Optical Chamber for Standardizing Test Media Images
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image-based analysis systems for test media face challenges in standardizing image capturing and processing across different devices, leading to variability in test results due to differences in resolution, hue, saturation, and clarity.
Innovation Solution
A device comprising an optical chamber with a light source and a computing system that uses a calibration matrix to standardize images, allowing for consistent processing of test media images regardless of the image capturing device's capabilities, and an intermediary software that processes images using algorithms to determine test results.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If different image capturing devices are used to capture test media images, then device versatility is improved, but image consistency and measurement precision deteriorate due to variations in resolution, hue, saturation, and clarity
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the parameters of the captured images through digital processing, adjusting resolution, hue, saturation, and clarity to standardized values. This allows images from different devices to be normalized to a common parameter set, resolving the contradiction between device versatility and image consistency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary software layer that processes images between capture and analysis. This intermediary standardizes image parameters through algorithms, acting as a mediator that transforms diverse device outputs into consistent standardized images, thereby maintaining both device versatility and measurement precision.
2Measurement precision
If standardization protocols are implemented across different image capturing devices, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces software as an intermediary that handles standardization, keeping the hardware simple. The computational complexity is shifted from physical device modifications to software algorithms, resolving the contradiction by maintaining measurement precision through digital processing rather than hardware complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces physical standardization mechanisms with computational algorithms. Instead of modifying hardware to achieve consistency, the patent uses software-based image processing to standardize parameters, substituting mechanical/physical complexity with computational simplicity.
3Measurement precision
If computational algorithms are used to process test media images, then measurement precision is improved, but loss of time increases due to processing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary standardization of image parameters before analysis. By pre-processing images to standardized parameters upfront, the system reduces the complexity and time of subsequent analysis algorithms, resolving the contradiction between measurement precision and processing time through advance preparation.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Ensures consistent and accurate interpretation of test media results by standardizing image capturing and processing, reducing variability and enhancing the reliability of test outcomes across various image capturing devices.
Implementation Method 1
a top panel that comprising an optical lens that aligns with the raised test bed when the top panel covers another opening of the tubular rectangle, wherein the optical lens is aligned with an aperture that extends through the top panel
Implementation Method 2
a light source that illuminates inside the device
Data Source
AI summary
Devices and systems for image-based analysis of test media are disclosed herein. An example device includes four side panels connected together so as to form a tubular rectangle, a floor panel that covers an opening of the tubular rectangle, the floor panel having a raised test bed that receives a test medium, a top panel that having an optical lens that aligns with the raised test bed when the top panel covers another opening of the tubular rectangle. The optical lens is aligned with an aperture that extends through the top panel. The four side panels, the floor panel, and the top panel forming an optic chamber when joined together. The device also includes a light source that illuminates inside the device.