2011 results about "Light response" patented technology

A method and device are presented for use in non-invasive optical measurements of at least one desired characteristic of patient's blood. A condition of artificial blood kinetics is created at a measurement location in a patient's blood perfused fleshy medium and maintained for a certain time period. This condition is altered over a predetermined time interval within said certain time period so as to modulate scattering properties of blood. Optical measurements are applied to the measurement location by illuminating it with incident light beams of at least two different wavelengths in a range where the scattering properties of blood are sensitive to light radiation, detecting light responses of the medium, and generating measured data indicative of time evolutions of the light responses of the medium for said at least two different wavelengths, respectively, over at least a part of said predetermined time interval.

A method for optical measurements of desired parameters of the patient's blood is presented. A state of the blood flow cessation is provided within a measurement region and maintained during a predetermined time period. Measurement sessions are performed within this predetermined time period. Each measurement session includes at least two measurements with different wavelengths of incident light. Obtained measured data is representative of the time dependence of light response of the blood in the measurement region. The analyses of the measured data enables the determination of the desired blood parameters extracted from optical characteristics associated with the erythrocytes aggregation process during the state of the blood flow cessation.

A method and device for optical measurements are presented for determining the concentration of a substance in patient's blood. Optical measurement sessions are applied to a measurement location in a blood containing medium during certain time period. The optical measurements include illumination of the measurement location with incident light of at least one selected wavelength, detection, at each measurement session, of at least two light responses of the medium characterized by at least two different polarization states of detected light, respectively, and generation of data representative thereof. Measured data so obtained is in the form of at least two time variations of the light responses of the medium characterized by different polarization states of detected light, respectively, a relation between the time variations being indicative of the concentration of the substance in blood.

A system, method and medical tool are presented for use in non-invasive in vivo determination of at least one desired parameter or condition of a subject having a scattering medium in a target region. The measurement system comprises an illuminating system, a detection system, and a control system. The illumination system comprises at least one light source configured for generating partially or entirely coherent light to be applied to the target region to cause a light response signal from the illuminated region. The detection system comprises at least one light detection unit configured for detecting time-dependent fluctuations of the intensity of the light response and generating data indicative of a dynamic light scattering (DLS) measurement. The control system is configured and operable to receive and analyze the data indicative of the DLS measurement to determine the at least one desired parameter or condition, and generate output data indicative thereof.

A measurement system and method are presented for use in detecting a predetermined condition of a patient's ear indicative of a certain disease such as SOM and SOM. The system comprises an optical measuring unit and a control unit connectable to the output of the measuring unit. The optical measuring unit is configured and operable for irradiating a region of interest in a patient's ear with incident light including at least two different wavelengths, detecting light responses of the region of interest to said at least two different wavelengths, and producing measured data indicative thereof. The at least two different wavelengths are selected such that the light response of the region of interest to at least one first wavelength is substantially independent of said predetermined condition and the light response to at least one second wavelength is affected by said predetermined condition. The control unit is operable for receiving and processing the measured data to generate output data indicative of the measurement results. The control unit is configured and operable for controlling operation of the optical measuring unit, and for receiving the measured data and processing it to generate output data indicative of whether or not said predetermined condition exists. The control unit comprises a memory utility for storing predetermined reference data indicative of the light response of the region of interest while in a healthy condition of a patient's ear; a data processing and analyzing utility preprogrammed for processing and analyzing the measured data by determining a relation between the measured light responses and the corresponding reference data.

A system and method are presented for use in the object reconstruction. The system comprises an illuminating unit, and an imaging unit (see FIG. 1). The illuminating unit comprises a coherent light source and a generator of a random speckle pattern accommodated in the optical path of illuminating light propagating from the light source towards an object, thereby projecting onto the object a coherent random speckle pattern. The imaging unit is configured for detecting a light response of an illuminated region and generating image data. The image data is indicative of the object with the projected speckles pattern and thus indicative of a shift of the pattern in the image of the object relative to a reference image of said pattern. This enables real-time reconstruction of a three-dimensional map of the object.

A method and system are presented for use in noninvasive monitoring at least one parameter of a region of interest in a human body. The system comprises a measurement unit and a control unit. The measurement unit comprises an optical unit having an illumination assembly configured to define at least one output port for illuminating light, and a light detection assembly configured to define at least one light input port for collecting light and to generate measured data indicative of the collected light; and an acoustic unit configured to generate acoustic waves of a predetermined ultrasound frequency range. The measurement unit is configured and operable to provide an operating condition such that the acoustic waves of the predetermined frequency range overlap with an illuminating region within the region of interest and substantially do not overlap with a region outside the region of interest, and that the detection assembly collects light scattered from the region of interest and light scattered from the region outside the region of interest. The measured data is thus indicative of scattered light having both ultrasound tagged and untagged light portions, thereby enabling to distinguish between light responses of the region of interest and the region outside the region of interest. The control unit is connectable to the optical unit and to the acoustic unit to operate these units, and is responsive to the measured data and preprogrammed to process and analyze the measured data to extract therefrom data indicative of a light response of the region of interest and determine the at least one desired parameter.

According to the present invention, an enamine compound having a specific structure is used as an organic photoconductive material. This enamine compound is obtained based on asymmetrical secondary naphtylamine which is readily available at a lowest price, by introducing phenyl groups containing substituents, as constituents units of the enamine part and presents excellent compatibility with binder resins, will not present detrimental effects such as partial crystallization at film forming and have a high charge mobility. The compound is able to realize highly reliable electrophotographic photoreceptor and an image forming apparatus which present a high electrostatic potential, high sensitivity and high enough light response and are excellent in durability and will not degrade in these characteristics under a low-temperature environment or in a high-speed process and will not lower in these characteristics even due to exposure to light.

A measurement system and method are presented for use for non-invasive measurements in a human body. Acoustic radiation is applied to a certain illuminated region in the body, with at least two different conditions of the applied radiation achievable by varying at least one characteristic of the acoustic radiation. Light scattered from the body part is detected, and measured data indicative of detected photons tagged and untagged by the acoustic radiation is generated. The measured data is analyzed to extract therefrom a data portion corresponding to the tagged photons and being therefore associated with a light response of said certain region, thereby enabling determination of tissue properties of said certain region based on a relation between the measured data portions corresponding to the at least two different operating conditions.

A weather monitoring, measuring and reporting system which uses unattended, high-resolution digital cameras and laser rangers to both measure and display weather conditions in a local region, such as the region surrounding an airport. Visibility is estimated by processing images in the camera's field of view at known range distances. The light response of the camera is matched to the light response of the human eye. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the camera generates a digital pixel image of range objects; that is, prominent terrain objects such as, buildings, water towers, etc. in the camera's field of view. The digital pixel values of these range objects are stored in system memory at known address locations. The contrast between an average background pixel value in a region adjacent to an object and the average object pixel value is used to determine if the object is visible. Objects in the field of view are sequentially examined until the contrast to an object falls below the established threshold at which point the visibility is reported as extending to the next closest object with a contrast above the threshold. If the contrast for all objects exceeds the threshold, the process stops and the visibility range is reported as unlimited.

Light is administered during photodynamic therapy (PDT) for an extended period of time at a plurality of sites distributed within the abnormal tissue of a tumor. A clinical study has shown that a substantially greater volume of abnormal tissue in a tumor is destroyed by the extended administration of light therapy from a plurality of probes than would have been expected based upon the teaching of the prior art. In this process, a plurality of light emitting optical fibers or probes are deployed in a spaced-apart array. After a photoreactive agent is absorbed by the abnormal tissue, the light therapy is administered for at least three hours. The greater volume of necrosis in the tumor is achieved due to one or more concomitant effects, including: the inflammation of damaged abnormal tissue and resultant immunological response of the patient's body; the diffusion and circulation of activated photoreactive agent outside the expected fluence zone, which is believed to destroy the abnormal tissue; a retrograde thrombosis or vascular occlusion outside of the expected fluence zone; and, the collapse of the vascular system that provides oxygenated blood to portions of the tumor outside the expected fluence zone. In addition, is possible that molecular oxygen diffusing and circulating into the expected fluence zone is converted to singlet oxygen during the extended light therapy, causing a gradient of hypoxia and anoxia that destroys the abnormal tissue outside the expected fluence zone.

The present invention is a flow cytometry-based hematology system useful in the analysis of biological samples, particularly whole blood or blood-derived samples. The system is capable of determining at least a complete blood count (CBC), a five-part white blood cell differential, and a reticulocyte count from a whole blood sample. The system preferably uses a laser diode that emits a thin beam to illuminate cells in a flow cell and a lensless optical detection system to measure one or more of axial light loss, low-angle forward scattered light, high-angle forward scattered light, right angle scattered light, and time-of-flight measurements produced by the cells. The lensless optical detection system contains no optical components, other than photoreactive elements, and does not include any moving parts. Finally, the system uses a unique system of consumable reagent tubes that act as reaction chambers, mixing chambers, and waste chambers for the blood sample analyses. The consumable tubes incorporate reference particles, which act as internal standards to ensure that the dilutions made during processing of the samples have been carried out correctly, and to ensure that the instrument is working properly. The present invention also relates to methods for using the system.

The invention discloses bismuth vanadate powder and a preparation method thereof. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, bismuth-bearing compounds and vanadium-bearing compounds are respectively dissolved in a nitric acid, mixed and then added with a hexadecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide solution, the mol ratio of bismuth to vanadium to the nitric acid to hexadecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide is 1 to 1 to 2.5 to 0.025, and the mixture is stirred for 1 to 2 hours by magnetic force so as to form a bismuth vanadate precursor; the bismuth vanadate precursor is placed in a reaction kettle, undergoes hydrothermal treatment for 70 to 75 hours at a temperature of between 80 and 200 DEG C, cooled, centrifugally separated, and then added with a saturated sodium chloride solution of anhydrous ethanol and deionized water; ion-exchange is performed after the bismuth vanadate precursor is completely immersed, and then centrifugal separation is performed; and finally the bismuth vanadate precursor is washed for 3 to 5 times by mixture of the deionized water and ethanol, then the bismuth vanadate powder with microspheric and / or micro-flaky particles is prepared. The method has simple operation and mild conditions; and bismuth vanadate powder particles prepared are uniform, have large specific surface area, have the characteristics of good visible light response and high photocatalytic activity, and are suitable for industrialized production.

The invention relates to a flower-like structured CuS material as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: mixing a cupric compound and a solvent, and sufficiently stirring the components at certain temperature so as to obtain a homogeneous solution; under acute stirring, slowly adding a sulfur-containing compound into the homogeneous solution, and performing temperature-keeping treatment; transferring the solution into a hydrothermal reaction kettle, and performing a sealed heating reaction at certain temperature, performing cooling till the room temperature, performing filtration and collection, washing the product, performing filtration again, performing vacuum drying, and grinding the product, thereby obtaining a black product, that is, the flower-like structured CuS material. The flower-like structured CuS material can be applied to photocatalytic degradation dye wastewater. Compared with the prior art, the flower-like structured CuS material is wide in visible light response range of CuS, and high in visible light utilization rate.

A weather monitoring, measuring and reporting system which uses unattended, high-resolution digital cameras and laser rangers to both measure and display weather conditions in a local region, such as the region surrounding an airport. Visibility is estimated by processing images in the camera's field of view at known range distances. The light response of the camera is matched to the light response of the human eye. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the camera generates a digital pixel image of range objects; that is, prominent terrain objects such as, buildings, water towers, etc. in the camera's field of view. The digital pixel values of these range objects are stored in system memory at known address locations. The contrast between an average background pixel value in a region adjacent to an object and the average object pixel value is used to determine if the object is visible. Objects in the field of view are sequentially examined until the contrast to an object falls below the established threshold at which point the visibility is reported as extending to the next closest object with a contrast above the threshold. If the contrast for all objects exceeds the threshold, the process stops and the visibility range is reported as unlimited.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a graphite phase carbon nitride / rutile monocrystal titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanowire array. The preparation method is characterized by comprising the following steps: (a) dissolving a cyanamide compound or urea in a solution, immersing the prepared rutile monocrystal TiO2 nanowire array into the obtained cyanamide compound or urea solution, and then taking out and drying the nanowire array; and (b) performing heat treatment on the dried nanowire array to finally obtain the graphite phase carbon nitride / rutile monocrystal TiO2 nanowire array. The preparation method has the advantages of simple process and low cost, thus being applicable to large-scale industrial production; and the prepared graphite phase carbon nitride / rutile monocrystal TiO2 nanowire array has good visible light response activity, and can be widely applied to the fields such as photocatalysis, hydrogen production by photocatalytic decomposition of water, photoelectric conversion and the like.

A method for optical measurements of desired parameters of the patient's blood is presented. A state of the blood flow cessation is provided within a measurement region and maintained during a predetermined time period. Measurement sessions are performed within this predetermined time period. Each measurement session includes at least two measurements with different wavelengths of incident light. Obtained measured data is representative of the time dependence of light response of the blood in the measurement region. The analyses of the measured data enables the determination of the desired blood parameters extracted from optical characteristics associated with the erythrocytes aggregation process during the state of the blood flow cessation.

The invention discloses a method and a device for removing organic matters from water by using double-pool double-effect visible light in response to a photo-electro-Fenton reaction. The device comprises a cathode pool, an anode pool, a saturated potassium chloride (KCl) salt bridge, a visible light response semiconductor membrane material anode, a carbon-iron composite material oxygen negative electrode, an air pump, a magnetic stirrer, a direct current stabilized voltage power supply and a visible light source, wherein an anode performs photoelectrocatalysis under the actions of visible light and anode bias voltage to remove organic pollutants from water; the carbon-iron composite material oxygen negative electrode performs cathode potential reduction on O2 under the conditions of external voltage and introduced air to produce hydrogen peroxide which is subjected to an electric Fenton reaction to generate active substances such as hydroxyl radicals and the like capable of effectively removing the organic matters from the water; electrons produced by a photoanode migrate towards an oxygen cathode under the action of anode bias voltage; the O2 is reduced by the electrons on the cathode to generate more H2O2; and the H2O2 produced on the cathode cannot migrate to the anode pool for consumption, so that higher H2O2 concentration is ensured, and the oxidation reaction of the organic matters by electric Fenton is ensured. The method and the device are suitable for treating various types of organic waste water.

The invention provides a composite fiber material applied to visible light photocatalytic purification of sewage and air pollutants and a preparation method thereof. The composite fiber material is synthesized by loading a visible light response type bismuth-based photocatalytic material on a textile fiber material through a green chemical synthetic route. A powdered photocatalyst is solidly loaded by the unique net-like felt structure of the textile fiber material, so that the catalyst is prevented from losing and agglomerating during sewage treatment and air purification, and the separability and reusability are improved.

The invention discloses a method for preparing a molecularly imprinted TiO2 / WO3 composite photocatalyst with visible light response through a direct method. The method is as follows: a titanium alkoxide is used as a sol and functional monomer precursor, an organic pollutant is used as a template molecule, absolute alcohol is used as a solvent, glacial acetic acid is used as an inhibitor, a sol-gel method is adopted, and the materials are prepared according to a certain ratio, wherein the molar ratio of the template molecule to Ti is 1:20-1:10, and the titanium alkoxide, absolute alcohol, glacial acetic acid and water are mixed in a volume ratio of 10:19:8:4. The method has the following technical effect: the titanium alkoxide has double functions, namely the titanium alkoxide can be used as a titanium source and can also be used as a functional monomer in the hydrolysis process. Other organic functional monomers are not required.

This invention proposes an identification system for license plates captured in low-quality motion video, such as accidental footage from security cameras, amateur video, cell phones, etc, including situations when the license plate number is completely unreadable. This is done by dividing the surface of the license plate into a pattern of segments assigned to a number of groups, each group possessing unique optical properties such as shading, reflectivity, IR absorption, etc. Taking advantage of the the varied light response among the segment groups, the pattern can encode identifying information, e.g. a binary sequence, which helps identify the vehicle. Using image processing software, this information can be decoded from low-quality video footage via an analysis of temporally correlated luminance levels. The system thus allows the identification of vehicles captured accidentally and under poor lighting conditions, as in the case of a security camera in a convenience store capturing the image of a vehicle fleeing a nearby crime scene.

A pinned photodiode with improved short wavelength light response. In exemplary embodiments of the invention, a gate oxide is formed over a doped, buried region in a semiconductor substrate. A conductor is formed on top of the gate oxide. The gate conductor is transparent, and in one embodiment is a layer of indium-tin oxide. The transparent conductor can be biased to reduce the need for a surface dopant in creating a pinned photodiode region. The biasing of the transparent conductor produces a hole-rich accumulation region near the surface of the substrate. The gate conductor material permits a greater amount of charges from short wavelength light to be captured in the photo-sensing region in the substrate, and thereby increases the quantum efficiency of the photosensor.

A present invention encompasses visible light response type photocatalyst having a titanium oxide layer, a mixture of titanium oxide and silicon oxide, and a silicon oxide layer, wherein these three layers are laminated in order onto a substrate.

The invention belongs to functional material technology and glass processing field, concretely discloses a permanent self-cleaning glass with visible light response and method for making it. Firstly, sputtering silica dioxide film on the surface of glass, sputtering a layer of titanium oxide film with anion and cation codoping on the surface of silica dioxide film, annealing the glass with twin layer films at 500-600 DEG C, cooling by radiation in sintering stove, to get the product. The self-cleaning glass has good photocatalysis property and photo-induced hydrophilicity, stable performance, almost perpetual availability, high light transmittance ratio and transparency. It is widly used in glass curtain wall of skyscrapers, automobile glass, road lamp shade, kitchen galss and antifog glass, avoiding artificial cleaning indoor and outdoor glass of skyscrapers, saving manual power and material, reducing corrosion destruction of cleaning agent to glass and building machinery, embodying environment protection notion.