406 results about "Target capture" patented technology

An automated analyzer for performing multiple diagnostic assays simultaneously includes multiple stations, or modules, in which discrete aspects of the assay are performed on fluid samples contained in reaction receptacles. The analyzer includes stations for automatically preparing a specimen sample, incubating the sample at prescribed temperatures for prescribed periods, preforming an analyte isolation procedure, and ascertaining the presence of a target analyte. An automated receptacle transporting system moves the reaction receptacles from one station to the next. The analyzer further includes devices for carrying a plurality of specimen tubes and disposable pipette tips in a machine-accessible manner, a device for agitating containers of target capture reagents comprising suspensions of solid support material and for presenting the containers for machine access thereto, and a device for holding containers of reagents in a temperature controlled environment and presenting the containers for machine access thereto. A method for performing an automated diagnostic assay includes an automated process for isolating and amplifying a target analyte. The process is performed by automatically moving each of a plurality of reaction receptacles containing a solid support material and a fluid sample between stations for incubating the contents of the reaction receptacle and for separating the target analyte bound to the solid support from the fluid sample. An amplification reagent is added to the separated analyte after the analyte separation step and before a final incubation step.

The present disclosure provides methods and systems for sequence specific nucleic acid target capture comprising enzymatic reactions. The present disclosure relates to a plurality of oligonucleotide probes for capture and subsequent detection of target nucleic acid sequences, using flap endonucleases, ligases, and/or additional enzymes, proteins or compounds, on substrates, for example microarray slides, and in solution formats.

The invention relates to an autonomously identifying and capturing method of a non-cooperative target of a space robot, comprising the main steps of (1) pose measurement based on stereoscopic vision, (2) autonomous path planning of the target capture of the space robot and (3) coordinative control of a space robot system, and the like. The pose measurement based on the stereoscopic vision is realized by processing images of a left camera and a right camera in real time, and computing the pose of a non-cooperative target star relative to a base and a tail end, wherein the processing comprises smoothing filtering, edge detection, linear extraction, and the like. The autonomous path planning of the target capture of the space robot comprises is realized by planning the motion tracks of joints in real time according to the pose measurement results. The coordinative control of the space robot system is realized by coordinately controlling mechanical arms and the base to realize the optimal control property of the whole system. In the autonomously identifying and capturing method, a self part of a spacecraft is directly used as an identifying and capturing object without installing a marker or a comer reflector on the target star or knowing the geometric dimension of the object, and the planned path can effectively avoid the singular point of dynamics and kinematics.

Methods for capturing a target nucleic acid from a sample by using a capture probe that binds nonspecifically to the target nucleic acid and binds specifically to an immobilized probe via a specific binding pair that has one member on the capture probe and one member on the immobilized probe are disclosed. Compositions that include a capture probe that binds nonspecifically to a target nucleic acid and specifically to an immobilized probe via binding of members of a specific binding pair in a solution phase of a reaction mixture are disclosed.

There is provided an image pickup apparatus for use in measuring a distance from an observer to a target. The image pickup apparatus includes a case; and a plurality of cameras configured to capture images of the target is fixed in the case. In the image pickup apparatus, the distance from the observer to the target is measured based on the images of the target captured by altering baseline lengths for parallax computation obtained by combining any two of the cameras.

The invention discloses an auto meter visual detecting system based on a computer, comprising a light source, a detecting box body, a camera connected with a PC control system, and an analog signal generator connected with the PC control system, wherein the analog signal generator comprises a frequency circuit and a resistance circuit and is used for receiving commands sent by the PC control system so as to generate frequency and a resistance signal needed by meter detection; the PC control system comprises an input module, a position adjusting module, a meter dial plate identification module,a communication setting module, a camera target capturing module and an output module which are respectively connected with a PC. The position adjusting module promotes two stepping motors in a camera position adjusting mechanism to run by sending serial port commands; and the communication setting module is used for realizing Ethernet communication setting and serial port communication setting.The camera comprises an image displaying module and an image processing module. The invention also discloses a detecting method of the detecting system.

The invention discloses a laser link communication-measurement composite system. Through adoption of the laser link communication-measurement composite system, the payload weight, size and power consumption can be lowered. The laser link communication-measurement composite system is implemented by the following technical scheme: an optical antenna transmits a comprehensive optical signal to a rapid reflecting mirror through an eye lens at a transmitting end; reflected light splits a light beam of the comprehensive optical signal into two paths through a beam splitter; one path is transmitted into another beam splitter through the beam splitter to transmit the light beam into a coarse tracking module in order to extract a target position coarse miss distance, and a control voltage is applied to a two-dimensional turntable according to an embedded control algorithm; the other path of comprehensive optical signal is introduced into the field range of a fine tracking module through the beam splitter, and transmitted into the fine tracking module to extract a target position fine miss distance, the overall offset of fine field light spots is controlled, the light spots are introduced into the center of a fine tracking field to obtain target angle information, and the extracted target position fine miss distance is transmitted into a ground/satellite platform comprehensive electronic management and processing module to finish target capture and an aiming function and establish a communication link.

An automated analyzer for performing multiple diagnostic assays simultaneously includes multiple stations, or modules, in which discrete aspects of the assay are performed on fluid samples contained in reaction receptacles. The analyzer includes stations for automatically preparing a specimen sample, incubating the sample at prescribed temperatures for prescribed periods, performing an analyte isolation procedure, and ascertaining the presence of a target analyte. An automated receptacle transporting system moves the reaction receptacles from one station to the next. The analyzer further includes devices for carrying a plurality of specimen tubes and disposable pipette tips in a machine-accessible manner, a device for agitating containers of target capture reagents comprising suspensions of solid support material and for presenting the containers for machine access thereto, and a device for holding containers of reagents in a temperature controlled environment and presenting the containers for machine access thereto. A method for performing an automated diagnostic assay includes an automated process for isolating and amplifying a target analyte. The process is performed by automatically moving each of a plurality of reaction receptacles containing a solid support material and a fluid sample between stations for incubating the contents of the reaction receptacle and for separating the target analyte bound to the solid support from the fluid sample. An amplification reagent is added to the separated analyte after the analyte separation step and before a final incubation step.

A scene matching reference data generation system inputs a set of probe data. The set of the probe data includes captured images sequentially obtained by a plurality of probe cars and the vehicle positions of the probe cars. The system temporarily stores the captured images, evaluates image similarity degrees of the captured images, and assigns the similarity degrees to the captured images. The system selects, as a plurality of processing target captured images, a plurality of the captured images having similarity degrees equal to or higher than a first predetermined degree, determines a representative image-capturing position that is a representative of the image-capturing positions of the plurality of the processing target captured images, generates image feature point data based on the plurality of the processing target captured images, and generates the reference data for scene matching by associating the image feature point data with the representative image-capturing position.

The target detecting device comprises a radar sensor, an imaging sensor, and an ECU. The target detected by the radar sensor is selected under certain conditions, for example, i) a reception intensity of the reflected radar waves is equal to or more than a predetermined value, or ii) the target is moving, to be outputted externally. When a stopped vehicle is detected on a road by the sensor, and a target, for example a pedestrian, present behind the stopped vehicle is detected from the image acquired by the imaging sensor by performing image recognition using predetermined patterns of a target, the ECU makes the selection condition less restrictive than the selection condition for targets other than the target present behind the stopped vehicle, or unconditionally selects the target present behind the stopped vehicle.

The invention provides an intersection collision prevention and warning apparatus, comprising a vehicular unit and a roadside unit. The vehicular unit is mounted on a vehicle; the roadside unit is mounted on the roadside of an intersection. The vehicular unit includes a vehicular V2X communication device, a navigation positioning device and a vehicle controller. The roadside unit comprises a roadV2X communication device and a target capture device. When a vehicle enters an intersection region, positional information and moving trajectory of the vehicle are sent out, positional information andmoving trajectories of other vehicles and moving targets are received, a predicted track is calculated according to the positional information and moving trajectories of the vehicles and the moving targets, whether this vehicle has a track crossing region with other vehicles or moving targets is judged according to the predicted track, if yes, collision time TTC and track crossing region occupation time difference PET are calculated based on the track crossing region according to the positional information and moving trajectories of this vehicle and other vehicles or moving targets, and collision warning is calculated according to TTC and PET.

The invention discloses a drunk driving vehicle detection system based on video monitoring. The drunk driving vehicle detection system comprises a video acquisition module used for acquiring video information through crossing monitoring cameras, a digital image pre-processing module used for filtering image noise, a target capturing module used for setting drunk driving vehicle determining standards, automatically extracting a tracked target and detecting the position of the target, a target tracking measuring module used for detecting the position of the target, contrasting the target position with an optical axis and transmitting the calculated data to a main control computer to control rotation of the camera so as to constantly lock the target in a view field of a shooting system, a license plate extraction and identification module used for acquiring information of the illegal vehicle after the drunk driving vehicle target is locked, and extracting the license plate information of the drunk driving vehicle through image processing, and an information output module used for outputting the complete license plate information and the video monitoring position to a duty room, an operator on duty notifies traffic police at a shortest distance from the target for investigation.

Methods for detection of variant alleles are disclosed. In preferred aspects variants are detected by hybridization patterns to arrays of probes that are contain a single mismatch to a reference sequence, thus reducing the number of probes needed for resequencing by hybridization. The target capture method used is Target Amplification by Capture and Ligation (TACL), and is capable of amplifying many thousands of loci together. Mismatch Repair Detection (MRD) is used as an allele enrichment method to efficiently sort variant and non-variant alleles in thousands of loci simultaneously.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a photographing method and a terminal. The photographing method comprises the following steps: acquiring a first image of a target captured by a first camera and a second image of the target captured by a second camera, wherein the focal length of the first image captured by the first camera is smaller than that of the second image captured by the second camera; adjusting the first image to be a third image of a first dimension value; adjusting the second image to a fourth image of a fourth dimension value; synthesizing the third image and the fourth image to form a fifth image; displaying the fifth image. By adopting the embodiment, the optical zoom can be realized by utilizing two cameras, and the structure is simple.

An image processing system temporarily stores, as processing target captured images, captured images whose image-capturing positions are included in a predetermined region. The system calculates similarity degrees of the processing target captured images, selects the processing target captured images whose similarity degrees are different from each other as useful images, and extracts image feature points from each of the useful images. The system generates image feature point data that includes the extracted image feature points, generates reference data used when scenic image recognition is performed by associating the generated image feature point data with an image-capturing position at which the image is captured to obtain the captured image corresponding to the image feature point data, and creates a reference data database.

A system and method for enhanced navigation for use during a surgical procedure including planning a navigation path to a target using a first data set of computed tomography images previously acquired; navigating a marker placement device to the target using the navigation path; placing a plurality of markers in tissue proximate the target; acquiring a second data set of computed tomography images including the plurality of markers; planning a second navigation path to a second target using the second data set of computed tomography images; navigating a medical instrument to a second target; capturing fluoroscopic data of tissue proximate the target; and registering the fluoroscopic data to the second data set of computed tomography images based on marker position and orientation within the real-time fluoroscopic data and the second data set of computed tomography images.

An image processing apparatus processes a series of observation images on which a plurality of observation targets are sequentially captured. The image processing apparatus includes a target identifying unit that identifies, at least on the basis of information based on compressed image data of an image to be processed among the series of observation images, an observation target captured on the image to be processed.

The invention provides a high-frame frequency CCD camera system, and relates to the CCD camera system technical field. The camera system comprises a lens, a CCD image sensor, a preamplifier, a video signal processor, a horizontal timing sequence signal generator, a horizontal drive circuit, a vertical drive circuit, an electronic shutter drive circuit, a controller 1, a controller 2, an external memory unit, a Camera Link output unit, a PC, a PCIe acquisition card and display equipment. The high-frame frequency CCD camera system is an integrated system which combines a high-speed CCD drive technology, video processing with data integration; and the system can provide high-speed digital image and can be widely applied to research fields such as moving target capture, transient process record and the like, and has wide application prospect in real-time image motion compensation of large-array low-frame frequency CCD.