Patent ID: 11874173
Assignee: EXERGEN CORPORATION
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A temperature detector for detecting inflammation comprising:
a radiation sensor which views a surface area of a body and provides a radiation sensor output;
an ambient temperature sensor which provides an ambient temperature sensor output;
electronics coupled to the radiation sensor and the ambient temperature sensor which compute a normalized surface temperature of the surface area of the body, the normalized surface temperature being a skin temperature normalized to a given ambient temperature and computed as a function of a sensed ambient temperature based on the ambient temperature sensor output, a sensed skin temperature based on the radiation sensor output, a core temperature of the body, and the given ambient temperature; and
a display configured to display the computed normalized surface temperature, the displayed computed normalized surface temperature being comparable to another displayed computed normalized surface temperature by the detector of a different surface area of the body to provide an indication of inflammation at one of the surface areas based on the displayed computed normalized surface temperatures at the one of the surface areas being greater than the other of the displayed computed normalized surface temperatures.