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An image sensor for capturing a color image is disclosed having a two-dimensional array having first and second groups of pixels wherein pixels from the first group of pixels have narrower spectral photoresponses than pixels from the second group of pixels and wherein the first group of pixels has individual pixels that have spectral photoresponses that correspond to a set of at least two colors. Further, the placement of the first and second groups of pixels defines a pattern that has a minimal repeating unit including at least twelve pixels. The minimal repeating unit has a plurality of cells wherein each cell has at least two pixels representing a specific color selected from the first group of pixels and a plurality of pixels selected from the second group of pixels arranged to permit the reproduction of a captured color image under different lighting conditions.

A method for forming a final digital color image includes capturing an image using an image sensor having panchromatic pixels and color pixels corresponding to at least two color photoresponses; providing from the captured image a digital panchromatic image and an intermediate digital color image; and using the digital panchromatic image and the intermediate digital color image to provide the final digital color image.

In a biological specimen imaging method, a biological specimen which is stored in a storing section of a substrate having plural storing sections and emitting a feeble light is imaged through an objective lens. The biological specimen imaging method includes moving any one of the substrate and the objective lens or both until the desired storing section falls within the field of view of the objective lens, measuring any one of a focal position at a near point and the focal position at a far point of the objective lens or both, determining the focal position of the objective lens focused on an observed target region in the biological specimen stored in the desired storing section based on the measured focal position, and adjusting the focal position of the objective lens to the determined focal position so as to image the biological specimen through the objective lens.

An image sensor for capturing a color image is disclosed having a two-dimensional array having first and second groups of pixels, arranged in rows and columns, wherein pixels from the first group of pixels have narrower spectral photoresponses than pixels from the second group of pixels; and the placement of the first and second groups of pixels defining a pattern that has a minimal repeating unit including at least six pixels, so that at least some rows or columns of the minimal repeating unit are composed only of pixels from the second group and some rows or columns of the minimal repeating unit are composed only of pixels from the first group, wherein the rows or columns that are composed only of pixels from the first group are composed of at most two colors of pixels from the first group.

This invention relates to crystals of whole antibodies and fragments thereof, and formulations and compositions comprising such crystals. More particularly, methods are provided for the crystallization of high concentrations of whole antibodies, and fragments thereof, in large batches, and for the preparation of stabilized whole antibody crystals for use alone, or in dry or slurry formulations or compositions. This invention also relates to methods for stabilization, storage and delivery of biologically active whole antibody crystals. The present invention further relates to methods using whole antibody crystals, antibody fragment crystals, or compositions or formulations comprising such crystals for biomedical applications, including biological delivery to humans and animals. More particularly, whole antibody crystals or antibody fragment crystals, or crystal compositions or formulations thereof, are used as a carrier-free delivery system which can slowly release active whole antibodies or fragments thereof, to a subject, where and when they are needed.

An imaging apparatus capable of preventing photographing sensitivity from being increased more than necessary, reducing image quality degradation caused by camera shake or object shake and easily photographing images in good image quality. Digital camera 1 includes image shake correcting selection 16 that corrects shake of an optical image of a photographing object formed by the imaging optical system L, digital signal amplification section 110 that amplifies an image signal with a gain set by digital signal gain setting section 111, face detection section 120 that detects a face of a fast-moving specific photographing object such as a child or pet, and motion detection section 100 that detects motion of the face of the specific photographing object based on an output of face detection section 120, wherein when a fast-moving specific photographing object such as a child or pet or the face of the specific photographing object is detected, microcomputer 3 increases the gain of a photographing sensitivity changing function compared with when no specific photographing object such as a child or pet is detected, increases ISO sensitivity, increases a shutter speed and shortens exposure time.

An image sensor for capturing a color image is disclosed having a two-dimensional array having first and second groups of pixels wherein pixels from the first group of pixels have narrower spectral photoresponses than pixels from the second group of pixels and wherein the first group of pixels has individual pixels that have spectral photoresponses that correspond to a set of at least two colors, with the placement of the first and second groups of pixels defining a pattern that has a minimal repeating unit including at least six pixels with at least some rows or columns of the minimal repeating unit composed only of pixels from the second group of pixels, and including ways to combine similarly positioned pixels from at least two adjacent minimal repeating units.

A target is illuminated with illumination light for image capture by a solid-state imager of an imaging reader. Internal reflections of the illumination light at a window are minimized, if not eliminated, by configuring the window as a non-planar optical element operative for redirecting the internal reflections away from the imager to enhance reader performance.

A system, method and device are disclosed for bio-processing a feed stream and providing a constant output by operating a continuous single-pass tangential-flow process. The single-pass process provides high conversion concentration while operating at relatively low feed flow rates, and the process can also be used to provide constant output diafiltration.

The invention discloses a medium-length hole mining method in multiple blasting free faces of high dipping thin veins. The medium-length hole mining method is characterized by comprising the steps of: arranging ore blocks along the trend of a core body, dividing the ore body into a medium section and a segment in the altitude; drilling a gate way in the segment and arranging in veins along the ore body; arranging a flat ore removal structure on the bottom along the veins; arranging a cutting raise from one ends of the ore blocks, arranging a manway at the other ends of the ore blocks; and upwards and downwards punching forwards leaning medium-length holes, with the cutting raise as free faces, and blasting caved ores in the segment by multiple free faces, and withdrawing the ore centrally at the bottom. The medium-length hole mining method has the remarkable characteristics of high mining safety, little resource dilution rate, good production continuity, high level of mechanization, low cost, high efficiency, low labor intensity and the like.

Methods and apparatus are provided for producing and extracting Mo-99 and other radioisotopes from fission products that overcome the drawbacks of previously-known systems, especially the excessive generation of radioactive wastes, by providing gas-phase extraction of fission product radioisotopes from a nuclear fuel target using a mixture including halide and an oxygen-containing species with heat to convert the fission product radioisotopes to gas (e.g., Mo-99 to MoO₂Cl₂ gas). The gaseous species are evacuated to a recovery chamber where the radioisotopes solidify for subsequent processing, while the substantially intact uranium target made available for further irradiation and extraction cycles.

A method for controlling the exposure of an active pixel array electronic still camera includes the steps of: integrating photocurrent in each pixel during an integration time period; collecting overflow charge from all pixels in the array during the integration time period; developing an overflow signal as a function of the overflow charge; and terminating the integration time period when the overflow signal exceeds a preset threshold level selected to represent a desired reference exposure level. Apparatus for performing the method of the present invention includes circuitry for integrating photocurrent in each pixel during a integration time period; circuitry for diverting and detecting overflow charge from all pixels in the array during the integration time period; circuitry for developing an overflow signal as a function of the overflow charge; and circuitry for terminating said integration time period when the overflow signal exceeds a preset threshold level selected to represent a desired reference exposure level.

The invention relates to a quick regenerating method for vegetation of returning farmland to grassland zone in extremely cold areas, which comprises the following steps of: (1) mixing and seeding annual pasture oat and perennial pasture on the farmland returning to grassland zone, and building an artificial pasture integrating mowing and grass seed harvesting functions; (2) ploughing and raking the artificial pasture; (3) sowing the seeds and applying base fertilizer; and (4) mowing the oat forage grass in the first year and harvesting the grass seeds and mowing the perennial pasture in the second year or later after covering and compacting the grass seeds in the step (3). The method utilizes the annual oat and perennial pasture to form different biotypes of pasture mixing and seeding community, so that the weed spreading can be obviously suppressed, the soil humidity and air humidity are obviously improved, the evaporation capacity and water loss and soil erosion intensity are reduced, therefore, the soil exposure time is short after regeneration of the grassland zone, the vegetation covering is quick, the water retention and preservation of soil moisture effect is obvious, and the ecological and economic benefits are remarkable.

The invention provides a method of forming a polycrystalline semiconductor film on a supporting substrate of foreign material. The method involves depositing a metal film onto the substrate, forming a film of metal oxide and/or hydroxide on a substrate of the metal, and forming a layer of an amorphous semiconductor material over a surface of the metal oxide and/or hydroxide film. The entire sample is then heated to a temperature at which the semiconductor layer is absorbed into the metal layer and deposited as a polycrystalline layer onto the target surface by metal-induced crystallization. The metal is left as an overlayer covering the deposited polycrystalline layer, with semiconductor inclusions in the metal layer. The polycrystalline semiconductor film and the overlayer are generated by porous interfacial metal oxide nd/or hydroxide film. The metal in the overlayer and the interfacial metal oxide and/or hydroxide film are then removed with an etch which underetches the semiconductor inclusions to form freestanding islands. Finally, the freestanding semiconductor “islands” are removed from the surface of the polycrystalline semiconductor layer by a lift-off process.

This invention relates to SPPs, spherical nanocrystalline composite particles or crystalline SPPs of biologically active proteins or compositions, including formulations, comprising such SPPs, spherical nanocrystalline composite particles or crystalline SPPs.

More particularly, methods are provided for the production of SPPs, spherical nanocrystalline composite particles or crystalline SPPs of high concentrations of biologically active proteins, and for the preparation of stabilized SPPs, spherical nanocrystalline composite particles or crystalline SPPs for use alone, or in dry or slurry compositions. This invention also relates to methods for stabilization, storage and delivery of biologically active proteins using SPPs, spherical nanocrystalline composite particles or crystalline SPPs.

The present invention further relates to methods using SPPs, spherical nanocrystalline composite particles or crystalline SPPs, or compositions or formulations comprising such SPPs, spherical nanocrystalline composite particles or crystalline SPPs, for biomedical applications, including biological delivery to humans and animals.

The invention discloses a digital holography reconstruction method based on an iterated denoising shrinkage-thresholding algorithm. The method comprises the following steps of 1, reading an original image, and acquiring diffraction light complex amplitude O(x, y) by using object light information of the original image, wherein the amplitude of the original image is O<0>(Xi, Eta); 2, intervening the diffraction light complex amplitude O(x, y) obtained through fresnel diffraction and reference light R(x, y) added with o and Pi second phase shift quantity to separately achieve light wave complex amplitude U<1>(x, y)/U<2>(x, y) on a holographic plate, laminating the two holographic images I<(1)> and I<(2)> to form a phase shift holographic image I-bar (x, y), constructing a sensing matrix A, and allowing y=Pi I-bar=Pi RO=AO, wherein Pi is a known measurement matrix, R is a spare basis matrix, and y expresses obtained observation data; and 4, figuring out and acquiring a reconstructed image of the original object by using the iterated denoising shrinkage-thresholding algorithm (IDNST). On the basis of TwIST algorithm, dual shrinkage of a threshold value and a regularization parameter are introduced to the IDNST algorithm, the signal-to-noise ratio can be improved, moreover, the convergence speed is increased, the reconstruction precision is improved, and the reproduction quality reaches a more excellent level.