155 results about "Digital microscope" patented technology

Particles such as blood cells can be categorized and counted by a digital image processor. A digital microscope camera can be directed into a flowcell defining a symmetrically narrowing flowpath in which the sample stream flows in a ribbon flattened by flow and viscosity parameters between layers of sheath fluid. A contrast pattern for autofocusing is provided on the flowcell, for example at an edge of a rear illumination opening. The image processor assesses focus accuracy from pixel data contrast. A positioning motor moves the microscope and / or flowcell along the optical axis for autofocusing on the contrast pattern target. The processor then displaces microscope and flowcell by a known distance between the contrast pattern and the sample stream, thus focusing on the sample stream. Blood cell images are collected from that position until autofocus is reinitiated, periodically, by input signal, or when detecting temperature changes or focus inaccuracy in the image data.

The invention relates to the field of electrochemical corrosion measurements, particularly to an in situ observation experiment apparatus for an electrochemical corrosion measurement, wherein a purpose of the present invention is to solve problems that the electrochemical corrosion measurement in the prior art can not observe changes generated on the metal material surface during the experiment process and the like. According to the in situ observation experiment apparatus, a transparent corrosive liquid is filled in a container, a metal sample, an auxiliary electrode and a reference electrode are connected with an electrochemical workstation through conducting wires, and a miniature digital microscope is arranged above the metal sample. According to the present invention, the miniature digital microscope can observe the change of the metal surface in the transparent corrosive solution along with changes of the experiment time, the polarization potential and other parameters at any time so as to acquire the metal surface topography image in real time; and the electrochemical measurement result can be corresponded to the metal surface topography image to acquire sufficient information and data so as to well analyze the corrosion mechanism of the metal material.

A digital microscope comprises a housing with an image acquisition, an image processing, and a network communication (APC) module. The APC module can further comprise an image capture unit, coupled to an image sensor with a view to a subject on a slide, the image capture unit receiving an image of the subject. The APC module also comprises an image processing unit, coupled to the image capture unit, the image processing unit enhancing the image with classifications. Also, a network interface of the APC module, coupled to the image processing unit and to a network, the network interface sending the enhanced image across to the network and to receive control commands, the control commands associated with the view of the subject.

A home healthcare management system wherein a patient conducts self diagnoses and self testing, and manages their own medical records at home. A digital microscope is utilized as part of the system that is smaller, of lower cost, faster, of a higher dynamic range, and has a higher resolution than conventional microscopes. The microscope consists of an illumination source, a spatial sub-sampling device and a detector device. The digital microscope provides a vectored method of collecting images from a digital microscope that is independent of the optical resolution, and a slide based coordinate system, and a method of displaying images and communicating such images over the Internet in a file format that does not require a header or prior knowledge of magnification, coordinate system, or tiling structure. The system further includes an interface for physiological monitoring devices and a connection to the Internet for more comprehensive services.

A home healthcare management system wherein a patient conducts self diagnoses and self testing, and manages their own medical records at home. A digital microscope is utilized as part of the system that is smaller, of lower cost, faster, of a higher dynamic range, and has a higher resolution than conventional microscopes. The microscope consists of an illumination source, a spatial sub-sampling device and a detector device. The digital microscope provides a vectored method of collecting images from a digital microscope that is independent of the optical resolution, and a slide based coordinate system, and a method of displaying images and communicating such images over the Internet in a file format that does not require a header or prior knowledge of magnification, coordinate system, or tiling structure. The system further includes an interface for physiological monitoring devices and a connection to the Internet for more comprehensive services.

This invention discloses a single chip two-color wheel stereographic projection optics engine, which can realizes the stereographic image output and comprises the following: light source, IR-UV shut, color wheel, optical wand, relay lens set, reflection lens, prism set, digital microscope chip, projection lens orderly arranged along the light path; and splitter, refection lens, polarized pad, lens and prism. The said splitter is located between the IR-UV shut and reflection lens; the said reflection lens, polarized pad, lens set and color wheel are two and symmetrically located around the prism along the light path; the said prism is located between the color wheel and light path.

The invention discloses a vivid 3D imaging engine system and projection method. A computer divides 3D model data in a 3D model database into a plurality of two-value sliced images of different angles, then codes and synthetizes a plurality of two-value sliced images into a colorful 3D display image; a digital microscope vivid 3D imaging engine is connected with the computer, receives the colorful 3D display image, generates the colorful 3D display image into a 3D model two-value sliced image to be displayed, generates the 3D model two-value sliced image into a digital optical signal, and then uses the digital optical signal to transfer into a digital projection image. Video coding and decoding, video processing and parallel processing technologies are adopted to realize high-speed transmission, real time processing and accurate projection of 3D voxel, which lays a solid foundation for the further development of vivid 3D display technology. In addition, the invention also discloses a vivid 3D imaging engine for 8 gray level colorful vivid 3D display.

A personalized digital microscope system for use in microsurgery includes a camera system configured to produce a stereo pair of images captured in real-time; an image processing system communicatively coupled to the camera system and configured to extract the stereo pair of images synchronized in time with each other and to combine the stereo pair of images with encoded images of differences between the stereo pair of images; and a video processing system communicatively coupled to the image processing system and configured to create a stream from the encoded images by processing the encoded images based on personalization for the user, wherein the personalization is determined based on a test procedure performed by the user.

Disclosed is a milk somatic cell counting method based on the computer vision. The method comprises the steps of dropping a coloring agent into milk, coloring somatic cells with the coloring agent, dropping the milk into a slide, and acquiring cell images by using a digital microscope, wherein the cell images are color images; preprocessing the cell images; and performing the cell image counting process: setting the somatic cell occupied pixel area range S1-S2; scanning cell binaryzation images progressively, and probing the size S of a communication area where the pixel is positioned by using a recursion method if a white pixel is found, wherein, the communication area to which the white pixel belongs is somatic cells if S1<=S<=S2, 1 is added to the somatic cell number count; otherwise, the somatic cell number count does not change; and obtaining the somatic cell number count in the cell images. According to the milk somatic cell counting method based on the computer vision, human factor influences are avoided effectively, the detection efficiency is high and the accuracy is good.

The invention relates to an automatic identification method of a color fabric color mold pattern image based on image processing, and belongs to the field of novel textile detection. The color fabric color mold pattern image refers to a color effect of organization points on the surface of color fabric. In order to solve the problems that the existing detection method based on labor time consumes time, wastes labor, is easy to make mistakes and does not adapt to the demands of modern textile automatic production, the invention develops an automatic detection instrument of the color fabric color mold pattern image based on the image processing. The system comprises a light source, an image acquisition module and a color fabric color mold pattern image automatic detection module and other modules. A reflective image on the surface of the color fabric is acquired under the reflective light source by utilizing a digital microscope; and image data is inputted into a computer system through an IEEE 1394 interface. The automatic identification method has the benefits that firstly, the color fabric image is subjected to texture enhancement by utilizing the color fabric color mold pattern image automatic detection module; then, the division of warp / weft yarns and organization points are realized based on the gray features of the image; successively, the color features of the organization points are extracted, and the type of color yarns is determined based on a clustering verification method; and finally, the color classification of the organization points is realized based on a fuzzy clustering method to obtain the color fabric color mold pattern image.

A method and apparatus for acquiring digital microscope images is disclosed, in which a plurality of magnified images of a specimen are captured for tiling together to provide an overall composite image of the specimen. In accordance with the described method, the specimen is moved relative to an imaging system comprising a microscope and camera in a predetermined path whilst the plurality of magnified images are captured. In a preferred embodiment, the specimen, contained on a slide, is mounted on a movable microscope stage, and is moved beneath the microscope in the predetermined path. The velocity of the movement of the stage and the shutter speed of the camera is computer controlled to capture overlapping, clear images.

A microscopic three-dimensional reconstruction method is provided. The microscopic three-dimensional reconstruction method comprises the following steps that: a liquid lens of which the focal length can be controlled through voltage is additionally mounted in an optical path of a digital microscope; with the liquid lens adopted as a focal length-varying element, a series of focusing is performed in a continuous depth range of an observed object so as to shoot a series of continuous local focus images; height differences between the local focus images can be obtained through the calibration of the liquid lens in advance; three-dimensional information of a measured object is extracted from the series of images through a three-dimensional reconstruction algorithm, such that a three-dimensional model of the object is obtained; and a two-dimensional clear image is obtained through image fusion, and the two-dimensional clear image, adopted as texture, is bonded on the three-dimensional model, and three-dimensional reconstruction of the object is accomplished. With the microscopic three-dimensional reconstruction method adopted, limitation on object observation in a two-dimensional direction because of too small depth of field of a microscopic optical system can be effectively eliminated.

The invention discloses a non-destructive testing method for mahogany furniture wood varieties based on a network platform. The method comprises steps as follows: (1) selecting tree varieties for mahogany furniture and establishing a database of standard samples; (2) selecting the mahogany furniture, and observing the mahogany furniture entirely to determine the type roughly; (3) acquiring image information of a cross section, a tangential section and a radial section on the to-be-tested mahogany furniture directly and remotely through the Internet through combination of a digital microscope and a computer, and comparing the image information with a database of wood microstructure standard samples of each tree variety and the overall observation results to determine the wood variety of the mahogany furniture; opening the detection result of the wood varieties of the mahogany furniture to the public for query through the network platform in the form of inspection reports or surveyor's certificates. The testing method solves the problems of sampling destruction and wood sample feature limitation in traditional mahogany furniture wood type testing and has the characteristics of remoteness, rapidness, convenience, accuracy and anti-fake property.

The invention relates to the technology of superconducting magnet insulation reliability, aims at realizing the electrical tree observation and image acquisition functions of a simulation superconducting magnet system in a strong magnetic field environment and a low temperature environment, and provides a low-temperature polymer electrical tree initiation method under the electromagnetic field combined effect and a low-temperature polymer electrical tree initiation device thereof. The low-temperature polymer electrical tree initiation device comprises a digital microscope imaging system, a temperature control system, a constant temperature box, a controllable high-voltage pulse power supply and a magnetic field generation device. The temperature control system controls temperature of the constant temperature box through a liquid nitrogen cooling device. The magnetic field generation device is composed of a constant current electromagnetic field generator and an electromagnet. The electromagnet uses a single-yoke U-shaped structure. The polymer is a polymer sampling for performing electrical tree aging. The polymer is arranged in the middle position of the single-yoke U-shaped structure, and the two ends are connected with the controllable high-voltage pulse power supply arranged outside the constant temperature box through a pin-plate electrode structure. The digital microscope imaging system observes the growing situation of the electrical tree in an epoxy resin sample in real time. The low-temperature polymer electrical tree initiation method under the electromagnetic field combined effect and the low-temperature polymer electrical tree initiation device thereof are mainly applied to the occasion of superconducting magnet insulation.

The invention provides a paper counting method of utilizing a digital microscope to collect images and processing the collected images through image software. The method comprises the following steps: (1) utilizing the digital microscope to collect a color image of the paper side; (2) graying the color image through the image processing software; (3) setting a threshold value between 60 and 160 and performing an image binaryzation on the grayscale image; (4) scanning each line of pixels of the binary image of the paper, summarizing percentage P1 of the number of the line of pixels which are black in the whole line of the pixel and comparing the P1 with a threshold parameter P; if the P1 is larger or equal to the P, the line is considered to be black, otherwise, the line is considered to be white; and at last, counting the transformation times of the black line into the white line and the time is the paper number. The paper counting method is simple, effective and low in cost; no matter high-weight paper or low-weight paper, the count accuracy thereon is high and the paper is not contacted directly; and thus the paper counting method has a good popularization and application prospect in the printing and reproduction industry.

Abstract of the DisclosureDevices for optical monitoring and rapid analysis of a drying droplet are presented and include a droplet deposition means, an optical recording means, and a computer control and image analysis means. In several preferred embodiments, a pipette is used to deposit one or more droplets in parallel onto a slide, a plate or a film, and a digital microscope is positioned either above or below the droplet to record a timed sequence of images of the process of drying thereof. Various chemical compounds coating the deposition slide can be used to enhance the test further. Image analysis includes data filtering, dividing the image into a plurality of overlapping windows, and analysis of formation and change in patterns over time. If used with biological fluids, the devices and methods of the invention can be used for rapid diagnosis of a variety of conditions and diseases.

The invention relates to a method for calibrating an optical instrument which comprises at least a motorized zoom system, an objective, an image sensor and an image processing unit. The method comprises the following steps: establishing calibration data DZRef of the zoom system with a reference objective and storing these in an internal memory of the zoom system; establishing calibration data DORef of the objective with a reference zoom system and storing these in an internal memory of the objective; reading the internal memories of the zoom system and of the objective and applying a digital-optical correction of an image acquired by an image sensor with the calibration data DZRef and DORef. The invention moreover relates to an optical instrument, in particular a digital microscope, to which the calibration method according to the invention can be applied.

A digital microscope apparatus includes: an observation image capturing unit configured to capture an observation image of each of a plurality of small areas, an area containing a sample on a glass slide being partitioned by the plurality of small areas; and a controller configured to set at least one evaluation area for the observation image of each of the plurality of small areas, the observation image being captured by the observation image capturing unit, to perform an edge detection on the at least one evaluation area, and to calculate, using results of the edge detection on two evaluation areas that are closest between two of the observation images adjacently located in a connected image, a difference in blur evaluation amount between the two observation images, the connected image being obtained by connecting the observation images according to the partition.

The invention provides a novel cataract hardness identification method, which can be applied to the aspects of intelligent medical appliances, cataract surgeries, tele-medicine, cataract video image processing and the like. In the cataract hardness identification method, the real-time video image of a cataract surgery is acquired by a digital microscope, the probe of an ultrasonic emulsification instrument is detected and tracked, a cataract image in front of the probe of the ultrasonic emulsification instrument is extracted, and a nearest neighbour classifier is utilized to automatically identify the cataract image to obtain the cataract hardness. The method not only can realize the automatic identification of the cataract hardness and improve the effect of the cataract surgery but also can greatly lower the difficulty of the cataract surgery, reduce unnecessary damages brought to patients because of personal operation and promote the popularization of the surgery scheme.

The invention discloses an internet communication based digital microscope and an interaction method of the digital microscope. The internet communication based digital microscope has the image data format processing function and the wired and wireless data transmission function and can generate wired or wireless local network through a master computer so as to generate a digital interaction system. The digital microscope comprises a host computer, a digital imaging device, a hinge head part and an eyepiece, wherein the digital imaging device at least comprises a spectroscopic imaging system, a cursor indicating system, an image sensor, an image processor and an input controller; the image sensor is used for digitalizing an image and a cursor image in the eyepiece of the microscope; the image processor is used for processing image data and transmitting the data in a wired and wireless network communication manner. According to the digital microscope, the transmission mode and the display mode are improved; various functions of the digital image can be reasonably constructed; the microscope can be conveniently connected with an intelligent device; a powerful support is provided for the interactive communication of a microscope system.

The invention provides a nematode recognition system and a nematode recognition method. The nematode recognition method comprises steps: a nematode culture dish with nematodes cultivated is configured on an object stage; a digital microscope is used for observing the nematodes in the nematode culture dish and acquiring nematode image information capable of meeting image recognition requirements; and a control terminal carries out image recognition on the nematode image information. The third step further comprises sub steps: gray processing is carried out on the nematode image information; smooth processing is carried out on the nematode image information after gray processing; and adaptive threshold processing and contour extracting are carried out on the nematode image information after smooth processing to recognize nematodes in the nematode image information. Compared with the prior art, the method has the advantages that the recognition method is simple and quick, the nematode recognition rate is high, universality is good, popularization and application are facilitated, recognition in an environment with hybrid bacteria and uneven illumination can be carried out, and the like.

The laser micro function digital microscope device includes pedestal, cantilever connected integrally with the pedestal, object stage on the cantilever, laser focusing mechanism on the cantilever, laser set on one side of the laser focusing mechanism, digital image acquisition mechanism set on the laser focusing mechanism, and lighting and reading mechanism set on the pedestal and cantilever. The laser micro function digital microscope device is superior to common optical microscope likely leading fatigue of human eyes, and can act directly on the observed microscopic matter and produce digital document of the observed process. The present invention has wide application in biomedicine and other fields.

The invention relates to a display system based on flaming grating digital microscope that includes lighting component, imaging lens, and driving components. The feature is that the microscope is flaming grating digital microscope that each pixel is made up from three sub-pixels. Comparing to the traditional microscope, the display system could supply higher resolution and brighter color. It has not only high light use factor, but also conquers the disadvantage brought by field sequence lighting. It could be used not only large scale projection TV, but also suit for micro projection display. Especially, it could use sunlight as illuminated light sources.

The invention relates to a fabric colored fiber detection system based on image processing. The fabric colored fiber detection system comprises the steps of sample processing, detection processing andimage processing. A digital microscope is selected for detecting colored fibers on a cloth cover, collected colored fiber cloth cover images are subjected to image equalization, denoising, edge detection and other processing methods, colored fiber image information is enhanced, and judgment is conducted through a double-threshold method. Results show that by adopting the detection method, variousinterference information can be effectively filtered out, a complete colored fiber image is obtained, the occupied area of colored fibers is calculated through pixel statistics, and harmful colored fibers are judged according to the area of the colored fibers.

A digital microscope for viewing the surface of an object comprises a housing having a proximal end and a distal end. The distal end forms an opening to the housing. A sensor that receives light reflected from the surface of an object is located towards the proximal end of the housing. The sensor converts the light to a digital image. A lens that focuses light reflected from the object onto the sensor is located within the housing between the sensor and the object to be viewed. A reflective member is located within the opening. In use, light is reflected from the object to the sensor and a portion of the reflected light is directed via the reflective member such that the surface of the object can be viewed simultaneously from two different directions.

The invention relates to a method for calibrating an optical instrument which comprises at least a motorized zoom system, an objective, an image sensor and an image processing unit. The method comprises the following steps: establishing calibration data DZRef of the zoom system with a reference objective and storing these in an internal memory of the zoom system; establishing calibration data DORef of the objective with a reference zoom system and storing these in an internal memory of the objective; reading the internal memories of the zoom system and of the objective and applying a digital-optical correction of an image acquired by an image sensor with the calibration data DZRef and DORef. The invention moreover relates to an optical instrument, in particular a digital microscope, to which the calibration method according to the invention can be applied.

The invention provides an observation incubator for microbial experiments, comprising a digital microscope, a carrying device, a turntable, a culture device, a culture dish, a vibration motor and a heating tank; the vibration motor is fixedly installed on the bottom of the turntable; the temperature and humidity sensor It is arranged at the bottom of the turntable; the top of the turntable is arranged in an annular array with twelve sets of positioning protrusions; the culture device is set in the middle of the positioning protrusions; the inner side wall of the outer disc is provided with inclined grooves; The culture dish is arranged inside the outer disk and supported by springs; a heating plate is arranged at the bottom of the turntable; and a heating rod is arranged in the heating tank. The invention adopts water bath heating, which is beneficial to maintain a constant temperature environment in the incubator. The present invention can directly carry out position-limited observation on the culture dish through the digital microscope, which significantly improves the convenience of microorganism observation, and vibrates the culture dish through a vibrating motor, which significantly improves the success rate of microorganism cultivation.

The invention discloses a method for detecting particle cleaning efficiency of cleaning equipment online before coating. The method comprises the steps of uniformly spraying fluorescent powder and water mixture on a surface of a to-be-cleaned workpiece through utilization of a spray gun and carrying out natural air dry; marking a plurality of uniformly distributed measurement points on the surfaceof the workpiece; taking ultraviolet light as an illumination source, photographing a fluorescent microscopic image of each measurement point after each measurement point is amplified for preset times, through utilization of a digital microscope; cleaning the workpiece through utilization of the cleaning equipment; converting all fluorescent microscopic images into black and white images according to a mean value of G values of all pixels; carrying out statistics on the number of white areas in the converted black and white images, and obtaining the number of the particles before and after each measurement point is cleaned; and calculating the cleaning efficiency for the particles according to the number of the particles before and after each measurement point is cleaned. According to themethod, particle pollutants can be detected, the detection speed is fast, and the accuracy is high.

The invention discloses a cell culture counting device. The device comprises a culture tank used for culturing cells, and the culture tank is communicated with a counting pond through a peristaltic pump. The counting pond comprises two transparent cover plates connected to a pipeline, a gap between the transparent cover plates only allows a layer of cells to pass through, and therefore the number of the cells in sight is the number of all the contained cells; the counting pond is shot through a digital microscope which is supported through a mechanical arm, data is transmitted to a central data processor to conduct image processing counting analysis. The number of the cells in a sample is obtained automatically according to shot image information, and the total number of the cells in the culture tank is obtained through a series of conversions. According to the cell counting method, manual observation counting is not needed, the labor intensity is lowered, and the result obtained by combining the image processing analysis technology is more accurate and reliable; cell samples used for detection are taken out of the culture tank directly without making contact with the outside world, after detection is completed, the cell samples can be reversely delivered back to the culture tank to be cultured continuously, and waste is avoided.