Patent Document ID: 4585418
Application ID: 06694892
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. Method for simulation of a visual field of view for training of a battle situation, so that the image of a background is displayed on a TV monitor in the field of view of the optics of a person to be trained and the image of a movable target is cut-in in that background, and so that the image of the background as well as the image of the target are digitally stored and are displayed after conversion into a video signal, characterized in that individual objects in the background image are provided with a digital range information and that image point by image point the range information with respect to the individual objects is compared with a digital range information of the target in order to determine image point by image point whether the target is covered by the individual object or is to display in front of that individual object, and further characterized in that the range information with respect to the individual object is produced by controlling the coordinates and thereby moving the target in the neighborhood of the respective individual object and that by scaling of the target with respect to the background image a realistic relationship between the target and the background image is produced so that, with a known cut out of the optics field of view and with a known size of the target, the range may be assigned to the individual object and further characterized in that by unblanking of an image point on the contour of the individual object with the unblanked image point, the same range information is assigned to all image points within the individual object.