Radiant energy – Photocells; circuits and apparatus – Photocell controlled circuit
Patent
1992-04-21
1994-01-04
Nelms, David C.
Radiant energy
Photocells; circuits and apparatus
Photocell controlled circuit
250332, 250349, H01J 4014
Patent
active
052763196
ABSTRACT:
An advanced infrared (IR) Sensor based on the present invention would add the following two elements to a basic staring IR sensor using a 2 dimensional array of detector elements to significantly enhance the detection sensitivity of the device. The added features are: (1) Additional optics or modification to the normal optics to scan the image over a small fraction of the array dimensions so that each point in the image is sampled by a number of different detector elements, and (2) signal processing to combine the multiple samples for each image point so as to exclude the effects of "dead", "weak" or excessively noisy detector elements and average out the element to element sensitivity variations and calibration/correction imperfections of the "normal" elements. The effect of this process would be to provide an output which contained no "dead" picture elements (pixels), with root-mean-square (RMS) spatial noise reduced by approximately a factor of the square root of the number of image samples averaged and with dramatic suppression of the extreme values in the output variation statistics. In addition, the performance improvements outlined above can be accomplished using detector arrays having a large number of bad elements which would normally make them unacceptable for use.
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Hepfer Kenneth C.
Horman S. Roger
Horsch Bob
Davenport T.
Lewis John D.
Nelms David C.
Shuster Jacob
The United States of America as represented by the United States
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