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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20050092923 | Night vision apparatus A night vision apparatus comprises housing arrangement by which a user can place an eyepiece adjacent one eye, a solid state imager sensitive to infrared radiation, an infrared radiation generation means arranged to generate infrared radiation into the field of view of ... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050087687 | Ultra sensitive silicon sensor millimeter wave passive imager Electro-thermal feedback is utilized for zeroing the thermal conductance between a bolometer type detector element of a pixel in a thermal radiation sensor assembly and the environments through its mechanical support structure and electrical interconnects, thereby limit... | 04/28/2005 |
| 20050072923 | Focal plane processor for IR detection A focal plane array detector in a sensor for IR imaging. Pixel readout and analog to digital conversion is performed in an integrated circuit which includes the imaging array. The charge of each pixel is accumulated in a capacitor and a digital to analog charge converte... | 04/07/2005 |
| 20050040333 | Infrared night vision system, in colour The invention concerns a night vision method and system for a road scene comprising at least one projection device emitting an infrared light towards the road scene and a first sensor for capturing a first image of the road scene, this sensor being a colour sensor. ... | 02/24/2005 |
| 20050029454 | Solid-state infrared imager A solid-state infrared imager comprises a matrix array of infrared sensing pixels which are formed as an imaging area on a semiconductor substrate and each of which contains a pn-junction thermoelectric converter element to sense incident infrared radiation, row selecti... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050029453 | Real-time radiation sensor calibration One embodiment of the invention is directed to methods and apparatus for determining a variation of a calibration parameter of a pixel of the thermal sensor during operation of the imaging apparatus, after an initial calibration procedure. Another embodiment of the inve... | 02/10/2005 |
