Patent ID: 7177485

Claim:
A method for combining image data, the method comprising: receiving a first sensor data set from a first sensor, the first sensor data set comprising a plurality of first subsets, each first subset comprising sensor data; receiving a second sensor data set from a second sensor, the second sensor data set comprising a plurality of second subsets, each second subset comprising sensor data; generating an image metric comprising a plurality of rows, each of said rows comprising a plurality of slots, by repeating the following steps for each row starting with an initial slot until a final slot of the image metric is reached: selecting display data from either a first subset or a second subset to be used in a slot of the image metric; and selecting display data from the other one of said first subset or said second subset to be used in a next slot of the image metric, such that the slots of at least one of said rows of the image metric have a different sequence of said first and second subset display data than one or more of the other of said rows; and displaying an iznagc generated from the image metric.