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

Claim 15:
16. An image generating device, comprising:
a position acquiring module configured to acquire positional data indicative of a position of a ship;
a direction acquiring module configured to acquire directional data indicative of a heading of the ship;
a size acquiring module configured to acquire size data indicative of a flat dimension of the ship on the basis of a detected location of the positional data in the ship;
an object placing module configured to place 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; and
an image generating module configured to generate 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, wherein the displayed image includes the ship object having a contour of the ship corresponding to the size data.