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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2007
Applicant:
Ronald N. Murata, Normandy Park, WA (US);
Inventor:
Ronald N. Murata, Normandy Park, WA (US);
Assignee:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01K 11/30 (2006.01); G01K 17/00 (2006.01); G01J 5/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are provided to determine the emissivity, temperature and area of an object. The methods and apparatus are designed such that the emissivity and area of the object may be separately determined as functions dependent upon the temperature of the object derived from a three or more band infrared measurement sensor. As such, the methods and apparatus may only require a regression analysis of the temperature of the object without any regression analysis of the emissivity and area of the object.