US 12,356,055 B1
Camera and image transmission method
Yu-Huan Sung, Taipei (TW); and Shao-Yang Wu, Taipei (TW)
Assigned to CREATIVE SENSOR INC., Taipei (TW)
Filed by CREATIVE SENSOR INC., Taipei (TW)
Filed on Jan. 5, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/405,927.
Int. Cl. H04N 23/23 (2023.01); H04N 23/84 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/23 (2023.01) [H04N 23/84 (2023.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A camera, comprising:
an infrared thermal sensor, configured to generate an original sensing data;
a processor, connected to the infrared thermal sensor and configured to process the original sensing data to generate an invisible light image whose pixel data size is one byte and multiple temperature data whose unit data size is two bytes; and
an interface module, connected to the processor, comprising multiple transmission interfaces and configured to transmit a heterogeneous image whose pixel data size is three bytes through one of the multiple transmission interfaces, wherein a bit-value of the three bytes is a linear combination of a bit-value of the one byte of the invisible light image and a bit-value of the two bytes of the temperature data;
wherein the processor is configured to merge the invisible light image and the multiple temperature data according to an RGB color model channel to obtain the heterogeneous image of a visible light image format.