Bridge Semiconductor Corporation
Bridge Semiconductor Corporation ("Bridge") is an electronics hardware
system company, which develops and markets thermal imaging camera sensors,
technically known as infrared focal plane arrays (IRFPAs), and cameras
(thermal imagers) based on those sensors. Bridge’s IRFPAs are designed
from the ground up to unlock high volume demand in emerging, but price
sensitive markets by significantly reducing manufacturing costs and by
providing for high volume production. This is accomplished through
patented technologies, which utilize only standard, scalable, non-capital
intensive, high-volume production processes available from numerous,
worldwide third-party vendors.
IRFPAs are the heart of thermal imagers. IRFPAs create images like
conventional video cameras, except the images are generated by heat
radiated from the objects in a scene and not from reflected light.
They create images in absolute darkness or in the brightest daylight,
and can "see" through smoke, fog and rain. Thus, thermal
imagers create images when conventional video cameras cannot, and
they produce readily detectable images of people or animals in scenes
where the subjects would be camouflaged or lost in the clutter of
conventional video camera images. Thermal imagers also create temperature
maps of a scene, which are used in industrial applications. However,
despite their versatility and desirable benefits, the demand for thermal
imagers is currently limited by the high cost of existing technologies.
Our products are ideal for the following current and potential applications:
- Commercial - fire fighting; security and surveillance,
including law enforcement, driver vision enhancement, and retail
applications such as people counting
- Industrial - thermal inspection; process control;
predictive maintenance; remote temperature monitoring; R&D;
monitoring food distribution, storage and preparation; leak detection
and non-destructive testing
- Consumer - security, boating, and hunting
- Military - night vision; decoys; weapon guidance and
damage assessment; surveillance and reconnaissance; border and
maritime patrol
- Medical - locate anomalies, such as blockages in blood
flow and tumors; cancer research; muscular performance
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