The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate the following:

• Discover the Lepton User App advanced functionality

• Learn differences between Colorized & Raw images

• Introduce Automatic Gain Control (AGC)

• Demonstrate how to change palettes and when to use them

• Learn about TLinear and how to calculate pixel temperatures

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Everything covered in PureThermal 2 & Basic Lepton Features including:

• Lepton Camera

• Lepton User App

• Supported PureThermal board

• WARNING: Firmware v1.0.0 doesn't support the PureThermal 2 board

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• Windows 10 PC running the Lepton User App

• Knowledge of the Lepton User App basic functionality

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 • Lepton creates a pseudo-color image

• Coloring is based on the current palette

• FLIR default is Automatic Gain Control (AGC),

applied in the Colorized mode (RGB 888)

• Lepton outputs images colorized RGB888

• PureThermal supports output of a variety of

other color formats

• Lepton User App saves images as jpegs

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 • Each pixel value is represented in grayscale by
16 bits

• Pixel value can cover all 14 bits of thermal

information from the Lepton

• This information contains thermal data

• Normalization such as automatic gain control

(AGC) should be applied to create a visible usage
image. When in RAW video output mode, the user
will need to apply their own AGC algorithm to
obtain the best contrast of the scene

• The Lepton User App saves images as a tiff file

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 A. Viewing raw thermal images can be
(A)
challenging

• Unless there are huge temperature

differences, the hottest and coldest pixels
look the same

B. Applying an AGC is used to set the coldest

pixels to 0 and the hottest to 1

• The app performs this when displaying the

RAW image (B)

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 • Saved colorized images can be viewed normally
with most image viewers

• Lacks ability to extract temperature data

• Raw images cannot be viewed like a regular

image

• Need to use a viewer such as ImageJ

which applies normalization

• Allows for the recovery of temperature data

if captured with a calibrated camera

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• The Lepton will
have a default
palette at App
launch

• Select the
different buttons
to change the
Lepton's palette

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• User preference

• The best palette to use varies by application

• Range of temperature in scene

• Temperature of target in scene

• Objective of application

• Test multiple palettes to distinguish differences in temperature more clearly

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• Lepton 2.5 and 3.5 both support Temperature Linear (TLinear) mode

• Each pixel represents the temperature at that point in centikelvin (cK)

• Convert centikelvin to Celsius with TC = TcK / 100 - 273.15

• Where TC is the temperature in ºC and TcK is the temperature in cK

• Example: 29587/100 -273.15 = 22.72°C

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 • Supported in Lepton 2.5 & Lepton 3.5

• Switch to Raw mode and enable TLinear

• TLinear is not available in Colorized USB Video

Mode

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 • Lear more about Lepton and join the conversation on our developer forum at the Lepton Developer Site

• Firmware download page

• Click here to learn more about PureThermal 2

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