Abstract: A dishwasher includes a tub having an air outlet, an airflow conduit fluidly coupling the tub air outlet to ambient air, a blower assembly forcing air to flow from the tub and through the tub air outlet into the airflow conduit, a first reservoir associated with the airflow conduit and collecting liquid condensed from the air forced through the airflow conduit, the first reservoir fluidly coupled to the tub for draining the collected liquid into the tub, and a second reservoir associated with the airflow conduit downstream of the first reservoir and collecting liquid condensed from the air prior to the exhaustion of the air to the ambient air, wherein any liquid not collected by the first reservoir is collected by the second reservoir for evaporation.

Abstract: The Hanging Bottle Drying Rack, tailored for baby and toddler bottles and cups, is a unique drying rack because it hangs on hooks, handles, over the door and such locations instead of sitting on the counter. It can hang in many convenient locations, (in any sink area: kitchen, rest room, or nursing room), look neat and uncluttered, and allow bottles, cups, and accessories to air dry without sitting in puddles of water. It can be assembled and disassembled per the user's desire of use and maintenance.

Abstract: Provided are an endoscope system, an image processing device, and a method of operating the image processing device that can estimate the absolute blood vessel depth of blood vessels depicted in an endoscopic image. An endoscope system includes a light source unit that generates a plurality of types of illumination light having different wavelength ranges; an imaging sensor that images an observation target irradiated with any one of the plurality of types of illumination light; a blood vessel shape determination unit that, on the basis of an image signal obtained from the imaging sensor, determines a shape pattern of blood vessels of interest that are some or all of blood vessels included in a captured image of the observation target; and a blood vessel depth estimation unit that estimates a blood vessel depth of the blood vessels of interest on the basis of the shape pattern.

Abstract: An endoscope includes an insertion portion that has a tip portion to be inserted into an examination target from a tip side of the tip portion. The endoscope includes a lens unit that is disposed at the tip portion. The endoscope includes an image sensor that is disposed on an opposite side to the tip side of tip portion with respect to the lens unit. The endoscope includes a linear conductor that has a tip disposed at the tip side with respect to the image sensor and has a proximal end which is extended from the tip through inside the insertion portion.

Abstract: An adaptor may include a shell and a plunger positioned at a first end of the shell and moveable between an undepressed state and a depressed state. The adaptor may further include a ramp extending from a second end of the shell and a carrier coupled to the ramp. In the undepressed state, the carrier may be located at a first position along the ramp, and wherein, in the depressed state, the carrier may be located at a second position along the ramp, wherein the second position may be closer to the second end of the shell than the first position.

Abstract: An endoscope includes a distal-end hard portion at a distal end of an insert, including a body, housing, first and second grooves in the body to extend inwardly, and a through-hole communicating the first and second grooves in the housing; a forceps-raising table in the first groove, including a fitting-groove along a through-hole extending direction; an arm portion including a pillar extending from the second groove to the first groove, a fit-in portion fitted in the fitting-groove on one side, and a connecting portion on the other side, the connecting portion being connected with a forceps-operating wire; and a seal portion on a periphery of the pillar, sealing water-tightly a first gap and a second gap, the first gap being between a periphery of the pillar and a periphery defining the through-hole, and the second gap being between the periphery of the pillar and a periphery defining the fitting-groove.

Abstract: Device for vaginal access to the uterus of a livestock animal for transfer of material or collecting samples, includes a body integrally connected to gripping element, a first passage extending through the device and opening out at two ends in order to establish an access route between the inside and the outside of the animal, the body being straight and rigid in order to permit introduction into the vagina, and a cup being provided at its distal end, a projection extending from the bottom of the cup and having a through-hole in communication with the first passage, the cup having an orifice in communication with a second passage extending through the body and connected to suction element, to place the cup flat against the fornix of the neck of the uterus, with viewing element likewise being provided in order to permit viewing at the front of the cup.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a needle, an imager, and a syringe. The needle includes a tip. The imager includes a plurality of stacked integrated circuits (ICs). The syringe is coupled to the needle.

Abstract: A disclosed electronic circuit unit includes a first circuit board in which first electrode pads, mounting lands and second electrode pads are formed and that has vias and wirings; a second circuit board in which third electrode pads and dummy pads are formed and that has vias and wirings; and electronic components that are connected to the mounting lands. When the dummy pads are projected in the direction orthogonal to a surface, one of the dummy pads is overlapped one of electrodes of one of the electronic components. The mounting lands for the electronic components overlapping the dummy pads at the time of the projection are connected to, by connecting members, the second electrode pads, the wirings, and the like, the dummy pads connected to the third electrode pads by the wirings or the like.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dichroic prism assembly (P1-P7) configured to receive light from an object image through an entrance face of the dichroic prism assembly, comprising a first prism (P3) and a further dichroic prism assembly (P5, P6, P7) for splitting light in three light components, the first prism having a cross section with at least five corners, each corner having an inside angle of at least 90 degrees. The corners of the first prism are designed so that an incoming beam which enters the entrance face in a direction parallel to a normal of said entrance face is reflected twice inside the prism and exits the prism through an exit face parallel to a normal of said exit face, wherein the normal of the entrance face and the normal of the exit face are perpendicular to each other, and wherein the dichroic prism assembly comprises a compensator prism (P4) between the first prism and the further dichroic prism assembly.

Abstract: There is provided an endoscope system capable of maintaining a constant light amount ratio for each wavelength of light emitted from an endoscope. The endoscope system has: an endoscope that has a light guide; two or more light sources that supply light to the light guide and have different main wavelengths; a light source driving unit that supplies a driving signal to each of the light sources; a light source control unit that makes the light source driving unit generate a driving signal corresponding to the light amount setting value; and a light source information storage unit that stores information of the main wavelength. The endoscope has a scope information storage unit that stores information of a scope type.

Abstract: An illumination device may include an illumination source including a light source, a single fiber connecting the illumination source to a medical device and being dedicated to the transmission of light energy from the light source, and a numerical aperture adjustment portion located between the single fiber and the medical device. The light source may generate at least one non-white colored laser energy, and the illumination device may convert the at least one non-white colored laser energy into white colored laser energy.

Abstract: An endoscope includes a sensor, and a temperature compensation circuit configured to perform temperature compensation of an output signal of the sensor, in a distal end portion. The temperature compensation circuit includes a differential amplifying section configured to amplify an output signal of the sensor, and a temperature sensing section in which a resistance is connected in series to a parallel connection portion of a temperature sensing element and a resistance.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fully integrated sterilizable one time use disposable tissue visualization device and methods for using such devices. Preferred embodiments of the invention facilitate the visualization of an internal tissue site while causing a minimum of damage to the surrounding tissue. Further preferred embodiments may allow for the delivery of fluids and other treatment to an internal tissue site.

Abstract: Myopia is a clinically significant and growing problem around the world. A major cause is the increasing time spent indoors by children, for example, playing video games, studying, and watching television. Exposure to outdoor light is known to be protective, and prevents the onset and also delays the progression of myopia. Embodiments of the present invention provide simulated continuous outdoor light in either a closed or open feedback loop sufficient to retard myopia progression.

Abstract: A system automatically captures a fundus image with limited user interaction such that the fundus image has one or more desired characteristics. The system can retrieve at least one image from an image capture device, process the at least one image digitally to generate a processed image, detect at least one point of interest in the processed image, determine that each of the at least one point of interest is representative of a corresponding feature of the eye, and obtain a fundus image of the eye based on the at least one image.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system and method for testing and analysis of visual acuity and changes using an acuity model, the acuity model generated based on one or more acuity chart design parameters and candidate acuity parameters calculated using the acuity test data of the subject, the acuity model comprising a chart-specific psychometric function determined using a family of multiple-optotype psychometric functions, and wherein the acuity model is configurable to estimate possibility of obtaining the acuity test data of the subject.

Abstract: An optical measurement system and method measure a characteristic of a subject's eye. The optical measurement system receives from an operator, via a user interface of the optical measurement instrument, a begin measurement instruction indicating the start of a measurement period for objectively measuring at least one characteristic of the subject's eye. Subsequent to receiving the begin measurement instruction, the optical measurement system determines whether a criterion associated with the tear film quality of the subject's eye is not satisfied. In response to determining that the criterion is not satisfied, the optical measurement instrument takes one or more corrective actions to measure the characteristic of the subject's eye under a condition wherein the criterion is satisfied.

Abstract: An OCT apparatus includes an OCT optical system, a processor that processes a signal from the OCT optical system, and a light guiding optical system disposed on a measurement light path of the OCT optical system. The light guiding optical system forms a pivot point, at which a measurement light turns based on motion of an optical scanner deflecting the measurement light, in an anterior portion of a subject eye, and guides the measurement light passed through the pivot point to a fundus. The OCT optical system includes a compensation unit that compensates for an amount of change in a light path length of the measurement light path between a state in which an angle-of-view switching optical system is inserted and a state in which the angle-of-view switching optical system is retracted.

Abstract: A remote diagnostic system and method for collecting eye-movement data includes a mobile visual recording device which is mounted on a set of goggles. In this combination, the recording device will necessarily include both a camera and a computer. With the combined visual recording device and goggles stabilized on the head of a patient/user, a blackout vision chamber is established in front of an eye of the patient/user. An illuminator on the goggles can then be activated to illuminate the eye, and the camera in the visual recording device can record eye-movement data from the patient's eye while it is illuminated. A programmed protocol from the computer directs the patient using voice commands through a predetermined sequence of head orientations in space and collects eye-movement data that is used to generate a record of nystagmographs and gyroscopic head positions/stabilization data.

Abstract: An example apparatus for predicting eye fatigue includes an image receiver to receive an image of an eye. The apparatus also includes a fatigue predictor to predict eye fatigue in the eye based on a calculated blood vessel density score of the eye in the image. The apparatus further includes an alert generator to generate an alert in response to predicting the eye fatigue.

Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for an eye movement detection system that can be configured to determine that a pressure in an ear of a user has changed, determine that the pressure change indicates that the eyes of the user are going to move, predict a direction of change of the eye of the user, and track at least one eye of the user based, at least partially, on the determined pressure change.

Abstract: A light delivery system according to an example of the present disclosure includes a solar tracker that has a rectangular aperture that delivers light to a quadrant detector, a light collector configured to capture light from an incoherent light source, the captured light being sunlight, a delivery optics unit for delivering the captured light to a target object, and an optical fiber unit optically connects an output of the light collector to the delivery optics unit. A method of performing a surgical procedure, including an iridectomy procedure, is also disclosed.

Abstract: An adaptor for attachment to an image acquisition device, the image acquisition device having one or more camera apertures for enabling capture of one or more images entering the image acquisition device via the one or more camera apertures. The adaptor has a housing defining a passage along which light waves may travel, an objective lens arrangement within the passage, a secondary lens arrangement within the passage positioned such that, when the adaptor is attached to an image acquisition device, the secondary lens arrangement is along a possible light pathway between the objective lens arrangement and one or more camera apertures. The lens arrangements are together configured to magnify an image of a pupil of the eye in proximity to a plane of one or more camera apertures and to focus light waves from a light source at a point external of the adaptor and offset from the optical axis of the objective lens.

Abstract: A monitoring system a user activity sensor to determine patterns of activity based upon the user activity occurring over time.

Abstract: A device (901) is manufactured from a sheet layer (100) defining a plurality of panels (101,102,103). Each panel is connected to at least one other panel along a common edge (104). A perforation (105) extends along the common edge and defines a separation location allowing the each panel to be separated from adjoining panels when an applied force pulls each panel away from the adjoining panels. A score line (115) bisects each panel and is oriented orthogonally with the perforation. The score line allows a first portion (116) of each panel to fold about the score line to abut a second portion (117) of each panel. An adhesive (501), disposed along the first portion, retains the first portion to the second portion, as well as retains the filament between the first portion and the second portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus comprising a mounting portion to which one of a plurality of optical heads is selectively mountable; a communicator configured to communicate with an external apparatus; an optical module (optical unit) configured to transmit light, which is reflected from a user's body and passed through the optical head mounted to the mounting portion, to the external apparatus; and a controller configured to obtain identification information about the optical head mounted to the mounting portion when one of the plurality of optical heads is mounted to the mounting portion, and control the communicator to transmit the identification information to the external apparatus. Thus, a desired optical head is mounted as necessary to capture an image of a user's body part, analyze the captured image, and provide analysis information to a user.

Abstract: A surgical system including a tubular shaft having a wall defining an outer surface and an inner surface disposed about an inner space, the tubular shaft having a proximal end and a distal end. The system also includes a light emitter and a light sensor disposed at the distal end of the tubular shaft, and one or more conductors electrically coupled to the light emitter or the light sensor. The one or more conductors extend from the distal end of the tubular shaft to the proximal end of the shaft, and are disposed radially outward of the inner surface of the tubular shaft.

Abstract: An object information obtaining apparatus includes an irradiation unit configured to irradiate the object with measurement light, a probe configured to receive an acoustic wave propagating from the object, a driving unit configured to move the irradiation unit so that a relative position of the irradiation unit with respect to the object is changed, an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of the object and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control a display unit in such a manner that an irradiation position of the measurement light is displayed on the image captured by the image capturing unit.

Abstract: An acoustic wave apparatus comprising a supporting base provided with an insertion opening into which an object is to be inserted; a liquid vessel arranged below the insertion opening configured to store acoustic matching liquid; and a receiving portion configured to receive an acoustic wave generated at the object and propagated via the acoustic matching liquid from; a bank portion protruding from the liquid vessel toward the supporting base, wherein the liquid vessel includes a bank portion at upper side configured to reduce an amount of the matching liquid over flowed from the liquid vessel due to a changing of a wavefront of the matching liquid, in a part of a circumferential direction of the liquid vessel, the bank portion is provided with a communicating portion through which the acoustic matching liquid can pass.

Abstract: A pulse wave detector includes a body portion; a band which is wound around a wrist while the band is engaged with the body portion; a first engaging portion with which a basal end portion in a longitudinal direction of the band is engaged; a second engaging portion with which an arbitrary position in the longitudinal direction of the band is engaged while the band is folded back; and an engagement member which causes a tip end portion in the longitudinal direction of the band to be engaged with the basal end portion or the first end portion while the basal end portion and the tip end portion overlap with each other. A tip end of the tip end portion is directed from an opposed surface of the body portion to the wrist to an opposite surface of the body portion.

Abstract: A pulse wave detecting device includes a sensor section and a control unit. The sensor section is rotatable about a first axis and is rotatable about a second axis. The control unit determines a rotation angle about the second axis and a rotation angle about the first axis in a state where a roll angle of the sensor section is controlled to the optimal roll angle. Then, the control unit, presses the sensor section against the body surface in a state where the sensor section is controlled into the optimal roll angle and the optimal pitch angle, detects a pulse wave based on pressure signals detected by pressure detecting elements during the increase, and calculates vital information based on the detected pulse wave.

Abstract: The pulse wave detecting device includes a sensor section in which two element rows consisting of a plurality of pressure detecting elements arranged in a direction B are arranged in a direction A perpendicular to the direction B, and an air bag pressing the sensor section to a body surface in a state that the direction B intersects a direction in which an artery below the body surface of a living body. An arrangement interval between the two element rows in the direction A is 5 mm or more and 15 mm or less.

Abstract: An optical sensor device includes at least one integrated skin electrode. An optical sensor device includes an optical sensor that detects a non-electric biosignal, at least one skin electrode that detects an electric biosignal, and holding means that support the optical sensor and in which the at least one skin electrode is integrated. An electric device adapted for attachment to a human or animal body and including an optical sensor device including at least one integrated skin electrode. A watch including the electric device.

Abstract: A sensor interface is configured to receive a sensor signal. A transmitter generates a transmit signal. A receiver receives the signal corresponding to the transmit signal. Further, a monitor interface is configured to communicate a waveform to the monitor so that measurements derived by the monitor from the waveform are generally equivalent to measurements derivable from the sensor signal.

Abstract: Systems for determining fractional flow reserve are disclosed. An example system may include a pressure sensing guidewire for measuring a first pressure, a second pressure sensing medical device for measuring a second pressure, and a processor coupled to the pressure sensing guidewire and coupled to the second pressure sensing medical device. The processor may be designed to generate a plot of the magnitude of the second pressure over time, identify one or more time intervals of the plot that have a slope less than zero, determine a mean of the second pressure, and calculate the ratio of the first pressure to the second pressure when (a) the second pressure is less than or equal to the mean of the second pressure and (b) during the one or more time intervals when the slope of the plot is less than zero.

Abstract: A fluid controller includes a piezoelectric pump, a valve, and a cuff. The valve includes a first valve housing, a diaphragm, and a second valve housing. The second valve housing has a second air hole, a third air hole, and a first valve seat. The second air hole connects to the internal space of the cuff. The third air hole connects to the outside of the fluid controller. The first valve seat is formed around the third air hole. Together, the second valve housing and the diaphragm form a first flow passage. The first flow passage connects the second air hole and the third air hole to each other. The second valve housing has a protruded portion protruding toward the diaphragm and providing a portion of the first flow passage. The shortest distance between the protruded portion and the diaphragm is less than the diameter of the third air hole.

Abstract: A patient monitoring device includes a microphone, a speaker, a display, a processor, and a volume assessment module executable on the processor to operate the microphone to generate an audio environment recording of the audio environment surrounding the patient, determine an ambient noise level based on the audio environment recording, and control the speaker and/or display of the patient monitoring device based on the ambient noise level.

Abstract: An occupant support includes a seat and a seat cover. The seat is adapted to support an occupant resting thereon. The seat cover is couple to the seat and arranged to lie between the occupant and the seat.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices, systems, methods and platforms for continuously monitoring the health status of a user, for example the cardiac health status. The present disclosure describes systems, methods, devices, software, and platforms for continuously monitoring a user's health-indicator data (for example and without limitation PPG signals, heart rate or blood pressure) from a user-device in combination with corresponding (in time) data related to factors that may impact the health-indicator (“other-factors”) to determine whether a user has normal health as judged by or compared to, for example and not by way of limitation, either (i) a group of individuals impacted by similar other-factors, or (ii) the user him/herself impacted by similar other-factors.

Abstract: A dashboard centered around arrhythmia or atrial fibrillation tracking is provided. The dashboard includes a heart or cardiac health score that can be calculated in response to data from the user such as their ECG and other personal information and cardiac health influencing factors. The dashboard also provides to the user recommendations or goals, such as daily goals, for the user to meet and thereby improve their heart or cardiac health score. These goals and recommendations may be set by the user or a medical professional and routinely updated as his or her heart or cardiac health score improves or otherwise changes. The dashboard is generally displayed from an application provided on a smartphone or tablet computer of the user.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for deriving a mathematical function for defining arterial and venous blood flow in the body by using a four-dimensional medical image. A method of analyzing blood flow by using a medical image according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: determining a position of a blood vessel from four-dimensional medical image data that is obtained by combining data of three-dimensional medical images of a patient's body captured at a preset period; deriving a primary function for an arterial input function and a venous output function by using a vascular signal in a head region and a vascular signal in a heart region from among vascular signals included in three-dimensional medical image data for the position of the blood vessel determined in the determining; and deriving a secondary function that is a final function for the arterial input function and the venous output function by using the primary function and a vascular signal in a neck region.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a first sensor, a camera, and a processor functionally connected to the first sensor and the camera, wherein the processor is configured to acquire a first biometric signal through the first sensor and a second biometric signal through the camera at a first location, acquire a third biometric signal through the first sensor and a fourth biometric signal through the camera at a second location, and determine a blood pressure based on the first biometric signal and the second biometric signal acquired at the first location and the third biometric signal and the fourth biometric signal acquired at the second location.

Abstract: Provided is a blood pressure measuring apparatus, a wrist watch type terminal, and a method of measuring blood pressure. The blood pressure measuring apparatus includes a light source that emits light onto a living body, a light receiver that receives light from the living body, and a signal processing device that calculates the blood pressure based on a detected signal received from the light receiver, wherein the signal processing device includes a subtractor that obtains a subtraction value by subtracting a moving average value of the detected signal in a second duration which is shorter than a first duration from a moving average value of the detection signal in the first duration, an extractor that extracts a feature point of a pulse wave based on the subtraction value, and a converter that converts a feature amount obtained based on the feature point to a blood pressure value.

Abstract: A pulse wave detector includes a pulse wave detection sensor which is configured to detect a pressure pulse wave from an artery of a measurement subject, a pressing member which supports the pulse wave detection sensor and is configured to be moved in one direction to press the pulse wave detection sensor against a body surface of the measurement subject, a plurality of guiding members which are placed around the pulse wave detection sensor in a plan view as seen in the one direction and extend in the one direction, and a supporting member which supports the plurality of guiding members. The pressing member includes pass-through portions through which the plurality of guiding members are passed to be movable along the guiding members, respectively.

Abstract: A pulse wave detector which is used while being attached to a wrist of a measurement subject includes: a body portion which includes a detecting section configured to detect a pulse wave from a radial artery of the measurement subject; a strip-like band which is configured to secure the body portion to the wrist; and an attachment auxiliary member which is configured to be attachable to and detachable from the band. In a secured state where the body portion is secured to the wrist with the band to which the attachment auxiliary member is attached, the attachment auxiliary member is contacted with a vicinity of an ulna or radius of the wrist.

Abstract: A pulse wave detector includes: a body portion; a band which is wound around a wrist while the band is engaged with the body portion; a basal-end engaging portion which is disposed on one end portion of the body portion in a circumferential direction of the wrist, and with which a basal end portion of the band is engaged; an arbitrary-position engaging portion which is disposed on another end portion of the body portion in the circumferential direction, and with which an arbitrary position between the basal end portion and a tip end portion of the band is engaged in a folded back state; and an engagement member which causes the tip end portion to be detachably engaged with the band or the body portion in a state where the band which is folded back in the arbitrary-position engaging portion and the basal end portion overlap with each other.

Abstract: A pulse wave detecting device includes a sensor section and a control unit. The sensor section is rotatable about a first axis and is rotatable about a second axis. The control unit determines a rotation angle about the first axis, and determines a rotation angle about the second axis in a state where a pitch angle of the sensor section is controlled to the optimal pitch angle. Then, in a state where the sensor section is controlled to the optimal roll angle and the optimal pitch angle, the sensor section is pressed against the body surface, and a pulse wave is detected in this state based on pressure signals detected by pressure detecting elements, and vital information is calculated based on the detected pulse wave.

Abstract: A method of analyzing a complex rhythm disorder in a human heart includes accessing signals from a plurality of sensors disposed spatially in relation to the heart, where the signals are associated with activations of the heart, and identifying a region of the heart having an activation trail that is rotational or radially emanating, where the activation trail is indicative of the complex rhythm disorder and is based on activation times associated with the activations of the heart.

Abstract: A pulse wave measurement device includes a storage unit and a subtractor. When a light emitting element alternately switches between a lighting state in which the light emitting element emits light into a body and a non-lighting state in which the light emitting element does not emit light, the storage unit stores a value of a first digital signal representing an output state of a light receiving element that receives light transmitted through or reflected by the body at timing of the lighting state, and a value of a second digital signal representing an output state of the light receiving element at timing of the non-lighting state. The subtractor subtracts the second digital signal value stored in the storage unit from the first digital signal value stored in the storage unit.