Abstract:
An operating state acquisition apparatus 20a includes a detector 21a retrofitted to be mounted on a production equipment 31 disposed on a manufacturing line L1, or retrofitted to be disposed in a vicinity of the production equipment 31, the detector outputting a detection signal indicating an operating state of the production equipment. The operating state acquisition apparatus 20a includes a transmitter 21a configured to transmit a detection signal to a management apparatus 10.
Abstract:
An operating state acquisition apparatus 20a includes a detector 21a retrofitted to be mounted on a production equipment 31 disposed on a manufacturing line L1, or retrofitted to be disposed in a vicinity of the production equipment 31, the detector outputting a detection signal indicating an operating state of the production equipment. The operating state acquisition apparatus 20a includes a transmitter 21a configured to transmit a detection signal to a management apparatus 10.
Abstract:
Provided a terahertz-wave detection element having high spatial resolution in which the occurrence of warping and a crack is suitably suppressed. The detection element includes: an electro-optic crystal layer in which a refractive index at an incident position of the terahertz wave changes in accordance with incident intensity of the terahertz wave; and a substrate supporting the electro-optic crystal layer. The detection element detects a spatial-characteristics distribution generated in probe light in superposition with the terahertz wave, thereby to detect the spatial intensity distribution of the incident terahertz wave. A joined part between the electro-optic crystal and the supporting substrate is an amorphous layer consisting of an oxide including a constituent element of the electro-optic crystal and the substrate, and also having a thickness of 1-50 nm. A thickness of the electro-optic crystal layer is 1-30 μm.
Abstract:
Mechanisms are provided to easily determining an indication of the amount of light available at a growing location over a given period of time. Such mechanisms may be used indoors or outdoors and are designed so as to provide an easily readable and understandable indication of the amount of light available at a growing location either empirically or with reference to a reference color chart.
Abstract:
A dithered offset correction method wherein, according to a first embodiment, updates are made of the offset correction during each iteration and, after four iterations, the offset for each pixel or detector element is updated from all of its neighbors to provide faster convergence than is obtainable by the prior art. In accordance with a second embodiment, the offset for each detector element is updated for every iteration and, for each update, the update is made with information from an entire row or an entire column of data. After four iterations, each offset has been updated with information from every detector element in the focal plane array. This provides even more rapid convergence compared to the prior art.
Abstract:
A device for indicating the percentage of ultraviolet radiation which reaches the earth's surface for a given position of the Sun's altitude. The device consists of a planar member having a gnomon-like member affixed within its center. The gnomon-like member marks the center of nine (9) spaced concentric rings inscribed on a top surface of the planar member. The innermost circle is labeled 90%, the second 80% and so on to an outer edge. The radius for the circumference of each ring is calculated by a mathematical formula which correlates the altitude of the sun with a percentage amount of UV-B that reaches the surface of the earth.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method and a device for processing an electric signal constituting the analysis of a line of an image and issued by linear detectors such as a strip (20) of adjacent photodetectors (such as 7, 8) which realize a sampling at a constant pitch. According to the invention, k analyses of the same line are carried out with respective lateral shifts of 1/k of the pitch of the photodetectors, an oversampled signal is generated by multiplexing the k samples, and the oversampled signal is submitted to a filtering inverse to the filtering inherent to the spatial smoothing. Thus, the degradation of the signal due to the folding of the spectrum and to the filtering inherent to the integration of the "light" on the photosensible surface of the photodetectors is reduced.