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5572312 |
Arrangement for calibration of at least one radiation-sensitive detector means
An arrangement for calibration of at least one radiation-sensitive detector, comprising an aperture (90), at least one reference body (50, 60, 600) which emits radiation with a measurable...
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5568186 |
Focal plane filtered multispectral multidetector imager
A dewar cooled piezo electric activated beam splitter permits a filtered dimensional multispectral multidetector staring imager to operate as a target acquisition and recognition device as well as...
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5559496 |
Remote patrol system
A system for detecting the presence and passage of vehicle, pedestrian, or other intrusion and/or traffic within one or more monitored areas. The system detects intrusions of nontransparent objects...
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5557260 |
System for the monitoring and detection of heat sources in open areas
A system for the monitoring and detection of heat sources in open areas crising an integrated assembly of observatories which include autonomous means (2) of infrared vision (11) and diurnal vision...
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5548329 |
Perceptual delta frame processing
A perceptual delta frame processor for use with a detector array and a noninterlaced video display that produces an image equivalent to that of an image difference processing system. The processor...
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5528354 |
Picture detecting sensor unit
A picture detecting sensor unit has a passive sensor resolving a field of view into picture elements having different brightness. Picture processing means receive data from the picture detecting...
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5517580 |
Method for estimating the shape of an object from IR image shading
A method for estimating the shape of a body that emits electromagnetic energy using a sensor (10) having an image plane (15) and the ability to measure the intensity of the electromagnetic...
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5497266 |
Telescopic day and night sight
A day/night sight includes a visible-light first optical path and an invisible-light second optical path which are everywhere optically coaxial. The invisible-light second optical path leads to a...
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5471240 |
Nonuniformity correction of an imaging sensor using region-based correction terms
A scene based nonuniformity correction method (40) that computes and applies offset correction errors to a video signal corresponding to an image derived from a imaging sensor (11). A video signal...
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5467126 |
Thermography system with full-screen digital enlargement with camera using series-parallel scanning
An infrared thermography system is provided which includes an infrared camera in which raster scanning is accomplished in parallel using an oscillating mirror and scanned lines of the field of view...
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5465718 |
Solid tumor, cortical function, and nerve tissue imaging methods and device
There is disclosed a method for imaging tumor tissue adjacent to nerve tissue to aid in selective resection of tumor tissue without destroying nerve tissue, comprising the steps of illuminating an...
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5459319 |
Radiation detector circuit having a 1-bit quantized output
Radiation detectors are mounted in an optic focal plane of an infrared radiation sensor system. The radiation detectors produce output signals indicating detected radiation. The output signals are...
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5457493 |
Digital micro-mirror based image simulation system
An image simulation system 20 for testing sensor systems 26 and for training image sensor personnel wherein synthetic image data is generated by a scene generator 21 and projected by an image...
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5402168 |
Multi-standard observation camera and a surveillance system using the camera
This invention provides a multi-standard observation camera fitted with a detector which comprises photosensitive elements arranged in two aligned and/or offset rows, a clock sequencer (22) placed...
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5355180 |
Apparatus for and method of a television receiver incorporating audio/visual warning of viewing distance and audio message record/playback features
A viewing distance warning/sound recording apparatus for a television receiver and the method thereof, which can provide viewing distance warning by outputting a visible message for warning when a...
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5353053 |
Method of correcting a measured image formed by a television camera
Spectral image signals simultaneously provided by two CCD television cameras for an R-image and an IR-image are selected by a visual controller and are sent sequentially to a sending parabolic...
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5325192 |
Ambient light filter for infrared linked stereoscopic glasses
A stereoscopic imaging system (10) includes a display (14) and stereoscopic glasses (18) having right-and left-eye pieces (20 and 22). A photodetector (28) in the glasses receives electromagnetic...
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5321527 |
Integrated document imaging assembly
The invention utilizes a single, high-intensity, well cooled source and mounting the light source with associated optical components on a single base under a document transfer track in order to...
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5317395 |
Focal plane array dual processing system and technique
A focal plane array dual processing system and technique utilizes a single ocal plane array to provide scene imagery and temporal processing of a sub-region of the scene. Resultant data from a row...
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5315114 |
Integrated circuit detector array incorporating bucket brigade devices for time delay and integration
A chip set containing an infrared detector array and two signal processors are located on the focal plane of an infrared detecting system. Included in the processors is time delay and integrate...
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5309230 |
High-sensitivity infrared detector and an infrared camera using such a detector
A high-sensity infrared detector system includes circuitry for summing the luminance values of flux received by the photosensitive cells in a detection matrix, these values being read in succession...
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5292195 |
Thermographic evaluation technique
In a nondestructive thermographic evaluation technique, a selected amount of energy is applied to a first object having a known surface structure. An image of the first object is formed within the...
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5278644 |
Pseudo cross-couple for non-linear detectors
Systems for improving the quality of video images generated by a forward-looking infrared detector array include mechanisms for dynamically adjusting the output signals from one or more non-linear...
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5278645 |
Optimal signal acquisition technique and system
A feedback control system utilizing optimal signal acquisition for an auttic real-time sensing system. A sensor generates a continuous train of sensor output signals which are sampled. A histogram...
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5264930 |
Fast light interconnected processor
A fast light interconnected processor device for image processing includes an image sensor for producing a line scan signal, a one-dimensional line display for producing a light having an intensity...
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5255087 |
Imaging apparatus and endoscope apparatus using the same
The imaging apparatus and endoscope apparatus comprise an image forming optical system forming the image of an object to be imaged. An imaging device has a sensitivity to a wavelength range ranging...
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5245425 |
Method and apparatus for equalizing the gain of multi-channel systems in the presence of noise
Image restoration methods and systems include a comparison of the outputs of two or more adjacent detector element channels in order to determine the relative responsivities or conversion gains of...
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5229971 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device comprises a memory cell array, a row decoder, a column decoder, registers and a control unit. The control unit allows the write operational mode of the column decoder...
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5225903 |
Automatic contrast and brightness control system for thermal image apparatus integrated into an aircraft
An automatic contrast and brightness control system for thermal image apparatus in aircraft utilizes a section from the thermal image adapted to the flight and topography conditions to form the...
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5212384 |
System for detecting a hot spot in an infra-red detected landscape
A system for detecting a hot spot in an infra-red detected landscape and which co-operates with a landscape scan system for converging towards an infra-red detector circuit a main beam emanating...
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5187572 |
Endoscope system with a plurality of synchronized light source apparatuses
An electronic endoscope is provided with a photoelectrically converting solid state imaging device and a light guide transmitting an illuminating light. A video signal processing circuit processes...
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5180122 |
Apparatus for deicing
The invention provides an apparatus and method for detecting the presence of ice on a surface. The invention uses cameras to allow ice detection over a large area instead of a single point. The...
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5169233 |
Methods of measuring temperature and apparatus for use therewith
For the measurement of the temperature of a body (e.g. a melt) whose temperature is such that radiation is emitted from the body surface, a camera sighted on the body surface produces a real image...
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5168528 |
Differential electronic imaging system
A differential electronic imaging system has a diode array camera and a plurality of A/D processing circuits connected to the respective diode pixel elements in parallel. The A/D processing...
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5166789 |
Geographical surveying using cameras in combination with flight computers to obtain images with overlaid geographical coordinates
An earth surface surveying system uses an IR camera to obtain IR images of a selected area. A video camera operates in association with the IR camera to obtain video images in geographic and time...
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5163094 |
Method for identifying individuals from analysis of elemental shapes derived from biosensor data
A method and apparatus for identifying individuals is characterized by the analysis of elemental shapes derived from biosensor data presented in n dimensions, particularly facial thermograms. A...
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5159198 |
Infrared image pick-up apparatus
An infrared image pick-up apparatus includes: a body having a condenser lens for condensing an infrared ray emitted from an object, a sensor for detecting intensity of the condensed ray and...
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5153423 |
Circuit arrangement for reading out sensors sensitive to light or X-rays
A photodiode radiation sensor sensitive to luminous or x-ray radiation, has an inherent capacitance which is charged by the radiation. The charge is read out by a switching diode. The diode is...
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5153420 |
Timing independent pixel-scale light sensing apparatus
A light sensing apparatus adaptable for inclusion in an array of such apparatus is operable independent of polling cycle providing a more accurate sensing of the patterns of illumination incident...
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5151588 |
Radiation imaging apparatus having detection elements of varying sizes
A radiation imaging apparatus provided with a detector array comprising a plurality of detector units, each of which, in turn, comprises a plurality of X-ray detecting elements each having a...
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5144457 |
Integrated imaging assembly
Packaging of "image-lift" components wherein a unitary mount is used for integrating optical/thermal components, mounting them under a working platform of an operating structure to be simply,...
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5139412 |
Method and apparatus for profiling the bed of a furnace
A method and apparatus for profiling the bed of a furnace involves the production of a digital image of the bed and background. The digital image is processed to determine transitions in the image...
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5133605 |
Monitoring system employing infrared image
An infrared image monitoring system according to the present invention includes an infrared camera and a visible light camera, both viewing the same scene to be monitored. The visible light camera...
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5134474 |
Method of compensating scattered characteristics of outputs of an infrared detector of multiple-element type
In the method of the present invention for compensating scattered characteristics of infrared detector elements, a scene to be monitored is input through a focusing lens onto the infrared detector...
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5126569 |
Apparatus for measuring optical properties of materials
Apparatus for measuring an optical property of a sample including a source of radiation for exposing the sample to radiation of a predetermined wavelength; a detector for detecting the light...
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5119069 |
Apparatus and method for locating boundaries of detection zones covered by a passive infrared detection system
An audio indicator apparatus for locating boundaries of optically divided detection zones covered by a passive infrared detection system having a collector for collecting infrared rays from the...
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5101271 |
Image restoration and faulty sensor detection and compensation system and process
A scene-based image restoration system, method and apparatus calculates a plurality of restoration signals to be combined with a plurality of input signals to produce resultant signals that are...
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RE33857 |
Imaging of hot infrared emitting surfaces obscured by particulate fume and hot gases
An apparatus is described which is capable of producing an image of a smelt bed of inorganic chemicals collected at the bottom of a kraft pulp recovery boiler. The image produced is free of...
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5089914 |
Thermal camera arrangement
A thermal camera is mounted within a helmet and is arranged such that the optical path in free space from its output is wholly within the volume defined by the helmet and the helmet faceplate. The...
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5083204 |
Signal processor for an imaging sensor system
A signal processor for use with an imaging sensor system that provides enhanced video imagery. The signal processor may be coupled to a FLIR system, for example, which comprises a plurality of...
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