System and method for geographically referencing an improvement image
AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorBlake Wilson
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Abstract
The instant invention is a system and method for converting improvement images to geographically referenced chart symbols and for combining improvement images with other geographically referenced information to create composite images. The instant invention provides for marking specific reference points on the improvement image with textual strings and using a system configured to recognize textual strings, to understand the information, and to determine the appropriate translation, rotation angle, and scale factor of the improvement image to render a geographically referenced image.
Claims30
A method for geographically referencing an improvement image comprising the steps of:
- extracting image positions of at least two image reference points, the reference points depicting features that each have a known geographic position,
- interpreting geographic positions for the features, computing a geographic distance between the features,
- determining a geographic direction between the features, and
- obtaining a scale factor of the image.
A method for converting an improvement image to a geographically referenced image comprising the steps of:
- extracting image positions of at least two image reference points, the reference points depicting features that each have a known geographic position,
- interpreting a geographic position for each of the features,
- computing a geographic distance between the features,
- determining a geographic direction between the features, and
- obtaining a scale factor of the image.
A method for combining an improvement image with geographically referenced information to produce a composite image, the method comprising the steps of:
- extracting an image position for each of at least two image reference points, the reference points depicting features that each have a known geographic position,
- interpreting a geographic position for each of the features,
- computing a geographic distance between the features,
- determining a geographic direction between the features,
- obtaining a scale factor of the image,
- determining an improvement image reference translation,
- determining an improvement image rotation angle,
- determining an improvement image scale factor, and creating an output.
A system for geographically referencing an improvement image, the system comprising a memory storage device in communication with a processor, the memory storage device configured to store an improvement image, the processor configured to perform the steps of:
- extracting an image position for each of at least two image reference points, the reference points depicting features that each have a known geographic position,
- interpreting a geographic position for each of the features,
- computing a geographic distance between the features,
- determining a geographic direction between the features, and
- obtaining a scale factor of the image.
A system for converting an improvement image to a geographically referenced image, the system comprising a memory storage device in communication with a processor, the memory storage device configured to store an improvement image, the processor configured to perform the steps of:
- extracting an image position for each of at least two image reference points, the reference points depicting features that each have a known geographic position,
- interpreting a geographic position for each of the features,
- computing a geographic distance between the features,
- determining a geographic direction between the features, and
- obtaining a scale factor of the image.
A system for combining an improvement image with geographically referenced information, the system comprising a memory storage device in communication with a processor, the memory storage device configured to store the improvement image and the geographically referenced information, the processor configured to perform the steps of:
- extracting an image position for each of at least two image reference points, the reference points depicting features that each have a known geographic position,
- interpreting a geographic position for each of the features,
- computing a geographic distance between the features,
- determining a geographic direction between the features,
- determining an improvement image reference translation,
- determining an improvement image rotation angle,
- determining an improvement image scale factor, and
- creating an output.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.