Patent ID: 7183549

Claim:
A camera system comprising: a first infrared camera having a first field of view and adapted to provide thermal image data, wherein the first infrared camera comprises a first detector having a different number of pixels in a horizontal direction relative to a vertical direction to provide the thermal image data for the desired first field of view; a second infrared camera having a second field of view and adapted to provide thermal image data, wherein the second infrared camera comprises a second detector having a different number of pixels in a horizontal direction relative to a vertical direction to provide the thermal image data for the desired second field of view, wherein the first and second field of views provide a wide field of view based on substantially all of the thermal image data from the pixels of the first and second detectors; an interface circuit adapted to receive and transfer the thermal image data from the first and second infrared cameras to a network; and a first camera housing at least partially enclosing the first and second infrared cameras and the interface circuit to form a first camera system adapted to couple to the network, wherein a processor coupled to the network may receive the thermal image data from one or more of the first camera systems coupled to the network to display the thermal image data from at least one of the first camera systems.