Abstract:
A detection device (100) detects an analyte that may be contained in a specimen. The detection device (100) includes a plurality of gold nanoparticles, an optical trapping light source (101), an illumination light source (102), an objective lens (103), an image pick-up device (108), and a computation unit (106). The plurality of gold nanoparticles are each modified with a probe DNA allowing the analyte to specifically adhere thereto. The optical trapping light source (101) emits polarized light for assembling the plurality of gold nanoparticles together. The objective lens (103) focuses and introduces the polarized light into a liquid containing a specimen and the plurality of gold nanoparticles. The image pick-up device (108) receives light from the liquid. The computation unit (106) detects an analyte based on a signal received from the image pick-up device (108).
Abstract:
The present application relates to a method whereby a plurality of characteristic vectors which are extracted from image data are logged in a database together with the image data for approximate nearest neighbor searching, and has as an objective reducing computation time and memory use. L groups of K hash tables are generated, and each characteristic vector is respectively logged with each hash table. With one group as a copy destination, another group as a copy source, and each respective division by combination of logging bin of the K hash tables of each group as a bucket: 1) a given characteristic vector is focused on; 2) another characteristic vector which is logged in the same bucket in the copy source as the characteristic vector is identified; 3) a characteristic vector is selected in which a number of groups in which the other characteristic vector is logged in the same bucket as the characteristic vector which is focused on is greater than or equal to a prescribed threshold; and 4) when the characteristic vector which is selected in 3) is not logged in each bin of the copy destination in which the characteristic vector being focused on is logged, the characteristic vector is logged in each bin. After focusing on a prescribed number of characteristic vectors and executing 1) - 4) foregoing for each characteristic vector, the copy source hash tables are deleted.
Abstract:
A friction stir processing tool is formed from a Ni-based dual multi-phase intermetallic compound alloy containing rhenium(Re). The Ni-based dual multi-phase intermetallic compound alloy is preferably formed by casting, while gradually cooling, a melt containing all the components of the composition and is preferably heat treated after casting. Moreover, in a method for friction stir processing, a work is softened by friction heat generated when the friction stir processing tool, while rotating, is pressed against the work to be processed. The friction stir processing tool includes the Ni-based dual multi-phase intermetallic compound alloy, and therefore further high hardness is exhibited to improve abrasion resistance, so that even a long period of friction stir processing can be endured.
Abstract:
An optical fiber, including (i) an inner core having an α-power refractive index profile, (ii) an outer core having a refractive index of n1', and (iii) a cladding having a refractive index of n2 (n1'
Abstract:
A terahertz light generation device 1 comprises a resonator structure 12 for intensifying incident light and outputting the intensified light and laser oscillation units 10, 11 for feeding the incident light into the resonator structure 12. The incident light comprises first and second incident light components having polarization states different from each other and frequencies different from each other. The laser oscillation units 10, 11 feed the resonator structure 12 with the first and second incident light components at an angle inclined from a principal surface in the resonator structure 12. The resonator structure 12 outputs light having a frequency corresponding to the difference between the respective frequencies of the first and second incident light components.
Abstract:
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a novel boron-containing compound utilizable in BNCT and so on and a process for preparing same. According to the process, a boron compounds having an amino acid skeleton containing cyclo-type rings or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is prepared, said boron compound being represented by general formula (I)[wherein l is an integer of 1 to 6; m is 0, 1, or 2; and n is 0, 1 or 2].
Abstract:
The present invention aims to provide a method of compiling and retrieving an image database having excellent space efficiency, wherein an associative data structure is used in order to solve the foregoing problem. There is provided a method including the steps of: an extracting step for extracting a plurality of feature vectors from an image formed by capturing an object to be stored into an image database, an n bit of identifier (n is a natural number) being previously assigned to the object and each feature vector representing a local feature of the image, and a storing step for storing each feature vector into the image database using a set of data structures, each data structure admitting a false positive in compensation for reduced memory amount and returning a value showing whether specified data is stored to the data structure or not, so that the identifier of the object is associated with the feature vector extracted therefrom, wherein the set of data structures has at least 2 by n identifier data structures, each identifier data structure corresponding to zero value and one value of each bit of the identifier, the storing step stores each feature vector into the identifier data structures of either zero value or one value of each bit according to the object from which the feature vector is extracted, the image database is accessed by a computer to execute, when an image showing an object is given as a query, a recognition process that examines whether the same object as the query is stored in the image database or not, wherein the recognition process includes steps of: extracting a plurality of feature vectors as query vectors from the query, testing whether the corresponding feature vector to each query vector is stored in the identifier data structures or not, and in case where the corresponding feature vector is stored in either zero value or one value of every bit of the identifier data structures, finding an identifier that relates to the query vector according to a stored value of each bit, so that the query is associated with the most strongly related identifier based on the sum of the tests on each query vector.
Abstract:
In order to realize a method and an apparatus, each of which requires no contact treatment and no chemical reaction, for separating isomers of a chiral substance by irradiating a chiral substance C with light such as circularly polarized light, so as to separate isomers (C 1 and C 2 ) in accordance with a difference in acceleration between the isomers (C 1 and C 2 ), separation of isomers of a chiral substance in accordance with the present invention includes: (i) a circularly polarized light irradiating apparatus (3) for irradiating, with circularly polarized light, a chiral substance (C) which is a mixture of different isomers (C 1 and C 2 ) and is released from a molecular beam generating apparatus (2) in a vacuum chamber (1) and (ii) isomer inlets (1a and 1b) for separating the different isomers (C 1 and C 2 ) of the chiral substance (C) in accordance with a difference in acceleration between the different isomers (C 1 and C 2 ).
Abstract:
An objective of the present invention is to provide the cytolethal distending toxin (CDT) of C. hyointestinalis and polynucleotides encoding it, and novel methods for detection of C. hyointestinalis using the cdt genes. The present inventors focused on the cytolethal distending toxin (CDT) of Campylobacter bacteria, and detected the cdt genes of a Campylobacter -like bacterium isolated from an enteritis patient in Thailand. The present inventors discovered a bacterial strain whose cdtB gene was amplified by common primers in C. jejuni, C. coli, and C. fetus, but not by multiplex PCR that can specifically detect the cdtA, cdtB, and cdtC genes of the three bacterial species. The bacterial strain was identified as C. hyointestinalis by 16S rRNA gene analysis. Furthermore, the entire nucleotide sequence of the cdt genes was determined by genome walking upstream and downstream of the cdtB gene.
Abstract:
The invention provides a method for actualizing a high-speed object recognition process in an object recognition which extracts feature vectors from an input image where an object is captured, the feature vectors representing the object with the large number of the feature vectors; and retrieves, among an image database, one or more images whose features are matched. The invention also provides a method for saving a memory capacity required for the image database. Suggested are methods each of the methods being capable of reducing a processing time required to perform a task which recognizes the object described by a plurality of the feature vectors with use of an approximate nearest neighbor search technique. One of the suggested methods is actualized by excluding such feature vectors that a large number of feature vectors are present in the vicinity and a large number of distance calculations, therefore, are required. Another suggested method is actualized by only performs voting using a hash table without performing any distance calculation. Moreover, another suggested method is actualized by connecting recognizers in cascaded manner each of which uses the nearest neighbor search technique, varying a degree of approximation applied to the object recognition in accordance with the input image, thereby significantly increasing efficiency.