Abstract: An ultrasonic device includes: oscillation elements to generate ultrasonic waves toward a subject, and generate voltages according to ultrasonic waves reflected by the subject; a switch to select voltages generated by a predetermined number of oscillation elements, from among the generated voltages; and semiconductor devices. Each semiconductor device includes: a first terminal to receive a second predetermined number of voltages different from voltages received by other semiconductor devices, among the selected voltages; a first adder to add data based on the second predetermined number of voltages; a second terminal to receive an addition result of data by the first adder of each of the other semiconductor devices; a second adder to add the addition results of the data received by the first adder and the data received by the second terminal; and an image generator to generate image data based on the addition result of the second adder.

Abstract: A system for predicting a blood glucose level is comprised of a time series measurement data storing section for storing blood glucose level measured data in a blood glucose time series file to treat the data as time series data. A dynamics estimating section estimates a dynamics which most preferably represents a phase characteristic of the time series data stored in the time series measurement data storing section. A parameter storing section stores an embedding dimension n and a time delay .tau. of the dynamics estimated in the dynamics estimating section as parameters for embedding the estimated dynamics in multidimensional state space. A blood glucose predicting section predicts a near future value of blood glucose level by means of the Local Fuzzy Reconstruction Method on the basis of the stored data of the blood glucose level data stored in the blood glucose time series file and the parameters corresponding to the data and for storing the predicted future value in a predicted blood glucose level file.