THERMAL IMAGER THAT ANALYZES TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT CALCULATION ACCURACY

摘要

A method and computer program product for determining whether an object of interest can have its temperature measurement calculated by a thermal imaging camera. To do this, the measurement IFOV is converted into linear units. The measurement IFOV may be displayed on the display of the camera as a graphical indicator (100, 100′, 100″, 100′″) or a value. An object of interest can be registered with the graphical indicator (100, 100′, 100″, 100′″) or its dimension compared with the measurement IFOV and then it is determined whether the temperature measurement of the object can be acceptably calculated. Alternately, data obtained by a matrix of pixel elements may be analyzed to determine whether an accurate temperature can be calculated.

主权项

1. A method of determining whether an object of interest can have its temperature measurement accurately calculated by a thermal imaging camera comprising:
a) displaying a measurement IFOV of the camera on a display of the camera as a graphical box; b) registering the graphical box with the object of interest on the display; and c) determining whether the thermal image of the object of interest fills the graphical box thereby indicating a reliable temperature of the object of interest can be made.