1979 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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a visible-light activated cuprous oxide/titanium dioxide nano-composite photocatalyst and applications thereof, belonging to the technical field of environmental pollution control. The preparation of the catalyst comprises the following steps of: 1) carrying out electrochemical oxidation reaction under the action of hydrofluoric acid with the concentration of 0.2 percent by weight for preparing a titanium dioxide nanotube electrode, wherein the tube diameter of a nanotube is about 80nm, and the tube length is 550nm; and 2) adopting a photoreduction chemical method to prepare the cuprous oxide/titanium dioxide nano-composite photocatalyst. The prepared composite photocatalyst has the advantages of simple synthesis, stable performance, the synthesis process belonging to the field of green chemistry and the like. The composition of cuprous oxide can not only reduce the defect of high composite probability of photoproduced electron-hole pairs, but also expand the light response range of the titanium dioxide nanotube electrode and further improve the photocatalytic degradation efficiency thereof to organic pollutants in the visible light range, thereby having very high practical value and application prospect.

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.

The present invention discloses a three-phase ultrasonic photo-catalyzed reaction device and a CO₂ reducing method with the device. With the device, a photo-catalyst is placed in a photo-reactor, and the reactor is placed in a water bath of an ultrasonic generator. A light source is arranged above the photo-reactor. The method is that the CO₂ gas to be reduced is mixed evenly with the photo-catalyst and a sodium hydroxide solution in the photo-reactor under the ultrasonic action, and reacts for 3-20 hours with radiation of the light source. Then the CO₂ gas is reduced. The photo-catalyst is made from titanium dioxide or silicon dioxide and metal phthalocyanine. Metal phthalocyanine is supported on the surface of titanium dioxide in the way of in-situ synthesis, sol-gel, and immersion. The present invention promotes the photo-catalysis efficiency, reduces the reaction time, and saves the energy. Visible light can be used for reducing. Moreover, the phot-catalyst can be recycled, which reduces the pollution and the cost, sot the present invention is quite applicable for the three-phase ultrasonic photo-catalyzed reaction device and photo-catalyzed CO₂ reducing.

The invention discloses a preparation method of black titanium dioxide. The method comprises steps of 1) first, preparing butyl titanate and absolute ethyl alcohol into a mixing system A; 2) preparing distilled water and glacial acetic acid into a mixing system B; 3) adding the system A into the system B with stirring, stirring at a normal temperature and placing overnight; 4) then heating at a constant temperature with stirring until generation of gel, adding glacial acetic acid again and completely washing by stirring; and drying, grinding and sieving the gel, insulating under protection ofinert gas and cooling to room temperature in furnace to obtain the black titanium dioxide powder. The preparation technology of the present invention is simple and easily realized; besides, the blacktitanium dioxide prepared under protection of inert gas of the invention not only has better sunlight absorption capability than present white titanium dioxide, but also can effectively expand a light response scope into a visible light scope.