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RE: Liteye Thermal Imaging

Historically, thermal imagin equipment is rather expensive.. to do
anything like the KnightEye or "as seen in Predator"..

As it is real thermal imaging, real IR, not nearIR as most night vision
equipment is, or as many b/w cameras can see..

Just like real night vision equipment uses some kind of tube to look
through with some gas.. I assume that these use something similiar... as
they are all rather large in size.. denoting something other than just
some CCDs... of course in the KnightEye, one would assume there is a CCD
and then connected to their display..

for example:
 http://www.x20.org/thermal/ir510.htm has a thermal imager... only $7900
or so.. add a couple grand of microdisplay and you get the KnightEye...

just my thoughts,
Bryan Hurley

On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Adrian David Cheok wrote:

> Well everyone, I emailed them about a possible purchase for gesture
> recognition.
>
> Looks like the components are not so "dirt cheap" :) I guess there must be
> some non-standard technology here.......
>
> Still it would be pretty good putting this on a wearable... (but the size
> looks still to big I think)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth A. Geyer, VP Development [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 12:52 AM
> To: 
> Subject: RE: questions
>
>
> That would be the Knight-Eye
> prices are
>
> 1 to 5 units..............................$9995.00 US Dollars
> 6 to 23 units............................$9500.00 US Dollars
>
> There are no customs restrictions on shipping this
> Item.
> Thank you
> KG
>
>
> At 10:37 AM 7/3/2001, you wrote:
> >OK thanks, which model is the smallest and has the video output - can you
> >give me the pricing also?
> >Thanks
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Kenneth A. Geyer, VP Development [mailto:]
> >Sent: Wednesday, 4 July 2001 12:38 AM
> >To: 
> >Subject: Re: questions
> >
> >
> >The thermal imager has a video out so you could send
> >the image to a computer if the computer accepts video.
> >I know there are items on the market that
> >you can add to any computer to allow it to accept
> >video signals.
> >Thanks
> >KG
> >
> >
> >At 10:31 AM 7/3/2001, you wrote:
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >I am interested in using the thermal imager for hand gesture recognition.
> >Is
> > >there any way we can use the camera and input the video into a computer
> for
> > >processing?
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >Adrian Cheok
> > >
> > >\begin
> > ><Dr Adrian David Cheok>
> > ><>
> > ><Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering>
> > ><National University of Singapore>
> > ><Singapore 117576>
> > ><PH +65 874 6850>
> > ><FAX +65 779 1103>
> > >\end
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Paine [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 4:45 AM
> To: ; Florian Echtler; Adrian David Cheok
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: Liteye Thermal Imaging
>
>
> What does it take to make something like the Liteye?  I bet the components
> are dirt cheap and they are charging way too much for it, like all of the
> other monocular products out there..
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Sutherland" <>
> To: "Florian Echtler" <>; "Adrian David Cheok"
> <>
> Cc: <>
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 11:37 PM
> Subject: RE: Liteye Thermal Imaging
>
>
> > Florian Echtler wrote:
> >
> > > IR isn't IR all the time. The stuff that usual CCD cameras can see
> > > is AFAIK Near Infrared or NIR, which isn't the same as heat radiation
> > > that has a noticeably longer wavelength.
> >
> > The Liteye cameras are long wave length IR, they use ambient temp
> > sensors. More info here http://www.liteye.com/pdf/bolometer.pdf
> >
> > This is serious wearable weaponry tech. They come in three versions:
> >   1) helmet mounted
> >   2) handheld
> >   3) weapons mounted, thermal imager on weapon, display on helmet
> >
> > The Liteye site says they are low cost ... yeah, relative to other
> > real night vision scopes ... and by military cost standards. Looks
> > like you have to be in the army to get all of the really good tech.
> > Too bad that requires killing and/or getting killed :(
> >
> >   -- Doug
> >
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