Patent ID: 8577446

Claim:
A method for detecting stress in a subject, said method comprising: said subject having a periorbital region; optimizing the subject's temperature range to resolve only temperatures outside said periorbital region; identifying a limited temperature range to establish a baseline for thermal values tailored to the subject to enable visualization of thermal changes in the subject; establishing thermal thresholds based on said baseline; displaying breaches outside said thresholds; displaying the temperature values of said breaches; adjusting said limited temperature range based on the unique temperature characteristics of the subject; displaying a spectrum of different colors corresponding respectively to specific narrow temperature variations in regions selected from the cheeks, ears, forehead and neck or a combination thereof; displaying selected color variations based on an audio waveform of the subject; displaying the color spectrum of a predetermined pixel in an infrared video display; varying a timeline of the combined audio waveform and infrared video image; comparing the colors of the audio waveform and the infrared video image of said pixel at a particular point in time; and changing the audio waveform color to track the color variations of said pixel infrared video image.