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20130329054 | INFRARED CAMERA SYSTEM HOUSING WITH METALIZED SURFACE - A housing for an infrared camera module may be implemented with a substantially non-metal cover configured to substantially or completely enclose various components of an infrared imaging device. A metal layer may be disposed on various interior and/or exterior surfaces of the cover. Such implementations may be used to reduce the effects of various environmental conditions which may otherwise adversely affect the performance of the infrared imaging device. In addition, one or more conductive traces may be built into the housing and/or on interior surfaces of the housing to facilitate the passing of signals from components of the infrared imaging device such as infrared sensors, read out circuitry, a temperature measurement component, and/or other components. One or more fiducial markers may be provided to align various components of the infrared camera module during manufacture. | 12-12-2013 |
20150146009 | ALIGNMENT OF VISIBLE LIGHT SOURCES BASED ON THERMAL IMAGES - Various techniques are disclosed for providing systems for providing alignment guide information to selectively direct a visible light source to substantially align the visible light source with a desired subject and to project a visible light beam substantially on the desired subject. For example, a system may include a small form factor infrared imaging module to capture thermal images of a scene, which may be received by a processor to generate alignment guide information such as a user-viewable image of the scene, a user-viewable cue, and a framing reticle. In another example, such a system may be implemented as a camera. In yet another example, such a system may be implemented as a spotlight. | 05-28-2015 |
20150312488 | TECHNIQUES TO COMPENSATE FOR CALIBRATION DRIFTS IN INFRARED IMAGING DEVICES - Various techniques are provided to compensate for and/or update ineffective (e.g., stale) calibration terms due to calibration drifts in infrared imaging devices. For example, a virtual-shutter non-uniformity correction (NUC) procedure may be initiated to generate NUC terms to correct non-uniformities when appropriate triggering events and/or conditions are detected that may indicate presence of an object or scene to act as a shutter (e.g., a virtual shutter). Scene-based non-uniformity correction (SBNUC) may be performed during image capturing operations of the infrared imaging device, for example, when a virtual-shutter scene is not available. Further, snapshots of calibration data (e.g., NUC terms) produced during the virtual-shutter NUC procedure, the SBNUC process, and/or other NUC process may be taken. Such snapshots may be utilized to provide useful NUC data when the infrared imaging device starts up or is otherwise reactivated, so that the SBNUC or other NUC methods may produce effective results soon after the start-up. Such snapshots may also be utilized to update ineffective calibration terms. | 10-29-2015 |
20150319378 | INFRARED IMAGING DEVICE HAVING A SHUTTER - A shutter assembly may be provided for an infrared imaging module to selectively block external infrared radiation from reaching infrared sensors of the infrared imaging module. For example, the shutter assembly may comprise a paddle situated external to an optical element (e.g., lens) and adapted to be selectively moved by an actuator to substantially block external infrared radiation from entering the optical element. The shutter assembly may be stacked relative to a housing of the infrared imaging module without excessively increasing the overall profile of the infrared imaging module. A substantially reflective low emissivity interior surface may be provided on the paddle to reflect infrared radiation originating from an infrared sensor assembly of the infrared imaging module back to the infrared sensor assembly. | 11-05-2015 |
20150365592 | ALIGNMENT OF VISIBLE LIGHT SOURCES BASED ON THERMAL IMAGES - Various techniques are disclosed for providing systems for providing alignment guide information to selectively direct a visible light source to substantially align the visible light source with a desired subject and to project a visible light beam substantially on the desired subject. For example, a system may include a small form factor infrared imaging module to capture thermal images of a scene, which may be received by a processor to generate alignment guide information such as a user-viewable image of the scene, a user-viewable cue, and a framing reticle. In another example, such a system may be implemented as a camera. In yet another example, such a system may be implemented as a spotlight. | 12-17-2015 |
20160088240 | PROTECTIVE WINDOW FOR AN INFRARED SENSOR ARRAY - Various embodiments of the present disclosure may include a focal plane array configured to capture thermal image data from a scene. The embodiments may further include a sensor window displaced a first distance from the focal plane array. The embodiments may also include a protective window displaced a second distance greater than the first distance from the focal plane array, wherein the second distance causes damage or debris incident on the protective window to be out of focus in the thermal image data. | 03-24-2016 |
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20080311725 | Method For Assembling Substrates By Depositing An Oxide Or Nitride Thin Bonding Layer - A method for assembling by molecular bonding two substrates, at least one of which is made of a semiconductor material characterised in that one of substrates, called a first substrate, includes a surface (A), where at least one portion is flat and provided with an initial surface roughness compatible with the molecular bonding. The inventive method consists in depositing a thin oxide or nitride bonding layer, whose thickness ranges from 10 to 20 nm, on at least one portion of the surface flat part of the first substrate for carrying out a molecular bonding without pre-polishing, in saturating the thin bonding layer with hydroxyl groups, in bringing the thin bonding layer saturated with hydroxyl groups in contact with the second substrate ( | 12-18-2008 |
20090246946 | METHOD OF FABRICATING A MICROELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF A SEMICONDUCTOR ON INSULATOR TYPE WITH DIFFERENT PATTERNS - A microstructure of the semiconductor on insulator type with different patterns is produced by forming a stacked uniform structure including a plate forming a substrate, a continuous insulative layer and a semiconductor layer. The continuous insulative layer is a stack of at least three elementary layers, including a bottom elementary layer, at least one intermediate elementary layer, and a top elementary layer overlying the semiconductor layer, where at least one of the bottom elementary layer and the top elementary layer being of an insulative material. In the stacked uniform structure, at least two patterns are differentiated by modifying at least one of the elementary layers in one of the patterns so that the elementary layer has a significantly different physical or chemical property between the two patterns, where at least one of the bottom and top elementary layer is an insulative material that remains unchanged. | 10-01-2009 |
20100041205 | METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY TENSILE AND COMPRESSIVE STRAINING THE CHANNELS OF NMOS AND PMOS TRANSISTORS RESPECTIVELY - A method of forming a microelectronic device comprising, on a same support: at least one semi-conductor zone strained according to a first strain, and at least one semi-conductor zone strained according to a second strain, different to the first strain, comprising: the formation of semi-conductor zones above a pre-strained layer, then trenches extending through the thickness of the pre-strained layer, the dimensions and the layout of the semi-conductor zones as a function of the layout and the dimensions of the trenches being so as to obtain semi-conductor zones having a strain of the same type as that of the pre-strained layer and semi-conductor zones having a strain of a different type to that of the pre-strained layer. | 02-18-2010 |
20110001184 | METHOD OF ADJUSTING THE THRESHOLD VOLTAGE OF A TRANSISTOR BY A BURIED TRAPPING LAYER - An electronic subassembly and associated method for the production of an electronic subassembly include a semiconductor layer bearing at least a first transistor having an adjustable threshold voltage is joined to an insulator layer and a in which a first trapping zone is formed at a predetermined first depth. The first trapping zone extends at least beneath a channel of the first transistor and includes traps of greater density than the density of traps outside the first trapping zone, in such a way that the semiconductor layer and the first trapping zone are capacitively coupled. The useful information from the first transistor includes the charge transport within this transistor. A second trapping zone can be formed that extends at least beneath a channel of a second transistor that is formed by a second implantation with an energy and/or a dose and/or atoms that differ from those used to form the first trapping zone. | 01-06-2011 |
20110233732 | SUBSTRATE FOR AN ELECTRONIC OR ELECTROMECHANICAL COMPONENT AND NANO-ELEMENTS - A substrate configured to support at least one electronic or electromechanical component and one or more nano-elements, formed with a base support, with a catalytic system, with a barrier layer, and with a layer configured to receive the electronic or electromechanical component, in single-crystal Si or in Ge or in a mixture of these materials. The catalytic system lies on the base support without any contact with the layer configured to receive electronic or electromechanical component and the barrier layer is sandwiched between the catalytic system and the layer configured to receive the electronic or electromechanical component. This barrier layer is without any contact with the base support. | 09-29-2011 |
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20090305327 | Mass Spectrometric Determination Of Blood Enzyme Activity - The invention relates to the determination of the nature and strength of enzymatic activity in blood using mass spectrometric measurement of a profile of the reaction products. The determination of the enzymatic activity can be used for medical diagnostics, for example, and also to check the effectiveness of medication. The invention provides a method whereby adding probe substances usually not present in blood offers standardized substrates for measuring the enzymatic activity. The probe substances may be added to whole blood, plasma, or serum. The mass spectrometric measurement of the reaction products, after their reversible immobilization on actively binding surfaces of solids, for example, can deliver biomarker patterns of the reaction products which may be indicators for metabolic anomalies or diseases, since these are often accompanied by the formation or activation of characteristic enzymes. | 12-10-2009 |
20100248298 | MASS SPECTROMETRIC IDENTIFICATION OF MICROORGANISMS IN COMPLEX SAMPLES - Microorganisms are identified as present in a complex sample or mixed culture by acquiring a mass spectrum of the sample and comparing it to combination spectra, each of which is formed by combining at least two reference mass spectra of known microorganisms. Microorganisms corresponding to the reference spectra used to form the combination spectrum are identified as present in the sample if that combination spectrum exhibits a better match with the sample mass spectrum than any one of reference mass spectra used to form that combination spectrum. It is also possible to identify microorganisms by forming a difference spectrum by subtracting a reference mass spectrum from the sample mass spectrum and comparing the difference spectrum to the reference mass spectra. | 09-30-2010 |
20110012016 | SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION OF MICROBE SUBSPECIES - A dual-stage method is provided for identifying a microbe by, for example, its species or its subspecies. The method includes measuring a mass spectrum of the microbe using a mass spectrometer, calculating indicators for similarities between reference mass spectra in a library and the measured mass spectrum, selecting a group of reference mass spectra similar to the measured mass spectrum, determining a distinguishing weight for each mass signal of the reference mass spectra in the group, where the distinguishing weights emphasize differences between the reference mass spectra in the group, and calculating indicators for similarities between the reference mass spectra in the group and the measured mass spectrum as a function of the distinguishing weights. | 01-20-2011 |
20110202282 | Multi-Stage Search for Microbe Mass Spectra in Reference Libraries - Microbes in a sample are identified by calculating similarities between a mass spectrum of the sample and reference mass spectra in a spectral library. The spectral library is divided into a hierarchy of sub-libraries where each sub-library contains reference mass spectra of microbes which are statistically the most prevalent in the samples, but are not included in other sub-libraries and all additional reference mass spectra in the library that have substantial similarity to the reference mass spectra of these microbes. Only if the search in a sub-library does not provide a hit with sufficient certainty of identification, is the search carried out in sub-libraries of higher stages. | 08-18-2011 |
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20110272573 | ACQUISITION TECHNIQUE FOR MALDI TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTRA - The invention relates to acquisition techniques for time-of-flight mass spectra with ionization of the analyte substances by matrix assisted laser desorption. Generally speaking, these acquisition techniques involve adding together a large number of individual time-of-flight spectra, each with restricted dynamic measuring range, to form a sum spectrum. The invention provides a method that improves, in particular, the reproducibility, the concentration accuracy and therefore the ability to quantify the mass spectra. Particular embodiments also increase the dynamic range of measurement. For this purpose, multiple series of mass spectra are acquired, whereby the energy density in the laser spot is increased in discrete steps. As a result, many ion signals saturate the detector and can therefore no longer be evaluated. However, it is possible to employ a technique in which the ion beam is increasingly defocused, or, secondly, to replace parts of the spectrum that are subject to saturation by intensity extrapolations from mass spectra acquired with lower energy density. In the first case, hundreds or thousands of individual mass spectra must be added together in order to increase the dynamic measuring range. In the second case, the finally acquired mass spectrum, with its replacements, forms a mass spectrum with a high dynamic measuring range, improved reproducibility and better concentration accuracy. The gradient of the increasing intensities of the ion signals, as a function of the energy density, supplies additional information about the proton affinity of the analyte ions. The concentration accuracy is enhanced because the increase in the number of proton donors in the ionization plasma leads to an increase in the ionization of those analyte substances that have a lower proton affinity. | 11-10-2011 |
20110275113 | MASS SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC DETECTION OF MICROBES - A method of detecting specified target microbes in different types of sample uses only one to two cultivation steps for the enrichment of the target microbes from the sample, preferably in selective culture media, combined with a mass spectrometric detection method that identifies the target microbes in mixtures with other microbes even if the target microbes account for only a small proportion of the mixture. The sample may be a food sample, a sample from bodies of water used for bathing, a soil sample, a swabbed sample, a stool sample, an impactor sample with collected aerosol particles, amongst many others. The detection method is several days faster than standard methods and less expensive. | 11-10-2011 |
20120107864 | MASS SPECTROMETRIC RAPID DETECTION OF SALMONELLA - The invention relates to the detection of specified, flagellated bacteria, particularly | 05-03-2012 |
20130095511 | MASS SPECTROMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF B-LACTAMASE RESISTANCES - The invention relates to the determination of resistances of microorganisms which produce β-lactamases, in particular “extended spectrum β-lactamases” (ESBL). The invention provides a method whereby the microbial resistance can be measured very simply and quickly by means of the catalytic effect of the microbially produced β-lactamases on β-lactam antibiotics, which consists in a hydrolytic cleavage of the β-lactam ring. The method determines the resistance of the bacteria a few hours after a suitable substrate, either a β-lactam antibiotic or a customized β-lactam derivative, has been added to a suspension of the microbes, by direct mass spectrometric measurement of the substrate breakdown caused by the β-lactamases. | 04-18-2013 |
20140335556 | MASS SPECTROMETRIC DETERMINATION OF MICROBIAL RESISTANCES - The invention relates to a mass spectrometric method for determining microbial resistances to antibiotics. The invention provides specific methods comprising cultivation in synthetic media, in which several amino acids, preferably only a single amino acid, are isotopically labeled by incorporating | 11-13-2014 |
20150211042 | DETECTION OF MIXTURES IN MASS-SPECTROMETRIC MICROBE IDENTIFICATION - The invention relates to the identification of microbes in a sample by calculating the similarities between a mass spectrum of the sample and all reference spectra in a spectral library; it particularly concerns the detection of microbe mixtures. Microbe mixtures are probably present if several microbe species which are not closely related to each other are among the score list containing the most similar reference spectra. Methods are proposed which (1) operate with a list of the relationships, (2) determine the similarity between the reference spectra of the different microbe species of the score list, or (3) always carry out a mixture analysis in accordance with document DE 10 2009 007 266 A1 from the score list, with the generation of combination spectra, and only afterwards check the similarity of the combined spectra and thus the relationship between the microbe strains concerned. | 07-30-2015 |
20150357172 | DEPOSITION AID FOR THE MANUAL DEPOSITION OF MASS SPECTROMETRIC SAMPLES - The invention concerns the reduction of the risk of an incorrect assignment of samples to sample sites during the manual deposition of samples for ionization by laser desorption (for example MALDI or LDCI). The invention offers a method wherein a sample support with several sample sites is provided, at least one sample site is selected, and the selected sample site is highlighted, at least in contrast to neighboring not selected sample sites, in a way which the human eye can perceive. | 12-10-2015 |
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20110166885 | System and method for creating and rendering DICOM structured clinical reporting via the internet - Methods for implementing a structured clinical reporting system employing a DICOM Structured Reporting (SR) software database engine that maps clinical report data into a clinical structured reporting data format are disclosed. A workstation is used to create, sign, render, or transmit a structured clinical report. A conversion engine performs image recognition on the structured clinical report, which includes identifying data therein, segmenting the report, using a library to perform value object extraction on the segments, and converting the value objects to a DICOM format. A PACS server is usable to communicate with the conversion engine, workstation, and database. Various software plug-ins are usable, such that different methods of acquiring user input may be implemented. | 07-07-2011 |
20120259661 | Systems and methods for data mining of DICOM structured reports - Systems and methods for extracting information from DICOM structured reports and similar types of input files include receiving at least one DICOM structured report and at least one criterion, applying the one or more criteria to each DICOM structured report to obtain result data, and generating a result for storage or display. Result information can further be queried for indexing and aggregation purposes, and the query results can be stored for searching, access, and report generation. | 10-11-2012 |