Patent ID: 8073219
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: G01N,G06T

Abstract:
1. A nucleic acid analyzing apparatus equipped with an imaging element for use to image a reaction device, comprising: a preliminary shooting section which shoots the reaction device using the imaging element; a bright-spot detection section which transmits data generated by A/D conversion of an entire area of an image obtained by preliminary shooting to an analyzing computer via a communications control interface in a camera unit, detecting only bright-spot coordinates of the reaction device in the data, and stores the bright-spot coordinates as first binning positions; a defective bright-spot discriminating section which discriminates and deletes any defective bright spot from the first binning positions, calculates only predetermined bright-spot information, and stores the calculated bright-spot information as second binning positions, in the analyzing computer; a binning-position information transfer section which transmits information about the second binning positions from the analyzing computer back to a camera control MPU via an apparatus control computer and the communications control interface in the camera unit; and a main shooting section which collects images by varying a drive signal to selectively collect only imaging-element information included in the second binning positions.