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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2002
Richard Wade Madison, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Todd Joseph Furlong, Goffstown, NH (US);
John Franklin Walker, Goffstown, NH (US);
John Franklin Ebersole, Jr., Bedford, NH (US);
John Franklin Ebersole, Bedford, NH (US);
Richard Wade Madison, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Todd Joseph Furlong, Goffstown, NH (US);
John Franklin Walker, Goffstown, NH (US);
John Franklin Ebersole, Jr., Bedford, NH (US);
John Franklin Ebersole, Bedford, NH (US);
Information Decision Technologies, LLC, Bedford, NH (US);
Abstract
The invention is a method for augmenting images to highlight regions where objects of interest are likely to appear. The method uses fuzzy set theory to classify locations that may contain objects of interest, uses fog volumes to represent the fuzzy sets in three dimensions, and renders these fog volumes from the vantage point of the image to provide a colored overlay with which to augment the image. Where fog volumes of different colors overlap in an image, the invention renders the overlapping area using cross-hatching, so that the multiple colors appear side by side rather than blending to make a third color.