Patent ID: 8954853
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: G01C,G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. A program storage device readable by a computer machine, tangibly embodying program instructions executable by the computer machine to perform method steps for visualization enhancement for situational awareness, said method steps comprising: providing a graphical user interface enabling a user to interact with the software program running on the computer machine running; the computer machine providing a database of vehicle mission recordings; selecting one or more mission recordings; displaying a GUI window comprising: overlaying on the top of the image display is the cardinal direction of the displayed camera image; changing the direction with camera panning within the still frame image; progressing through the timeline of a mission using a horizontal scroll bar slider wherein each slider increment is equivalent to moving one second in time; allowing a user to jump to any point from the beginning to the end of the mission; quickly incrementing or decrementing of the slider; providing ‘Front’ and ‘Back’ buttons next to the scroll bar; allowing the user to toggle between the front camera and the rear camera of the vehicle; providing a set of playback controls that allow the user to play, pause, rewind, and fast forward through the images, repeatedly pressing the rewind or fast-forward buttons increases the speed; tagging events in the mission recoding; loading multiple mission files; displaying each loaded mission file on separate timelines; each timeline is zoom-able using buttons at the bottom of the screen; the user can drag on the timeline to display different portions of the timeline; below the timelines, an overview bar displays, as denoted by a first colored line, what portion of the overall timeline is being displayed and the current image location, a denoted by second colored line or bar; the second colored line or bar can be dragged to quickly access other portions of the timelines; events are noted by a colored line or bar on the timeline; each event can be selected and the comment from that event is displayed beneath the timelines; the (x,y) location of that comment is plotted as a colored circle on the map; the current image position is represented by a colored line on the timelines; and dragging the current image position colored line to move forward or backward in the images.