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http://dx.doi.org/10.14372/IEMEK.2017.12.2.97

Small Camera Module for TEC-less Uncooled Thermal Image  

Kim, Jong-Ho (Chonbuk National University, R&D of Eosystem)
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IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications / v.12, no.2, 2017 , pp. 97-103 More about this Journal
Abstract
Thermal imaging is mainly used in military equipment required for night observation. In particular, technologies of uncooled thermal imaging detectors are being developed as applied to low-cost night observation system. Many system integrators require different specifications of the uncooled thermal imaging camera but their development time is short. In this approach, EOSYSTEM has developed a small size, TEC-less uncooled thermal imaging camera module with $32{\times}32mm$ size and low power consumption. Both domestic detector and import detector are applied to the EOSYSTEM's thermal imaging camera module. The camera module contains efficient infrared image processing algorithms including : Temperature compensation non-uniformity correction, Bad/Dead pixel replacement, Column noise removal, Contrast/Edge enhancement algorithms providing stable and low residual non-uniformity infrared image.
Keywords
TEC-less; 17um pitch; Uncooled thermal image;
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