Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for setting a reference picture index of a temporal merging candidate. An inter-picture prediction method using a temporal merging candidate can include the steps of: determining a reference picture index for a current block; and inducing a temporal merging candidate block of the current block and calculating a temporal merging candidate from the temporal merging candidate block, wherein the reference picture index of the temporal merging candidate can be calculated regardless of whether a block other than the current block is decoded. Accordingly, a video processing speed can be increased and video processing complexity can be reduced.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 5, 2019
Date of Patent:
November 24, 2020
Assignees:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University
Inventors:
Hui Yong Kim, Gwang Hoon Park, Kyung Yong Kim, Sang Min Kim, Sung Chang Lim, Jin Ho Lee, Jin Soo Choi, Jin Woong Kim
Abstract: A system and methods for maintaining pressure on an annulus in a well are provided. An example of a pressure maintenance system for an annulus on a well, included a passive accumulator coupled to the annulus to accept fluid expanding in the annulus or to supply fluid to replace fluid contracting in the annulus. A gas pressure system is included to maintain a gas in a headspace over the fluid in the passive accumulator, and a pressure controller maintains pressure in the headspace within a set range.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 21, 2018
Date of Patent:
November 24, 2020
Assignee:
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
Inventors:
Benjamin B. Douglas, Ian McKay, Malcom J. Stevenson
Abstract: The disclosure provides anti-DENV antibodies and methods of making and using the same. Nucleic acids encoding anti-DENV antibodies and host cells comprising the nucleic acids are also provided. The anti-DENV antibodies have uses that include treating DENV infection. The disclosure also provided polypeptides containing a variant Fc region and methods of making the same. Nucleic acids encoding polypeptides and host cells comprising the nucleic acids are also provided. The polypeptides have uses that include treating a viral infection. Also claimed is a polypeptide comprising a Fc variant comprising at least one amino acid alteration in a parent Fc region, wherein the variant Fc region has a substantially decreased FcYR-binding activity and does not have a substantially decreased C1 q-binding activity when compared to the parent Fc region.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 10, 2019
Date of Patent:
November 24, 2020
Assignees:
Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha, Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Inventors:
Zenjiro Sampei, Xing'er Christine Koo, Katja Fink, Roland Zuest
Abstract: This disclosure relates to computationally efficient processing of legal texts. A language processor extracts from text blocks atomic literals that correspond to terms in the legal text and that are shared across logic expressions for different text blocks. A mapper maps the text blocks into a logic expression of the atomic literals and a logic engine evaluates the logic expression based on one or more assignments of the atomic literals. A user interface comprises user input elements associated with the atomic literals. Upon user interaction with the user input elements, an assignment is created of the atomic literal associated with the user input elements and the logic engine is called to evaluate the logic expression based on the created assignment. The user interface changes based on the evaluation to thereby provide legal advice in the form of remaining atomic literals.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 26, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 24, 2020
Assignee:
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Inventors:
Linda Postniece, Leif Hanlen, Travis Simon, Neil Bacon, Guido Governatori
Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image encoding method performed by an image encoding apparatus may comprise determining an intra-prediction mode of a current block, configuring a reference sample of intra prediction by using at least one of a neighbor pixel of the current block in a current picture and a pixel of a reference picture, and performing intra prediction for the current block based on the intra-prediction mode and the reference sample.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 22, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 24, 2020
Assignees:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University
Inventors:
Jung Won Kang, Hyun Suk Ko, Sung Chang Lim, Jin Ho Lee, Ha Hyun Lee, Dong San Jun, Seung Hyun Cho, Hui Yong Kim, Jin Soo Choi, Gwang Hoon Park, Tae Hyun Kim, Dae Young Lee
Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods generating power using supercritical CO2 in a Brayton cycle that incorporates a double-wall turboexpander that includes an inner chamber housing the turbine and an outer chamber that includes a thermal attenuator that reduces the outer chamber wall temperature of the turboexpander. An inner chamber wall separates the inner chamber and the outer chamber within the double-wall turboexpander. In supercritical CO2 applications, the double-wall turboexpander operates at elevated temperatures and elevated pressures. By maintaining the thermal attenuator the outer chamber at an elevated pressure, the differential pressure across the inner chamber wall is reduced, requiring less high-temperature alloy material in the construction of the double-wall turboexpander when compared to a conventional turboexpander.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a self assembled catalyst. More particularly, the present invention relates to a self-assembled catalyst of formula (I) comprising supramolecular phosphine and carboxylate ligands, process for preparation thereof and use of said catalyst of formula (I) in olefin polymerization.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 28, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 24, 2020
Assignee:
COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH
Abstract: A chemical sensor and a system and method for sensing a chemical species. The chemical sensor includes a plurality of nanofibers whose electrical impedance varies upon exposure to the chemical species, a substrate supporting and electrically isolating the fibers, a set of electrodes connected to the plurality of fibers at spatially separated points to permit the electrical impedance of the plurality of fibers to be measured, and a membrane encasing the fibers and having a thickness ranging from 50 ?m to 5.0 mm. The system includes the chemical sensor, an impedance measuring device coupled to the electrodes and configured to determine an electrical impedance of the plurality of fibers, and an analyzer configured to identify the chemical species based on a change in the electrical impedance.
Abstract: The invention relates to the use of compounds of general structure (I) in modulation of the Wnt pathway [Formula should be inserted here] wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are each, independently, H or an alkyl group; D is selected from the group consisting of H, halogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, and dialkylamino, each (other than H and halogen) being optionally substituted; Ar is an aryl or heteroaryl group, optionally substituted; Cy is an aryl, heteroaryl or a saturated ring containing at least one heteroatom, each being optionally substituted; and n is an integer from 1 to 3.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 16, 2019
Date of Patent:
November 24, 2020
Assignee:
AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method which can effectively remove perovskite light absorbers, hole transport layers, metal electrodes, and the like by immersing a waste perovskite-based photoelectric conversion element module in a cleaning solution under predetermined conditions. The present invention can recover a substrate from the waste module and manufacture a photoelectric conversion element having a photoelectric conversion efficiency level comparable to the initially high level again, using the same.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 24, 2016
Date of Patent:
November 24, 2020
Assignees:
GLOBAL FRONTIER CENTER FOR MULTISCALE ENERGY, RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGYUNKWAN
Inventors:
Hyun Suk Jung, Byeong Jo Kim, Dong Hoe Kim, Seung Lee Kwon, Dong Geon Lee, Young Un Jin, So Yeon Park
Abstract: An electronic control unit for a vehicle for switching vehicle control from an autonomous driving mode includes one or more processors, network interface hardware configured to communicate with a remote server over a network, and one or more memory modules that store logic. The electronic control unit executes logic to determine that the autonomous driving mode of the vehicle will terminate, determine that a driver is unavailable to take immediate control of the vehicle upon termination of the autonomous driving, transfer control of the vehicle to a remote operator over the network interface hardware for a first time period, generate an alert to the driver to take manual control of the vehicle, and transfer control of the vehicle to one of the driver and the autonomous driving mode after the first time period has elapsed.
Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for a swallowable pH sensor made entirely of edible and digestible materials. A substrate is provided and an electrical circuit pattern is printed on a top surface of the substrate. The electrical circuit pattern includes a plurality of interdigitated electrodes and an antenna portion. The substrate is rolled into a cylindrical form such that the interdigitated electrodes are positioned on an outermost layer of the rolled substrate. The rolling of the substrate also causes the antenna portion of the electrical circuit pattern to form into a coil shape.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 20, 2019
Date of Patent:
November 24, 2020
Assignees:
Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
Inventors:
Hanqing Jiang, Haokai Yang, Douglas Faigel, Wenwen Xu
Abstract: A method for a structural characterization of polysaccharides, comprising steps of characterizing a polysaccharide by physical measurements comprising a determination of a mass of the polysaccharide by means of mass spectrometry, a further determination of a rotationally averaged cross section of the polysaccharide by means of ion mobility spectrometry, and an infrared spectrum of the polysaccharide by means of cryogenic, messenger-tagging IR spectroscopy.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 29, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 24, 2020
Assignees:
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL), INDIANA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Inventors:
Thomas Rizzo, Chiara Masellis, Michael Zachary Kamrath, David Clemmer, Neelam Khanal
Abstract: Provided herein are methods of making metal halide perovskites, including methods of making bulk crystals or micro crystals. The metal halide perovskites may be a light emitting material.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 4, 2018
Date of Patent:
November 24, 2020
Assignee:
Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: Mutant thioesterases having enhanced medium chain substrate activity, polynucleotides encoding and configured to express the mutant thioesterases in a transformed host cell, host cells transformed to contain the polynucleotides, and methods of using same.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 19, 2019
Date of Patent:
November 24, 2020
Assignee:
WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Inventors:
Brian F. Pfleger, Nestor Hernandez-Lozada, Rung-Yi Lai
Abstract: Provided herein are hip implant devices and related surgical methods. The hip implants and methods can optionally be used in patients of Asian descent.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 24, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 24, 2020
Assignees:
Excera Orthopedics, Inc., Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
Inventors:
Bernard Morrey, Kai-Nan An, Andrew Thoreson, Qingshan Chen, Xinyuan David Wang, James Zhiming Jiang
Abstract: Provided is a lubricating oil composition, which has low viscosity but also prolonged anti-shudder life without reduction of intermetallic friction coefficient. The lubricating oil composition is characterized in comprising (A) a lubricating base oil, and (C) (C-1) a borated succinimide compound with a mass average molecular weight of 4,000-7,000 and (C-2) a borated succinimide compound with a mass average molecular weight of greater than 7,000-10,000.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 23, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 24, 2020
Assignee:
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
Abstract: A low-cost compact fiberless diffuse speckle contrast flowmeter includes a small laser diode and a 2-dimensional imaging device such as a charge coupled device (CCD) or complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) for directly contacting the tissue and measuring a parameter such as blood flow in a deep/thick volume of tissue (up to 10 mm depth). The small laser diode is fixed at a certain distance (0 to 20 mm) from the imaging device and directly contacts the tissue. Light emitted from the laser diode penetrates through the tissue and reflects back to the imaging device without passing through any lenses or fibers. One or more additional laser diodes may be added for producing light at different wavelengths, and the combination of measurements taken by the imaging device at the different wavelengths allows for measuring additional parameters, such as both blood flow and blood oxygenation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 21, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 24, 2020
Assignee:
University of Kentucky Research Foundation
Abstract: A system and method are provided for controlling a magnetic resonance imaging system to perform a gradient echo pulse sequence that includes varying a phase of an RF pulse of the gradient echo pulse sequence between repetitions and acquire complex MR data. The method includes processing the complex MR data to determine signal contributions from transverse relaxation (T2) in the subject, generating a quantitative T2 map of the subject using the signal contributions from T2 in the subject, and displaying the quantitative T2 map.