Luminar Technologies, Inc.
THERMAL IMAGER WITH ENHANCED PROCESSING

Abstract:

A thermal imager is described that includes enhanced processing. In one example the imager includes a thermal detector to generate a response to incident infrared light across a plurality of pixel locations and readout circuitry attached to the thermal detector configured to read the response of the detector at the plurality of pixel locations. An image processor attached to the readout circuitry is configured to generate a thermal image based on the detector response, to receive a query packet from an external processor with a position of a selected object in the thermal image and a classification of the selected object, and to generate a confirmation packet to the external processor to confirm the classification of the selected object in response thereto. An input/output interface couple to an external processor to receive the query packet from and send the confirmation packet to the external processor.