Patents by Inventor FLIR Systems AB

FLIR Systems AB has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20130222604
    Abstract: A method for processing information from an IR detector of an IR camera, for an embodiment, comprises receiving a series of frames of data from said IR detector being operable to detect IR radiation from a scene, said frames of IR data representing detected IR radiation; performing a compression of said frames of IR data; wherein each data value together with calibration data uniquely represents measured IR radiation from the scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: FLIR SYSTEMS AB
    Inventor: FLIR SYSTEMS AB
  • Publication number: 20130169819
    Abstract: A method and systems of stabilizing a sequence of infrared (IR) images captured using an infrared (IR) imaging system, includes: generating edge information representations of selected captured IR images in said sequence; for each generated edge information representation, generating a second representation having a reduced amount of information compared to the edge information representation; determining displacements between captured IR images in relation to previous IR images in said sequence based on a comparison between said second representations; generating a stabilized sequence of IR images by shifting said captured IR images based on said determined displacements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: FLIR Systems AB
    Inventor: FLIR Systems AB
  • Publication number: 20130162836
    Abstract: An IR camera comprises: a thermal radiation capturing arrangement for capturing thermal radiation of an imaged view in response to input control unit(s) receiving user inputs from a user of the IR camera; a processing unit arranged to process the thermal radiation data in order for the thermal radiation data to be displayed by an IR camera display as thermal images; and a IR camera display arranged to display thermal images to a user of the IR camera. The IR camera is characterized in that the processing unit is further arranged to: determine at least one temperature reference value representing the temperature of the surrounding environment of the imaged view; and calculate at least one output power value indicative of an amount of energy dissipated in a part of the imaged view by using the temperature value of the thermal radiation data corresponding to said part of the imaged view and the at least one determined temperature reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: FLI R Systems AB
    Inventor: FLIR Systems AB
  • Publication number: 20130113939
    Abstract: Gas visualization in an image depicting a scene, for an example embodiment comprises capturing a first IR image depicting the scene at a first time instance and a second IR image depicting the scene at a second time instance; performing image processing operations on image data derived from said first IR image and from said second IR image, to generate a collection of data representing the location of gas in one of the first or second IR images; and generating a third image by adjusting pixel values in an image depicting the scene, dependent on pixel values of said collection of data. According to various embodiments, there is further provided further processing of the collection of data, and/or gas detection, before generation of the third image with adjusted pixel values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: FLIR Systems AB
    Inventor: FLIR Systems AB
  • Publication number: 20130088604
    Abstract: A method for displaying a thermal image in an infrared (IR) thermal camera, includes, for an embodiment, registering an outdoor temperature value, registering an indoor temperature value, calculating an isotherm level by using the registered temperature values and a temperature color alarm level, imaging a surface area to create an image of the temperature distribution in at least a part of the surface area, comparing the surface area temperature in at least one image point of the thermal image to the isotherm level, adjusting the color of the at least one image point in dependence of the relation between the surface area temperature in said at least one image point and the isotherm level and displaying the colored version of the thermal image. The method may allow a user to determine immediately, on-site, if a building is well insulated and may present an easily interpreted and understandable thermal image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: FLIR Systems AB
    Inventor: FLIR Systems AB