Patent ID: 8392853

Claim:
A method for superimposing a representation of displayed data on a visualization system, the method comprising: acquiring at least one focus object described in the visualization system; using focus object information to display the focus object; subdividing each focus object into a plurality of object components; using a transparent interface to calculate coordinates of components of the focus object in a coordinate system of the visualization system, said focus object mutually shared by the visualization system and the interface; receiving coordinates of a point of interest in a projection of the visualization system; projecting the point of interest (POI) in a selected Point of View (POV) using the calculated coordinates and the received coordinates of the point of interest in the projection of the visualization system of N-Dimensional features in the visualization, independent of user point of view; reviewing said at least one focus object to determine instances of the point of interest located within the focus object; determining position of each point of interest intersection in natural coordinates of the visualization system coordinate system by transforming the points of interest with focus object intersection in reverse order of said calculating an apparent position for focus layer focus objects in the visualization system of projection; providing the determined positions of each point of interest to a user or to an external application; and further transforming each point of interest with focus object intersection to determine position of each point of interest intersection in the natural coordinates of the focus object by combining the component vertices and edges to form focus objects.