The present technology relates to an information processing device capable of obtaining an index effective for a measurement target as an index related to light incident on the measurement target, an information processing method, and a program.

The information processing device can obtain an index effective for a measurement target as an index regarding light incident on the measurement target by calculating an effective index representing the degree of light effectively utilized for the measurement target in incident light as an index regarding the light incident on the measurement target, on the basis of a measured value regarding the measurement target which is obtained by sensing performed by a sensor. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an apparatus calculating an index of plants.

A device for detecting a mixture ratio of two components of a textile fabric contains a radiation source for transmitting electromagnetic radiation in a spectral band in the direction of the textile fiber structure, a radiation sensor for receiving at least a part of the electromagnetic radiation, and a spectral filter with spectral properties in the spectral band for filtering at least one part of the electromagnetic radiation. The transmittance of the spectral filter in the spectral band has at least one local maximum and at least one local minimum. The spectral properties of the spectral filter in the spectral band are adapted to the spectral properties of the radiation source and each of the two components such that a radiation intensity received by the radiation sensor is a monotonous function of the mixture ratio of the two components. The device is simple in design and allows the use of spatially resolving imaging radiation sensors.

An apparatus, a method and a system for the parallelized recording of at least one variable during a biological/chemical process are disclosed. A matrix, which has at least one container and which can be positioned on a measurement carrier, is provided to accommodate the liquid samples. A measuring unit, which comprises a controllable radiation source for electromagnetic radiation and at least one sensor for detecting electromagnetic radiation, is fixedly disposed in or on the measurement carrier. When at least one matrix with the containers is placed onto the measurement carrier, the respective measuring unit is assigned to the base of each container from the outside. During the measurement by the measuring unit, a movement device is used to move the measurement carrier with a defined radial movement about a fixed axis orthogonal to the gravitational force.

A method for determining a set of physical parameters of a sample, comprising the steps of: A Retrieving a measured sample temporal trace Es(t), B retrieving a measured reference temporal trace Eref(t), C determining an widened reference temporal trace, called Eref0(t), and determining a discrete Fourier transform {hacek over (E)}.sub.ref0(?) of the widened reference temporal traceD determining a modeling of an impulse response of the sample in the frequency domain, depending on the set of physical parameters (pi), called sample frequency model {hacek over (E)}.sub.model{Pi}(?), from the Fourier Transform of the widened reference temporal trace {hacek over (E)}.sub.ref0(?) and a physical behavior model of the sample, E applying an optimization algorithm on the set of physical parameters (pi) comprising the sub steps of: E1 initializing physical parameters (pi), realizing iteratively the sub steps of: E2 calculating an inverse discrete Fourier transform of the sample frequency model {hacek over (E)}.sub.model{Pi}(?), called estimated sample temporal trace E.sub.est{Pi}(t), E3 calculating an error function (?.sub.er{pi}), until obtaining a set of values (pi.sub.opt) of physical parameters minimizing said error function.

There is provided a data processing apparatus including: a data determination portion that specifies, in each of first and second light intensity distribution data, an analysis range corresponding to a storage area for storing a detection target, the first and second light intensity distribution data being acquired on the basis of light emitted from first and light sources to a detection area; and a mode selection portion that selects an operation mode of the data determination portion. The mode selection portion selects one of a first mode in which the data determination portion specifies the analysis range in each of the first light intensity distribution data and the second light intensity distribution data, and a second mode in which the data determination portion specifies the analysis range in the second light intensity distribution data on the basis of information on the analysis range of the first light intensity distribution data.

A device for managing light pulses for measuring the reaction of a sample exposed to a first light pulse, the measurement being performed by analysis of a signal emitted by the sample subjected to a second light pulse, shifted with respect to the first pulse by a determined interval of time, the device including two optical detectors for detecting the pulses of two light beams emitted by two pulsed laser sources, respectively, each beam emitting pulses with respective repetition frequencies that are different, arbitrary and stable over a determined period in the direction of the sample; the detectors being connected to a computer for determining the interval of time between two pulses coming from the first and the second beam, respectively, and constituting the first and second pulses; the computer being connected to an analyzer for measuring the reaction of the sample having as input parameter the interval of time between the two pulses, where the computer uses an algorithm making use of the stability of the repetition frequencies for determining the interval of time.

The present invention relates to the phantom comprises water, an oil, an emulsifier and an oil coagulating agent.

An apparatus, a method and a system for the parallelized recording of at least one variable during a biological/chemical process are disclosed. A matrix, which has at least one container and which can be positioned on a measurement carrier, is provided to accommodate the liquid samples. A measuring unit, which comprises a controllable radiation source for electromagnetic radiation and at least one sensor for detecting electromagnetic radiation, is fixedly disposed in or on the measurement carrier. When at least one matrix with the containers is placed onto the measurement carrier, the respective measuring unit is assigned to the base of each container from the outside. During the measurement by the measuring unit, a movement device is used to move the measurement carrier with a defined radial movement about a fixed axis orthogonal to the gravitational force.

A system and method for analyzing biological samples (e.g., epithelial tissues) is described herein, including a multispectral frequency-domain time-resolved fluorescence measuring system comprising a frequency-modulated continuous wave digital-pulse modulated diode laser (FM CW laser) and a light emission detector. The FM CW laser is configured for simultaneous multiwavelength excitation of a compound. The light emission detector is configured for simultaneous multispectral time-resolved fluorescence measurement of a fluorescence frequency response (FFR) of the compound. The compound may be in an epithelial tissue. The excitation is modulated at frequencies within a frequency range of less than 100 MHz. The FM CW laser may be configured to emit modulated excitation spanning a set of frequencies which comprises at least three different frequencies in a range between 1 to 99 MHz, the set comprising at least one frequency <50 MHz, and at least one frequency ?50 MHz and <100 MHz.

Interferometric speckle visibility spectroscopy methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for recovering sample speckle field data or a speckle field pattern from an off-axis interferogram recorded by one or more sensors over an exposure time and determining sample dynamics of a sample being analyzed from speckle statistics of the speckle field data or the speckle field pattern.