Night Vision FLIR Personal Thermal Imager for I-Phone 5

FLIR also has more expensive prototype iPhone thermal cases which make use of the larger (more expensive) Quark camera core, a tiny 0.75” cube with great resolution and low power requirements.

The FLIR Quark core is available in resolutions of 320 x 240 and 640 x 480, with a sensitivity of 0.05 ºC or 50 mK. The Quark can be configured with a wide variety of lenses, including 6.3mm, 9mm, 13mm, 14mm, 17mm, 19mm, 25mm, and a 35mm telephoto lens. Frame rates vary from a full 60 Hz down to an export ready 7.5 Hz.

The more expensive prototype iPhone infrared camera attachment has been exhibited with both a 9mm and a 13mm lens.

With the 9mm lens and 640 x 480 Quark core resolution, the prototype is able to detect a person at over 800 ft (250m).

But with the available 35mm lens, the sled has the potential to see a person at over 3000 ft (940m), or a warm vehicle at over a mile and a half away. The FLIR iPhone sled concept operates on a lower frame rate of 9 Hz to save power.
 
LOL, I would NOT be surprised if you can detect mammals out to 100 yards with this device and would be excellent for searching for wounded animals at night who got as far as their last breath.

Also, this new Lepton core is not like any other core, and the correlation between core pixel size and germanium lens size may or may not be as directly related as they are in the Tau cores....who knows, but we will soon find out as I will be at SHOT next week and FLIR GS booth is right across the isle from where I am!

So what's the official words on detection range for people out in the open field?
 
New FLIR ONE thermal images and videos:


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]http://www.flir.com/flirone/gallery/
 
So when I drop my Android phone and it breaks, and the phone model is no longer available (with the frantic pace of new smartphone development, this is bound to happen), is the Thermal Imager adaptable to another model of phone with a simple frame change, or does it become an expensive paperweight?

I know, I'm such a killjoy, drives my wife crazy.
I also created a great run on sentence, eh?
 
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Wow, now that is impressive coming from a phone. You sir by far have some of the best looking thermal images with your home built cameras that I've seen anywhere. I bet the price if you sold them would be equally impressive.

Slapchop, thank you for your good words. The state of the LWIR technology is accelerating rapidly on reduced size and modularity, both of which are key attributes for lower price and portability in multi-sensor IR imaging. There's a dual-band imager that I have worked out on a Samsung (with 3D presentation) that would knock your socks off, but because we are developing it for a government project, I cannot show it publicly.

The imaging on the iPhone and iPad shown is LWIR only, but showcases how a thermal core actually collects much more data than your eyes can discriminate - and with the right image processing technology, it is possible to present levels of detail that extend well into what's useful for identification, which has typically been a weakness of thermal imaging compared to i^2 night vision. But, as you can see, the gap is rapidly closing!

IR-V
 
Slapchop, thank you for your good words. The state of the LWIR technology is accelerating rapidly on reduced size and modularity, both of which are key attributes for lower price and portability in multi-sensor IR imaging. There's a dual-band imager that I have worked out on a Samsung (with 3D presentation) that would knock your socks off, but because we are developing it for a government project, I cannot show it publicly.

The imaging on the iPhone and iPad shown is LWIR only, but showcases how a thermal core actually collects much more data than your eyes can discriminate - and with the right image processing technology, it is possible to present levels of detail that extend well into what's useful for identification, which has typically been a weakness of thermal imaging compared to i^2 night vision. But, as you can see, the gap is rapidly closing!

IR-V

Indeed IR-V, great to see this.

Vic