Patent ID: 11935433
Assignee: CAE INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising calculating the distance between the simulated obstacle and the simulated vehicle, said calculating the distance between the simulated obstacle and the simulated vehicle comprising:
accessing a visual database containing a topography of a simulated terrain and simulated physical structures;
identifying the simulated obstacle as being the closest object from the source position along the given direction, the closest object being one of a part of the simulated terrain and one of the simulated physical structures and a distance between the closest object and the source position being at most equal to the given length of the line of sight vector; and
determining a distance between the source position and the closest object, thereby obtaining the distance between the simulated obstacle and the simulated vehicle.