VISIBLE AUDIOVISUAL ANNOTATION OF INFRARED IMAGES USING A SEPARATE WIRELESS MOBILE DEVICE

摘要

A smart phone user captures video and still images of a motor and makes a sound recording of his observations. The images and recordings are tagged with a date/time stamp, a serial number, bar code, matrix code, RFID code, or geolocation and sent wirelessly to an infrared camera. The infrared camera has a collocation application that reads the tag and creates a folder which holds the infrared image and the auxiliary information from the smartphone related to an asset. The collocation program also adds icons to the infrared image. By operating the user interface (not shown) of the infrared camera, the user may select an icon to view the images and listen to the sound recording.

主权项

1. A method for annotating an infrared image comprising:
storing in a folder an infrared image of an asset having one or more tags in a folder; collocating in said folder auxiliary information having at least one tag corresponding to the tag of the asset; annotating the thermal image with one or more icons representative of types of auxiliary information stored in the folder; and displaying the thermal image of the device with one or more icons representative of the auxiliary information in the folder.