| US 7,537,381 B2 | ||
| Measurement system and method | ||
| Milton Bernard Hollander, Stamford, Conn. (US); and Shahin Baghai, Trumbull, Conn. (US) | ||
| Assigned to White Box, Inc., Stamford, Conn. (US) | ||
| Filed on Oct. 27, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/259,830. | ||
| Application 11/259830 is a continuation in part of application No. 11/000868, filed on Dec. 01, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0050766 A1, Mar. 09, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G01K 11/00 (2006.01); G01J 5/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 374—142 [374/121; 374/131] | 1 Claim |

| 1. Hand-held and hand-directed non-contact temperature measurement system for an energy zone on a remote surface of an object
comprising:
(a) radiometer detector for measurement of invisible infrared radiation, having an optical sub-system including an integral
processor means for calculating and for adjustably focusing an invisible infrared image of said energy zone;
(b) laser directed non-contact sighting means mounted on and coupled to said radiometer to produce a visible aiming display
pattern on said surface which identifies to the system user the position, outline and extent of said energy zone for hand-direction
of said system;
(c) distance measurement range-finding sub-system means mounted with and coupled to said optical sub-system and integral processor
of said radiometer, which optical sub-system conforms the variable focus optical system of the radiometer to focus upon and
to cause the detector field of view to embrace the visible display pattern indicating the measurement area of the energy zone
by accessing optical chart data stored in the processor memory of the radiometer and outputting a signal indicating a measured
distance between said zone and said detector;
(d) measurement display means, both on an LCD mounted and coupled with the radiometer, and also separately providing a visible
display on the measurement surface, which display means indicates and identifies both the distance between the radiometer
and the image of the energy zone on the measurement surface and also the value of the measured temperature; said range-finding
sub-system being coupled to said optical sub-system which displays an image determined by said processor from received measured
distance signal; including an analog circuit to receive output of the radiometer detector and of the range finder and which
includes a processor and digital measurement display to capture a visible energy zone image and indicates the measured temperature,
the measured distance and the extent of said energy zone in said optical sub-system visible display.
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