METHOD FOR THE GENERATION OF REAL-TIME CONTROL PARAMETERS FOR SMOKE-GENERATING COMBUSTION PROCESSES BY MEANS OF A VIDEO CAMERA

摘要

(57) ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSUREThis invention relates to a method for generating real-timecontrol parameters by means of a video camera for smoke-generating combustion reactions. In accordance with themethod, a video camera (12) is used for obtaining a videosignal, which is digitized and filtered temporally and spatial-ly. According to the invention, the digitized video signalis divided on the basis of its signal level distribution intosignal subareas to reduce the quantity of processed informa-tion; the picture elements belonging to the same subarea arecombined into contiguous image areas representing a certainsignal level, the subareas are combined into an integratedimage, subsequent images are averaged to eliminate randomdisturbance, and the averaged image is displayed on a displaydevice. The method in accordance with the invention facili-tates the real-time monitoring of a combustion process.