US 12,104,962 B2
Design, test, and operation of a small thermal imaging core
William J. Parrish, Santa Barbara, CA (US); Andreas Engberg, Santa Barbara, CA (US); Jason Wolfe, Santa Barbara, CA (US); Derek Moran, Santa Barbara, CA (US); Blake Henry, Santa Barbara, CA (US); Ross Williams, Santa Barbara, CA (US); and Russ Mead, Santa Barbara, CA (US)
Assigned to Seek Thermal, Inc., Goleta, CA (US)
Filed by Seek Thermal, Inc., Goleta, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/473,668.
Application 17/661,446 is a division of application No. 16/623,751, granted, now 11,353,365, issued on Jun. 7, 2022, previously published as PCT/US2018/038606, filed on Jun. 20, 2018.
Application 18/473,668 is a continuation of application No. 17/661,446, filed on Apr. 29, 2022, granted, now 11,774,293.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/545,922, filed on Aug. 15, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/523,113, filed on Jun. 21, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2024/0240988 A1, Jul. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. G01J 5/0806 (2022.01); G01J 5/02 (2022.01); G01J 5/20 (2006.01); H04N 23/51 (2023.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); G01J 5/00 (2022.01)
CPC G01J 5/0205 (2013.01) [G01J 5/0215 (2013.01); G01J 5/0806 (2013.01); G01J 5/20 (2013.01); H04N 23/51 (2023.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); G01J 2005/0077 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of displaying fused data from a thermal imager and a visible imager imaging at least partially the same scene, the method comprising:
extracting edge information from the visible image;
selecting a color table for display of the thermal image; and
blending the visible edge data with thermal image data for corresponding scene pixels according to a blending coefficient,
wherein the blending coefficient is automatically chosen based on the thermal color table selected.