Biological Data Processing Apparatus Addition-Averaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional biological-data measurement systems face challenges in ensuring equal effectiveness of the addition-averaging process across multiple stimulated parts due to differences in addition counts, leading to inconsistent results in estimating action currents.
Innovation Solution
A biological-data processing apparatus that performs an addition-averaging process every time a predetermined count of biological data is reached, storing the addition-average data in association with the addition count for each stimulated part, allowing for consistent processing based on the same addition count for each part, thereby eliminating differences in addition counts and achieving equal effect across all stimulated parts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If an addition-averaging process is performed on biological data measured in response to trigger signals, then noise reduction is achieved, but differences in addition counts across multiple stimulated parts lead to inconsistent processing effectiveness
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the biological data processing by creating separate addition-averaging processing paths for each stimulated part. Each part's data is processed independently with its own addition count tracking, ensuring that the noise reduction effectiveness is maintained consistently across all stimulated parts without being affected by differences in total data counts.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the processing parameter from using a global addition count to using separate addition counts for each stimulated part. This parameter change ensures that each part undergoes the same number of addition-averaging operations, thereby achieving consistent noise reduction effectiveness across all stimulated parts while maintaining the overall measurement precision.
2Ease of manufacture
If addition-average data is stored without associating it with addition count, then storage simplicity is maintained, but retrieval of specific processing stage data becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary data structure that associates addition-average data with addition count information. This intermediary mechanism serves as a bridge between the stored data and the processing stage information, allowing retrieval of specific processing stage data without complicating the fundamental storage structure. The addition count acts as a metadata tag that preserves processing stage information while maintaining storage simplicity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If different addition counts are used for different stimulated parts, then each part can be processed independently, but the effectiveness of the addition-averaging process becomes inconsistent across parts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the equipotentiality principle by ensuring that all stimulated parts undergo the same number of addition-averaging operations (same addition count). This creates equal processing conditions for all parts, ensuring consistent noise reduction effectiveness and measurement precision across all stimulated parts, while still allowing independent processing of each part's data stream.
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AI summary
A biological-data processing apparatus includes a processor; and a memory that includes instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to execute performing an addition-averaging process every time an addition count of biological data reaches a predetermined count, the biological data being measured in response to a trigger signal associated with a stimulus applied to one or more parts; storing, in a storage, addition-average data resulting from the addition-averaging process performed for each of the stimulated one or more parts, in association with the addition count in the addition-average data; and performing a biological data process based on the biological data, by using the addition-average data corresponding to each of the stimulated one or more parts, the addition-average data being acquired by referring to the storage based on the addition count that is specified.