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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
John Lindsay Galloway, Northants, GB;
Assignee:
Infrared Integrated Systems, Towcester, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 5/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 5/10 ;
Abstract
In order to determine the position of an object within an area viewed by a single detector of an array, signals from detectors adjacent to the single detector are compared with each other and/or the single detector. The method can be extended to larger objects to ascertain the locations of edges.