Method and means for adding an extra dimension to sensor process

Details Method and means for adding an extra dimension to sensor process Method and means for adding an extra dimension to sensor process

1992-04-30

1994-01-18

Groody, James J.

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Static presentation processing

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358 22, 358110, 345 22, H04N 974

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052803449

ABSTRACT:
Many sensor information processing applications currently use monochrome B-scan presentations to exhibit processing results from radar, sonar, spectral estimation, seismic profiling, radio astronomy, bio-engineering, and infrared imaging. The use of color for such raster display presentations have been limited to the coding of amplitude values for a fixed set of hue/luminance colors to convey recognition by the human operator. Hue and luminance are used here independently to convey two orthogonal pieces of low signal-to-noise sensor information simultaneously to the operator for quick and accurate recognition. The net result is an added degree of freedom available on a single display surface, which not only improves operator recognition and reaction time for critical events, but precludes the necessity of a second display presentation for the alternate information and subsequent correlation of two data sets by visual comparison. This invention discloses a system to generate and add a new color dimension, a fourth orthogonal axis to the presented data, in addition to position and luminance levels of a video display. The process adds information independent of the usual gray scale as saturated colors on a monotonic wavelength scale from red to green to blue.

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