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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Infrared Integrated Systems Limited, Towcester, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 3/08 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 3/08 ;
Abstract
A two dimensional array of resistive bolometers (B) is arranged in rows and columns. Amplifiers (A , A etc) amplify signals obtained from the bolometers. Instead of providing one amplifier per column, a smaller number of amplifiers is used each of which is connected to a plurality of column sense lines (L) via a multiplexer (M , M etc).