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Ryan took the backup data and prepared to head back to his own dorm.
Crossing the campus grounds, which grew more beautiful by the day, he walked up the dorm building and ran into Patricia coming down the stairs at a corner.
"I was just thinking of going to find you." She was in a hurry, and pulled Ryan back toward his dorm. "There's an urgent matter I need to ask you about."
"What is it?" Once the door was shut, Ryan sat down in his seat and unhurriedly began entering the data into his computer.
Patricia sat on the small sofa in the room. "I heard that Gaentech from overseas wants to put up the money to acquire Prism Sciences?"
Only then did Ryan raise his head, turning around in some surprise. "How did you hear about that?"
This news should have been known only to Prism's senior leadership and himself.
Patricia took out her phone and opened a webpage.
"Take a look. Gaentech's side leaked it, and now it's spread across the entire internet."
When she'd seen this news just now, it had given her quite a fright, which was why she'd hurried over to find Ryan and ask.
Ryan took the phone, and there on it was exactly the news about Gaentech acquiring Prism.
The comments beneath the news were lively indeed. Not a single person had imagined Gaentech would come up with an idea like this, and some people even thought this was a fabricated rumor.
Ryan knit his brow and handed the phone back to Patricia.
"Gaentech did sound us out before, but they came with the idea of getting something for nothing. Prism has already refused them clearly, and I imagine there'll be a clarification issued shortly."
In fact, after being refused, Gaentech had kept making all sorts of efforts, angling for a chance to invest or to cooperate with Prism. It was only that all these efforts had been refused by Prism one by one.
Hearing this, Patricia's nervous mood finally relaxed.
"It's good that you didn't agree." She let out a breath. "You people are a signboard for the country abroad now."
Although Prism's business wasn't large at present, its reputation in the world was unexpectedly good. Whether online or in reality, you rarely saw remarks smearing them.
Whether foreign governments or individuals, even if they didn't praise Prism, they wouldn't go out of their way to attack it.
Because this was an enterprise that had given disabled people a new life. As long as it committed no error of principle, attacking it would easily draw the collective wrath of the disabled community, and those people were their own citizens.
You could say Prism Sciences was now a calling card for the country abroad, on par in reputation with the country's other flagship enterprises.
"Don't worry about it. It's just a bit of pocket money, isn't it?" Ryan said with a laugh.
"It's pocket money only in your eyes." Patricia shook her head, at a loss for words.
"In any case, I don't like money. I have no concept of money, and I've never held a single cent of it in my hands." Ryan leaned back in his chair, leisurely examining the data he'd just copied over.
Seeing this, Patricia stood up as well. "Never mind, then. I won't disturb you. Go on with your research."
"Bye!" Ryan waved her off in farewell, and Patricia pulled the door shut behind her on her way out.
Ryan went to the refrigerator, took out a drink and had a sip, and only then turned his attention back to the computer.
The data on the computer represented ten segments of photoacoustic signal.
Each segment of photoacoustic signal carried the mouse's static physical information at that moment. If an AI were used to parse and compare these ten segments, the mouse's dynamic physical information could be derived.
Blood flow velocity, for instance, or the production of hormones inside the body, could all be obtained through comparison.
There was a precondition for this, however, which was that the signals collected had to be complete segments.
If a signal was incomplete, missing even a little, then it wasn't as simple as a little physical information being missing. It was that the entire signal's data would become impossible to parse.
Because signal parsing wasn't done linearly. It wasn't that the front segment represented information about one part of the body and the back segment represented another part.
When parsing a signal, even if all you wanted to know was a person's blood type, the data required was distributed throughout the entire signal, not in some specific passage within it.
To learn any of this data, the completeness of the signal collection had to be guaranteed.
This was exactly why he worried that the current photoacoustic signal sensor couldn't collect the complete signal.
Within a span of two seconds, to completely collect ten segments of photoacoustic signal that were extremely faint in strength, similar in frequency, and produced in almost the same location, was truly too difficult.
Ryan separated these ten segments of data and compared them against the material in the system.
Sure enough, he soon discovered that a phenomenon of overlapping and blurring had appeared at the tail ends of these signals.
"Sure enough, I was thinking too naively. An experiment like this couldn't possibly succeed on the first try..."
Ryan slumped over the computer desk, sighing. This was the first time an experiment of his had failed.
A situation like this meant all of these signals were unusable, like a drop of ink dripped into a bottle of mineral water.
This was a useless signal. Even with the correct algorithm to parse it, the result derived in the end would either be utter nonsense or simply wrong.
"It really does need improving."
To try to produce the system's photoacoustic sensor in a short time, honestly, held little hope. Those process requirements were too demanding.
Even with the blueprints, it couldn't be done.
To make an analogy, the system would tell him how a chip was to be manufactured, but it wouldn't tell him how to manufacture the lithography machine that made the chip.
So right now he had the blueprints but lacked the production machinery that could turn those blueprints into reality.
Which meant the best option for now was to modify what they already had. At the very least, the sensor Aegis had provided could receive signals.
A rather plain idea suddenly popped into Ryan's head. "If one sensor sensing ten signals causes overlap, then what if I increase the number of sensors?"
One isn't enough, so I'll add another. Two still isn't enough, so I'll keep adding.
Or just go straight to ten. Then with ten signals, one sensor detects one signal each. Surely that would work?
While Ryan was still researching how to improve the signal sensing, Prism Sciences also noticed the news about the Gaentech acquisition online and hurried to come forward and refute the rumor.
Thanks to the company's excellent reputation, this little disturbance passed just like that. Even some people with ulterior motives who wanted to whip up a narrative couldn't get it off the ground.
And so the time drifted by, soon crossing over December and pushing on into the new year.
Throughout this stretch, Ryan had been locked in a struggle with the photoacoustic sensor.
The photoacoustic sensors had now been increased to five, connected in series to receive the photoacoustic signals.
But even so, the overlapping and blurring of the signals still appeared.
So Ryan simply ordered another five photoacoustic sensors, planning to install them once he got back from the hall.
That's right. He was going to accept his award.
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