Patent ID: 7626537
Filing Date: 2009-12-01
Classification: G01S

Abstract:
1. A radar display system comprising: one or more displays; one or more radar data sources providing digital polar coordinate radar data; application processing apparatus to receive the digital polar coordinate radar data and provide one or more rectangular coordinate display parameters, wherein the one or more rectangular coordinate display parameters comprise at least polar to rectangular coordinate conversion information for use in converting the digital polar coordinate radar data to rectangular coordinate pixel radar image data and one or more decay rate parameters; and display processing apparatus comprising a central processing unit and a programmable graphics processing unit, wherein a rendering function program executable by the programmable graphics processing unit under control of the central processing unit generates a plurality of sequential display image frames for use in displaying at least a radar image on a display, and further wherein the rendering function program, to generate each of the plurality of the sequential display image frames, comprises executable code to: