Patents by Inventor Mats Ahlstrom

Mats Ahlstrom 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).

  • Patent number: 10732123
    Abstract: Various techniques are disclosed to provide a cloud-based, networked infrared (IR) inspection routing system that provides a user interface for remotely defining an inspection routing workflow for an inspection of a site, and provides an IR camera that presents customized and context-aware instructions to an on-site inspector to perform the inspection. The IR camera may be further configured to analyze IR images that are captured during the inspection and provides additional guidance in response to the analysis of the captured IR images according to the defined inspection routing workflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: FLIR SYSTEMS AB
    Inventors: Mats Ahlstrom, Kent Wickenberg, Tintin Razavian
  • Publication number: 20180348143
    Abstract: Various techniques are disclosed to provide a cloud-based, networked infrared (IR) inspection routing system that provides a user interface for remotely defining an inspection routing workflow for an inspection of a site, and provides an IR camera that presents customized and context-aware instructions to an on-site inspector to perform the inspection. The IR camera may be further configured to analyze IR images that are captured during the inspection and provides additional guidance in response to the analysis of the captured IR images according to the defined inspection routing workflow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Mats Ahlstrom, Kent Wickenberg, Tintin Razavian
  • Patent number: 10044946
    Abstract: There is provided for an embodiment a method for enabling improved analysis and interpretation of associated image data in an infrared (IR) image and a visible light (VL) image depicting a real world scene, captured using a thermography arrangement comprising an IR imaging system and a VL imaging system, the method comprising: capturing an IR image depicting the scene, having a first field of view (FOV); capturing a VL image depicting the scene, having a second FOV; processing at least one of the VL image and the IR image such that the FOV represented in the VL image substantially corresponds to the FOV represented in the IR image; associating the resulting IR and VL images to provide associated images; and enabling a user to access the associated images for display, wherein analysis and interpretation of the associated images, having image pair content, is intuitive as the resulting VL image and the resulting IR image after associating represent the same FOV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: FLIR SYSTEMS AB
    Inventors: Katrin Strandemar, Björn Roth, Mats Ahlström
  • Patent number: 9191583
    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: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: FLIR Systems AB
    Inventors: Torbjörn Hamrelius, Mats Ahlström
  • Publication number: 20150109454
    Abstract: There is provided for an embodiment a method for enabling improved analysis and interpretation of associated image data in an infrared (IR) image and a visible light (VL) image depicting a real world scene, captured using a thermography arrangement comprising an IR imaging system and a VL imaging system, the method comprising: capturing an IR image depicting the scene, having a first field of view (FOV); capturing a VL image depicting the scene, having a second FOV; processing at least one of the VL image and the IR image such that the FOV represented in the VL image substantially corresponds to the FOV represented in the IR image; associating the resulting IR and VL images to provide associated images; and enabling a user to access the associated images for display, wherein analysis and interpretation of the associated images, having image pair content, is intuitive as the resulting VL image and the resulting IR image after associating represent the same FOV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Katrin Strandemar, Björn Roth, Mats Ahlström
  • Patent number: 8289372
    Abstract: The invention is achieved by using a method for displaying a thermal image in an infrared (IR) thermal camera, comprising the steps of 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 thermal image. The invention allows you to determine immediately, on-site, if a building is well insulated or not. It presents an easily interpreted and understandable thermal image which instantly draws a users attention to an identified critical area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Flir Systems AB
    Inventors: Torbjörn Hamrelius, Mats Ahlström
  • Publication number: 20080265162
    Abstract: The invention is achieved by using a method for displaying a thermal image in an infrared (IR) thermal camera, comprising the steps of 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 thermal image. The invention allows you to determine immediately, on-site, if a building is well insulated or not. It presents an easily interpreted and understandable thermal image which instantly draws a users attention to an identified critical area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: FLIR Systems AB
    Inventors: Torbjorn Hamrelius, Mats Ahlstrom