Abstract:
An optical null method spectrophotometer with which the difference between the intensity of a test sample beam representing the quantity of light transmitted through a test sample and the intensity of a reference sample beam representing the quantity of light transmitted through a reference sample is detected and amplified to drive a servo mechanism to thereby displace an optical attenuator inserted in the path of the reference beam, so as to vary the reference sample beam until the test sample beam and the reference sample beam are balanced with each other to thereby obtain transmission spectra or absorption spectra of the test sample, characterized in that separate means is provided for producing an electrical signal proportional to the variation in the reference sample beam resulting from the displacement of the optical attenuator and that the electrical signal produced by the separate means is recorded by a recorder.
Abstract:
A simple, high performance double beam optical absorption photometer for use in chemical analysis instruments is described. Two small cylindrical chambers for sample and reference liquids are positioned side by side and along a single optical axis. Collimated ultraviolet radiation from a single source is passed lengthwise through both chambers and the relative absorption of sample and reference liquids sensed by a dual photodetector. A Wheatstone bridge circuit containing the photodetector elements is excited by a feedback power supply and provides linear absorbance readout.
Abstract:
Apparatus for selecting the correct exposure time for each particular negative in a reader-printer. A hairline image which is movable is provided on the viewing screen of the readerprinter, and an image of the negative to be printed is projected on the viewing screen by a projector, the intensity of which is controlled by a variable resistor. When the image of the negative is viewed on the screen, the hairline is moved so that part of it crosses the darkest area of the projected image. The projector''s light is then dimmed until the operator is unable to distinguish the hairline from the surrounding background of the dark portion of the projected image. The reading of the variable resistor at that point is calibrated to give the correct exposure time for the negative being printed.
Abstract:
Improved fallback mechanisms for auto white balancing are presented. In at least one embodiment, white balance correction factors produced by a first white balance technique are blended with white balance correction factors produced by a second white balance technique based on a confidence level in the white balance correction factors produced by the first white balance technique.
Abstract:
A floating calibration target for an image sensor can include a plurality of hexagonally shaped floatation devices that each emit light at one or more predetermined wavelengths. The floating calibration target can also include a seine net circumscribing the plurality of hexagonally shaped floatation devices. The seine net draws the plurality of hexagonally shaped floatation devices toward each other to form a substantially contiguous surface for the floating calibration target.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for customized hair-coloring is disclosed. In some embodiments the method comprises: a. performing a plurality of light-scattering measurements upon a sample of hair such that for each light-scattering measurement, the sample of hair is illuminated from a different respective direction; b. comparing the results of the light-scattering measurements; c. in accordance with results of the comparing, computing an initial damage-state of hair of the sample by comparing the results of the light-scattering measurements; d. obtaining an initial color-state of the hair of the sample; and e. computing a hair-coloring composition that is predicted to transform the hair sample from the initial color-state to a target color-state such that in response to a determining of a greater (lesser) extent of initial damage, a concentration of artificial-colorant(s) within the computed coloring composition is reduced (increased).
Abstract:
A calibration apparatus calibrating a projection unit projecting light-rays includes: an imaging unit taking an image of a surface of an object having a location and an attitude, the light-rays projected onto the surface by the projection unit; a location-and-attitude estimation unit estimating the location and the attitude of the surface based on the image; a reflection-point estimation unit estimating, based on the estimated location and the attitude, a reflection point at which one of the light-rays is reflected by the surface; and an identification unit identifying both a passing point that the one of the light-rays passes and a direction in which the one of the light-rays passes the passing point, or identifying only the direction, based on multiple reflection points obtained by the reflection-point estimation unit with respect to multiple different locations and/or multiple different attitudes of the surface.
Abstract:
A Total Suspended Solids (TSS) Device which includes a plurality of calibrated sample containers in a case, such that each calibrated sample container contains a calibrated sample, wherein each calibrated sample is a sample with a known suspended solids concentration prepared from a site sample, such that said TSS device is configured to allow a discharge sample in a discharge sample container to be visually compared to each of the calibrated samples in the calibrated sample containers in said case, where the discharge sample is a sample of a liquid discharge from a site.
Abstract:
A method and a system for measuring an optical asynchronous sample signal. The system for measuring an optical asynchronous sampling signal comprises a pulsed optical source capable of emitting two optical pulse sequences with different repetition frequencies, a signal optical path, a reference optical path, and a detection device. Since the optical asynchronous sampling signal can be measured by merely using one pulsed optical source, the complexity and cost of the system are reduced. A multi-frequency optical comb system using the pulsed optical source and a method for implementing the multi-frequency optical comb are further disclosed.