Edge enhancement for thermal-visible combined images and cameras

A thermal imaging system configured to generate images having infrared image data and enhanced edges comprising:

• an infrared camera module for receiving infrared radiation from a target scene and generating infrared image data representative of the target scene;
• a visible light camera module for receiving visible light radiation from the target scene and generating visible light image data representative of the target scene, the visible light image data having a plurality of regions corresponding to regions of the target scene;
• a processor in communication with the infrared camera module and the visible light camera modules, the processor configured to:
• receive visible light image data from the visible light camera module;
• receive infrared image data corresponding to the received visible light image data from the infrared camera module;
• determine, for each of the plurality of regions in the received visible light image data, a corresponding edge factor value associated with edges in the visible light image data;
• generate modified visible light image data having a plurality of regions corresponding to the plurality of regions in the visible light image data by combining, for each of the plurality of regions of the modified visible light image data, an edge midscale value and the corresponding edge factor value, the edge midscale value corresponding to a specific color, and the combining the edge midscale value and the corresponding edge factor value comprising, for each of the plurality of regions, adjusting a luminance of the edge midscale value using the corresponding edge factor value;
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• combine the modified visible light image data with the corresponding received infrared image data to create combined image data.