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Low Power IR Module Design for Small Arms Using Un-cooled Type Detector  

Sung, Gi-Yeul (ADD)
Kwak, Dong-Min (ADD)
Kwak, Ki-Ho (ADD)
Kim, Do-Jong (ADD)
Lyou, Joon (CNU)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology / v.10, no.4, 2007 , pp. 138-144 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper introduces the design techniques of an IR module using the 2-D array un-cooled type infrared detector which is applied to the individual combat weapon. Considering the size and weight of the hand carried weapon system, we used a very small-sized detector and applied an adaptive temperature control algorithm so that the operation consumed with low power can be possible. We applied the AR(Auto Regressive) filter to improve the signal-to-noise ratio in a thermal image processing step. We also applied the plateau equalization and boundary enhancement techniques to improve the visibility for human visual system.
Keywords
Infrared; Uncooled Detector; Thermo-Electric Cooler Control; Non-Uniformity Correction; Plateau Equalization;
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