Temperature measuring device adopting a plurality of infrared sensors and its method

Abstract

The invention discloses a temperature measuring device adopting a plurality of infrared sensors and its method. The temperature measuring device consists of a housing, a main control circuit board unit set in the housing, a power supply unit and an infrared sensor set at the head of the housing, wherein the main control circuit board unit is a main control circuit board, and a main control Microcontroller Unit, a signal acquisition circuit, a display screen, a power supply and a control key integrated in the main control circuit board. The method is to calculate and output the accurate target temperature through infrared sensors combined with Microcontroller Unit, at the same time, it can effectively identify such as abnormality of measurement area, abnormality of user measurement method and so as to improve the effectiveness of measurement results.

Claims

1. A temperature measuring device having a plurality of infrared sensors, comprising: a housing; a main control circuit board unit set in the housing; and the plurality of infrared sensors set at a head of the housing, wherein one part of the plurality of infrared sensors and the other part of the plurality of infrared sensors are obliquely arranged, and the front ends of the one part and the other part form an angle; wherein the main control circuit board unit comprises a main control circuit board, and a main control Microcontroller Unit, a signal acquisition circuit, a display screen, a power supply and a control key integrated on the main control circuit board, wherein the plurality of infrared sensors arranged at the head of the housing include at least two infrared sensors, at least two infrared sensors are connected to the signal acquisition circuit, and the main control Microcontroller Unit is configured to identify an abnormality of temperature measurement area, an abnormality of temperature measurement distance and to output an accurate target temperature.

2. The temperature measuring device having a plurality of infrared sensors as defined in claim 1, wherein front ends of the plurality of infrared sensors are respectively provided with different types of filters to respectively acquire infrared signals in different wave bands.

3. A temperature measuring method using a temperature measuring device having a plurality of infrared sensors wherein the temperature measuring device comprises a main control circuit board, and a main control Microcontroller Unit, a signal acquisition circuit, a display screen, a power supply and a control key integrated on the main control circuit board, wherein one part of the plurality of infrared sensors and the other part of the plurality of infrared sensors are obliquely arranged, and the front ends of the one part and the other part form an included angle, the method comprising: controlling the infrared sensors to start to work through the signal acquisition circuit; acquiring temperatures T1, T2 . . . Tn; determining a target temperature based on the temperatures T1, T2 . . . Tn.

4. The temperature measuring method according to claim 3, wherein the acquiring comprises: acquiring temperatures T1, T2 . . . Tn at a plurality of areas from the plurality of infrared sensors, wherein the plurality of areas comprises a region where blood vessels are located; and Wherein the determining comprises: determining a target temperature to be a maximum value of the temperatures T1, T2 . . . Tn:
Target temperature: T.sub.tag=MAX(T1:T2: . . . :Tn).

5. The temperature measuring method according to claim 3, wherein the plurality of infrared sensors are equipped with different filters respectively, the determining comprises: determining a target temperature based on weight values K1, K2 . . . Kn corresponding to the different types of filters and the temperature values T1, T2. . . Tn:
Target temperature T.sub.tag=K1*T1+K2*T2+ . . . +Kn*Tn.

6. The temperature measuring method according to claim 3, further comprising: performing a standard deviation calculation through the main control Microcontroller Unit: $\Delta T=\sqrt{\frac{{\left(T2-T1\right)}^2+{\left(T3-T1\right)}^2+\mathrm{.Math.}+{\left(\mathrm{Tn}-T1\right)}^2}{n-1}},$ the main control Microcontroller Unit sets a threshold value T.sub.threshold value, when ΔT>T.sub.threshold value, it can effectively judge that the user's target area is abnormal or the user's measurement position is wrong.

7. The temperature measuring method according to claim 3, wherein the one part of the plurality of infrared sensor uses a small angle of 30 degrees for temperature measurement and the other part uses a large angle of 60 degrees for distance measurement, the method further comprising: performing following calculation:
ΔT=MAX(|T2−T1|:|T3−T1|: . . . :|Tn−T1|) Max means to take a large value, the main control Microcontroller Unit sets a threshold value T.sub.threshold value, when ΔT>T.sub.threshold value, it can be judged that the measurement distance is too far, and the temperature measuring device sends out an error alarm prompt.

8. The temperature measuring method according to claim 3, wherein the target temperature is determined to be an average of the temperatures T1, T2 . . . Tn by the main control Microcontroller Unit: T.sub.target=(T1+T2+ . . . Tn)/n.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment in which two infrared sensors are provided.

(2) FIG. 2 is a working principle block diagram of the utility model.

(3) FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram for the effect of temperature measurement acquisition area of a traditional single infrared sensor.

(4) FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram for parameters of acquisition area of a single infrared sensor.

(5) FIG. 5 is the effect diagram of temperature measurement acquisition area by using two infrared sensors of the utility models.

(6) FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram for the parameters of temperature measurement acquisition area of two infrared sensors.

(7) FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram for the area parameters of temperature measurement acquisition area of two infrared sensors.

(8) FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram for effect of abnormity in temperature measuring area.

(9) FIG. 9 is the effect diagram of temperature measurement in two areas acquired by two infrared sensors.

(10) FIG. 10 is the effect diagram of temperature measurement and interval using two infrared sensors that form an included angle.

(11) FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram for parameters of temperature measurement and interval using two infrared sensors that form an included angle.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

(12) The invention will be further described with reference to the attached diagrams and specific embodiments. The attached diagrams are examples of setting up two infrared sensors to measure the forehead position of a human body, but the following embodiments are not intended to limit the invention to designing only two infrared sensors and measuring positions.

(13) According to attached FIGS. 1-2, a temperature measuring device adopting a plurality of infrared sensors, which consists of a housing, a main control circuit board unit set in the housing, a power supply unit and an infrared sensor set at the head of the housing, wherein the main control circuit board unit is a main control circuit board, and a main control Microcontroller Unit, a signal acquisition circuit, a display screen, a power supply and a control key integrated in the main control circuit board, characterized in that the infrared sensors arranged at the head of the housing include at least two infrared sensors, which are respectively an infrared sensor A and an infrared sensor B as exemplified in FIG. 1, and both the infrared sensors A and B are connected to a signal acquisition circuit.

(14) The infrared sensors mentioned are arranged side by side in parallel with the head of the housing; or infrared sensors A and B are obliquely arranged, and the front ends of infrared sensors A and B form an included angle.

(15) According to attached FIG. 3, the traditional temperature measuring device using a single infrared sensor usually has an acquisition angle of about 30 degrees and a measurement distance of about 3 cm. FIG. 4 shows that the acquisition area is a circular area with a diameter of about 1.6 cm. FIG. 5 is the schematic diagram of temperature measurement by using two infrared sensors, it can be concluded that the acquisition temperature measurement area is obviously larger than that of a single infrared sensor. Attached FIGS. 6-7 show that the two sensors adopt the same angle and measurement distance, and the acquisition area is expanded to about 1.8 times of that of a single infrared sensor, and the acquisition area is more in line with the forehead shape.

(16) According to the target temperature measurement operation disclosed by the invention, the target temperature includes the following two operations:
Target temperature: T.sub.target(T1+T2)/2

(17) There are some differences in the temperature distribution of forehead of human body. Through this calculation, the difference in temperature distribution can be eliminated and the accuracy of measurement can be improved
Target temperature: T.sub.tag=MAX(T1:T2)

(18) The blood vessel temperature is the closest to temperature of the human body and the epidermis temperature of blood vessel accessories is generally higher than other epidermis temperatures. However, due to the distribution of blood vessels in human head, there will be differences in the positions of blood vessels of different people. When a single sensor is used, it is not possible to judge whether blood vessels are contained, but if a plurality of sensors are used, it is possible to effectively determine which region contains blood vessels, take out the measured maximum value, select the region contains blood vessel positions and set it as the temperature value of human body, thus obtaining a more accurate measurement result.

(19) The measurement method disclosed in the technical scheme can accurately judge the abnormality of the measurement target position, and when various abnormal conditions such as redness, inflammation, foreign matters (such as water, sweat, cosmetics, etc.) appear on human skin, the skin problem in the abnormal area is obviously higher or lower than the skin temperature in normal area. Or there may be other barriers, as shown in FIG. 8, there may be abnormity of hair barriers at the measurement position. According to attached FIG. 9, the two infrared sensors are adopted, and acquisition areas can be divided into acquisition area A and acquisition area B, and the acquired temperatures are T1 and T2 respectively, by calculating the standard deviation of sampling values of the infrared sensors.
ΔT=√{square root over ((T2−T1).sup.2)}

(20) When the calculated standard deviation of temperature ΔT>T.sub.threshold value, it can be judged that there is an abnormality in the target area, and the temperature measuring device sends out an error alarm prompt.

(21) The front ends of the infrared sensor A and the infrared sensor B are respectively provided with different types of filters. The lower receiving limit of infrared sensor A is infrared radiation wavelength of 5-10 um, while the upper receiving limit of infrared sensor B is infrared radiation wavelength of 10-15 um.

(22) The two sensors acquire the same area, but with different filters, the two sensors receive signals in different wave bands and then perform mutual compensation operation to improve the accuracy of measurement. The wavelength of human infrared radiation is about 10 um. According to human infrared distribution characteristics, different weights K1 and K2 are given, and then the final target temperature is calculated through the following formula.
Target temperature T.sub.tag=K1*T1+K2*T2

(23) According to attached FIG. 10, attached FIG. 11 is the interval measurement using two infrared sensors. Infrared sensors A and B are obliquely arranged, and the front ends of infrared sensors A and B form an included angle.

(24) The effective temperature measurement area on the forehead of a normal person is a circle with a diameter of about 4 cm, and measurement beyond this range will lead to inaccurate temperature measurement. According to attached FIG. 10 and FIG. 11, the infrared sensor A and infrared sensor B are designed with different acquisition angles, wherein the optical path of infrared sensor A is designed to have a small angle of about 30 degrees, mainly used for temperature measurement, and the acquisition optical angle of another infrared sensor B is designed to have a large angle of about 60 degrees, mainly used for distance. As can be seen from FIG. 11, when the measuring distance is about 3 cm, the largest acquisition area of the two is a circle with a diameter of about 3.46 cm, which is within the acceptable range; However, when the measuring distance is about 6 cm, the acquisition range of the infrared sensor for temperature measurement is a circle with a diameter of about 3.22 cm and can measure the temperature normally, but the acquisition diameter of the infrared sensor for distance becomes 6.93 cm and can not measure the temperature correctly, ΔT=MAX (|T2−T1|), when ΔT>T.sub.threshold, we judge that the measuring distance is too far, then the temperature measuring device sends out an error alarm prompt, thus adjusting the measuring distance.

(25) The above embodiments of the invention are merely examples for clearly illustrating the invention and are not intended to limit the embodiments of the invention. However, obvious changes or variations which are derived from the essential spirit of the invention still belong to the protection scope of the invention.