A microorganism detection system is provided for being disposed on a device to be detected which is closed, including a flow channel and a detection module. A fluid to be detected in the device to be detected flows in the flow channel. The detection module is disposed within the flow channel, including two slides, a microscopic module and at least one telescopic mechanism, each of the at least one telescopic mechanism is connected to one of the two slides and the flow channel. When the two slides approach each other, the fluid to be detected in a gap between the two slides is observable through the microscopic module.

A technique for measuring atmospheric conditions includes: at a computing device, receiving, from an imager, image data representing an image of an atmospheric region; creating a cloud mask from the image data, the cloud mask including a cloud area corresponding a first area in the image that is cloud covered and a non-cloud area corresponding a second area in the image that is substantially without cloud cover; determining a measurement location in the non-cloud area that is spaced apart from a boundary of the cloud area and from edges of the cloud mask; steering a line of sight of a sensor to correspond to the measurement location; and measuring an atmospheric condition with the sensor at the measurement location within the non-cloud area.

A substance detection method and apparatus, and a detection device are provided. The method includes: obtaining spectral information and image information of a substance to be detected; performing image recognition according to the image information to obtain appearance state information of the substance to be detected; determining a sub-database matching the appearance state information in a preset spectral database according to the appearance state information, wherein the spectral database includes a plurality of sub-databases classified according to the appearance state of the substance; and matching the spectral information with the obtained spectral information in the sub-database to obtain a detection result of the substance to be detected.

Provided are a method for quantitatively evaluating the activity of individual cells, and a device used therefor.

A cell observation device includes: a cell introduction section; a cell arrangement section; an observation section; and an analysis section, in which the cell introduction section introduces one or a plurality of cells into the cell arrangement section, the cell arrangement section arranges the introduced one or plurality of cells, the observation section makes an observation of a temporal event arising from cell contact in the cell arrangement section, and the analysis section analyzes the temporal event arising from the cell contact.

Tandem methods and devices for separating coal and gangue based on visible light and an X-ray are provided. The method comprises: determining, based on a visible light image, an image feature set and a target region of coal gangue; recognizing the coal gangue and removing large gangue in the coal gangue; performing imaging on the coal gangue after the large gangue is removed; extracting a target image and determining a gray scale value of the target image; obtaining samples of coal and gangue of different granularity levels by performing sampling; establishing a database and obtaining a separation threshold of coal and gangue of each granularity level of the current mining area; forming a mapping set and storing the database in a storage space; and obtaining a gray scale value of subsequent coal gangue, importing the gray scale value of the subsequent coal gangue into the mapping set to subsequently separate coal and gangue.

Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for analyzing an electrode paste and/or an electrode layer for a battery cell. The method may include: measuring a property of the electrode layer paste and/or the electrode layer using a measuring facility; generating measurement data; and determining a quality value of the electrode layer paste and/or the electrode layer using an AI engine based on the measurement data.

A processing device to be used for optical inspection of samples is configured to be communicatively coupled to a camera of an optical inspection device and to a user interface, to receive input data from the user interface and/or from the camera, to provide output data to the user interface, to be communicatively coupled to a storage device, to provide instructions, by accessing instruction data stored at the storage device, for optical quality inspection of samples to be performed by a user via the user interface. The instructions include instructions regarding what kind of optical quality inspection to be performed on which sample. The processing device is further configured to receive quality report data from the optical quality inspection via the user interface, and/or image data of images acquired by the camera, and to store the quality report data and/or the image data in the storage device.

A technique for measuring atmospheric conditions includes: at a computing device, receiving, from an imager, image data representing an image of an atmospheric region; creating a cloud mask from the image data, the cloud mask including a cloud area corresponding a first area in the image that is cloud covered and a non-cloud area corresponding a second area in the image that is substantially without cloud cover; determining a measurement location in the non-cloud area that is spaced apart from a boundary of the cloud area and from edges of the cloud mask; steering a line of sight of a sensor to correspond to the measurement location; and measuring an atmospheric condition with the sensor at the measurement location within the non-cloud area.

A gas sensor system for use in an exhaust gas tube, the system having at least two separate optical sensor assemblies that are separately positioned across the exhaust gas tube from one another, wherein the optical sensor assemblies each comprise a pair of light sources and a pair of light receivers such that light from each of the multiple light sources is received by each of the four light receivers, thereby generating multiple sets of optical measurements.

The present invention is related to the field of bio/chemical sensing, assays and applications. Particularly, the present invention is related to collecting a small amount of a vapor condensate sample (e.g. the exhaled breath condensate (EBC) from a subject of a volume as small as 10 fL (femto-Liter) in a single drop), preventing or significantly reducing an evaporation of the collected vapor condensate sample, analyzing the sample, analyzing the sample by mobile-phone, and performing such collection and analysis by a person without any professionals.