According to an aspect, a detection device includes: a sensor panel that has a detection area in which optical sensors are arranged; a light source unit comprising multiple types of light sources; a member on which an object to be detected is to be placed; and a detection circuit configured to obtain outputs of the optical sensors. The light sources configured to emit light in different colors are configured not to be turned on simultaneously but to be turned on in different periods. An exposure time when the optical sensor detects light differs between the light sources that emit light in different colors. The output of the optical sensor under conditions where the object to be detected is not placed falls within an output range corresponding to a predetermined target value, regardless of the color of the light emitted by one of the light sources that is turned on.

There is presented an apparatus for determining one or more time response values of an analyte or a group of analytes (96) in a liquid (99) comprising a translucent element comprising pores (6), wherein the pores (6) are dead end pores (6) extending into the translucent element from respective openings (7) in the translucent element, wherein a cross-sectional dimension of the openings (7) of the pores (6) is dimensioned so as to prevent larger particles or debris from entering the pores (6), while allowing the analyte or the group of analytes in the liquid (99) to enter the pores (6) via diffusion, one or more light sources (10) being adapted to illuminate at least the pores (6) in the translucent element (2), and a light detector (20) being adapted to at each of multiple points in time receive light (21) emerging from the pores (6) in response to illumination (11) by the one or more light sources, wherein the light detector is further adapted to generate one or more signals based on the received light, each of the one or more signals being temporally resolved and representative of at least a part of the received light, and wherein the apparatus is further comprising a data processing device comprising a processor configured to determine one or more time response values based on the one or more signals.

A time response measurement apparatus includes a pulse formation unit, an attenuation unit, a waveform measurement unit, and an analysis unit. The pulse formation unit generates first pulsed light including a wavelength of pump light, second pulsed light including a wavelength of probe light, and third pulsed light including the wavelength of the pump light and the wavelength of the probe light, on a common optical axis. The attenuation unit transmits the first pulsed light, the second pulsed light, and the third pulsed light output from a sample arranged on the optical axis after being incident on the sample. An attenuation rate for the pump light is larger than an attenuation rate for the probe light. The analysis unit obtains a time response of the sample based on temporal waveforms of the first pulsed light, the second pulsed light, and the third pulsed light having passed through the attenuation unit.

There is presented an apparatus for determining one or more time response values of an analyte or a group of analytes (96) in a liquid (99) comprising a translucent element comprising pores (6), wherein the pores (6) are dead end pores (6) extending into the translucent element from respective openings (7) in the translucent element, wherein a cross-sectional dimension of the openings (7) of the pores (6) is dimensioned so as to prevent larger particles or debris from entering the pores (6), while allowing the analyte or the group of analytes in the liquid (99) to enter the pores (6) via diffusion, one or more light sources (10) being adapted to illuminate at least the pores (6) in the translucent element (2), and a light detector (20) being adapted to at each of multiple points in time receive light (21) emerging from the pores (6) in response to illumination (11) by the one or more light sources, wherein the light detector is further adapted to generate one or more signals based on the received light, each of the one or more signals being temporally resolved and representative of at least a part of the received light, and wherein the apparatus is further comprising a data processing device comprising a processor configured to determine one or more time response values based on the one or more signals.

There is presented an apparatus for determining one or more time response values of an analyte or a group of analytes (96) in a liquid (99) comprising a translucent element comprising pores (6), wherein the pores (6) are dead end pores (6) extending into the translucent element from respective openings (7) in the translucent element, wherein a cross-sectional dimension of the openings (7) of the pores (6) is dimensioned so as to prevent larger particles or debris from entering the pores (6), while allowing the analyte or the group of analytes in the liquid (99) to enter the pores (6) via diffusion, one or more light sources (10) being adapted to illuminate at least the pores (6) in the translucent element (2), and a light detector (20) being adapted to at each of multiple points in time receive light (21) emerging from the pores (6) in response to illumination (I I) by the one or more light sources, wherein the light detector is further adapted to generate one or more signals based on the received light, each of the one or more signals being temporally resolved and representative of at least a part of the received light, and wherein the apparatus is further comprising a data processing device comprising a processor configured to determine one or more time response values based on the one or more signals.

An apparatus that determines time response values of at least one analyte in a liquid includes a translucent element having dead end pores extending into the translucent element from respective openings in the translucent element. A cross-sectional dimension of the openings is dimensioned to prevent larger particles or debris from entering the pores while allowing the analyte(s) in the liquid to enter the pores via diffusion. One or more light sources illuminates the pores. A light detector receives light emerging from the pores in response to illumination by the one or more light sources. The light detector generates one or more signals based on the received light. Each signal is temporally resolved and representative of at least a part of the received light. The apparatus further includes a data processing device having a processor that determines one or more time response values based on the one or more signals.

A measuring system for automatically determining and/or monitoring the quality of a liquid or viscous foodstuff, including a housing with an interior space for a product container for the foodstuff, the product container has a product space for the foodstuff and a lid provided with a probe with a thermometer, a heating and cooling device for the interior space, a sensor device for determining a non-temperature quality-related parameter value of the foodstuff, and a control unit designed to control the measuring system, measure, store, process and/or export the measured parameter values, and to control the heating and/or the cooling system according to a desired time-temperature program. The cooling system includes a cold buffer, a cooler for the cold buffer, and a separate refrigerant circuit. The cold buffer includes a buffer holder with a phase-transition material, wherein the refrigerant circuit includes a cooling circuit with a pump.

Pulsed light in which an elapsed time in a pulse and a wavelength of light correspond to each other on a one-to-one basis is emitted from a pulsed light source and radiated to a product multiple times, and a plurality of beams of the pulsed light transmitted through the product is incident on a light receiver. An output of the light receiver is digitized by an AD converter, values at times regarded as having the same wavelength in beams of the pulsed light are integrated by an FPGA as an integration unit, and then the integrated value is input to a calculator, an absorption spectrum is calculated by a measurement program, and a quality determination program quantifies a specific component to determine quality of a product.

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.