A building system, such as an elevator system, a physical access control system, or a combined elevator and physical access control system, has a controller system to control the building system to perform a building action, and a credential acquisition unit to acquire a credential presented by a user. The building system includes a camera system having a thermographic camera, which generates an infrared image of a face of the user, and an image processing system. The image processing system processes the infrared image to determine if the user's face shows a temperature value that is higher than a set threshold temperature value. The controller system enables or disables the building action as a function of the acquired user credential and the result signal.

The disclosure describes systems of navigating a hazardous environment. The system includes personal protective equipment (PPE) and computing device(s) configured to process sensor data from the PPE, generate pose data of an agent based on the processed sensor data, and track the pose data as the agent moves through the hazardous environment. The PPE may include an inertial measurement device to generate inertial data and a radar device to generate radar data for detecting a presence or arrangement of objects in a visually obscured environment. The PPE may include a thermal image capture device to generate thermal image data for detecting and classifying thermal features of the hazardous environment. The PPE may include one or more sensors to detect a fiducial marker in a visually obscured environment for identifying features in the visually obscured environment. In these ways, the systems may more safely navigate the agent through the hazardous environment.

An infrared information display apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a first black-body furnace; a second black-body furnace that has a temperature different from a temperature of the first black-body furnace; a drive control unit configured to perform drive switching control of reflecting a temperature corresponding to input temperature information of a far-infrared image by switching radiation light reflected by a reflecting mirror from radiation light of the first black-body furnace to radiation light of the second black-body furnace based on the temperature information; and a reflecting section that has a plurality of two-dimensionally disposed reflecting mirrors corresponding to each pixel of the far-infrared image and of which a direction is changed by the drive switching control.

A spray quenching system including a quench box configured to receive a part for quenching. The system may include mechanical arms disposed within the quench box and thermocouples disposed on the mechanical arms that may be moved to contact the part surface. The system may include non-contact temperature sensors within the quench box that measure the temperature part surface, and spray nozzles within the quench box that spray the part with a quenching fluid. The system may include a controller in electronic communication with the mechanical arms, the spray nozzles, the thermocouples, and the non-contact temperature sensors, that is configured to initiate a quenching process, receive temperature data, analyze the temperature data to determine a temperature difference value, determine that the temperature difference value exceeds a threshold temperature difference value, and adjust the quenching process if the temperature difference value exceeds the threshold temperature difference value.

Described herein are systems and methods for determining dryness of produce using image data. A method can include receiving, by a computing system and from an imaging device, image data of a batch of produce, performing, by the computing system, object detection to identify each produce in a frame of the image data, extracting, by the computing system, temperature values in pixels of the identified produce in the frame, and determining, by the computing system, distribution characteristics of the extracted temperature values. The method can also include predicting, by the computing system, a dryness metric for the batch of produce based on applying a trained model to the determined distribution characteristics. The model can be trained using temperature distributions of other produce, the temperature distributions being annotated based on previous mappings of skewness of the temperature distributions to dryness.

A method and an apparatus for measuring temperature, and a computer-readable storage medium includes detecting a target position of an object in an input image; determining key points of the target position and weight information of each key point based on a detection result of the target position, in which the weight information is configured to indicate a probability of each key point being covered; acquiring temperature information of each key point; and determining a temperature of the target position at least based on the temperature information and the weight information of each key point.

A long wavelength infrared sensor includes a first magnetoresistive unit; a second magnetoresistive unit; and a light absorption layer that absorbs light and emits heat, wherein the first magnetoresistive unit includes a first magnetoresistive element and a second magnetoresistive element electrically connected to each other, the second magnetoresistive unit includes a third magnetoresistive element and a fourth magnetoresistive element electrically connected to each other, the first and third magnetoresistive elements each have an antiparallel state of magnetization direction, the second and fourth magnetoresistive elements each have a parallel state of magnetization direction, and the first magnetoresistive element is electrically connected to the third magnetoresistive element by way of the second magnetoresistive element.

According to an example, a technique for image processing is provided, the technique comprising: obtaining a first image and a second image that at least partially illustrate the same real-world scene, wherein the first image comprises a visible light image and the second image comprises a thermal image; identifying one or more spatial portions of the second image that represent a predefined temperature range; identifying one or more spatial portions of the first image that illustrate the same portions of the real-world scene as illustrated in the identified one or more spatial portions of the second image; and deriving, based on the first image, a composite image wherein the identified one or more spatial portions of the first image are emphasized.

An imaging device includes a plurality of electronic components, a phase change material, and a heat transfer structure. The plurality of electronic components is configured to collect data and have a predetermined temperature parameter. The plurality of electronic components is disposed within the phase change material. The phase change material has a first material phase and a second material phase. The phase change material has a first material phase and a second material phase. The phase change material is configured to absorb heat through changing from the first material phase to the second material phase. The heat transfer structure is disposed within the phase change material. The heat transfer structure is configured to conduct heat within the phase change material. The phase change material and the heat transfer structure are further configured to regulate a temperature of the electronic components below the predetermined temperature parameter.

A system for monitoring a switchgear includes: an infrared camera for acquiring at least one infrared image of the switchgear; a processing unit for determining a pixel in the at least one infrared image associated with a hottest temperature, determining e pixels in the at least one infrared image associated with a temperature that is within a threshold temperature of the hottest temperature, and determining that a hot spot exists in the switchgear as a determination, the determination being a utilization of the determined pixels in the at least one infrared image; and an output unit for outputting an indication of a fault in the switchgear based on the determined hot spot.