System architecture for thermal imaging and thermography cameras
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1. A thermal imaging system comprising:
- a thermal imaging camera including;
an infrared detector operable to capture thermographic data, wherein the thermographic data includes a plurality of frames of thermal infrared data;
a temperature map component coupled to the infrared detector and operable to create a mapping for each frame of the plurality of frames of thermal infrared data based on the thermographic data and to generate a temperature map using the mapping;
a processor coupled to the infrared detector and operable to process the thermographic data; and
at least one communications interface configured to transmit a plurality of super frames of thermal infrared data, each super frame comprising a frame of thermal infrared data and a corresponding the temperature map; and
a consumer mobile device communicatively coupled to the thermal imaging camera.
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Abstract
A thermal imaging camera includes an infrared detector operable to capture thermal video data, a processor coupled to the infrared detector and operable to process the thermal video data, and at least one communications interface operable to communicate the processed thermal video data to a consumer mobile device coupled thereto.
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1. A thermal imaging system comprising:
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a thermal imaging camera including; an infrared detector operable to capture thermographic data, wherein the thermographic data includes a plurality of frames of thermal infrared data; a temperature map component coupled to the infrared detector and operable to create a mapping for each frame of the plurality of frames of thermal infrared data based on the thermographic data and to generate a temperature map using the mapping; a processor coupled to the infrared detector and operable to process the thermographic data; and at least one communications interface configured to transmit a plurality of super frames of thermal infrared data, each super frame comprising a frame of thermal infrared data and a corresponding the temperature map; and a consumer mobile device communicatively coupled to the thermal imaging camera. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method of operating a thermal imaging camera as an element of an expandable architecture, the method comprising:
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capturing thermographic video data using an infrared detector of the thermal imaging camera, wherein the thermographic video data includes a plurality of frames of thermal infrared data; generating a mapping for each frame of the plurality of frames of the thermal infrared data; generating the a temperature map based on at least the mapping, wherein the temperature map is generated prior to a contrast enhancement process of the thermographic video data; processing the thermographic video data using a processor coupled to the infrared detector; and providing the temperature map and the processed thermographic video data concurrently as a plurality of super frames of thermal infrared data, each super frame comprising a frame of processed thermographic video data and a corresponding temperature map in a data channel as a data stream via an interface of the thermal imaging camera to a consumer mobile device. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A thermal imaging camera comprising:
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an infrared detector operable to capture thermographic video data, wherein the thermographic video data includes a plurality of frames of thermal infrared data; a processor coupled to the infrared detector and operable to process the thermographic video data; a temperature map component coupled to the infrared detector and operable to create a mapping for each frame of the plurality of frames based on the thermographic video data, and to generate a temperature map using the mapping; and at least one communications interface operable to transmit a plurality of super frames of thermal infrared data, each super frame comprising a frame of thermographic video data and a corresponding temperature map to a consumer mobile device coupled thereto. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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