Patent ID: 8050521
Filing Date: 2011-11-01
Classification: G06T,G08B

Abstract:
1. An improved method for providing information of a digital raster image of the type wherein digitizing a paper document to create a digital raster image, recording scale information associated with the paper document and a digitizing device, embedding the scale information in a header of the digital raster image, storing the digital raster image as a first file, wherein said embedded scale information is embedded in said header of said first file, rendering the digital raster image in a digital image viewer wherein the improvement comprises: creating a three dimensional rendering of said digital raster image, wherein said three dimensional rendering has a three dimensional coordinate system; storing the three dimensional rendering as a second file; wherein said digital raster image has a two dimensional coordinate system, wherein said three dimensional coordinate system and said two dimensional coordinate system are matched and linked in real-time, wherein said digital raster image of the paper document and the three dimensional rendering of said digital raster image are capable of being viewed simultaneously.