Patent ID: 7969462

Claim:
A system for fusing images of a scene received by a plurality of sensors into a displayable colorized image, the system comprising: two or more sensors for generating two or more corresponding sets of image data; each set of image data comprising an array of datapoints with each datapoint being representative of at least one information factor mapped to a pre-determined area of the scene as received by the sensor; an information processor for receiving and sampling the sets of image data to generate corresponding mapped sample data arrays for each set of image data and for computing a fused colorized image array to be displayed from the sample data; each sample data array comprising a mapping of datapoints from an image data set mapped to a corresponding datapoint in the related sample data array using a pre-determined function; the mapping function being computed by assigning a point along a color vector in a two or more dimensional colorspace to a selected value of the information factor; and a fused colorized image to be displayed being computed from combining corresponding datapoints from each of the information factored mapped sample data arrays using a pre-selected arithmetic vector function; and a display for receiving the fused colorized image array and displaying the fused colorized image generated from the fused colorized image array.