Infrared Camera

• US 20130141590A1
• Filed: 12/04/2012
• Published: 06/06/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tamron Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Tamron Company Limited
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Takehiro
• Application Number:
  US13/693,348
• Publication Number:
  US 20130141590A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/164
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/20 for generating image signals from infrared radiation only
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/33 Transforming infrared radiation cameras or camera modules for generating image signals from infrared radiation H04N23/20; circuitry of SSIS for transforming infrared radiation into image signals H04N25/20

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide an infrared camera capable of shading correction with ease and an improved degree of accuracy and has good maintenance ability. To achieve the object, an infrared camera provided with an infrared lens group and an infrared image sensor located at an image focusing surface of the infrared lens group in a housing in which a window is formed at a portion facing the object side of the infrared lens group comprising: a controller correcting a captured image according to an output from the infrared image sensor and outputting the corrected image; a shutter arranged on an infrared light path in the housing from the window to the infrared lens group; and a temperature sensor detecting the temperature of the shutter is adopted.

Claims

1. An infrared camera provided with an infrared lens group and an infrared image sensor located at an image focusing surface of the infrared lens group in a housing in which a window is formed at a portion facing the object side of the infrared lens group comprising:

a controller which corrects a captured image according to an output from the infrared image sensor and outputs the corrected image;

a shutter arranged on an infrared light path in the housing from the window to the infrared lens group; and

a temperature sensor which detects the temperature of the shutter.

2. The infrared camera according to claim 1, wherein the controller comprises a calculation mean which receives temperature information data of the shutter detected by the temperature sensor and corrects a captured image according to the temperature information data and output data of the infrared image sensor.

3. The infrared camera according to claim 1, wherein the shutter is made of a blackbody material.

4. The infrared camera according to claim 1, wherein the shutter comprises temperature control means which maintains the shutter temperature at a specific value based on the temperature of the shutter detected by the temperature sensor.

5. The infrared camera according to claim 4, wherein the temperature control means is a heating means for heating the shutter.

6. The infrared camera according to claim 1, wherein the space in the housing is sealed.

7. The infrared camera according to claim 1, wherein the shutter is arranged at a location closest to an object side of the infrared lens group.

8. The infrared camera according to claim 1, wherein the shutter is arranged at the imaging side of the window.