Television – Responsive to nonvisible energy – Infrared
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-23
2011-08-23
Kelley, Christopher (Department: 2482)
Television
Responsive to nonvisible energy
Infrared
C382S266000, C382S141000, C382S199000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08004564
ABSTRACT:
Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide automated testing on infrared image data to detect image quality defects. For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, image processing algorithms are disclosed to generate an image quality metric that may be compared to one or more thresholds to perform an automated test for image quality defects. For example, the image quality metric may be compared to two thresholds to determine if the corresponding infrared sensor or infrared camera is defective or not due to image quality or requires further manual inspection by test personnel.
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