![]() Lepton represents our latest, most dramatic step toward our vision of becoming ‘the world’s sixth sense’™,” said Andy Teich, President and CEO of FLIR. “FLIR is committed to the development of lower cost, user friendly thermal sensing technologies to enhance vision and measurement beyond light. The new Lepton core facilitates accurate temperature measurements and is fully compatible with FLIR’s patented Multi-Spectral Dynamic Imaging technology, or MSX®, which significantly enhances the thermal image fidelity with data from a visible-light sensor. These and other innovations are reflected in more than 100 new patent filings worldwide related to Lepton technologies, processes, and applications. Lepton utilizes multiple proprietary technologies, including wafer level detector packaging, wafer level micro-optics, and a custom integrated circuit that supports all camera functions on a single integrated low power chip. OEMs around the world can benefit from the fully-exportable Lepton core, which generates high-quality, fully-processed thermal images through common standard interfaces. Lepton has also been designed for easy integration into third party products, such as smartphones, tablets, diagnostic tools, automobiles, toys, building controls, process equipment, security systems, machine vision systems, and advanced gaming devices. The first commercial use of Lepton is in the new FLIR ONE™ thermal imaging smartphone accessory introduced today at CES 2014. FLIR will utilize Lepton in new and existing products across many vertical markets. Similar in size, weight, and power consumption to a conventional CMOS cell phone camera module, Lepton is the world’s smallest microbolometer-based thermal imaging camera core currently available. Lepton utilizes innovative technology, high volume manufacturing techniques, and commercial scale to deliver a price point that is an order of magnitude below current thermal camera cores. today announced the release of the new FLIR® Lepton™ thermal imaging camera core. It users the linux remoteproc facility and requires only a few percent of main CPU time to keep a full 9 fps display running.FLIR’s new Lepton™ thermal imaging camera coreįLIR Systems, Inc. The video pipeline running on the PRUs is the most interesting contribution. My code and designs can be found on github. I documented my experience on hackaday.io. I was successful and built my own camera that remains a work in progress. That interested me in using the PRUs inside a Beaglebone Black and later a Pocketbeagle to create a video pipeline to offload the real-time chore from the main CPU. I played with the Raspberry Pi and found it difficult for a user-space process to reliably keep synced to the camera. I started with a Teensy 3.2 based camera and was able to get an about 4 frames per second using a single SPI bus for both the camera and display. Over the course of a couple of years I made several different cameras as I learned how to reliability get data from the module. ![]() After borrowing a friend's unit repeatedly, I decided to design my own, aided by the availability of the FLiR Lepton 3.5 from. ![]() I occasionally have use for one to monitor heat generation in something I've designed, and they are useful for myriad of other applications as well. ![]() Like a lot of people I always wanted a thermal imaging camera.
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