As Dave stated, the TG165 is aimed at a specific market and is well designed for that. However I would expect many to buy the superior E4 instead ? The standard resolution is the same, MSX is included and the E4 is a superior camera in most (all?) respects.
When we realize what this "magic" MSX is indeed by watching this intro to this technology
in the terms of image processing tools needed to do this what they call "object details" which are in fact only object contours taken from classic visual camera and... aplied to thermal camera calibrated output with temperatures, than we start thinking why they claim any patent for this
MSX, while using latest OpenCV boards with Nvidia CUDA support for high performance image processing in real time it is quite easy achieve similar results to this MSX, so forget about thisTG165 for $500 if someone do not need this laser temperature measurements which looks very tricky with those 2 laser points and consider quite cheap USB OTG interface
Seek thermal $200 for Android OSes
with image processing and visualisation made by this very nice $300
The NVIDIA® SHIELD™ tablet 8" HD 1920x1080 screen and Android with CUDA support for OpenCV
This kind of image processing MSX does with visual image to extract edges I was doing more than 10 years ago at university
Nothing special to extract & add contures/edges to another image (thermal) and some kind of user interface (not open source so no chance to change stupid behaviour) to be able mark a few spots and display its temperature when we have two scene images: visual light camera image & thermal image.
Probably, they call it
Multi-Spectral Dynamic Imaging (MSX™) while from marketing point of view the more complicated names are used in product description not easy to decode by normal people, customer might think he buys something special so this has to be very expensive. Additionally Flir use classic trick
"pending patent" terms to make this product more atractive
Yeah, not everyone can write such image processing software to achieve similar results without 2 diffrent types of cameras (visual & IR) in one device but it is not anything which is worth invention and patent claims
Multi-Spectral Dynamic Imaging Technology from FLIR Systems"Unlike traditional thermal fusion that inserts a thermal image into a visible light picture, FLIR’s new MSX technology embosses digital camera detail onto thermal video and stills. Using MSX technology on FLIR T450SC and T650SC IR cameras eliminates the need for a separate digital image in your reporting."
So, when we use additional digital image eg. from built in 5M into
The NVIDIA® SHIELD™ tablet, than we can create output image which will contain whatever we want from those two visual & IR images, so when Flir will tell me that I can not output something similar to this what they call
MSX because of they patented it and are inventors, I will tell them
while I was capable of doing such things more than 10 years ago and now using OpenCv it can be done much easier and faster in realtime
The only problem is that it might be difficult to find the same focus using 2 diffrent cameras, so it might be not such easy to make those two images from visual camera countours & thermal camera nice aligned, so it might require some calibration, but it looks like that this
The NVIDIA® SHIELD™ tablet should easy outperform any Flir MSX hardware while it can use CUDA accelerated OpenCV for real time image processing.
That is true it can be a little bit tricky to do but advantage is we can have open source version of Flir MSX and maybe even send those realtime theraml images with scene countours like MSX to another big monitor wireless while
The NVIDIA® SHIELD™ tablet was created for gamers who often wants see their action on big TV screens
I hope I will be able test
The NVIDIA® SHIELD™ tablet &
Seek thermal under Android within a few months after finishich current projects.
Anyway finally
Flir's MSX myth busted