ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,506, issued on May 6, was assigned to TERVIZIO 3D LTD. (Givatayim, Israel).
"Imaging apparatus and method" was invented by Amit Frank (Givatayim, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus with a 3D thermal imager, a signal processor, a laser, an optical scanner, a controller, and a bimodal array which operates a plurality of slow response thermal detectors for generating a 2D thermal image as input to the signal processor. The controller operates the bimodal array, the laser, the optical scanner, and the thermal imager in predetermined sequence to derive range data for communication to the signal processor which inte...