It could, however, affect what third parties (meaning: you) can legally do with regard to distributing their own apps that use the ideas in these patents.
Rather, those patents can be illegal and only a way to limit competition in wrong way.
I can display everything on my screen when I want from two or more diffrent images and no one will tell me that I can't do it since It was possible for decades.
It is clear those patents with IR & visual light fusion are bullshit
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Patent 8,520,970: Infrared resolution and contrast enhancement with fusion - https://www.google.com/patents/US8520970
One of the claims:
combining, by a processor, luminance information of the extracted pixel data with luminance information of corresponding pixels in the IR image to augment the IR image with the contours and/or edges from the visual image, wherein the augmented IR image comprises temperature information that is unaltered by the combining.
This doesn't have any sense, while if we add/modify even edges we have to destroy/change small parts of IR image where edges are else we can't see any difference on IR image if we do not change it
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It is like we change something, but there is no difference
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BTW: These patents do not affect me at all since I developed
novel way to augment the IR image and showed in other post-there are not edges of visual image, but... chosen by image processing filter available for decades at the begining of computer vision, but I do not want pay patent offices and lawyers for nothing
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It does not use Flir MSX luminance, but who cares about it and stupid patents
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