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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 02, 2018
Applicant:

Drs Network & Imaging Systems, Llc, Melbourne, FL (US);

Inventors:

Richard L. Southerland, Plano, TX (US);

Douglas A. Blettner, Dallas, TX (US);

David C. Hutchison, Plano, TX (US);

Henry W. Neal, Allen, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/33 (2006.01); H04N 19/46 (2014.01); G01J 5/02 (2006.01); G01J 5/08 (2006.01); G01J 5/10 (2006.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/236 (2011.01); H04N 21/434 (2011.01); G01J 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/33 (2013.01); G01J 5/025 (2013.01); G01J 5/0806 (2013.01); G01J 5/10 (2013.01); G06T 3/40 (2013.01); G06T 5/001 (2013.01); G06T 5/007 (2013.01); H04N 19/46 (2014.11); H04N 21/23439 (2013.01); H04N 21/23605 (2013.01); H04N 21/23614 (2013.01); H04N 21/4348 (2013.01); G01J 2005/0077 (2013.01); G01J 2005/0081 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods for generating a temperature map of a scene are provided. A method may include receiving thermal data of the scene. The thermal data includes frames of thermal infrared data. A mapping may be created for each frame based on the digital thermal infrared data. The method further includes generating the temperature map using the mapping. The temperature map is generated prior to a contrast enhancement process. The method further includes separately transmitting the temperature map and the digital thermal infrared data in a data channel.


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