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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2002
Paul A. Fisher, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
William R. Hancock, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Susan L. McCullough, Glendale, AZ (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A radar display system ( ) according to the present invention generates textured radar display data by utilizing a direct memory access receiver ( ) to receive radially scanned radar data, to convert the radially scanned radar data into range bin data sets, and to store the range bin data sets. A graphics renderer ( ) stores the set of range bin data sets in a texture memory ( ) as a plurality of rectangular textures, and bit maps the rectangular textures to a series of display triangles in a frame buffer ( ). The graphics renderer ( ) colors the display triangles in accordance with the rectangular textures by performing a bi-linear interpolation of the color and warps the display triangles in accordance with the size of a display ( ).