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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 18, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert M Gjullin, Corrales, NM (US);
Assignee:
Honeywell, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345430 ; 345425 ;
Abstract
A terrain profile for executing terrain following flight is generated using a minimal volume of digital terrain elevation data (DTED) information. By limiting the amount of information considered in generating the terrain profile, the computational time and resource requirements for terrain profile generation are reduced, but without compromising the integrity of the terrain profile generated. The sample region is limited by limiting the width of sample regions according to expected use including most likely terrain following flight command data, potential unexpected flight path deviation, and long range terrain following flight data.