Patent ID: 7737965
Filing Date: 2010-06-15
Classification: G01C,G06F,G06T

Abstract:
1. A synthetic vision system comprising: a video imagery source configured to acquire and supply a real-time actual image; a synthetic vision database having graphic objects stored therein; a handheld unit; a sensor suite housed within the handheld unit, the sensor suite comprising position and attitude sensors for reporting position and attitude data, respectively; a display housed within the handheld unit and configured to render images of actual or digitally created scenes; and a computer housed within the handheld unit and in communication with the video imagery source, the synthetic vision database, the sensor suite, and the display, the computer configured to: wherein the image is rendered on the display with an expanded field of view, the expanded field of view being wider than a user field of view when the user is holding the handheld unit and looking at the image on the display.