Darryl P Nelson

US Patent:

20080074423, Mar 27, 2008

Filed:

Sep 25, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/534818

Inventors:

Zhen-Qi Gan - Carrollton TX, US
Cesar J. Alaniz - Dallas TX, US
Darryl P. Nelson - Plano TX, US

Assignee:

Raytheon Company - Waltham MA

International Classification:

G06T 15/20

US Classification:

345427, 345630

Abstract:

According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for displaying graphical objects on a digital map includes receiving, for a graphical object, metadata comprising a parameter indicating a type of the graphical object, a parameter indicating a size of the graphical object, and a group of parameters indicating a geographic location of the object represented by the graphical object. The type of the graphical object is one of a group of stored types. The method further includes rendering the graphical object on the digital map by generating, based the received metadata, a group of geographic coordinates for the graphical object.