Thermography has an extremely important difference from the other visual image converting electronic systems, like XRays
or ultrasound: the infrared camera operator usually spend hour after hour with his/her eyes looking only at infrared
images, sometimes several intermittent hours a day if not six or more continuous hours. This operational characteristic
has a very important impact on yield, precision, errors and misinterpretation of the infrared images contents. Despite a
great hardware development over the last fifty years, quality infrared thermography still lacks for a solution for these
problems. The human eye physiology has not evolved to see infrared radiation neither the mind-brain has the capability
to understand and decode infrared information. Chemical processes inside the human eye and functional cells
distributions as well as cognitive-perceptual impact of images plays a crucial role in the perception, detection, and other
steps of dealing with infrared images. The system presented here, called ThermoScala and patented in USA solves this
problem using a coding process applicable to an original infrared image, generated from any value matrix, from any kind
of infrared camera to make it much more suitable for human usage, causing a substantial difference in the way the retina
and the brain processes the resultant images. The result obtained is a much less exhaustive way to see, identify and
interpret infrared images generated by any infrared camera that uses this conversion process.
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