Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Yu Hirono

Fumiyasu Suzuki

Yuichi Machida

Takamichi Yamakoshi

Koichiro Kishima

Takashi Yamamoto

Masahiro Fujita

Nobuhiro Hayashi

Takayuki Sakamoto

Seiichi Takamura

Tatsuo Shimizu

Ryu Narusawa

Hironari Hoshino

Nobuhiko Ohguchi

Yuuichi Machida

Nobuhiro Kihara

Kazuya Takahashi

Koji Ozaki

Junichi Sakagami

Provided is microparticle extraction technology capable of stably extracting only a target microparticle at high speed from a sheath flow flowing through a flow path. A particle extraction apparatus includes: a first extraction unit for extracting, from a whole sample containing a target particle, an extraction sample containing the target particle without performing abort processing; and a second extraction unit for subjecting the extraction sample to abort processing and extracting only the target particle.

Particle extraction apparatus and particle extraction method

[Object] To provide a slide tray having excellent practicality, convenience, and the like. [Solving Means] A slide tray includes a slide tray body having a first surface on which one or more slides can be mounted, and one or more first convex portions that protrude from the first surface of the slide tray body and set an area in which paper sheets can be mounted on the first surface while being held from one side in a first axis direction of two axis directions orthogonal to each other on the first surface.

Slide tray

To provide a slide tray having excellent practicality, convenience, operability, and the like, and a conveyor apparatus that conveys slides accommodated in the slide tray. A slide tray according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a slide accommodation portion capable of accommodating one or more slides mounted thereon, and a switch portion that makes a switch between a first state in which an entire surface of the one or more slides is mounted on the slide accommodation portion and a second state in which one end portion of the one or more slides is released from the slide accommodation portion.

Slide tray and slide conveyor apparatus

A conveying device including: a storage unit storing two or more sheets of slide glasses to be subjected to a predetermined treatment; a stage holding only one sheet of slide glass to be subjected to the treatment; a supply arm by which one sheet of slide glass to be subjected to the treatment is picked up from the storage unit and supplied onto the stage; a discharge arm by which the slide glass mounted on the stage is picked up and discharged in the storage unit; a moving unit operable to move the supply arm and the discharge arm in an integral manner so as to bring the supply arm or the discharge arm into proximity to each of the storage unit and the stage; and a control unit operable to control the supply arm, the discharge arm and the moving unit.

Conveying device, conveying method and microscope system

Disclosed herein is a stage system, including: a stage on which to mount a slide glass; a projection block projected more than the thickness of the slide glass to the side of that surface of the stage on which to dispose the slide glass; and a pressing block which is provided on that surface of the stage on which to dispose the slide glass, is thicker than the slide glass, and presses toward the projection block the slide glass disposed between itself and the projection block.

Stage system and microscope

Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a connection connecting to a microscope including a stage having a disposition surface on which a target object can be placed, and an image picking-up section including an objective lens for picking up an image of the object, the microscope being movable in first and second axis directions orthogonal to an optical axis of the objective lens and orthogonal to each other and in a third axis direction along the optical axis; a calculator calculating, as an undulation-correcting value, a value for correcting a misalignment of a position in the third axis direction for each predetermined image-capturing range smaller than the disposition surface; a correcting-value storage storing the calculated value; and a corrector correcting a relative distance between the stage and the objective lens on the basis of the stored value for each image-capturing range.

Information processing apparatus, stage-undulation correcting method, program therefor

A slide glass storage device including: a supply tray which has a supply holding space determined by a longer edge upper limit allowed for a longer edge of a slide glass and a shorter edge upper limit allowed for a shorter edge of the slide glass and on which a slide glass to be supplied to a treatment unit operable to perform a predetermined treatment is mounted; a discharge tray which has a discharge holding space determined by a longer edge longer than the longer edge upper limit and a shorter edge longer than the shorter edge upper limit and on which a slide glass having been subjected to the treatment in the treatment unit and being to be discharged is mounted; and a support unit supporting the supply tray and the discharge tray.

Slide glass storage device, conveying device and microscope system

It is possible to generate image data of a biological tissue in a short time. A focus information generating device () receives a first reflected light beam (Lr) split from a reflected light beam (Lr) and a second reflected light beam (Lr) passing through a pin-hole plate (). A signal processing unit () calculates a uniform reflectance (RE) representing a light amount ratio of the second reflected light beam (Lr) to the first reflected light beam (Lr) along with a sum signal (SS) and a difference signal (SD). An integrated control unit () detects a position (Z) corresponding to a top surface (A) of a cover glass () on the basis of the sum signal (SS) and the difference signal (SD) and detects a position (Z) representing a biological tissue () on the basis of the sum signal (SS) and the uniform reflectance (RE). As a result, the integrated control unit () can calculate a cover distance (DM) from the top surface (A) of the cover glass () to the biological tissue () in a pathology glass slide () on the basis of the positions (Z) and (Z).

Focus information generating device and focus information generating method

A fluorescent image obtaining device includes a light source that irradiates light such that a fluorescent material marked on a target in a biological sample lies in a non-excited state and a fluorescent material marked on a control with the target lies in an excited state, and an imaging unit that takes an image including the entire biological sample.

Fluorescent image obtaining device, fluorescent image obtaining method and fluorescent image obtaining program

A stage control device including a position detection portion which detects a position deviation of a support plate relative to a reference position regulated by a convex portion provided in a stage, from an image of a scope including the support plate on which a sample is disposed and which is mounted on the stage; and a stage control portion that presses the stage, which is moved and controlled in a surface direction of the support plate so that the sample is in an imaging scope of an imaging element, from a position of a detection point in time in a direction corresponding to a position deviation at a pressing speed, and returns the stage up to a position of the detection point in time at a return speed slower than the pressing speed, when the position deviation of the support plate relative to the reference position is detected.

Stage control device, stage control method and microscope

An authenticating pattern is disposed on a cover and an authenticating device is disposed in a robot apparatus for authenticating the cover on the basis of the authenticating pattern of the fitted cover. An information holding device for holding inherent information is disposed in the cover and a reading device for reading out the inherent information from the information holding device is disposed in the robot apparatus. A function of detecting an amount of influence due to the cover and changing manifesting patterns of motions as occasion demands on the basis of the detection result is disposed in the robot apparatus.

Robot system, robot apparatus and cover for robot apparatus

Firstly, a authenticating pattern is disposed on a cover and an authenticating device is disposed in a robot apparatus for authenticating the cover on the basis of the authenticating pattern of the fitted cover. Secondary, an information holding device for holding inherent information is disposed in the cover and a reading device for reading out the inherent information from the information holding device is disposed in the robot apparatus. Thirdly, a function of detecting an amount of influence due to the cover and changing manifesting patterns of motions as occasion demands on the basis of the detection result is disposed in the robot apparatus.

Robot system, robot device, and its cover

An image pickup apparatus that includes a body on which an optical system is mounted for facing a subject for an image, a signal generator is rotatably provided for generating an image pickup signal in response to an image of the subject obtained through the optical system, and a rotary driver is mounted for rotating the signal generator in relation to the body on an axis of rotation that is substantially coincident with an optical axis of the optical system. An image pickup signal processor for producing a video signal that represents the subject according to the image pickup signal from the signal generator and a posture detector for detecting a posture of the image generator in relation to the subject.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yu Hirono