Patent Document ID: 20130088604
Application ID: 13652291
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1 ) A method for displaying a thermal image in an infrared (IR) thermal camera to detect thermal transmission through a partition separating an outside and an inside of a construction, the method comprising: registering a first air temperature value (T A ) on the outside of a construction; registering a second air temperature value (T B ) on the inside of the construction; calculating a threshold temperature level value (T ISO ) based on the registered first air temperature value (T A ), the registered second air temperature value (T B ), and a temperature color alarm level (T CAL ), wherein, in a first mode, normal temperature values are temperature values above the threshold temperature level value (T ISO ) and abnormal temperature values are temperature values below the threshold temperature level value (T ISO ) and, in a second case, in a second mode, normal temperature values are temperature values below the threshold temperature level value (T ISO ) and abnormal temperature values are temperature values above the threshold temperature level value (T ISO ); imaging a surface area of the partition located between the outside and the inside of the construction, to create a thermal image of the temperature distribution in at least a part of the surface area; comparing a surface area temperature in at least one image point of the thermal image to the threshold temperature level value (T ISO ); determining, based on the comparison, whether the temperature of the at least one image point is normal or abnormal; registering the distance between the surface area and the IR thermal camera as the IR thermal camera captures a thermal image; determining additional information relating to the characteristics of any image points having an abnormal temperature, dependent on the registered distance information; adjusting the color of the at least one image point in dependence on whether the temperature of the image point is normal or abnormal, and in dependence on any determined additional information, to create a colored version of the thermal image; and displaying the colored version of the thermal image.