Abstract: A fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) system for detecting a red palm weevil (RPW) includes an optical fiber configured to be wrapped around a tree and a DAS box connected to the optical fiber. The DAS box includes a processing unit that is configured to receive a filtered Rayleigh signal reflected by the optical fiber, and run the filtered Rayleigh signal through a neural network system to determine a presence of the RPW in the tree.

Abstract: The invention provides a chirped laser dispersion spectrometer having two tunable lasers each with a bias current supply, a chirp signal source to provide a matching chirp pattern, a beam splitter to produce a single beam from the two first and second tunable lasers and active-phase locking means to render the two beams phase coherent and to produce a radio frequency carrier signal capable of programmable phase modulation by means of an optical beat signal. The invention also provides a method for generating at least two optical frequency signals for use in a frequency modulation spectroscopy (FMS) process for the detection and/or measurement of molecular species in a gas mixture and a method for generating at least two optical frequency signals for use in a chirped laser dispersion spectroscopy (CLaDS) process for the detection and/or measurement of molecular species in a gas mixture.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a control unit configured to control an illumination unit such that two or more light sources from among the plurality of light sources of the illumination unit are turned on when an image of an object is captured, and a derivation unit configured to derive a reflection characteristic of the object based on image data obtained by capturing the image of the object, wherein the control unit turns on the two or more light sources such that a distance between the two or more light sources is greater than a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: A monitoring system includes a light source, a light detector, a processor, and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the monitoring system to perform functions. The functions include illuminating, via the light source, a biological sample that is within a container while a fixation process is performed on the biological sample. The functions also include determining, via the light detector, that an optical transmittance of the biological sample satisfies a condition. The functions also include ceasing the fixation process in response to determining that the optical transmittance of the biological sample satisfies the condition.

Abstract: The system for making suspensions includes a housing, with a platform mounted therein and a translating table slidably mounted on the platform for removably supporting a receptacle. A base fluid tank stores a base fluid, and a solid particle container stores solid particles. A rotating dispenser system is mounted within the housing, above the platform and the receptacle. The rotating dispenser includes a base fluid dispenser for dispensing a controlled mass of the base fluid into the receptacle, and a solid particle dispenser for dispensing a controlled mass of the solid particles into the receptacle. The base fluid dispenser is in communication with the base fluid tank, and the solid particle dispenser is in communication with the solid particle container. A mixer selectively and controllably mixes the controlled mass of the base fluid and the controlled mass of the solid particles in the receptacle to form the suspension.

Abstract: An apparatus (100) for optically characterizing a textile sample (106) comprises a presentation subsystem (102) comprising a viewing window (108). A radiation subsystem (114) comprises a radiation source (120) for directing a first, ultraviolet radiation (122) and a second, visible radiation (123) toward the sample (106), and causing the sample (106) to produce a fluorescent radiation (124) and a reflected radiation (125). A sensing subsystem (126) comprises an imager (130) for capturing the fluorescent radiation (124) and the reflected radiation (125) in an array of pixels (408). A control subsystem (132) comprises a processor (136) for controlling the presentation subsystem (102), the radiation subsystem (114), and the sensing subsystem (126), and for creating a fluorescent and reflected radiation image (400) containing both spectral information and spatial information in regard to the fluorescent radiation (124) and the reflected radiation (125).

Abstract: A handheld object assessment system includes a laser array, a detector array configured to detect reflection of laser emissions, and a control system having a memory and a processor. The control system to: initiate laser emissions at multiple different wavelengths directed towards an object being assessed, detect an amount of the laser emissions at the multiple different wavelengths that were reflected from the object being assessed, determine an amount of laser emissions that were absorbed into the object being assessed at the multiple different wavelengths, determine one or more parameters regarding the object being assessed by comparing the amount of laser emissions that were absorbed and the amount of laser emissions that were reflected, and notify a user of the handheld object assessment system of the one or more parameters of the object being assessed that were determined.

Abstract: A probe of a target identification system can be extended via a first lumen of a viewing instrument, such as for illuminating an area beyond a distal end of the viewing instrument via an optical path of the viewing instrument. An optical response to the illumination of the area can be received via an optical path of the probe and can be split from other optical signals of the optical path. The optical response information can be used to identify characteristics of a target and to adjust parameters of a working instrument such as a working instrument contemporaneously using the probe.

Abstract: A colorimetry system determines whether colors of a row on which colorimetry is performed correspond to colors of a row expected for colorimetry and, if the colors of the row on which colorimetry is performed correspond to the colors of the row expected for colorimetry, performs a process of storing data on the colors of the row on which colorimetry is performed. However, if the colors of the row on which colorimetry is performed do not correspond to the colors of the row expected for colorimetry, the colorimetry system performs a display process of asking the user whether to store data on the colors obtained by colorimetry.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a test device and a test method for isotope measurement of noble gases in lunar soil. The testing device includes a carbon dioxide laser ultra-high vacuum sample melting system, zirconium-aluminum getters, a vacuum dry pump, a first molecular pump, a second molecular pump, a neon gas capture unit, an argon gas capture unit, an argon krypton-xenon capture unit, a dilution tank, a sputtering ion pump and a noble gas mass spectrometer which are connected through pipelines, and each pipeline and each component are connected through a specific way; in addition, control valves for controlling the opening and closing of the pipelines are installed on the connection path between each pipeline and each component, and the disclosure also provides a matching test method.

Abstract: A probe of a target identification system can be extended via a first lumen of a viewing instrument, such as for illuminating an area beyond a distal end of the viewing instrument via an optical path of the viewing instrument. An optical response to the illumination of the area can be received via an optical path of the probe and can be split from other optical signals of the optical path. The optical response information can be used to identify characteristics of a target and to adjust parameters of a working instrument such as a working instrument contemporaneously using the probe.

Abstract: The present invention is an imaging system which includes an optional hand-held mobile device and software application that allows a user to scan and communicates data to secured third parties. The embodiment allows such devices to transmit and receive critical imaging information. The SYCLOPS™ system will provide statistical data analysis and broadcast secured information to users in a manner that have not been previously utilized.

Abstract: A printing device includes: a display; an input unit; a printing engine; and a controller. The display is configured to display a printing target image including a plurality of objects. The input unit is configured to input a specified object specified from among the plurality of objects in the printing target image displayed on the display. The printing engine is configured to print the printing target image on a print medium. The controller is configured to perform: a printing operation. The printing operation is to print a patch chart on at least one sheet of print media with the printing engine. The patch chart includes at least one first patch for at least one specified color and a second patch for a predetermined color. Each of the at least one specified color is a color included in the specified object.

Abstract: According to the embodiment, an optical inspection method for a surface state of a subject includes acquiring and discriminating. The acquiring includes acquiring a color vector of a color corresponding to a wavelength spectrum in a color coordinate system of n dimensions (n is a natural number equal to or larger than 1), which is equal to or smaller than a number of a plurality of color channels of pixels of an image sensor, with optical imaging using a wavelength spectrum selection portion that selectively allows a plurality of wavelength spectra different from one another from a surface of the subject to pass. The discriminating includes discriminating the surface state of the subject based on a direction of the color vector in the color coordinate system.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor reaction chamber and an atomic layer plasma etching apparatus. The semiconductor reaction chamber includes a dielectric window and a reaction chamber body. The spray head is arranged between the dielectric window and the top wall of the reaction chamber body, and divides the plasma generation area into an upper strong plasma area and a lower weak plasma area. Moreover, a plurality of through-holes are distributed in the central area of the spray head and configured to allow the plasma in the strong plasma area to pass through. A first gas channel is arranged in an edge area of the spray head. The process reaction gas inlet member is located on a side where the gas inlet end of the first gas channel of the spray head is located. A second gas channel is arranged in the process reaction gas inlet member.

Abstract: Ultraviolet systems and methods are described for capturing images depicting absorption or remittance of ultraviolet radiation (UVR). An example system includes a camera comprising a monochrome camera sensor that is configured to capture images, a radiation source that is configured to output a UVR waveband, a filter component that is configured to differentiate at least one of a UVA waveband and a UVB waveband of the UVR waveband, and a polarizer component that is configured to cross polarize each of the UVA waveband and the UVB waveband. Further, the camera is configured to capture an image depicting an UVA amount of UVA absorption or remittance as projected on a surface area and an UVB amount of UVB absorption or remittance as projected on the surface area.

Abstract: The invention provides methods and apparatus comprising a multi-wavelength laser source that uses a single unfocused pulse of a low intensity but high power laser over a large sample area to collect Raman scattered collimated light, which is then Rayleigh filtered and focused using a singlet lens into a stacked fiber bundle connected to a customized spectrograph, which separates the individual spectra from the scattered wavelengths using a hybrid diffraction grating for collection onto spectra-specific sections of an array photodetector to measure spectral intensity and thereby identify one or more compounds in the sample.

Abstract: Embodiments include receiving intraoral scan data comprising a plurality of intraoral images of a dental site generated during scanning of the dental site by an intraoral scanner, a plurality of ink markings each comprising a pattern of ink having been temporarily stamped or tattooed onto a gingival surface at the dental site prior to the scanning of the dental site, wherein at least two intraoral images of the plurality of intraoral images comprise representations of one or more ink markings of the plurality of ink markings. Embodiments further include performing registration between the plurality of intraoral images based at least in part on the one or more ink markings, generating a three-dimensional (3D) model of the dental site using the plurality of intraoral images that have undergone registration, and outputting the generated 3D model to a display.

Abstract: Wearable spectroscopy systems and methods for identifying one or more characteristics of a target object are described. Spectroscopy systems may include a light source configured to emit light in an irradiated field of view and an electromagnetic radiation detector configured to receive reflected light from a target object irradiated by the light source. One or more processors of the systems may identify a characteristic of the target object based on a determined level of light absorption by the target object. Some systems and methods may include one or more corrections for scattered and/or ambient light such as applying an ambient light correction, passing the reflected light through an anti-scatter grid, or using a time-dependent variation in the emitted light.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a computer-implemented method, a respective device, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The method includes: obtaining color values, texture values and digital images of a target coating, retrieving from a database one or more preliminary matching formulas based on the color and/or texture values obtained for the target coating, determining sparkle points within the respective obtained images and within the respective images associated with the one or more preliminary matching formulas, creating subimages of each sparkle point from the respective images, providing the created subimages to a convolutional neural network, the convolutional neural network being trained to correlate a respective subimage of a respective sparkle point with a pigment and/or pigment class, and determining, based on an output of the neural network, at least one of the one or more preliminary matching formulas as the formula(s) best matching the target coating.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mobile robot. The mobile robot includes a body, a pair of spin mops rotatably mounted to the body, a mop motor configured to provide a driving force to the pair of spin mops, an optical flow sensor configured to obtain bottom-view image information using light at a regular time interval, and a controller configured to determine whether the material of the floor is a troublesome material based on the bottom-view image information sensed by the optical flow sensor and to control, upon determining that the material of the floor is a troublesome material, the mop motor to perform an entry restriction operation.

Abstract: Described herein is a computer-implemented method and a system for providing a match metric for quantifying a spectral similarity of a target coating and at least one sample coating, the system including a computing device that performs a computing process, the computing process including: receiving reflectance values of the target coating and the sample coating; normalizing each of the reflectance values; generating a normalized reflectance curve for the target coating and for the sample coating; producing derivative values of the normalized reflectance curve of the target coating and derivative values of the normalized reflectance curve of the sample coating with respect to the wavelength; producing difference values between the derivative values of the target coating and the derivative values of the sample coating; and producing a match metric for a similarity between the normalized reflectance curves of the target coating and the sample coating.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a spectral sensor. The spectral sensor comprising: a light detecting element; a microlens; and an interference filter arranged between the light detecting element and the microlens, and configured to transmit light in one or more spectral bands; wherein the microlens has an effective focal length (F) exceeding a distance (D) between the microlens and the light detecting element. The microlens may be configured such that light refracted by the microlens, to be transmitted through the interference filter, converges towards a position (P) behind the light detecting element. The present invention further relates to an image sensor comprising a plurality of spectral sensors.

Abstract: A method for determining setting recommendations for an agricultural spreader includes the steps of: determining an uneven spreading-material distribution in a usable agricultural area or an uneven nutritional status of plants in the usable agricultural area, determining an ideal balancing distribution of spreading material that balances out unevenness of the determined spreading-material distribution in the usable agricultural area or unevenness of the determined nutritional status of the plants in the usable agricultural area, and determining setting recommendations for the agricultural spreader for implementing a balancing distribution of the spreading material, wherein the balancing distribution approximates the ideal balancing distribution.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a film-based lightguide comprises a plurality interior light directing edges in a tapered light mixing region with curved sections which redirect light within the tapered light mixing region of the film. The interior light directing edges may be formed by cuts in the film that create an air gap between internal edges of the film. In one embodiment, the difference between radii of curvature of neighboring radii of arc sections of interior light directing edges is within 20% of an average distance between the arc sections. In one embodiment, the interior light directing edges totally internally reflect light propagating through the tapered light mixing region such that the light propagates at a smaller angle to a direction orthogonal to a width direction and orthogonal to the thickness direction of the film.

Abstract: The invention concerns method and system for determining a lens of customized color, said method comprising the steps of determining a target colorimetric data set; providing access to a database comprising data representing colors; using a plurality of simulation modules to calculate, based on said data from the database, a plurality of simulated colorimetric data of the lens substrate combined with a mixture of dyes of determined dye(s) combination, composition and amount or with a multilayer stack as a function of determined layers composition and thicknesses; and, color matching the plurality of simulated colorimetric data with the target colorimetric data set so as to determine one or a plurality of combinations of said lens substrate with a determined mixture of dyes or with a determined multilayer stack.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for analyzing a plant, in particular for analyzing cannabis, using an illumination unit, a sensor unit, and an analysis unit, said analysis unit having a data-based classifier. The disclosure additionally relates to a device for analyzing a plant, said device comprising an illumination unit for lighting the plant to be analyzed and a sensor unit for receiving analysis input data, wherein the analysis input data contains at least spectral information, in particular an absorption spectrum or a reflection spectrum of the training plant. The device additionally comprises an analysis unit for analyzing the received analysis input data and for determining at least one property of the plant to be analyzed. The analysis unit is also designed to determine at least one property of the plant using a data-based classifier and the previously received analysis input data.

Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems employing a multivariate optical computing sensor comprising a multivariate optical element calibrated to independently measure an electromagnetic spectral pattern of a cultivation characteristic of an algae strain in a cultivating algae water slurry and a detector for receiving output signals indicative of the cultivation characteristic. The cultivation characteristic may include, for example, total organic carbon, total carbohydrate, or fatty acid methyl esters.

Abstract: Described herein is a computer-implemented method for simulating texture features of a n-layer target coating, the method including at least the steps of: a) providing known real geometrical properties and known individual ingredients with known real material properties; b) modelling the n-layer target coating in a virtual environment; c) virtually tracing rays of light from one or more light sources towards an aim region defined on a surface of the n-layer target coating; d) virtually collecting rays of light that interacted with the n-layer target coating; e) virtually determining, at least one of an angular, a spectral and a spatial distribution of intensity of the rays of light re-emitted from or reflected by the n-layer target coating; and f) evaluating the determined distribution(s) of intensity and outputting, by an output device, at least one image based on the evaluation.

Abstract: A device and method of use for the calibration of a detector. The calibration device includes a first source configured to produce first electromagnetic energy EMR. A first diffuser is connected to the first source and is configured to accept the first EMR and provide a first diffused portion of the first EMR. An integrating sphere defines an interior and is optically connected to the first diffuser, and is configured to accept the first diffused portion from the first diffuser into the interior. An exit port connected to the integrating sphere is configured to pass at least a portion of electromagnetic energy. A thermal mechanism is configured to adjust and maintain the temperature of at least the first source. The integrating sphere is configured to pass only a second portion of the first diffused portion of the first EMR from the first diffuser to the exit port. In another embodiment, the calibration device has an arm, an actuator, and a module.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring not only the reflected radiation but also the fluorescence emission of a textile sample, which includes a presentation subsystem having a viewing window. A radiation subsystem has a tunable radiation source for directing a desired radiation having a wavelength range and an intensity through the viewing window toward the sample, and thereby causing the sample to produce a fluorescence. A sensing subsystem has an imager for capturing the reflected radiation and fluorescence in an array of pixels. A control subsystem has a processor, for controlling the presentation subsystem, the radiation subsystem, and the sensing subsystem, and creates a reflected radiation and fluorescence image containing both spectral information and spatial information in regard to the reflected radiation and fluorescence #843 of the sample.

Abstract: A video processing method improves the repeatability of point-of-care (POC) mean pixel intensity (MPI) analysis, for example by rejecting low-quality input data using image features. Using these features, the method selects high-quality frames and achieves an improvement in correlation and standard error for the MPI-absorbance relationship. In another example, a mobile device (e.g., smartphone) based image processing method produces an MPI output with smaller variances, lower limits of detection (LODs), and a higher dynamic range than existing methods. This method has improved performance in the presence of additive and multiplicative ambient light noise.

Abstract: A color measuring apparatus includes an opening portion that is provided in a bottom portion of the apparatus and takes light from a measurement target into the apparatus, an incident light processing unit that processes light that enters the apparatus through the opening portion, a housing that covers an apparatus internal unit including the incident light processing unit, at least one protrusion member that is configured to switch between a first state in which the protrusion member protrudes from a bottom surface of the housing and a second state in which the protrusion member does not protrude from the bottom surface of the housing, and at least one pressing member that presses the protrusion member in a protruding direction from the bottom surface of the housing.

Abstract: A gas sensing system can allow a gas sample to permeate hollow spaces within a porous scattering material. The porous scattering material can be substantially transparent at an illumination wavelength. An emitter can illuminate the porous scattering material and the gas sample with light having a spectrum that includes the illumination wavelength. A sensor can detect a level of light that has traversed the porous scattering material. Using, for example, the Beer-Lambert Law, the system can determine a concentration of the gas material in the gas sample. The scattering can greatly increase an optical path length through the porous scattering material, compared with a linear dimension of the porous scattering material. The increased optical path length can allow a gas chamber to shrink in size, thereby decreasing a size of the gas sensing system without a corresponding decrease in a sensitivity and/or an accuracy of the system.

Abstract: A system includes photodetectors each having a field of view and reflectors each respectively aimed at one of the fields of view. A beam-steering device is movable to different positions aimed at the different reflectors. A light emitter is aimed at the beam-steering device. The beam-steering device alternates aim between the reflectors to selectively illuminate the different fields of view.

Abstract: A method for analyzing a diagnostic test may include receiving an image depicting a diagnostic test, wherein the diagnostic test comprises a test region indicating a test result, validating quality of the image, locating a test region image portion of the image depicting the test region of the diagnostic test; and predicting the test result based on the test region image portion. Furthermore, a method for facilitating analysis of a diagnostic test may include receiving one or more images depicting one or more control markings on a scan surface, wherein the one or more control markings are representative of one or more predetermined test results for the diagnostic test, and verifying detection of the one or more control markings in the one or more images using at least one computer vision technique.

Abstract: An inspection device performs an inspection in manufacture of a Press Through Package (PTP) sheet, and includes: an illumination device; a spectroscope that disperses reflected light from the PTP sheet; an imaging device that takes an image of an optical spectrum of the disperses light and acquires spectroscopic image data; and a controller. Before the inspection is performed, the controller grasps disturbance data that is one of either spectral data of a predetermined content placed in the pocket portion and attributed to ambient light, or approximate spectral data approximate to the spectral data of the predetermined content attributed to the ambient light, and corrects either spectral data of the content as an inspection object obtained based on the spectroscopic image data acquired by the imaging device, or a reference value used for determining the spectral data of the content as the inspection object.

Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a sample container for use inside an optically integrating cavity, comprising an enclosing member comprised of fluorocarbon plastic, the enclosing member having diffuse transmittance of at least 80% and the sample container being adapted to contain a solid or liquid sample.

Abstract: A dispersion of an alkyd-containing polymer dispersed in water is used to form a waterborne coating composition; the alkyd-containing polymer being an acrylic-modified alkyd polymer, a silicone-acrylic-modified alkyd polymer, or a mixture thereof. The resulting waterborne coating composition includes about 2 to about 30% by weight of one or more thermal insulating fillers with the remainder being the alkyd-containing dispersion, such that the coating composition contains about 30 to about 80% by weight of the water and about 2 to about 50% by weight of the alkyd-containing polymer. The coating applied therefrom exhibits at least one of the following properties: a thermal conductivity that is less than 100 mW/mK; a weight retention of at least 70% after being heated up to 400 C as measured by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) with a heating rate of 20 C/min.; or a weight loss of less than 50% up to a temperature of 470 C as measured by the TGA.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a cassette to store a recording medium, an image forming unit to form an image on an image bearing member based on an image forming condition, a transfer unit to transfer the image onto the recording medium conveyed from the cassette, and a reading unit to read a test image formed on the recording medium by the image forming unit. A controller controls the image forming unit to form the test image while the image forming unit is forming a plurality of images, controls the image forming condition based on a reading result of the test image by the reading unit, and obtains information related to basis weight of the recording medium in the cassette. In a case where the information does not satisfy a forming condition for forming the test image, the test image is not formed.

Abstract: A color measuring system includes a receiving section configured to receive designation of a color group including a plurality of colors, a determining section configured to determine whether a color measured by the color measuring section and a comparison target color in the color group coincide, and a control section configured to, when it is determined that the measured color and the comparison target color coincide, automatically advance a color measuring process to a color measuring process for performing the color measurement for a next color in the color group.

Abstract: An abundance of specific species of phytoplankton in a phytoplankton group in which a plurality of kinds coexists is calculated in a simple manner. Based on a reference sample intensity ratio r0, a reference sample total fluorescence intensity I0, and an existing quantity K0 of specific species of phytoplankton, an intensity ratio rd of other species of plankton is calculated. An analysis sample that is expected to have similarity with the reference sample is irradiated with the excitation light, an intensity of fluorescence emitted from the analysis sample is measured in each of wavelength bands A and B, and an intensity ratio r is calculated. A total fluorescence intensity I is measured, and an existing quantity K of the specific species of the phytoplankton is calculated based on the intensity ratio rd of other species of plankton, the intensity ratio r, and the total fluorescence intensity I.

Abstract: An optical module includes a micro spectrometer. The micro spectrometer includes an optical crystal, a lens, and a photosensitive assembly. The optical crystal is configured to receive detection light and covert the detection light into interference light. The optical crystal is surrounded by a sleeve, the sleeve configured to fix a position of the optical crystal. The lens is configured for receiving the interference light and focusing the interference light. The photosensitive assembly is configured for imaging the interference light into an interference image. The optical module further comprises a controller. The controller is electrically connected to the photosensitive assembly, and the controller is used to convert the interference image into light wavelength signals and light intensity signals.

Abstract: A method for characterizing propagation of metallic short cracks and long cracks includes: acquiring crack tip opening displacement in a metallic notched sample under cyclic loading; acquiring crack tip opening displacement amount caused by a single monotonic tensile in the notched sample, and crack tip opening displacement caused by monotonic tensile in the notched sample under a maximum far-field stress; and based on an original Shyam model, constructing, according to the crack tip opening displacement amount and the crack tip opening displacement by obtaining yield strength of metals, a Tm?c model for characterizing the propagation of short cracks and long cracks, where the Tm?c model is used for representing the growth rate of short cracks and long cracks.

Abstract: A method and system are presented for use in measuring one or more characteristics of patterned structures. The method comprises: performing measurements on a patterned structure by illuminating the structure with exciting light to cause Raman scattering of one or more excited regions of the pattern structure, while applying a controlled change of at least temperature condition of the patterned structure, and detecting the Raman scattering, and generating corresponding measured data indicative of a temperature dependence of the detected Raman scattering; and analyzing the measured data and generating data indicative of spatial profile of one or more properties of the patterned structure.

Abstract: Systems for managing hair condition information and methods for optimizing a cosmetic counseling system are provided. In an embodiment, the system comprises: a sensor for determining an item of hair condition information for a user, a memory configured to store the item of hair condition information, and a processor configured to update at least one item of hair condition information in the memory based on a discrepancy between an item of hair condition information for a user determined by using the sensor after a hair treatment and a predicted item of hair condition information for the user.

Abstract: A computer system for seeding a formulation engine receives spectrometric data from a target coating. The computer system processes the spectrometric data through a probabilistic colorant analysis. The probabilistic colorant analysis generates a set of colorants. Each colorant within the set of colorants is associated with a calculated probability that the associated colorant is present within the target coating. Additionally, the computer system adds at least a portion of the colorants within the set of colorants to a formulation engine. The portion of the colorants is added to the formulation engine in order of decreasing probability. Further, the computer system generates, from an output of the formulation engine, a coating formulation that is calculated to match the target coating within a predetermined qualitative threshold.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a corresponding system for providing a dental prosthesis made from ceramic material having a colour matched to the patient comprising the following steps: (i) receiving a desired nominal colour for the dental prosthesis, determining a deviation between the nominal colour and actual colour of the sintered ceramic material by the control unit and defining a temperature time cycle having a cycle time suitable for compensation of the deviation, for sintering at a defined sintering temperature and creating a corresponding sintering program by the control unit; and (ii) adjusting the actual colour of the selected ceramic material to the nominal colour in the sintering furnace by the sintering program executed by the sintering furnace.

Abstract: A multiple-tool parameter set calibration and misregistration measurement method useful in the manufacture of semiconductor devices including using at least a first reference misregistration metrology tool using a first set of measurement parameters to measure misregistration between at least two layers on a wafer of a batch of wafers, thereby generating a first misregistration data set, transmitting the first set of parameters and the data set to a calibrated set of measurement parameters generator (CSMPG) which processes the first set of parameters and the data set thereby generating a calibrated set of measurement parameters which are transmitted from the CSMPG to calibrate at least one initially-uncalibrated misregistration metrology tool based on the calibrated set of measurement parameters.

Abstract: A remaining time calculation unit calculates, based on a notification waiting time indicating a time from when a feature region is recognized to when a notification of a recognition result of the feature region is started and a count time counted by a time count unit, a remaining time until the notification of the recognition result of the feature region is provided. A display control unit displays on a monitor remaining time notification information obtained based on at least the remaining time.