Communications: electrical – Aircraft alarm or indicating systems – Flight alarm
Reexamination Certificate
2007-08-28
2007-08-28
Swarthout, Brent A. (Department: 2612)
Communications: electrical
Aircraft alarm or indicating systems
Flight alarm
C340S961000, C342S065000, C345S419000, C701S009000, C701S014000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10954535
ABSTRACT:
The present invention is directed to a system and method for a safe flight display through increasing situation awareness by an optimal presentation, given limited capacity of the system. The system may determine which terrain area needs a detail representation and which area needs a coarse representation. A view-dependent visual error metric may be utilized to define and maintain an error bound and accurately minimize the amount of terrain data being depicted. By performing a breadth-first search on the terrain database, a user can determine amount of geometry to be displayed with limited bandwidth of data presentation. The user may be allowed to scale the application to his/her desired level of detail, given a capacity of the system. Therefore, the system may provide a safe flight display with an anticipated and graceful (all portions of the screen would be given an equal quality representation) degradation in performance upon the choice of the user.
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Multiresolution Visualization and Compression of Global Topographic Data; Thomas Gerstner, Department for Applied Mathematics, University of Bonn, Germany.
Anderson Eric N.
Katakura Koji
Postnikov Alexel
Vogl Thomas L.
Eppele Kyle
Jensen Nathan O.
Rockwell Collins, Inc.
Swarthout Brent A.
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