System and method for synthetic vision terrain display

Details System and method for synthetic vision terrain display System and method for synthetic vision terrain display

2006-10-17

2006-10-17

Chauhan, Ulka (Department: 2628)

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphics processing

Adjusting level of detail

Reexamination Certificate

active

07123260

ABSTRACT:
A synthetic rendering of the terrain within a selected field of view is created from raw terrain elevation data, and the resolution of the rendering is proportioned to the altitude above ground level (altitude AGL) of the aircraft. All the data points are subdivided into tiles. Only data from tiles within a prescribed field of view are considered for processing; all others are ignored. Within the selected tiles, only some of the terrain elevation data points are passed to the graphics processor for rendering. At maximum resolution, when the aircraft is on the ground or at a low altitude, there are relatively fewer tiles within the field of view and the fraction of the data points from each tile within the field of view passed for rendering is relatively large. As the aircraft's altitude AGL level increases, the field of view also increases in area increasing the number of tiles within the field of view. However, the number of data points forwarded for rendering by the graphics processor is kept approximately constant by selecting progressively fewer and fewer terrain elevation data points from each tile for rendering as altitude AGL increases. Only the data points that lie within tiles inside a prescribed field of view are forwarded to the graphics processor for rendering. Once the tiles have been selected, the terrain elevation data points are grouped in groups of a size that depends on altitude AGL, with more terrain data points in the grouped as attitude increases. Preferably the groups are triangle strips. Only the highest elevation from each group is passed to the graphics processor for rendering.

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