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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2017
Seek Thermal, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Jason Wolfe, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
William J. Parrish, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Ross Williams, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Seek Thermal, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Abstract
An imaging system includes an array of photodetectors and electronic circuitry associated with the photodetectors to read intensity values from the photodetectors. The electronic circuitry can include an integrator with an integrator capacitor having a nominal capacitance, wherein a gain of the electronic circuitry associated with a photodetector can depend at least in part on the actual capacitance of the integrator capacitor, the actual capacitance differing from the nominal capacitance. The imaging system can be configured to determine a gain factor that depends at least in part on the actual capacitance and/or a signal voltage input to the integrator. The imaging system can be configured to apply the gain factor based at least in part on the actual capacitance of the integrator capacitor calculated. The imaging system can be a thermal imaging system and may include an infrared camera core.