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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 22, 1996
David B Duncan, Auburn, CA (US);
Sherwood Kantor, Sacramento, CA (US);
Duncan Technologies, Inc., Auburn, CA (US);
Abstract
A fire detection camera and method of detecting fires which are not normally visible to the human eye. An image of the flame area is split into three light beams representing three different spectral ranges. The first beam corresponds to the flame image plus the background scene and is focused onto a first monochrome imaging device. The second beam corresponds to the background scene and is focused onto a second monochrome light imaging device. The third beam corresponds to light in the visible range and is focused onto a color imaging device to depict the visible surroundings. The background image is subtracted from the flame image to isolate the flame, and the isolated flame image is superimposed onto the color scene to depict a composite image that represents the flame in its actual surroundings.