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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 31, 2015
Applicant:

Flir Systems, Inc., Wilsonville, OR (US);

Inventors:

Gregory Grant, Goleta, CA (US);

Nicholas Högasten, Santa Barbara, CA (US);

Scott McNally, Goleta, CA (US);

Richard Cagley, Goleta, CA (US);

Assignee:

FLIR Systems, Inc., Wilsonville, OR (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/00 (2017.01); H04N 5/33 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); G06T 7/33 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0028 (2013.01); G06T 7/33 (2017.01); H04N 5/2258 (2013.01); H04N 5/33 (2013.01); H04N 5/332 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10004 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10048 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20221 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various techniques are disclosed for a system and method to dynamically co-register images captured by two or more separate imaging modules. For example, in one embodiment, a method includes: capturing a thermal image of an object; capturing a visible light (VL) image of the object; determining a plurality of thermal image reference points from the thermal image; determining a plurality of VL image reference points from the VL image; determining a geometric transform based on the plurality of thermal image reference points and the plurality of VL image reference points; and applying the geometric transform to the thermal image or the VL image to align the thermal image and the VL image. In another embodiment, an imaging system comprises two or more separate imaging modules and one or more processors configured to perform the method above to dynamically co-register images.


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