Patent ID: 9619919
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: B64D,G06F,G06T,G09G,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for stereoscopic 3-D (S3D) display of multiple layers of information to an operator, comprising; receiving one or more display hierarchy rule sets, each of the one or more display hierarchy rule sets corresponding to the operator, and based on a nature of the corresponding operator; receiving a plurality of objects, each of said plurality of objects an instance of one of: Synthetic Environment (SE) data and operational symbology data, and at least two of the plurality of objects being instances of Highway In The Sky markers, for a vehicle; determining a presentation hierarchy of said plurality of objects based on a first rule set in the one or more display hierarchy rule sets associated with a first operator, said presentation hierarchy having a plurality of levels; determining a first placement within said presentation hierarchy for each object of said plurality of objects based on the first rule set in the one or more display hierarchy rule sets; designating a plurality of S3D depth layers for a display of operational data; determining a first order of said plurality of objects within said plurality of S3D depth layers based on the first rule set in the one or more display hierarchy rule sets; reserving a proximal depth layer to said operator, of said plurality of S3D depth layers, for a warning indication; determining a multi-dimensional link line connecting the warning indication in the proximal depth layer to an associated object in said plurality of objects in a more distal depth layer of said plurality of S3D depth layers; displaying, in said display of operational data in said vehicle, said plurality of objects within a highest level of said presentation hierarchy at said proximal depth layer; displaying, in said display of operational data in said vehicle, said plurality of objects within a lowest level of said presentation hierarchy at a distal depth layer from said operator; displaying, in said display of operational data in said vehicle, said plurality of objects within a plurality of intermediate levels of said presentation hierarchy at a plurality of intermediate depth layers based on said first placement and said first order, said proximal depth layer, said distal depth layer; and said intermediate depth layers are simultaneously displayed; transitioning an object from a more proximal depth layer to a more distal depth layer and vice versa; determining a second placement and a second order based on a second rule set in the one or more display hierarchy rule sets associated with a second operator; and displaying, in said S3D display of operational data in said vehicle, said plurality of objects based on said transitioning, said second placement and said second order.