Patent ID: 7332716

Claim:
An IR camera ( 1 ) for recording and presenting a thermal image of an object ( 8 ), said camera comprising: optical receiving means ( 5 ) for focusing infra-red radiation received from the object onto a focal plane array ( 7 ); processing means ( 9 ) for receiving and processing the data from the focal plane array ( 7 ) to form a thermal image; presentation means ( 19 ) for presenting the thermal image; storage means ( 18 ) for storing the thermal image; receiving means ( 15 ) for receiving information about the ambient temperature and/or air humidity from one or more external sensors; and at least one internal humidity sensor ( 10 ) or external humidity sensor arranged to provide information about the humidity in at least one measuring point on the object ( 8 ) based on an electrical property of the object, and forwarding said humidity information to a calculating means ( 17 ; 45 ), said calculating means being arranged to include said humidity information in the thermal image.