US 12,228,509 B2
Microorganism information providing device and method
YongKeun Park, Daejeon (KR); KyeoReh Lee, Chungcheongnam-do (KR); Seungwoo Shin, Busan (KR); Geon Kim, Daejeon (KR); and Young Dug Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to THE WAVE TALK, INC., Daejeon (KR); and KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Daejeon (KR)
Appl. No. 17/273,631
Filed by THE WAVE TALK, INC., Daejeon (KR); and KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Daejeon (KR)
PCT Filed Sep. 6, 2019, PCT No. PCT/KR2019/011559
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 4, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/050687, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 12, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0107292 (KR), filed on Sep. 7, 2018; and application No. 10-2019-0045142 (KR), filed on Apr. 17, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0340591 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. G16B 40/00 (2019.01); C12Q 1/06 (2006.01); G01N 21/47 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06V 10/764 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/69 (2022.01)
CPC G01N 21/4788 (2013.01) [C12Q 1/06 (2013.01); G01N 21/47 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06V 10/764 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/695 (2022.01); G06V 20/698 (2022.01); G16B 40/00 (2019.02)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for providing microorganism information, the apparatus comprising:
a receiving unit configured to receive a plurality of images obtained by photographing in time series an outgoing wave emitted from a sample;
a detecting unit configured to extract a feature of a change over time from the plurality of images obtained in time series;
a learning unit configured to machine-learn classification criteria based on an extracted feature; and
a determining unit configured to classify the type or concentration of a microorganism contained in the sample based on the classification criteria, wherein
each of the plurality of images includes speckle information generated by multiple scattering caused by the microorganism due to a wave entering into the sample,
wherein the learning unit learns the classification criteria by using a convolutional neural network (CNN), and
wherein the learning unit performs a convolution arithmetic by using a convolution kernel having a size smaller than a size of one speckle.