US Patent Issued to IDEMIA PUBLIC SECURITY FRANCE on Jan. 13 for "System for acquiring a colour image and an infrared image of a scene" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,491, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to IDEMIA PUBLIC SECURITY FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).

"System for acquiring a colour image and an infrared image of a scene" was invented by Jean Beaudet (Courbevoie, France), Baptiste Chu (Courbevoie, France), Jean-Francois Siwek (Courbevoie, France) and Sylvain Maillard (Courbevoie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acquiring system including an image-acquiring device, sensitive to visible and infrared wavelengths, including a sensor; an objective configured to focus light input into the acquiring device onto the sensor, a dual-band bandpass filter being placed in front of the sensor; a ...