Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Products Gmbh

U.S. Philips Corporation

Thomson Licensing

Thomas Licensing S.a.

Bts Holding International B.v.

Dft Digital Film Technology Holding Gmbh

Wolfgang Steinebach

Christian Verhalen

Oksana Pryshchepna

A measuring system for measuring a sample in an automated analysis machine comprises a measuring device for recording measurement values of a measured variable and a first controller and a second controller for processing the measurement values and a sliding contact system with sliding contacts, wherein the measurement values are transferred from the measuring device to the first controller and wherein the measurement values are transferred from the first controller to the second controller via the sliding contacts. The measuring system comprises an error counter which captures the errors occurring during the transfer of the measurement values from the first controller to the second controller via the sliding contacts.

Method for monitoring sliding contacts

A nephelometry system for an automatic analysis device may include a light source, a stop, and a photodetector on the one hand and a receptacle position on the other hand that are movable relative to one another in order to improve the measurement quality of a nephelometry system. The nephelometry system may determine a location of an interval I of recorded light intensity signals which only contains light intensity signals that emerge from a scattered portion of a light beam after passing through a measurement cell placed into the nephelometry system. Methods of nephelometric determination of an analyte are also provided, as are other aspects.

System and method of nephelometric determination of an analyte

The present invention relates to a method for determining the position of a multiplicity of measurement locations in a measurement system of an automated analysis device, and a corresponding automated analysis device with an integrated circuit, which is configured as phase locked loop.

Method for determining the position of measurement locations in a measurement system

The invention is in the field of in vitro diagnostics and relates to a method for ascertaining a transmission value for a light signal that is pulsed at a frequency through a specimen in an automatic analysis appliance. It also relates to a transmission measurement apparatus for an automatic analysis appliance, comprising a light source that is pulsed at a frequency and a photodetector having a downstream A/D converter.

Method for ascertaining a transmission value

The invention provides an arrangement and a method for generating electrical image signals from an image original. The arrangement is, for example, a film scanner which illuminates or transilluminates a photographic image on a film using an illumination device. Optical signals generated hereby are converted into electrical signals by a CCD sensor subdivided into segments. The segments of the CCD sensor are connected via mutually independent readout channels to a signal processing stage, where the electrical signals of the readout channels are combined with one another in such a way that these represent a total image. Furthermore, an adjustment unit is provided which adjusts the transfer functions of the different segments of the sensor with respect to one another in such a way that visible image disturbances are avoided.

Arrangement and method for correcting different transfer characteristic curves for segmented image sensors (CCDs)

An optical sensor for a telecine application having a first group of odd sensor elements and a second group of even sensor elements where each sensor element is associated with a control electrode that controls the operation of the associated sensor element. An auxiliary control electrode is also associated with sensor elements of one of the two groups with a charge summing element being coupled to adjacent sensor elements assigned to the first and second group.

Optical scanning apparatus with switchable resolution

A scanner utilizing an illuminating device, monochromatic light sources, and scanning elements to improve the color separation and reduce color crosstalk for generating chrominance component signals. The illumination device illuminates or transilluminates an image by means of the monochromatic light sources. The scanning elements converts the light obtained from the illuminated or transilluminated image into a chrominance component signal. The illumination device is implemented in such a way that the monochromatic light sources illuminate the film frame at positions which are separated from each other. Sensors are arranged in such a way that they are illuminated by the relevant associated light source.

Scanner

A circuit arrangement for frequency multiplication is described, by means of which a digital output signal is produced, the pulse repetition rate of which is obtained from one of the output signals by multiplication by an adjustable factor K. A high accuracy of the frequency of the output signal is obtained by the fact that an input counter is clocked by a digitally controlled oscillator and by the fact that the following means for controlling an output counter are provided:

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Wolfgang Steinebach