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6476859 Thermal tracker  
An image of a scene is focused onto a two dimensional array of passive infrared sensing elements mounted on and connected to an integrated circuit, and used to detect the location of events within...
6469734 Video safety detector with shadow elimination  
A two-dimensional (2-D) machine-vision safety-solution involving a method and apparatus for performing high-integrity, high efficiency machine vision. The machine vision safety solution digitally...
6411328 Method and apparatus for traffic incident detection  
Apparatus and methods effective for detecting, locating and characterizing traffic-related incidents are based upon improved image processing techniques applied to infrared and visible light...
6380871 System for and method of searching for targets in a marine environment  
An above-the-water system for and method of finding targets, both animate and inanimate, in a marine environment, especially by determining the distance and depth of targets at, above or below the...
6369850 Imaging device  
An imaging device has a control block for offsetting signal levels and controlling the amplification factor for the signal levels within one frame. The imaging device can image a subject having...
6344874 Imaging system using a data transmitting light source for subject illumination  
The invention provides an imaging system including a camera with an image sensor sensitive to light and a light emitter with the camera to transmit image data from the camera. It includes a...
6271878 Peeling detector for tunnel wall  
A peeling detector for a tunnel wall capable of rapidly inspecting the tunnel wall by effectively using infrared radiation is provided. The detector heats a tunnel wall 1 with a light emitting...
6267501 Ambient temperature micro-bolometer control, calibration, and operation  
A method for measuring the temperature of a scene using a detector having at least one reference pixel, with an integratable sampling circuit associated with each pixel. Initially, an ambient...
6268883 High speed infrared imaging system and method  
A system and method for radiation detection with an increased frame rate. A semi-parallel processing configuration is used to process a row or column of pixels in a focal-plane array in parallel to...
6255650 Extreme temperature radiometry and imaging apparatus  
A head-up display, an IR camera and associated electronics including power are integrated into portable, self-contained, wrap-around, face-worn vision-enhancement apparatus useful in environments...
6249311 Lens assembly with incorporated memory module  
An infrared video camera system having a plurality of interchangeable imaging lens units and optical filter units. Identifying information, used to modify the operation of the camera system based...
6246321 Movement detector  
A device having an image-providing sensor, hereinafter designated as "image sensor," operating in the visible and near-infrared range, an thermal image-providing sensor, hereinafter designated as...
6198503 Infra-red video key  
A method and apparatus to isolate the video image of an object, usually a human being, from its background for use in forming a composite image. The viewer's image, with its background, is captured...
6154252 Imaging device for use as radiation detector  
An imaging device has a control block for offsetting signal levels and controlling the amplification factor for the signal levels within one frame. The imaging device can image a subject having...
6150930 Video equipment and method to assist motor vehicle operators  
A video system (30) including an illuminator (26) and a silicon detector (34) which provides operators of motor vehicles (20) with an enhanced display of the vehicle's operating environment (24 and...
6084640 Histogram chip for line summing, line grabbing and histogramming in a thermal imaging system  
A time shared histogram chip (80) implemented in a system for manipulating video signal data. The system includes a processor (82) for controlling system operation and for processing a video signal...
6078356 Frequency multiplexed data from detector array  
A two-dimensional imaging system employs a multiplicity of radiation sensors disposed in an array of rows and columns. In order to couple signals from each of the sensors from an inaccessible...
6072524 Electronic observation post with communications relay  
This invention relates to an apparatus for observing objects and determining their position. A SIRPS (Staring Infrared Panoramic Sensor) for observing objects in a 360° field of view around the...
6067110 Object recognizing device  
An object recognizing device for recognizing an object by transmitting laser light from a laser light source and receiving reflected light from the object by a light sensor, wherein the laser light...
6065072 Device for selectively passing video frames from a signal series having a first frame rate to obtain a signal series having a second frame rate  
An imaging system which incorporates a gate (which can be implemented either in hardware or software) for gating video signals to a host PC. The present invention allows fixed frame cameras to be...
6043842 Remote surveillance device  
A remote surveillance system including an imaging device and an IR light source for surveying a relatively dark area, a remote surveillance system including an imaging device and an insertion tube...
6028625 Examination system for architectural structure exteriors  
Detailed images of problem areas occurring in the surface of a structure, such as a multiple story building, are obtained by infrared and visual spectrum cameras positioned proximate to the problem...
6024262 Equipment mounting rack  
A releasably mounted equipment rack mounted to a roll bar and windshield me of a vehicle, allowing a viewing device to be mounted for viewing by a front seat occupant of a soft top vehicle.
6023288 Combination head-protective helmet and thermal imaging apparatus  
Combination head-protective helmet which includes a cap and an outwardly extending brim and thermal imaging apparatus which includes an infrared camera for producing an infrared image of a scene or...
6023637 Method and apparatus for thermal radiation imaging  
A method and apparatus for thermal imaging is disclosed which enables a clinician to obtain visual images reflecting metabolic activity within a patient's body. A scanning system is configured to...
6009340 Multimode, multispectral imaging system  
A multispectral imaging system for generating imagery from a broad range of electromagnetic radiation. In a preferred embodiment, the system comprises an image processor unit having a plurality of...
6002423 Three-dimensional imaging system  
An improved three-dimensional imaging system for imaging an object having a number of resolvable elements including: an amplitude modulated radiation source for transmitting radiation to the...
5999212 Method and apparatus for infrared detection of a moving target in the presence of solar clutter  
A detection system for detecting a target flying over water, which includes a detector positioned to receive radiation reflected by the target off water, and producing a detector output signal...
5990939 Video demultiplexing interface for a missile tracking system  
A video demultiplexing interface (70) is used in a missile tracking system (10) employing a missile (12) with a thermal beacon (24). A target designator (40) defines a boresight from a missile...
5982423 Video photographing apparatus having infrared rays AV transmitting function  
In a video photographing apparatus having an infrared rays AV transmitting function, there are provided: exchanging unit for moving the infrared rays cutting filter serving as a component element...
5943091 Camera with a very fast non-smear tube  
This camera comprises an electron tube with a photosensitive target (6) made of single-crystalline semiconducting material, lens (10) for forming the image of a scene on the target, an electron gun...
5936666 Security sensor arrangement  
In one embodiment, the present invention provides an apparatus which includes at least two sensors whose overlapping fields of view are matched by sectorization. Sensor signal output processing of...
5929433 Reading device for a mosaic of electromagnetic detectors and detection system equipped with such a device  
Reading device for an array of radiation detectors arranged as a mosaic of detectors and having a plurality of capacitors (222), each connected to a reading circuit (224, 225). According to the...
5917553 Method and apparatus for enhancing the broadcast of a live event  
Pan, tilt and zoom sensors are coupled to a broadcast camera in order to determine the field of view of the broadcast camera and to make a rough estimate of a target's location in the broadcast...
5910816 Imaging system with independent processing of visible an infrared light energy  
In order to protect body members adjacent an invasive procedure on a body, the member to be protected is illuminated preferably with infrared light energy and the entire site of the invasive...
5880771 Electro-optical detection system  
An electro-optical detection system for detecting objects embedded in a partially transmitting medium. The system includes a receiver for receiving electromagnetic radiation and a device for...
5861913 Heat-sensitive infrared-light image sensor with circuitry for canceling temperature-dependent drift components  
A heat-sensitive infrared-light image sensor is provided with an array of reference cells and video cells. During a setup (initialization) mode, video offset values are produced as representative...
5845002 Method and apparatus for detecting surface features of translucent objects  
The topographic surface features of a translucent object, such as a citrus fruit with a peel, are scanned and evaluated to permit the classification thereof according to its surface features. In...
5821992 Focal plane array capacitance cancellation  
A video buffer of a focal plane array (FPA) electrical interface module is presented for providing output capacitance cancellation. The buffer has a capacitance cancellation stage (50) for...
5781243 Display optimization for night vision enhancement systems  
Night vision apparatus including an infrared night vision sensor having a selected field of view and a display panel positioned for displaying an image detected by the sensor, the display panel...
5774063 Method and apparatus for software based wireless remote control of electronic devices  
A method and apparatus for remote control of electronic devices includes one or more processing units, a memory system, one or more I/O controllers, controlling various input/output devices such as...
5699798 Method for optically imaging solid tumor tissue  
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for determining the presence of solid tumor tissue, for identifying and mapping the margins of solid tumors during surgical or diagnostic...
5682035 Thermal imaging device  
A thermal infrared imaging device (10) includes a thermal detector (50) having a linearly-arrayed plurality of spaced apart detector elements (50', 50", 50"', . . . ). A scene to be viewed is...
5661817 Single charge-coupled-device camera for detection and differentiation of desired objects from undesired objects  
A conventional color charge-coupled-device (CCD) camera without a near infrared blocking filter is used to detect desired vegetation from undesired vegetation and other background. This detection...
5629868 Method of programming local control  
This invention relates to programming a remote control comprised of storing in a memory, data for control of a population of appliances, the data being sufficient to allow a remote control to...
5621457 Sighting direction detecting device for vehicle  
A sighting direction detecting device including a TV camera which is disposed to face a human being and picks up an image of light invisible to human beings, a first illuminator which is disposed...
5592151 Fire monitoring system  
A fire monitoring system for waste bunkers includes a pair of infrared cameras, which are arranged on an axis of rotation. The axis of rotation is connected to a controllable drive motor and to an...
5589876 Infrared imaging device readily removing optical system contributory component  
An infrared imaging device including infrared solid state image sensing device having an image area where first infrared detectors for detecting infrared image signals are arranged in a...
5587583 Thermal imaging device  
A thermal imaging device (10) has single integrated circuit chip (86) to perform various analog signal processing (ASP) functions. The imaging device (10) has a detector array (50) including a...
5577148 Laser scanning apparatus with interactive optical signal transmitting unit  
A laser scanning apparatus having at least one light source which emits a light at selective intensity, a light scanning device to scan the light emitted from the light source, a waveguide bundle...
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