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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:
Jul. 31, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Cheryl Kay Nathman, Arlington, TX (US);
Reed C. Whittington, Arlington, TX (US);
Assignee:
L-3 Communications Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/100 ;
Abstract
A method and system (,) for generating database correlatable navigational charts that precisely match the simulated terrain and cultural features of a non-real-world visual database (,). The method includes the steps of reading the visual database into a data structure (,), testing for necessary contour intervals (,), converting the planar locations of each of the areal, contour line, linear and point features of the visual database into a pre-selected scale, and plotting each of these visual database features.