Personal Electronic Target Vision System for Real-Time Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to provide users with an intuitive and efficient means to locate and track targets of interest over large geographic areas, particularly in real-time, due to limitations in sensor range, user-centric visualization, and the need for multiple personnel or expensive infrastructure.
Innovation Solution
A personal electronic target vision system that uses cloud computing to provide users with a user-centric display of targets in their field of view, allowing real-time tracking and filtering of targets based on user preferences, using a personal electronic vision device connected to a target vision server and a surveillance system, which updates target locations and provides historical patterns for improved situational awareness.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Difficulty of detecting and measuring
If sensors carried by individuals (binoculars, cameras, night-vision goggles) are used to locate targets, then target detection capability is improved, but labor intensity increases and multiple personnel are required to cover vast areas
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses electronic copies of visual information displayed on headsets instead of requiring multiple physical personnel to physically search for targets. The system creates a virtual replica of the surveillance environment that can be shared among multiple users simultaneously, eliminating the need for multiple operators to physically patrol and search areas.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a hierarchical system where centralized sensors collect target data, which is then distributed to multiple user headsets. This nested structure allows one set of sensors to serve multiple users, effectively multiplying detection capability without requiring proportional increases in personnel.
2Area of stationary object
If multiple persons are deployed around the airport to expand coverage area, then target detection range is improved, but system cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables a single sensor system to serve multiple functions and multiple users simultaneously. The same sensor network provides coverage for multiple personnel through distributed display headsets, allowing one infrastructure to replace what would traditionally require multiple separate sensor deployments and personnel assignments.
3Difficulty of detecting and measuring
If sensors are mounted on platforms (e.g., radar on police vessel) to provide surveillance, then detection capability is improved, but line of sight coverage is limited by mounting height
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a single elevated viewpoint (limited line of sight) to a distributed multi-level observation system. By placing sensors at various heights and distributing displays to multiple users at different locations, the system achieves three-dimensional coverage that overcomes the line-of-sight limitations of single-point mounting.
4Loss of information
If earth-centric display (COP) is used to show targets on map, then centralized operator situational awareness is improved, but individual user target acquisition becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the centralized map display into multiple individual user-specific displays. Each user receives a personalized view that segments the overall situation into their specific area of interest, making target acquisition intuitive for individuals while maintaining overall situational awareness through the distributed network.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides different display qualities tailored to each user's needs and location. Rather than a uniform earth-centric map for all users, each user receives a customized display optimized for their specific operational context, improving both situational awareness and target acquisition for individual users.
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AI summary
A personal, electronic target vision system renders targets in the field of view of the user in real-time so that the user can visualize where the targets are relative to him, in an orientation analogous to unaided human vision. An electronic vision device exchanges target selection information with a target vision server which returns to the electronic vision device the corresponding selected target location information for rendering selected targets in accordance with the user's changing viewpoint. The target vision server queries a target information server in order to access, filter and provide the real-time target location information required by the electronic vision device. A surveillance system of sensors and target tracking systems provides the target information server with target location information.