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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2013
Robert Bosch Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Ashwin Samarao, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gary O'Brien, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ando Feyh, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Gary Yama, Mountain View, CA (US);
Fabian Purkl, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A portable thermal imaging system includes a portable housing configured to be carried by a user, a bolometer sensor assembly supported by the housing and including an array of thermal sensor elements and at least one plasmonic lens, a memory including program instructions, and a processor operably connected to the memory and to the sensor, and configured to execute the program instructions to obtain signals from each of a selected set of thermal sensor elements of the array of thermal sensor elements, assign each of the obtained signals with a respective color data associated with a temperature of a sensed object, and render the color data.