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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2008
David A. Betts, Eufaula, AL (US);
David E. Malphurs, Eufaula, AL (US);
Christopher E. Arney, Cumming, GA (US);
Christopher James Bennett, Eufaula, AL (US);
Scott Allen Harrington, Atlanta, GA (US);
David A. Betts, Eufaula, AL (US);
David E. Malphurs, Eufaula, AL (US);
Christopher E. Arney, Cumming, GA (US);
Christopher James Bennett, Eufaula, AL (US);
Scott Allen Harrington, Atlanta, GA (US);
Johnson Outdoors Inc., Racine, WI (US);
Abstract
A flasher sonar device includes a flasher that produces light output pulses along a flasher ring display based upon sonar returns. A user interface selects between a normal mode and a zoom mode. When the normal mode is selected, a controller drives the flasher to display a normal range. When the zoom mode is selected, the controller divides the normal range into a first range and a second range, compresses the first range into a compressed range, enlarges the second range into an enlarged range, and drives the flasher to display the enlarged range interleaved with the compressed range.