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We develop an uncooled infrared imaging device that contains a SiN-Au bimaterial micro-cantilever arrays detector and an optical read-out section. The detector converts the incident infrared radiation to the cantilever inclination angles, and the optical read-out section converts these angles directly to a visible image through an optical filtering operation to the spectra of the cantilever arrays with a knife-edge filter. The present results with the 140 × 98 cantilever arrays and the 8-bit A/D quantizer suggest that the objects at the temperature of 250℃ at the distance as far as / m can be detected and the noise-equivalent temperature difference (NETD)of the device is about 10K. The further improvement of NETD is expected to approach about 14mk with the optimized cantilever design and 12-bit quantizer.