Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Gain calibration for an imaging system
- Patent Title (中): 为成像系统增益校准
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Application No.: US14829490Application Date: 2015-08-18
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Publication No.: US09595934B2Publication Date: 2017-03-14
- Inventor: Jason Wolfe , William J. Parrish , Ross Williams
- Applicant: Seek Thermal, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Barbara
- Assignee: Seek Thermal, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Seek Thermal, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Barbara
- Agency: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
- Main IPC: G01J5/22
- IPC: G01J5/22 ; H03G3/30 ; H04N5/365 ; H04N5/33 ; G01J1/18 ; G01J5/00 ; G01J1/44

Abstract:
An imaging system includes an array of photodetectors and electronic circuitry associated with the photodetectors to read intensity values from the photodetectors. The electronic circuitry can include an integrator with an integrator capacitor having a nominal capacitance, wherein a gain of the electronic circuitry associated with a photodetector can depend at least in part on the actual capacitance of the integrator capacitor, the actual capacitance differing from the nominal capacitance. The imaging system can be configured to determine a gain factor that depends at least in part on the actual capacitance and/or a signal voltage input to the integrator. The imaging system can be configured to apply the gain factor based at least in part on the actual capacitance of the integrator capacitor calculated. The imaging system can be a thermal imaging system and may include an infrared camera core.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160056785A1 GAIN CALIBRATION FOR AN IMAGING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2016-02-25
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