Abstract: To provide a technology capable of stabilizing droplets. Provided is a particle isolation device or the like including: a vibration unit that applies vibration to a fluid containing sheath liquid by supplying a driving voltage based on each of a plurality of frequencies; an imaging unit that acquires, at a position where the fluid is formed into droplets through the vibration, an image of the fluid and each of the droplets; a liquid temperature control unit that controls a liquid temperature of the sheath liquid; and a frequency control unit that acquires data regarding a state of the droplet at each of the frequencies per liquid temperature of the sheath liquid from the image captured by the imaging unit, and controls the frequency of the driving voltage on the basis of a variation in the data accompanying a change in the liquid temperature of the sheath liquid.

Abstract: Provided is a technology for increasing accuracy of a technology which optically detects characteristics of each of particles contained in fluid and analyzes or isolates the detected particles. Provided is a particle detection device including a light applying unit that applies excitation light to a particle contained in fluid, a light detection unit that detects light emitted by application of the excitation light, and an excitation light detection unit that has an imaging element that detects the excitation light applied to the particle. The light applying unit of the particle detection device according to the present technology may be configured to apply multiple rays of excitation light having different wavelengths from different positions in a flow direction of the fluid. In this case, the excitation light detection unit can detect position information associated with the multiple rays of excitation light.

Abstract: A technology of measuring an electrical characteristic of a blood sample is provided that allows easy introduction, into an existing blood test system, a technique of obtaining information on a blood sample from an electrical characteristic of the blood sample. The technology provides a device for measuring an electrical characteristic of a blood sample, the device including: a mixing unit configured to mix a blood cell component and a plasma component on the basis of the composition ratio between the blood cell component and the plasma component in a blood sample; and a blood sample measurement unit configured to measure an electrical characteristic of a blood sample obtained by mixing by the mixing unit.

Abstract: A technology is provided that enables high accuracy electrical measurement regardless of the performance of a measurement device. An electrical characteristic measurement apparatus includes a measurement unit that measures an electrical characteristic of a biological sample in a plurality of frequencies; and an assignment unit that performs assignment of a number of measurements and/or a measurement amplitude for each frequency. Use of a combination of a frequency for which the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is intentionally left low and a frequency for which the SNR is on the contrary improved when an electrical characteristic of a biological sample is measured in multiple frequencies, can provide, as a result, high accuracy electrical measurement optimal for the purpose of measurement.

Abstract: An electrical cartridge (1) for measuring blood coagulation includes at least: a container (11) having an opening portion (111) and a sample holding portion (112); a lid (12) including a sealing portion (121) configured to seal with at least part of the sample holding portion (112) and a shaft portion (122) extending from the sealing portion (121), wherein the container (11) is configured to engage with the lid (12) when the sealing portion (121) seals with the at least part of the sample holding portion (112); an electrode (13) secured to the sample holding portion (112); and at least one spring (123) configured to generate a pressing force on at least a portion of the lid (12) when the container (11) and the lid (12) are engaged, the pressing force being generated in a direction in which the lid (12) extends.

Abstract: The main purpose of the present technology is to provide a technology capable of reducing the risk of erroneous determination while ensuring real-time properties in the measurement of electrical characteristics of a biological sample. In this regard, the present technology provides an electrical characteristics measurement apparatus including: at least a measurement unit that measures electrical characteristics of a biological sample over time; an analysis unit that reviews, in real time during the measurement, data related to a temporal change in the electrical characteristics and analyzes a change in state of the biological sample; and a notification unit that issues notification of an analysis result in the analysis unit at a specific time point, in which the analysis unit detects a predetermined feature point from the data related to the temporal change in the electrical characteristics to use data related to the temporal change in a period before and/or after the predetermined feature point.

Abstract: A technology of measuring an electrical characteristic of a blood sample is provided that allows easy introduction, into an existing blood test system, a technique of obtaining information on a blood sample from an electrical characteristic of the blood sample. The technology provides a device for measuring an electrical characteristic of a blood sample, the device including: a mixing unit configured to mix a blood cell component and a plasma component on the basis of the composition ratio between the blood cell component and the plasma component in a blood sample; and a blood sample measurement unit configured to measure an electrical characteristic of a blood sample obtained by mixing by the mixing unit.

Abstract: A technology is provided that enables high accuracy electrical measurement regardless of the performance and/or the like of a measurement device. There is provided an electrical characteristic measurement apparatus, at least including: a measurement unit that measures an electrical characteristic of a biological sample in a plurality of frequencies; and an assignment unit that performs assignment of a number of measurements and/or a measurement amplitude for each frequency. Use of a combination of a frequency for which the SNR is intentionally left low and a frequency for which the SNR is on the contrary improved when an electrical characteristic of a biological sample is measured in multiple frequencies, can provide, as a result, high accuracy electrical measurement optimal for the purpose of measurement.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a signal processing apparatus including: an input block receiving the predetermined number of items of data and a first enable signal taking an active state in an interval where data is valid in synchronization with a first clock; a count block counting the number of clocks in an interval where the first enable signal is inactive; an enable signal control block putting a second enable signal in an active state for the number of clocks equal to a predetermined number and putting the second enable signal in an inactive state for the number of clocks counted by the count block; an enable signal output block outputting the second enable signal; and a data output block outputting the predetermined number of items of data in synchronization with the second clock in an interval where the second enable signal is active.

Abstract: There is provided a biological information measurement apparatus including a biological information acquisition unit configured to acquire at least first waveform information relating to a first waveform representing a beat of a measurement subject measured at a first measurement site, and as second waveform information relating to a second waveform representing the beat of the measurement subject measured at a second measurement site different from the first measurement site, information relating to a timing corresponding to a second feature which is a characteristic feature of the second waveform, and a pulse wave transit time calculation unit configured to, based on the first and second waveform information, calculate a pulse wave transit time, which is a difference between a timing corresponding to a first feature which is a characteristic feature of the first waveform and the timing corresponding to the second feature which is a characteristic feature of the second waveform.

Abstract: A data input/output device includes a buffer that accumulates data, and a data receiver that receives data input in synchronization with a first clock in accordance with a second clock whose generation source is different from a generation source of the first clock. The data input/output device further includes a data input part that accumulates data received by the data receiver in the buffer, and a data output part that sequentially outputs data accumulated in the buffer at an output interval depending on the amount of data accumulated in the buffer in such a manner that a predetermined data amount is the unit of the output.

Abstract: A user information processing method, an apparatus thereof and a user information processing system in which personal information can be more effectively employed. Terminal use record information is obtained when a user employs terminal units. The profile information of the user is generated on the basis of the accumulated terminal use record information and the generated profile information is stored, so that information peculiar to the user can be provided on the basis of the stored profile information of the user.

Abstract: A user information processing method, an apparatus thereof and a user information processing system in which personal information can be more effectively employed. Terminal use record information is obtained when a user employs terminal units. The profile information of the user is generated on the basis of the accumulated terminal use record information and the generated profile information is stored, so that information peculiar to the user can be provided on the basis of the stored profile information of the user.

Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus including a wireless communication unit for performing wireless communication by using a predetermined communication band, a data transmission unit for transmitting serial data through a predetermined transmission path, a jamming determination unit for determining whether or not a transmission band used for transmission of the serial data by the data transmission unit jams the communication band used for the wireless communication by the wireless communication unit, and a rate control unit for switching a transmission rate of the serial data to low by controlling the data transmission unit, in a case the jamming determination unit determines that the transmission band used for transmission of the serial data jams the communication band used for the wireless communication.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus which includes a first-module including a first narrow-band communicator for performing narrow band communication with a second-module, a first broadband-communicator for performing broadband communication with the second-module, and a first controller for controlling an operation state of the first broadband-communicator according to an operation mode, and a second-module including a second narrow-band communicator for performing narrow-band communication with the first-module, a second broadband-communicator for performing broadband communication with the first-module, and a second controller for controlling an operation state of the second broadband-communicator according to an operation mode. The first controller places the first broadband-communicator in an operation state in a first mode, and places the first broadband-communicator in a standby state in a second mode.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a signal processing apparatus including: an input block receiving the predetermined number of items of data and a first enable signal taking an active state in an interval where data is valid in synchronization with a first clock; a count block counting the number of clocks in an interval where the first enable signal is inactive; an enable signal control block putting a second enable signal in an active state for the number of clocks equal to a predetermined number and putting the second enable signal in an inactive state for the number of clocks counted by the count block; an enable signal output block outputting the second enable signal; and a data output block outputting the predetermined number of items of data in synchronization with the second clock in an interval where the second enable signal is active.

Abstract: A data input/output device includes a buffer that accumulates data, and a data receiver that receives data input in synchronization with a first clock in accordance with a second clock whose generation source is different from a generation source of the first clock. The data input/output device further includes a data input part that accumulates data received by the data receiver in the buffer, and a data output part that sequentially outputs data accumulated in the buffer at an output interval depending on the amount of data accumulated in the buffer in such a manner that a predetermined data amount is the unit of the output.

Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus including a wireless communication unit for performing wireless communication by using a predetermined communication band, a data transmission unit for transmitting serial data through a predetermined transmission path, a jamming determination unit for determining whether or not a transmission band used for transmission of the serial data by the data transmission unit jams the communication band used for the wireless communication by the wireless communication unit, and a rate control unit for switching a transmission rate of the serial data to low by controlling the data transmission unit, in a case the jamming determination unit determines that the transmission band used for transmission of the serial data jams the communication band used for the wireless communication.

Abstract: A receiving device includes a first demodulator operable to demodulate data transmitted by at least one of a plurality of propagation paths in a first channel having transfer functions which are different from one another; a second demodulator operable to demodulate data transmitted by at least one of a plurality of propagation paths in a second channel having transfer functions which are different from one another; and a data processor operable to merge the data demodulated by the first demodulator and the data demodulated by the second demodulator.