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7623236 Spectroscopic polarimetry  
To effectively reduce a measurement error in a parameter indicating a state of spectroscopic polarization generated by variations in retardation of a retarder due to a temperature change or other...
7497251 Vehicle air conditioner  
In a vehicle air conditioner, a first air-conditioning control value is calculated based on a surface temperature detected by a non-contact temperature sensor in a temperature detection area of a...
7463753 FLIR-to-missile boresight correlation and non-uniformity compensation of the missile seeker  
The present invention provides for simple and streamlined boresight correlation of FLIR-to-missile video. Boresight correlation is performed with un-NUCed missile video, which allows boresight...
7456754 Antifratricide beacon  
A programmable infrared beacon having an electronics circuit with a microprocessor contained within a transparent housing. A number of signaling infrared light emitting diodes are provided within...
7353722 Contactless measurement of the surface temperature of naturally or artificially weathered samples  
A holding frame ( 2 ) is mounted in a weathering chamber ( 1 ) of a weathering tester so that it can be rotated around a xenon radiation source ( 3 ), which is located on the cylinder or rotation...
7292719 System and method for imaging  
A system for determining presence or absence of one or more thermally distinguishable objects in a living body is disclosed. The system comprises a combined image generator configured for combining...
7155363 Thermal imaging for semiconductor process monitoring  
The method measures the temperature, emissivity, and other properties of relatively smooth surfaces radiating thermal energy, and is especially adapted for monitoring semiconductor fabrication...
7119697 Hydrogen fire detection system & method  
To detect flames burning carbon-free hydrogen-bearing fuels, first, second, and third sensors sense first, second and third regions of an infrared water emission band, and generate first, second,...
7040805 Method of infrared thermography  
A method of infrared thermography is described. The invention utilizes a high resolution infrared thermography system and associated computer in conjunction with a test chamber to determine heat...
6850862 Methods and equipment for the measurement of the three-dimensional distribution of the temperatures within dielectric means  
A method and an apparatus for generating three-dimensional maps of temperature distribution throughout a dielectric object is disclosed. The apparatus uses radiometric sensors to detect radiation...
6757412 System and method for helping to determine the condition of tissue  
A system and method is disclosed for helping determine a condition of selected tissue of a patient based on a set of thermal images of the selected tissue acquired over a time period. The image set...
6711506 Computerized operator assistance for turbine component inspection  
A plurality of system checks on a turbine component inspection system are monitored, and an end user interface element to cause an inspection of a turbine component to commence is enabled only upon...
6643604 System for uniformly heating photoresist  
A system for regulating heating temperature of a material is provided. The material may be a photoresist, a top or bottom anti-reflective coating, a low K dielectric material, SOG or other spin-on...
6640199 System and method for optically determining properties of hot fluids from the spectral structure of emitted radiation  
A system and method for remotely determining at least one of the temperature of, and the relative concentrations of species making up, a hot fluid, based on the spectral structure of radiation...
6393375 System and method for determining combustion temperature using infrared emissions  
The present invention relates to a combustion temperature sensor, and, more particularly, to a combustion temperature sensor that measures infrared energy emitted at several preselected wavelengths...
6230108 Realtime sensitivity correction method and infrared imaging system  
A realtime sensitivity correction method for use in an infrared imaging system, which compensates for possible sensitivity variations among a plurality of sensor elements constituting a infrared...
5864776 Apparatus and method for detecting an error in the placement of a lead frame on a surface of a die mold  
A position detection system is provided which, without physical contact, by the use of detected infrared energy emissions determines whether there is correct placement of one or more small objects,...
5841675 Method and apparatus for monitoring quality of electrical wire connections  
An improved method of monitoring the quality of a crimping machine includes setting the boundaries based upon the mean and standard deviation of a number of learned samples. By setting the...
5815410 Ratio type infrared thermometer  
An improved ratio type infrared thermometer utilizes integrating amplifiers for each waveband having the integration time automatically set so that the output voltage utilizes the full range of an...
5737242 Method for automatically determining probabilities associated with a Boolean function  
The invention relates to a method that makes it possible to automatically and exactly calculate the probabilities associated with a Boolean function. The probability of an event represented by a...
RE34789 Infrared electronic thermometer and method for measuring temperature  
An electronic infrared thermometer is disclosed comprising a housing forming an interior chamber, a pyroelectric sensor mounted within the chamber for sensing temperature change and generating an...
5285396 Device for evaluating race horse performance based on temperature  
A device for evaluating a plurality of race horses' readiness for a race by quantitatively assessing the horses' temperatures without contacting the horses, the evaluation being made prior to the...
5272340 Infrared imaging system for simultaneous generation of temperature, emissivity and fluorescence images  
The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for determining actual temperature, reflectivity and fluorescence of a surface and comprises in the preferred embodiment a two-dimensional...
5249142 Indirect temperature-measurement of films formed on semiconductor wafers  
A method of measuring the temperature of a matter accurately, in non-contact fashion and without setting any emissivity comprising obtaining a spectral characteristics of absorbing electromagnetic...
5239488 Apparatus and method for determining high temperature surface emissivity through reflectance and radiance measurements  
The apparatus and method permit simultaneous and precise determination of the temperature and spectral emittance, over a wide spectral region, of a hot sample. Radiance, and hemispherical...
5186541 Non-contact infrared temperature sensing system  
A non-contact infrared temperature sensing system for determining temperature values for a series of targets all having a similar emissivity value, which calculates an emissivity value for the...
5169234 Infrared temperature sensor  
An infrared temperature sensor with a sensor element sensitive for infrared radiation and which generates an analog output signal, permits a speed-variable and resolution-variable infrared...
5165791 Method and apparatus for measuring temperature based on infrared light  
A method of using infrared light for measuring the temperature of a semiconductor element with a surface layer formed by two kinds of materials that have different emissivities and optical...
5150969 System and method for temperature determination and calibration in a biomedical probe  
An infrared detector receives infrared energy from the target and provides a detector signal based primarily on the difference between the infrared detector temperature and the temperature of the...
5109277 System for generating temperature images with corresponding absolute temperature values  
A temperature-imaging system for generating an absolute temperature value for a point of interest on a monitored surface is disclosed. The system includes a camera and a temperature analyzer. The...
5029117 Method and apparatus for active pyrometry  
The present invention constitutes a pyrometer device and an associated method of operation for measuring temperature based on the radiation emitted by a heated body in which increased accuracy is...
5021980 Remote measurement of temperature  
A method for determination of the true temperature T and true radiative emissivity of a body at temperature T, using measurements of total energy radiated by the body in two or more adjacent wave...
4985858 Method and apparatus for temperature determination  
An optical technique for determining surface temperature utilizes the Christiansen effect that is exhibited by dielectric materials; i.e., strong absorption bands at certain wavenumber values,...
4979134 Method for measuring surface temperature of semiconductor wafer substrate, and heat-treating apparatus  
A method for measuring the surface temperature of a wafer substrate and a heat-treating apparatus are both used in a semiconductor device-manufacturing process wherein a reference light including...
4974182 Method and system for optically measuring simultaneously the emissivity and temperature of objects  
A system and method for optically measuring simultaneously the emissivity d temperature of an object and the ambient temperature with a successive determination of values of spectral radiance or...
4924478 Method of and device for contactless temperature measurement of an object independently of radiation emissivity  
A method of and device for contactless measuring of temperature of an object independently of its emissivity in infrared and/or visible range, is based on finding, by means of Planck law of...
4890245 Method for measuring temperature of semiconductor substrate and apparatus therefor  
An apparatus and a method for detecting the temperature of a substrate, and for controlling the radiation-annealing of the substrate, for example, measures the intensity of infrared light from the...
4884896 Production line emissivity measurement system  
The emissivity of camouflage material is determined from the apparent body emperature measured by a radiometer, calibrated to indicate a temperature of a blackbody would emit corresponding to the...
4880314 Pyrometric measurement procedure and multi-channel pyrometer  
A pyrometric measurement method and a multi-channel pyrometer for determining the temperature T o of surfaces with different emissivities by measuring the spectral signal voltages U j at j=1 to n...
4875176 Method and apparatus for measuring surface temperatures  
The disclosure relates to an electronic system which includes a microcomputer circuit with a stored program, data storage means, a keyboard, and a display cooperating with a temperature probe...
4868768 Optical absorption measurement system  
The system of the present invention contemplates a non-intrusive method for measuring the temperature rise of optical elements under high laser power optical loading to determine the absorption...
4817020 Cooling rate determination apparatus for laser material processing  
A laser materials processing system for computing a real time cooling rate experienced on a workpiece and responsively controlling the operation of a materials processing laser. An image of a point...
4813003 Method of detecting hot spots in a rotary heat exchanger  
A detector (32) monitors infrared ray emissions from an air preheater (10) rotor (14) to detect a temperature rise that precedes a fire within air preheater (10) with each sensor output being...
4791585 Cryogenic thermometer employing molecular luminescence  
A cryogenic thermometer using molecular luminescence determines temperature. A sensor material is used which is capable of emitting radiant energy from a spin multiplet when excited, the excited...
4589082 Nuclear fuel rod straightness measuring system and method  
A rod straightness measuring system and method. A rod, such as a nuclear fuel rod, is supported and rotated in such a manner that if the rod were straight, it would be rotated about its...
4254338 Determination of temperature distributions on awkwardly located or low-access surfaces  
An infrared heat-image camera is aimed at a hot surface not perpendicular thereto but instead in a direction almost parallel to the surface, presenting to the camera a heat image of the surface not...
4218707 Thermographic areameter  
An area meter for a thermographic display comprising means for defining a predetermined area within a scan field and means for determining and displaying a numerical representation of the...
3899878 Apparatus for indicating gas temperatures  
Apparatus for producing a signal indicative of the temperature of a heated gas comprising the beta particle source; a beta particle detector which intercepts particles emitted from said source;...
3874238 Apparatus using radioactive particles for measuring gas temperatures  
Apparatus for producing a signal indicative of the temperature of a heated gas comprising a beta particle source; a beta particle detector which intercepts particles emitted from said source;...
3777568 D. C. ELECTRONIC APPARATUS FOR IR RADIATION TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT  
Rapid response, high accuracy, D.C. electronic device for non-contact temperature measurement relying on infrared radiation viewed without use of cyclic interruption of radiation, any type of...
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