DURABLE COMPACT MULTISENSOR OBSERVATION DEVICES

摘要

Systems having throwable devices with thermal imaging capabilities may be provided for observing a potentially hazardous environment with possible human or environmental threats. A system may include a throwable observation device configured to be thrown into the potentially hostile environment and to capture at least thermal images of portions of the environment and a mobile handset configured to wirelessly receive the captured thermal images from the observation device. The observation device may include a durable housing structure having openings, an imaging module in each of the openings, a processor for processing the captured thermal images, and communications components for transmitting the captured thermal images to the mobile handset. The mobile handset may include a processor for further processing the received captured thermal images and a display for displaying processed thermal images.

主权项

1. A throwable imaging device, comprising:
a housing structure having a plurality of openings, wherein the housing structure is configured to withstand an impact resulting from being thrown; and an imaging module in each of the plurality of openings, wherein at least one of the imaging modules is configured to capture a thermal image.