Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi High-tech Corporation

Mayu Sao

Yusuke Nakamura

Takeshi Shimano

Kazuyuki Tajima

Fumiyasu Sato

Tomoto Kawamura

Hirofumi Inomata

Nobuyoshi Shimane

An object of the present disclosure is to provide a technique capable of acquiring an analysis target region and color information without causing a decrease in extraction accuracy of the analysis target region due to erroneous extraction of a color of a colored label, measuring a solution volume of the specimen, and determining a specimen type. The biological specimen analysis device according to the present disclosure creates a developed view by cutting out a partial region from a color image of a biological sample tube and connecting the partial region along a circumferential direction of the biological sample tube, and extracts a detection target region from the developed view (see FIG.B).

Biological sample analysis device

A biological sample detection device configured to acquire color information of an object of analysis without a deterioration in color extraction accuracy caused by incorrect extraction of color of a colored label and to measure the amount of liquid and determine the type of a sample, by analyzing the biological sample housed in a biological sample tube to which a colored label is attached, and determining whether or not a colored label is present on the biological sample tube; extracting the colored label determined to be present by the colored label presence determining process; removing the colored label from the color image and extracting a detection object region in the biological sample; and analyzing to acquire color information of the detection object region and analyze the liquid amount and the type of the biological sample.

Biological sample detection device

An imaging device includes: an image sensor that outputs, as an image signal, light received at a light-receiving surface; a phase modulation element provided in close to the light-receiving surface, which has a grating pattern composed of multiple zones arranged in a concentric form to modulate the phase of light passing through the grating pattern toward the surface; and an image processing unit that executes image processing for the image signal output from the sensor. The spacing between the phase modulation element and the image sensor is set so that the duty ratio of the full width at half maximum for a bright section to the width for one period of a projection image of the concentric grating pattern is 0.5 or less in the case of light incidence from a point light source disposed at a distance of a subject in the axial direction of a concentric circle of the grating pattern.

Imaging device

An imaging device includes: a modulator with a first pantoscopic grating pattern, which is configured to modulate light intensity by passage through the first pantoscopic grating pattern; an image sensor configured to convert light passing through the modulator, to image data, and output the image data; and an image processing unit configured to conduct image processing of restoring an image with the use of the image date output from the image sensor, and the imaging device is characterized in that: the first pantoscopic grating pattern is configured to include multiple basic patterns; and each of the basic patterns has the shape of a concentric circle.

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Mayu Sao