Patent ID: 6208933
Filing Date: 2001-03-27
Classification: G01C,G01S,G09B

Abstract:
A sensor system for providing a cartographic overlay on a displayed sensor image of a current location within a selected region, the sensor system comprising:a sensor attached to a moving platform for generating the sensor image, the sensor image being representative of detected objects proximate the current location of the platform;a location device for generating a location signal corresponding to the current location of the sensor within the selected region;a storage device including electronically stored cartographic data for the selected region, the storage device being in electrical communication with the location device and operative to generate a map data signal corresponding to the stored cartographic data based on the location signal; anda display in electrical communication with the sensor and the storage device, the display being operative to present a composite image comprising the sensor image and the map data such that the sensor image is superimposed upon and relocatable in relation to an underlying map data.