, 23b). - a first element (6a, 6b) rotating relative to the tip (3a, 3b) during screwing, - a second element (13a, 13b) engaged for common rotation with the tip or an adjacent part to be assembled, the tip passing therethrough, - a stop member (23a, 23b) rotatably secured against rotation with respect to the first element (6a, 6b), - a releasable coupling means (26a, 26b, 27a, 27b, 28a, 28b) between the stop member (23a, 23b) and the second element (13a, 13b), this coupling means consisting of two groups of axially directed teeth, secured for a first group to the stop member (23a, 23b), and for the second group to the second element (13a, 13b),
A method for a user terminal to access a network comprising a plurality of access points, said terminal being able to establish a multi-link on the uplink with a plurality N of such access points by means of a same plurality of transmission channels, characterised in that, when the terminal wishes to obtain a quality of service expressed in the form of a minimum bitrate, R min, on the uplink, this terminal: - obtains a channel quality indicator, a i, for each transmission channel L i of said plurality, the transmission channels being indexed by decreasing quality level from their respective quality indicators; - determines (330,340,345) an optimal number of transmission channels, for transmitting said minimum bitrate, said optimal number being obtained as the smallest integer N ∗ ≤ N satisfying R min / B ≤ ρ - N ∗ log 2 ( a N ∗ 1), where ρ = ∑ j = 1 N * log 2 a j and selects the transmission channels L 1,..,L N ∗ corresponding to this optimal number and where B is the bandwidth used for the transmission; - for each of the transmission channels selected in the previous step, L i, i =1,...,N ∗, determines a bitrate, R i, by means of R +B log 2 ( a i) with R ̅ = 1 N * R min − Bρ R and deduces a minimum power, p i therefrom, capable of delivering the bitrate R i on this channel; - when the sum of the minimum powers on the different channels is less than a predetermined maximum power, transmits binary data in parallel by distributing them on the different transmission channels selected L 1,.., L N ∗ respectively with the bitrates R i, and the powers p i, i = 1,..., N ∗, previously determined. - obtains a channel quality indicator, a i, for each transmission channel L i of said plurality, the transmission channels being indexed by decreasing quality level from their respective quality indicators; - determines (330,340,345) an optimal number of transmission channels, for transmitting said minimum bitrate, said optimal number being obtained as the smallest integer N ∗ ≤ N satisfying R min / B ≤ ρ - N ∗ log 2 ( a N ∗ 1), where ρ = ∑ j = 1 N * log 2 a j and selects the transmission channels L 1,..,L N ∗ corresponding to this optimal number and where B is the bandwidth used for the transmission; - for each of the transmission channels selected in the previous step, L i, i =1,...,N ∗, determines a bitrate, R i, by means of R +B log 2 ( a i) with R ̅ = 1 N * R min − Bρ R and deduces a minimum power, p i therefrom, capable of delivering the bitrate R i on this channel; - when the sum of the minimum powers on the different channels is less than a predetermined maximum power, transmits binary data in parallel by distributing them on the different transmission channels selected L 1,.., L N ∗ respectively with the bitrates R i, and the powers p i, i = 1,..., N ∗, previously determined.
A method for synthesizing a 2-D image of a person by a software-controlled data processing apparatus, the method comprising: receiving 3D coordinates of body joint positions of the person defined in a camera coordinate frame, wherein the 3D coordinates of the body joint positions define a pose of the person and a viewpoint of the 2-D image; predicting, using a trained neural network, a map stack of body part assignments and a map stack of body part coordinates based on the 3D coordinates of the body joint positions, wherein the map stack of body part coordinates defines texture coordinates of pixels of the body parts of the person, and the map stack of body part assignments defines weights, each weight indicating a probability of particular pixel to belong to a particular body part of the person; retrieving, from a memory, a map stack of textures for the body parts of the person previously initialized, wherein the map stack of textures comprises values of the pixels of the body parts of the person; and reconstructing the 2-D image of the person as a weighted combination of the values of the pixels by using the map stack of body part assignments, the map stack of body part coordinates and the map stack of textures; wherein a map stack is a third-order tensor. receiving 3D coordinates of body joint positions of the person defined in a camera coordinate frame, wherein the 3D coordinates of the body joint positions define a pose of the person and a viewpoint of the 2-D image; predicting, using a trained neural network, a map stack of body part assignments and a map stack of body part coordinates based on the 3D coordinates of the body joint positions, wherein the map stack of body part coordinates defines texture coordinates of pixels of the body parts of the person, and the map stack of body part assignments defines weights, each weight indicating a probability of particular pixel to belong to a particular body part of the person; retrieving, from a memory, a map stack of textures for the body parts of the person previously initialized, wherein the map stack of textures comprises values of the pixels of the body parts of the person; and reconstructing the 2-D image of the person as a weighted combination of the values of the pixels by using the map stack of body part assignments, the map stack of body part coordinates and the map stack of textures; wherein a map stack is a third-order tensor.
A coated article including a coating supported by a glass substrate, the coating comprising: first and second infrared reflecting layers comprising at least one of Ag and Au; a first dielectric layer having an index of refraction n < = 3.0 provided between the first IR reflecting layer and the glass substrate; a second dielectric layer having an index of refraction n less than that of the first dielectric layer provided between the first and second IR reflecting layers; a third dielectric layer provided over the first and second IR reflecting layers, said third dielectric layer having an index of refraction n less than that of the second dielectric layer, wherein the third dielectric layer comprises silicon oxide, wherein each of the first and second IR reflecting layers is sandwiched between and contacts a pair of contact layers, and wherein at least one of the contact layers comprises at least NiCrO x. first and second infrared reflecting layers comprising at least one of Ag and Au; a first dielectric layer having an index of refraction n < = 3.0 provided between the first IR reflecting layer and the glass substrate; a second dielectric layer having an index of refraction n less than that of the first dielectric layer provided between the first and second IR reflecting layers; a third dielectric layer provided over the first and second IR reflecting layers, said third dielectric layer having an index of refraction n less than that of the second dielectric layer, wherein the third dielectric layer comprises silicon oxide, wherein each of the first and second IR reflecting layers is sandwiched between and contacts a pair of contact layers, and wherein at least one of the contact layers comprises at least NiCrO x.