Abstract:
Apparatus and methods may provide for determining a value of chemical parameter. One or more light emitters may be positioned within a housing to emit light through an aperture of the housing. The emitted light may illuminate a color area of a structure that is separable from the housing, such as a test strip, a printed color reference, and so on. A color sensor may be positioned within the housing to capture reflected light and to convert the reflected light to an initial digitized color space that may be usable to determine a color shade of a color area. The reflected light may, for example, be captured independently at least of a dimension (e.g., predetermined size, shape, etc.) of the color area.
Abstract:
A freshness estimation method and apparatus (10). The method includes obtaining an absorbance spectrum that is obtained by irradiating an eye of a fish (12) with light having all or part of a wavelength band from 315 nm to 450 nm; and estimating freshness of the fish (12) by using a shape of the obtained absorbance spectrum. The apparatus (10) comprises an absorbance spectrum obtainer (31) and a freshness estimator (32).
Abstract:
A gas detector (10) includes a cell internal space (130) into which a target gas is supplied, the target gas exhibiting an absorption peak in an absorption spectrum; a light source (410) configured to generate light having at least a wavelength belonging to the absorption peak; and a photodetector (420) configured to detect the light that has emitted from the light source (410) and has propagated through the cell internal space (130). The gas detector (10) further includes a conductive thin film (220) in which a plurality of optical apertures(222) are regularly arranged such that a transmission peak in a transmission spectrum is superimposed over the absorption peak in the absorption spectrum along a wavelength axis. The conductive thin film (220) is provided on an optical path extending from the light source (410) to the photodetector (420), and is provided so as to be contactable with the target gas within the cell internal space (130).
Abstract:
A filter module (30) suitable for an optical instrument (A) for monitoring polymerase chain reaction replication of DNA in a reaction apparatus (B) that includes a thermal cycler block for holding a plurality of vials containing a suspension of ingredients for the reaction, the optical instrument including a housing suitable for receiving the filter module, the filter module comprising: a beam splitter (6) an excitation filter (7); an emission filter (8); and a support frame (34, 36, 40, 44); wherein: the beam splitter (6), the excitation filter (7) and the emission filter (8) are affixed to the support frame; the filter module (30) is suitable for being received in the housing of the optical instrument; the beam splitter (6), the excitation filter (7) and the emission filter (8), and thereby the filter module (30), are associated with a selected dye for the suspension; and the filter module (3) is removable from the housing of the optical instrument for replacement with another filter module associated with another selected dye.
Abstract:
A device for optically sensing a specimen with a large depth of field comprises a lighting module (1) which illuminates a zone of the specimen during a predetermined measurement period with a pattern whose phase is modified in time during the measurement period, generating a specimen light to which a corresponding time-variable phase is imparted, a detection module (4) having a space-resolving detection zone (8) which records the specimen zone and has multiple recording pixels (12), two analysis channels (13, 14) which can be connected to the recording pixels (12), and an analysis unit (25) connected to both analysis channels (13, 14), as well as a control unit which, during the measurement period, connects each recording pixel in synchrony with the phase of the detected specimen light to the two analysis channels (13, 14), alternatively, in such a way that the detected specimen light is divided into two portions phased in relation to one another, and the analysis unit calculates an optical split-image of the specimen zone on the basis of the two phased portions supplied to the analysis channels.
Abstract:
An optical instrument monitors PCR replication of DNA in a reaction apparatus having a temperature cycled block with vials of reaction ingredients including dye that fluoresces in presence of double-stranded DNA. A beam splitter passes an excitation beam to the vials to fluoresce the dye. An emission beam from the dye is passed by the beam splitter to a CCD detector from which a processor computes DNA concentration. A reference strip with a plurality of reference emitters emit reference beams of different intensity, from which the processor selects an optimum emitter for compensating for drift. Exposure time is automatically adjusted for keeping within optimum dynamic ranges of the CCD and processor. A module of the beam splitter and associated optical filters is associated with selected dye, and is replaceable for different dyes.
Abstract:
In one aspect, the amount of data needed to store image intensity data obtained from a scatterometer (100) such as a Parousiameter is reduced by varying a resolution with which the intensity data is used in different regions of a grid according to determined variations in the intensity. In another aspect, a scatterometer is provided with an aspherical mirror (170, 900, 1000) for imaging a test sample (180) to correct for distortions introduced by the off center placement of the mirror relative to the test sample. In another aspect, an optical surface inspection apparatus uses an auxiliary lens (1440) between a test surface (1420) and an illuminated patterned grid (1410) to project the patterned grid (1610) on the test surface. A camera (1450) is focused on the grid on the test surface as a real image.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides for an optical metrology system for scanning an object (106) having a shiny surface. The optical metrology system includes at least one light source (102) configured and adapted to emit a structured light pattern (L) against the surface of the object, at least one first polarizer (108) disposed between the light source and the object such that the light pattern passes therethrough, the first polarizer being configured and adapted to vary at least one of the plane of polarization and the polarization angle of the light pattern, at least one camera (124a-124c) configured and adapted to take images of the object, and at least one second polarizer disposed between the camera and the object, the second polarizer having a fixed orientation.
Abstract:
L'invention concerne un procédé et un dispositif de contrôle de la transparence d'au moins une partie d'un vitrage feuilleté préassemblé par analyse de l'intensité lumineuse de l'image d'une mire vue à travers ladite partie du vitrage. L'intensité lumineuse, captée par un détecteur, de chaque point de la mire vue au travers du vitrage est quantifiée par un nombre ; les nombres obtenus pour les points d'une même image sont ensuite moyennés, la moyenne obtenue étant comparée à une valeur théorique fixée au préalable.
Abstract:
Procédé servant à déterminer la netteté de l'image de la surface d'une feuille, bande ou analogue, qui comprend la réflexion d'une image sur la surface, la détection d'une image virtuelle de l'image projetée sur la surface et la transformation de l'image virtuelle détectée de l'image projetée sur la surface en un signal correspondant à la mesure de la netteté de l'image de la surface; l'image réfléchie sur la surface se compose d'un certain nombre de taches lumineuses distinctes, le nombre de ces taches est déterminé à partir de l'image virtuelle détectée et définit ainsi, au moins en partie, l'intensité du signal.