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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2011
Vipin P. Gupta, Reno, NV (US);
Clifford K. Ho, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Siri Sahib Khalsa, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Vipin P. Gupta, Reno, NV (US);
Clifford K. Ho, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Siri Sahib Khalsa, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Sandia Corporation, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Abstract
Described herein are technologies pertaining to computing the solar irradiance distribution on a surface of a receiver in a concentrating solar power system or glint/glare emitted from a reflective entity. A mobile computing device includes at least one camera that captures images of the Sun and the entity of interest, wherein the images have pluralities of pixels having respective pluralities of intensity values. Based upon the intensity values of the pixels in the respective images, the solar irradiance distribution on the surface of the entity or glint/glare corresponding to the entity is computed by the mobile computing device.