mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A method of testing a sensor unit comprising an image sensor and a local processing module, wherein the local processing module is configured to detect, locally at the sensor unit, whether a person appears in images captured by the image sensor; the method comprising: causing a light-emitting device, external to the sensor unit, to emit a test pattern toward the image sensor of the sensor unit so as to cover at least a substantial portion of the field of view of the image sensor, to be captured over a series of the images captured by the image sensor, the test pattern comprising a spatio-temporal pattern of light simulating presence of a predetermined number of people appearing in view of the image sensor over time, wherein said predetermined number is more than one; at a processing apparatus external to the sensor unit, receiving one or more presence detection reports from the sensor unit indicating an apparent people count detected using the sensor unit, the apparent people count being a number people detected by the local processing module based on the captured images of the test pattern; and reporting the apparent people count to a testing function, wherein testing function compares the apparent people count with the predetermined number of people simulated by the test pattern, and, based on said comparison, determining whether the sensor unit is functioning correctly. causing a light-emitting device, external to the sensor unit, to emit a test pattern toward the image sensor of the sensor unit so as to cover at least a substantial portion of the field of view of the image sensor, to be captured over a series of the images captured by the image sensor, the test pattern comprising a spatio-temporal pattern of light simulating presence of a predetermined number of people appearing in view of the image sensor over time, wherein said predetermined number is more than one; at a processing apparatus external to the sensor unit, receiving one or more presence detection reports from the sensor unit indicating an apparent people count detected using the sensor unit, the apparent people count being a number people detected by the local processing module based on the captured images of the test pattern; and reporting the apparent people count to a testing function, wherein testing function compares the apparent people count with the predetermined number of people simulated by the test pattern, and, based on said comparison, determining whether the sensor unit is functioning correctly.
Use in a vascular medical implant of a bioresorbable metal alloy composition consisting of Fe-Mn-X-Y plus unavoidable impurities that do not exceed 0.5 at% and wherein the amount of Fe is higher than the amount of Mn, characterized in that the Fe content is in an amount comprised between 35.0 and 50.5 at%, the Mn content is in an amount comprised between 34.0 and 40.0 at%, X is at least an element selected in the group consisting of aluminium, zinc, gallium and combinations thereof in an amount comprised between 8.0 and 16.0 at%, Y is copper or carbon or a combination thereof in an amount comprised between 4.5 and 10.0 at%, the atomic ratio between X and Y is comprised between 1.0 and 3.6 and the sum of X and Y is comprised between 12.5 and 26.0 at%.
A method of producing a therapeutic composition, the method comprising: providing a medium containing a recombinant inactive acid ceramidase precursor; incubating the medium under conditions effective to transform a portion of the inactive acid ceramidase precursor to active acid ceramidase through autoproteolytic cleavage, wherein said incubating is carried out at a pH of 4 to 6.5 and a temperature of 30°C, 35°C or 37°C for 3 hours, and further comprises heating said medium under conditions effective to remove acid sphingomyelinase activity; and recovering the incubated medium as a recombinant ceramidase mixture comprising the inactive acid ceramidase precursor and an active acid ceramidase, wherein the ceramidase mixture has no detectable acid sphingomyelinase activity. providing a medium containing a recombinant inactive acid ceramidase precursor; incubating the medium under conditions effective to transform a portion of the inactive acid ceramidase precursor to active acid ceramidase through autoproteolytic cleavage, wherein said incubating is carried out at a pH of 4 to 6.5 and a temperature of 30°C, 35°C or 37°C for 3 hours, and further comprises heating said medium under conditions effective to remove acid sphingomyelinase activity; and recovering the incubated medium as a recombinant ceramidase mixture comprising the inactive acid ceramidase precursor and an active acid ceramidase, wherein the ceramidase mixture has no detectable acid sphingomyelinase activity.
Method for producing an oriented-porosity dielectric material on a substrate comprising: a) vapour phase deposition on a substrate of a composite layer, comprising a material forming a matrix and a decomposable pore-forming compound comprising chemical groups capable of being oriented under the effect of an electric field and/or photonic radiation; b) the treatment of the composite layer to obtain the cross-linking of the material forming a matrix; said method also comprising a step c) consisting of subjecting said substrate coated with said composite layer to an electric field and/or a photonic radiation, said step c) being carried out simultaneously with step a), when said layer is subjected to a photonic radiation or carried out before and/or simultaneously with step b), when said layer is subjected to an electric field, given that the electric field is applied in contact with the substrate, said step c) being carried out so as to align the chemical groups mentioned in step a) in a predetermined direction, said method also comprising a step d) consisting of treating the composite layer to obtain a decomposition of the pore-forming compound and thus the extraction thereof. a) vapour phase deposition on a substrate of a composite layer, comprising a material forming a matrix and a decomposable pore-forming compound comprising chemical groups capable of being oriented under the effect of an electric field and/or photonic radiation; b) the treatment of the composite layer to obtain the cross-linking of the material forming a matrix;
A chair component assembly (18a/18b), comprising: a support component (164a/500)adapted to support a portion of a seated user; a fabric cover (412/504) having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; and a ring member (414/414b) having a plurality of side portions and a plurality of corner portions interspaced with the side portions, wherein at least one of the side portions is secured to the first surface of the cover (412/504) such that the at least one of the side portions is fixed for rotation with the cover (412/504) along a longitudinal axis of the at least one of the side portions, and wherein at least one of the corner portions is secured to the first surface of the cover (412/504) such that the at least one of the corner portions is free for rotation with the cover (412/504) along a line tangential to the at least one of the corner portions, and wherein the fabric cover (412/504) is fixed for rotation with the at least one of the side portions of the ring member (414/414b) as the ring member (414/414b) is wrapped about the support component and the fabric cover (412/504) is free from rotation with the at least one of the corner portions as the cover (412/504) is wrapped about the support component (164a/500). a support component (164a/500)adapted to support a portion of a seated user; a fabric cover (412/504) having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; and a ring member (414/414b) having a plurality of side portions and a plurality of corner portions interspaced with the side portions, wherein at least one of the side portions is secured to the first surface of the cover (412/504) such that the at least one of the side portions is fixed for rotation with the cover (412/504) along a longitudinal axis of the at least one of the side portions, and wherein at least one of the corner portions is secured to the first surface of the cover (412/504) such that the at least one of the corner portions is free for rotation with the cover (412/504) along a line tangential to the at least one of the corner portions, and wherein the fabric cover (412/504) is fixed for rotation with the at least one of the side portions of the ring member (414/414b) as the ring member (414/414b) is wrapped about the support component and the fabric cover (412/504) is free from rotation with the at least one of the corner portions as the cover (412/504) is wrapped about the support component (164a/500).
A device for processing a signal representative of heart sounds, the device comprising: a segmenter for segmenting a signal representative of heart sounds into individual heart sound cycles; means for performing a Fourier transform of each individual heart sound cycle; a selector for selecting a cycle as a template, wherein, based on the Fourier transforms, the cycle having the largest signal to noise ratio in the signal is selected as the template; a difference generator for subtracting the Fourier transform of the template from each of the Fourier transforms of the other cycles for obtaining extracted components; inverse Fourier transform generators (111A, 111B) for generating the inverse Fourier transform of the Fourier transform of the template and for generating the inverse Fourier transform of the Fourier transform of the extracted components; amplifiers (113A, 113B) having independent amplification control means for controlling their gains independently, wherein the amplifiers are arranged to amplify the concatenated inverse Fourier transforms of the Fourier transforms of the components and the inverse Fourier transform of the Fourier transform of the template; and a combiner for combining the amplified inverse Fourier transform of the Fourier transform of the template and the amplified concatenated inverse Fourier transforms of the Fourier transforms of the extracted components for outputting a combined signal. a segmenter for segmenting a signal representative of heart sounds into individual heart sound cycles; means for performing a Fourier transform of each individual heart sound cycle; a selector for selecting a cycle as a template, wherein, based on the Fourier transforms, the cycle having the largest signal to noise ratio in the signal is selected as the template; a difference generator for subtracting the Fourier transform of the template from each of the Fourier transforms of the other cycles for obtaining extracted components; inverse Fourier transform generators (111A, 111B) for generating the inverse Fourier transform of the Fourier transform of the template and for generating the inverse Fourier transform of the Fourier transform of the extracted components; amplifiers (113A, 113B) having independent amplification control means for controlling their gains independently, wherein the amplifiers are arranged to amplify the concatenated inverse Fourier transforms of the Fourier transforms of the components and the inverse Fourier transform of the Fourier transform of the template; and a combiner for combining the amplified inverse Fourier transform of the Fourier transform of the template and the amplified concatenated inverse Fourier transforms of the Fourier transforms of the extracted components for outputting a combined signal.
Engine shaft, in particular the low-pressure or radial shaft, comprising a fiber-composite plastic tube provided with metallic driven or driving protrusions, and with an adapter integrally connected to one of the driven or driving protrusions with pylons (6, 9) being arranged on the circumferential area of the latter, characterized in that fibers of the fiber material are deflected, guided and retained on the pylons (6, 9) for introducing load into and transmitting load from the fiber-composite material, wherein fibers are deflected, guided and retained on each individual pylon (6, 9), and wherein a direct force transmission takes place from the fibers via the pylons (6, 9) to the driven or driving protrusion and/or from the driven or driving protrusion via the pylons (6, 9) to the fibers.
A liquid foamable composition, comprising: 0.5% to 7%, preferably 0.5% to 5%, by weight, of a surfactant selected from cationic surfactants, nonionic surfactants, and mixtures thereof; 1% to 15%, preferably 2% to 7%, by weight, of a fatty alcohol; 12% to 25%, by weight, of a skin care active, wherein the skin care active is selected from niacinamide, hexyldecanol, a peptide, panthenol, undeylenoyl phenylalanine, retinyl propionate, and mixtures thereof; and water, wherein the composition comprises 5% to 30% by weight of a skin care active. 0.5% to 7%, preferably 0.5% to 5%, by weight, of a surfactant selected from cationic surfactants, nonionic surfactants, and mixtures thereof; 1% to 15%, preferably 2% to 7%, by weight, of a fatty alcohol; 12% to 25%, by weight, of a skin care active, wherein the skin care active is selected from niacinamide, hexyldecanol, a peptide, panthenol, undeylenoyl phenylalanine, retinyl propionate, and mixtures thereof; and water, wherein the composition comprises 5% to 30% by weight of a skin care active.
A method for transmitting Device-to-Device, D2D, data by a User Equipment, UE, in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining a bitmap to be applied to a subframe pool for data transmission from a subframe indicator bitmap according to an Uplink/Downlink, UL/DL, configuration, wherein the subframe indicator bitmap is one of among a) 8 bits bitmap for UL/DL configuration 1, 2, 4, 5, b) 7 bits bitmap for UL/DL configuration 0, c) 6 bits bitmap for UL/DL configuration 3, 6 determining a set of subframes to transmit the D2D data by using the bitmap to the subframe pool for data transmission; and transmitting the D2D data in a subframe included in the determined subframe set. determining a bitmap to be applied to a subframe pool for data transmission from a subframe indicator bitmap according to an Uplink/Downlink, UL/DL, configuration, wherein the subframe indicator bitmap is one of among a) 8 bits bitmap for UL/DL configuration 1, 2, 4, 5, b) 7 bits bitmap for UL/DL configuration 0, c) 6 bits bitmap for UL/DL configuration 3, 6 a) 8 bits bitmap for UL/DL configuration 1, 2, 4, 5, b) 7 bits bitmap for UL/DL configuration 0, c) 6 bits bitmap for UL/DL configuration 3, 6 determining a set of subframes to transmit the D2D data by using the bitmap to the subframe pool for data transmission; and transmitting the D2D data in a subframe included in the determined subframe set.
A system (100; 300; 500), comprising: a neuromodulator (102; 302; 502), wherein the neuromodulator includes a neuromodulation generator and a plurality of electrodes (101; 301; 501) for use to deliver neuromodulation to at least two neuromodulation sites using at least two timing channels; and a programming system (103; 303; 503) configured to wirelessly communicate with the neuromodulator, the programming system including a user interface, wherein the programming system is configured to receive user input, via the user interface, for use in programming at least two timing channels to generate sequences of spatially-different neuromodulation fields for the at least two neuromodulation, respectively, wherein for each of the at least two timing channels the programming includes creating block sequence descriptions to define both a sequence of blocks and timing relationships between the blocks for the corresponding one of the at least two timing channels, wherein each of the blocks correspond to a neuromodulation parameter set with a corresponding electrode configuration to generate a corresponding one of the spatially-different neuromodulation fields, and wherein the programming system (103; 303; 503) is configured to translate the block sequence descriptions into neuromodulator instructions, and wireless communicate the neuromodulator instructions to the neuromodulator for use by the neuromodulator to deliver the neuromodulation to each of the at least two neuromodulation sites using the corresponding timing channel according to the corresponding block sequence description. a neuromodulator (102; 302; 502), wherein the neuromodulator includes a neuromodulation generator and a plurality of electrodes (101; 301; 501) for use to deliver neuromodulation to at least two neuromodulation sites using at least two timing channels; and a programming system (103; 303; 503) configured to wirelessly communicate with the neuromodulator, the programming system including a user interface, wherein the programming system is configured to receive user input, via the user interface, for use in programming at least two timing channels to generate sequences of spatially-different neuromodulation fields for the at least two neuromodulation, respectively, wherein for each of the at least two timing channels the programming includes creating block sequence descriptions to define both a sequence of blocks and timing relationships between the blocks for the corresponding one of the at least two timing channels, wherein each of the blocks correspond to a neuromodulation parameter set with a corresponding electrode configuration to generate a corresponding one of the spatially-different neuromodulation fields, and wherein the programming system (103; 303; 503) is configured to translate the block sequence descriptions into neuromodulator instructions, and wireless communicate the neuromodulator instructions to the neuromodulator for use by the neuromodulator to deliver the neuromodulation to each of the at least two neuromodulation sites using the corresponding timing channel according to the corresponding block sequence description.
Process for producing an electrode for an electrochemical energy store, in particular for a lithium ion battery, comprising the process steps: a) provision of a mixture of starting materials for forming an iron-doped lithium titanate; b) calcination of the mixture of starting materials for forming the iron-doped lithium titanate; c) addition of a sulfur- and lithium-comprising component in the form of lithium sulfide to the mixture of starting materials for forming the iron-doped lithium titanate before and/or after calcination, and d) optionally addition of a pore former to the mixture of starting materials for forming the iron-doped lithium titanate before and/or after calcination; e) sintering of the calcined product; and f) optionally removal of the pore former from the calcined and optionally sintered product. a) provision of a mixture of starting materials for forming an iron-doped lithium titanate; b) calcination of the mixture of starting materials for forming the iron-doped lithium titanate; c) addition of a sulfur- and lithium-comprising component in the form of lithium sulfide to the mixture of starting materials for forming the iron-doped lithium titanate before and/or after calcination, and d) optionally addition of a pore former to the mixture of starting materials for forming the iron-doped lithium titanate before and/or after calcination; e) sintering of the calcined product; and f) optionally removal of the pore former from the calcined and optionally sintered product.
An apparatus for selectively sharing, towards separate users, the power of a multi-drive unit vehicle, comprising: a mechanical transmission, that connects propulsion units of the vehicle to at least one primary drive unit; a secondary power unit for service units, which is operatively positioned between the mechanical transmission and at least one service unit of the vehicle; and at least one of either a first or a second joint ( 15, 16), that are mounted on the mechanical transmission on either side of the secondary power unit for service units and are switchable by operating suitable control means, wherein said primary drive unit is a combustion engine or an electric motor, said control means comprising a microprocessor-type controller, operatively interfaced with said joints ( 15, 16), for selectively activating the sharing of power between the propulsion units and said one or each service unit, relative to operation required of the vehicle by its use; characterized by Z said microprocessor-type controller being adapted for managing said power sharing towards the propulsion unit depending on priority requests for propelling power arriving from said propulsion units. a mechanical transmission, that connects propulsion units of the vehicle to at least one primary drive unit; a secondary power unit for service units, which is operatively positioned between the mechanical transmission and at least one service unit of the vehicle; and at least one of either a first or a second joint ( 15, 16), that are mounted on the mechanical transmission on either side of the secondary power unit for service units and are switchable by operating suitable control means, wherein said primary drive unit is a combustion engine or an electric motor, said control means comprising a microprocessor-type controller, operatively interfaced with said joints ( 15, 16), for selectively activating the sharing of power between the propulsion units and said one or each service unit, relative to operation required of the vehicle by its use; characterized by Z said microprocessor-type controller being adapted for managing said power sharing towards the propulsion unit depending on priority requests for propelling power arriving from said propulsion units.
A method of activating an electronic device comprising a sensor and a control circuit, the method comprising: in the sensor: obtaining, movement data indicative of movement of the electronic device; comparing the movement data with a predetermined threshold value; providing, responsive to the movement data exceeding the predetermined threshold value, said movement data to the control circuit; and in the control circuit: determining whether at least a portion of the movement data satisfies a predetermined activation criteria comprising one or more predetermined motion patterns of the electronic device; activating (50, 52) a power state based on determining whether the portion of the movement data satisfies the predetermined activation criteria; and disabling activation of the control circuit for a period of time in response to one or more consecutive determinations that the portion of the movement data does not satisfy the predetermined activation criteria. in the sensor: obtaining, movement data indicative of movement of the electronic device; comparing the movement data with a predetermined threshold value; providing, responsive to the movement data exceeding the predetermined threshold value, said movement data to the control circuit; and obtaining, movement data indicative of movement of the electronic device; comparing the movement data with a predetermined threshold value; providing, responsive to the movement data exceeding the predetermined threshold value, said movement data to the control circuit; and in the control circuit: determining whether at least a portion of the movement data satisfies a predetermined activation criteria comprising one or more predetermined motion patterns of the electronic device; activating (50, 52) a power state based on determining whether the portion of the movement data satisfies the predetermined activation criteria; and disabling activation of the control circuit for a period of time in response to one or more consecutive determinations that the portion of the movement data does not satisfy the predetermined activation criteria. determining whether at least a portion of the movement data satisfies a predetermined activation criteria comprising one or more predetermined motion patterns of the electronic device; activating (50, 52) a power state based on determining whether the portion of the movement data satisfies the predetermined activation criteria; and disabling activation of the control circuit for a period of time in response to one or more consecutive determinations that the portion of the movement data does not satisfy the predetermined activation criteria.