A computer implemented method. The method includes generating, using a processor, a set of calibration data relating to a plurality of pigments that are present in a collection of coatings. Generating includes calculating an absorption/reflectance relationship of a plurality of samples coated with a plurality of the pigments, wherein calculating includes using a color matching calculation, and calculating a plurality of concentrations of a non-standard pigment. Generating also includes plotting a relationship between the concentrations and the absorption/reflectance relationships, and determining a correlation of the concentrations for a plurality of Fresnel coefficients relating to the samples. The method further includes determining, using the processor, a coating formulation of a target coating based on the correlation.

A communication system includes a transmission terminal for displaying a color code having a plurality of colors of code patterns arranged two-dimensionally, and a spectroscopic measurement device including a variable wavelength interference filter for dispersing the light from the image displayed on the transmission terminal, an imaging section adapted to image the light dispersed by the variable wavelength interference filter to obtain a spectral image, a colorimetric section adapted to measure a dispersion spectrum of each of pixels in each of spectral images of a plurality of wavelengths with respect to the color code based on the light intensity value in each of the pixels, in the case in which the spectral images are obtained, and a decode section adapted to detect an arrangement of the code patterns based on the pixel positions and the dispersion spectrums of the respective pixels, and decode the color code.

A light radiating portion radiates light with wavelength λ1 having predetermined absorptivity for an object and light with wavelength λ2 having smaller absorptivity for the object than the wavelength λ1, to a target, so as to scan in 2-dimensional directions. A light receiving portion receives scattered lights reflected by the target based on light with wavelength λ1 and light with wavelength λ2. A measuring portion generates information used for detection of the object at the target, based on difference between the two scattered lights with wavelength λ1 and wavelength λ2 received by the light receiving portion. An output portion outputs whether or not the object is present at the target, by 2-dimensional area information, based on scanning by the light radiating portion and information generated by the measuring portion.

The present invention relates to a plant growth identification method and a system therefor. At least one photographing unit transmits a picture captured thereby to a control unit so as to calculate the pixel distance per unit, and then the photographing unit captures a picture of a plant so that features points of the plant such as buds, flowers, or fruits in the captured picture are identified with the control unit, the pixel distance of each feature point and the height thereof are then calculated with the control unit, and the number and area of the multiple feature points are counted so as to calculate the growth rate and yield of the plant. Moreover, data such as growth height, rate and yield of the plant is regularly updated so as to dynamically adjust the light intensity of a lighting unit on the plant.

Disclosed are systems, devices and methods for imaging and image-based sorting of particles in a flow system, including cells in a flow cytometer. In some aspects, a system includes a particle flow device to flow particles through a channel, an imaging system to obtain image data of a particle during flow through the channel, a processing unit to determine a property associated with the particle and to produce a control command for sorting the particle based on sorting criteria associated with particle properties, and an actuator to direct the particle into one of a plurality of output paths of the particle flow device in real-time.

Disclosed are systems, devices and methods for imaging and image-based sorting of particles in a flow system, including cells in a flow cytometer. In some aspects, a system includes a particle flow device to flow particles through a channel, an imaging system to obtain image data of a particle during flow through the channel, a processing unit to determine a property associated with the particle and to produce a control command for sorting the particle based on sorting criteria associated with particle properties, and an actuator to direct the particle into one of a plurality of output paths of the particle flow device in real-time.

An image processing apparatus includes: an interface unit configured to input an image signal from an imaging apparatus that exposes a specimen dyed with a fluorescent dye to excitation light and images fluorescence by a color imaging element; and a color correction circuit configured to retain information on a percentage of each of a component of a second color and a component of a third color with respect to a component of a first color corresponding to the excitation light in the image signal, which is determined in advance based on color filter spectral characteristics of the color imaging element, and reduce each of an amount corresponding to the percentage of the component of the second color and an amount corresponding to the percentage of the component of the third color from the input image signal.

An image processing apparatus includes: an interface unit configured to input an image signal from an imaging apparatus that exposes a specimen dyed with a fluorescent dye to excitation light and images fluorescence by a color imaging element; and a color correction circuit configured to retain information on a percentage of each of a component of a second color and a component of a third color with respect to a component of a first color corresponding to the excitation light in the image signal, which is determined in advance based on color filter spectral characteristics of the color imaging element, and reduce each of an amount corresponding to the percentage of the component of the second color and an amount corresponding to the percentage of the component of the third color from the input image signal.

The present invention relates to a method for determining a characteristic number for characterizing the quality of a shade setting of a paint in relation to a color reference, characterized in that colorimetric coordinates of the paint and of the color reference are determined with a spectrophotometer for a number of measurement geometries and wherein respective color differences are calculated and standardized from the colorimetric coordinates of the paint and of the color reference for each measurement geometry of the number of measurement geometries, and where a group of characteristic values calculated from the respective standardized color differences is assigned a scale value for determining the characteristic number by means of an assignment rule to be provided in advance.

The present invention relates to a method for analyzing the color of a color alloy and, more particularly, to a method for analyzing the color of a color alloy wherein, on the basis of the fact that a different color appears according to the composition of an alloy, the wavelength-wise reflectance related to a color, which is held according to each alloy composition, and that related to a color, which is held by a measurement object that is to be measured, are compared, thereby determining the color held by the measurement object.