Patent ID: 11964737
Assignee: FURUNO ELECTRIC COMPANY LIMITED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 14:
15. A method of displaying ship information, comprising the steps of:
detecting a position of a ship and generating positional data;
detecting a heading of the ship and generating directional data;
acquiring size data indicative of a flat dimension of the ship on the basis of a detected location of the positional data in the ship;
placing a ship object indicative of the ship at a position in a virtual three-dimensional space corresponding to the positional data, with an orientation corresponding to the directional data and a size corresponding to the size data;
generating an image containing the ship object by rendering a scene based on a viewpoint position and a line-of-sight direction set in the virtual three-dimensional space; and
displaying the image, wherein the displayed image includes the ship object having a contour of the ship corresponding to the size data.