Abstract:
An apparatus for detecting anomalies of the skin, more particularly melanomae, includes a light source for illuminating a two-dimensionally extending examination region of the skin, successively, with ultraviolet light range and with visible light. A camera records a fluorescence picture of the examination region having signal values F(x,y) at its picture points x,y in response to the illumination with ultraviolet light and a reference picture having signal values R(x,y) at its picture points x,y in response to the illumination with visible light. A memory stores the signal values of at least one of the fluorescence picture and said reference picture, and a processor responsive to the memory produces an output picture having respective signal values A(x,y) at its picture points x,y which are formed from respective quotients F(x,y)/R(x,y) of the signal values of the fluorescence and reference pictures at the same picture points. Various filters are provided positioned or positionable between the light source and the examination region or in front of the camera.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of taking measurements along an optical transmission path by means of an optical sensor. The optical sensor includes an optical converter whose optical attenuation properties can be influenced according to the value to be measured and through which a first beam portion of a high-frequency amplitude-modulated optical transmission beam is passed. A second beam portion of this transmission beam is conveyed via a delay element. The second beam portion is applied together with the first beam portion outputted by the optical converter, via the transmission path as a receive beam to the receiver arrangement. In this way the modulation change produced by the sensor is processed and evaluated as an information about the measure value. Measuring a value at the transmitter end is possible with any optical transmission path of an undefined length, without recalibration of the receiver arrangement, because the optical transmitter beam is additionally subjected to low-frequency modulation. An original modulation factor m.sub.o of the transmission beam is preset as the ratio of the high-frequency (I.sub.HF) to the low-frequency (I.sub.NF) modulation amplitude and is fed the receiver arrangement 3. The received sensor-influenced modulation factor of the receive beam is measured by the receive arrangement 3. The received-to-original modulation signal ratio is evaluated as information about the measuring value (M).
Abstract:
A method and a device for analyzing a region of interest in an object is proposed. The method comprises: (a) providing measurement data by a differential phase contrast X-ray imaging system, and (b) analyzing characteristics of the object in the region of interest. Therein, the measurement data comprise a 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional set of pixels wherein for each pixel the measurement data comprises three types of image data spatially aligned with each other, including (i) absorption representing image data A, (ii) differential phase contrast representing image data D, and (iii) coherence representing image data C. The analyzing step is based, for each pixel, on a combination of at least two of information comprised in the absorption representing image data A and information comprised in the differential phase contrast representing image data D and information comprised in the coherence representing image data C.
Abstract:
An X-ray differential phase-contrast imaging system has three circular gratings. The circular gratings are aligned with the optical axis of the radiation beam and a phase stepping is performed along the optical axis with the focal spot, the phase grating and/or the absorber grating. The signal measured is the phase-gradient in radial direction away from the optical axis.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a multichannel spectrometer (10), in particular for examining moles (16) having an evaluating and display device (14) and optical means (18, 19, 21, 23, 22) to determine and display reflectance spectra of a skin surface on an ascertainable image plane (x,y) while considering white standards (17). In such a spectrometer for the examination of inter alia malignant moles (16), a contactless optical point-by-point scanning of the skin surface is desirable, which is why the optics of the spectrometer (10) comprise a lens system (18, 21, 22) directed on the skin surface and the white standard (17) and a slotted diaphragm (19) succeeded by a diffraction grating (23) directed in accordance with a slot (20) of the slotted diaphragm (19) for the simultaneous production of the reflectance spectrum of the points of a determinable line (25) of the skin surface and of the white standard (17) on the image plane (x,y) connected to the subsequent diffraction grating (23) with the evaluating and display device (14).
Abstract:
An apparatus for driving a plurality of motors at different variable speeds. The apparatus includes a rectifier for supplying direct current power to a dc bus circuit. A plurality of inverters are connected to the dc bus circuit and each inverter drives a respective motor. Each inverter is controlled by an individual controller connected thereto for controlling the frequency of the output of the inverter to thereby control the speed of the associated motor. The inverters are preferably mounted on a common heat sink to reduce electrical and mechanical complexity. The apparatus permits the rectifier and the dc bus circuit to be sized to handle a maximum rating of less than the sum total of maximum loads of each of the motors. The dc bus circuit also serves to distribute energy generated by a slowing motor, for example, to other motors driven from the bus circuit. A chopper resistor may be included and switched across the dc bus circuit to provide braking to the motors.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an optical sensor arrangement having a light emitting arrangement (2), which feeds a first emission light beam into a first emission optical waveguide (3) and a second emission light beam into a second emission optical waveguide, having a polarizer (5), which is coupled with the two emission optical waveguides and generates from the first and second emission light beam a respective linearly polarized light beam, and having an optical sensor (1), which alters the state of polarization of a supplied polarized light beam as a function of a physical quantity acting on the sensor and which supplies a sensor light beam formed from a polarized light beam. Behind the optical sensor (1) there is disposed an analyzer (7), which separates each sensor light beam into two linearly polarized reception light beams, one of which is fed to a light receiving arrangement (12) via a first reception optical waveguide (9) and the other via a second reception optical waveguide (11). From the reception light beams, the light receiving arrangement forms electrical signals, from which an evaluation circuit ( 13) determines the physical quantity.
Abstract:
During the transmission of measurement values of a sensor from a transmitter circuit to a receiver circuit, for example via an optical fibre, use has been made of a device which must be activated by the receiver circuit before a measurement value can be transmitted. This is done in order to achieve potential freedom. The novel device for transmitting the sensor measurement values aims to operate faster and independently of the receiver circuit. The sensor (1) is activated by control pulses generated by a pulse generator circuit (3) and applies to the pulse generator circuit, during the occurrence of a control pulse, a measurement pulse which is dependent on the measurement value circuit. The repetition frequency and/or the width of the control pulse then depends on the amplitude value of the measurement pulses.
Abstract:
Apparatus for measurement of the stress birefringence of an optical sensor that is influenced by a quantity to be measured. An optical emitting device sends light of two adjacent wavelengths .lambda..sub.1 and .lambda..sub.2 through an emitting light guide and via a polariser and a retarder plate to the sensor. An analyser conducts mutually parallel polarization components of the light emerging from the sensor on a common path to a receiving and evaluating device which derives from the measured-value-dependent intensities of such polarization components information concerning the magnitude of the quantity to be measured. The thickness of the retarder plate is dimensioned to provide a path length w of the light through the retarder plate such that the two light components .lambda..sub.1 and .lambda..sub.2 that leave the analyzer are influenced in mutually opposite senses by the measured quantity via the sensor, so that they do not need to be separated by optical filters and combined again by a coupler.
Abstract:
The yarn tension at each of a plurality of yarn processing stations is continuously monitored, while continuously determining the mean value of the monitored tension at each station, and while also continuously determining the differential between the monitored value and the mean value. Also, an alarm signal is generated whenever the mean value leaves a predetermined tolerance range, and whenever the differential value leaves a second predetermined tolerance range. An alarm signal may serve to actuate a visual error indicator, or to shut down the associated processing station.