Patent ID: 8879825

Claim:
A method for displaying a calculated geometric entity within at least one 3D range data set, comprising: at a computer processor for rendering 3D range data as a 2D displayed image: representing a provided first 3D range data set as at least one 2D displayed image, wherein the first 3D range data set represents physical objects of a scene; specifying a calculated geometric entity for representing a non-physical entity, wherein the calculated geometric entity represents something other than the physical objects represented by the first 3D range data set, wherein the calculated geometric entity is not represented by the first 3D range data set, and wherein specifying at least some part of the calculated geometric entity is provided from the group consisting of: manually entering the calculated geometric entity, entering the calculated geometric entity from a computer file, automatically entering the calculated geometric entity, and combinations thereof; and displaying the calculated geometric entity merged within the at least one 2D displayed image, wherein displaying the calculated geometric entity comprises displaying the calculated geometric entity as at least one of a calculated 2D or 3D vector, a calculated surface, a calculated volume, a trajectory, a sight line, and combinations thereof.