Miniaturized Fused Reflected/Emitted Light Camera

"Irvine-Sensors Corporation (ISC) has developed a variety of technologies and advanced sensor systems that now make it practical to develop an advanced small, light weight Miniaturized Fused Reflected/Emitted Camera system. This multi-spectral camerasystem is based on fusing of digitized reflected image intensifier (I2) imagery with emitted long wave infrared (LWIR) thermal imagery. The I2 imagery provides high spatial resolution over a wide variety of ambient lighting conditions while the LWIRthermal imaging provides full day/night capability with the integration of emitted thermal imagery. This system collects the dual band imagery using 2 individual apertures and provides a single digital video output. The imagery will be combined at thepixel level. The LWIR imagery will be collected using a 320x240 uncooled micro-bolometer and the I2 imagery will be collected using a miniture 16mm Gen IV I2 with a 1.3 Mega-pixel CMOS imager. A high degree of miniaturization is achieved through the useof ISC's novel LWIR imaging temperature compensation approach, and using ISC's NeoChip heterogeneous 3D chip stacking technology to integrate multiple electronics functions into a single monolithic structure. This effort will result in the develop of thedesign of miniaturized fused multispectral camera system. This single system would be used in place multiple existing systems. This will significantly reduce operational encumbrance, simplify log