COLONY COUNT SYSTEM, IMAGING SUPPORT METHOD, AND IMAGING SUPPORT PROGRAM

• Main Authors: HATAMURA TARO, HAYASHI MIMIKO, NAKAMURA TAKESHI, MIYAJIMA SACHIKO, MIYAZAKI AKIRA, SUGITANI KENICHI, ASAMI NAOYA, OENO HIROKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 28.09.2017
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR ENZYMOLOGY OR MICROBIOLOGY; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; SPIRITS; VINEGAR; WINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a colony count system capable of detecting impaired attention of an operator.SOLUTION: According to the present invention, a colony count system 1 comprises: executing a first process of acquiring an image captured by an imaging device 30 for counting the number of colonies of bacteria cultured in a culture medium in a dish and counting the number of colonies contained in the image based on the image; and executing a second process of calculating a deviation of the position of the dish from a predetermined reference position in the image and determining the timing of outputting an alarm based on the amount of the deviation. The output of the result of the first process and the output of the result of the second process are executed.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】オペレータの注意力低下の検出を可能とすること。【解決手段】コロニーカウントシステム１は、シャーレ内の培地に培養された菌のコロニー数をカウントするための撮像装置３０により撮像された画像を取得し、画像に基づいて、画像内に含まれるコロニー数をカウントする第一の処理と、該画像内におけるシャーレの位置の所定の基準位置からのずれを算出し、該ずれの量に基づいて、アラームを出力するタイミングを決定する第二の処理とを実行し、第一の処理の結果の出力と、第二の処理の結果の出力とを実行する。【選択図】図１