Radiant energy – Infrared-to-visible imaging – Including detector array
Patent
1995-09-06
1997-09-02
Tokar, Michael J.
Radiant energy
Infrared-to-visible imaging
Including detector array
250334, 358406, 358446, 348166, H04N 533
Patent
active
056635621
ABSTRACT:
The present system provides a thermal imaging device including a detector array responsive to thermal infrared radiation. The detector array has a linearly-arrayed plurality of spaced-apart detector elements defining cooperatively a length dimension for the detector array. Each of the plurality of detector elements provides a corresponding individual electrical signal indicative of the thermal infrared radiation incident thereon. The detector elements vary from one another in the plurality of detector elements, and the thermal imaging device responsively provides a visible-light image replicating a viewed scene. The thermal imaging device includes a scanning device scanning the viewed scene across the plurality of detector elements in a direction generally perpendicular to the length dimension. The scanning device includes a first portion scanning the viewed scene across the entire plurality of the plurality of detector elements, and a second portion scanning the viewed scene across the plurality of detector elements with transposition of the viewed scene such that a portion of the viewed scene scanned by the first portion across a certain detector element is scanned across a detector element next-adjacent to the certain detector element.
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Gallagher Tim
Jones Russell
Shaffer Stephen P.
Denson-Low Wanda K.
Hughes Electronics
Lindeen III Gordon R.
Sales Michael W.
Tokar Michael J.
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