Method and apparatus of graphical display of information
AssigneeTrimble Navigation Limited
InventorAlan James Walls
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Abstract
A system and method of graphical display of survey information in which input survey data is classified as important or less important and the graphical display shows the important data as a point and a solid vector, and the less important data as a point and a stub-vector, such that the display of the less important data does not significantly obscure the display of the important data.
Claims18
A method of electronic graphical display of survey information comprising:
- receiving survey data relating to a base point on a control line associated with an area being surveyed, wherein said survey data is obtained from a group comprising a global positioning system survey and an optical instrument survey;
- determining which data in the survey data is classified as of a first class and which data in the survey data is classified as of a second class, the classification being based on importance of data in the survey data;
- and
- graphically displaying the survey data such that the data classified as of the first class is displayed graphically as a point outside the control line and a solid vector from that point and the data classified as of the second class is displayed graphically as a point outside the control line and a stub vector from that point, the length of each said stub vector being shorter than the length of each said solid vector as not to obscure other vector and the control line.
A processing system configured to display data, said system comprising:
- a) a display;
- b) a processor coupled to the display, said processor configured to receive survey data relating to a point on a control line associated with an area being surveyed, to determine which data in the survey data is classified as of a first class and which data in the survey class is classified as of a second class, the classification being based on importance of data in the survey data, and to graphically display said survey data such that the data classified as of the first class is displayed graphically as a point outside the control line and a solid vector from that point, and the data classified as of the second class is displayed graphically as a point outside the control line and a stub vector from that point, the length of each said stub vector being shorter than the length of each said solid vector as not to obscure other vectors and the control line,
- whereby said survey data is obtained from survey selected from a group comprising a global positioning system survey and an optical instrument survey.
A computer readable medium containing instructions which, when executed in a processing system, perform operations comprising:
- receiving survey data relating to a point on a control line associated with an area being surveyed;
- determining which data in the survey data is classified as of a first class and which data in the survey data is classified as of a second class, the classification being based on importance of data in the survey data;
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- generating a graphical display of survey data in which data classified as of a first class is displayed graphically as a point outside the control line and a solid vector from that point and data classified as of a second class is displayed graphically as a point outside the control line and a stub vector from that point, the length of each said stub vector is shorter than the length of each said solid vector as not to obscure other vectors and the control line,
- whereby said survey data is obtained from survey selected from a group comprising a global positioning system survey and an optical instrument survey.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.