Augmented video system providing enhanced situational awareness

A computer-readable medium that is not a transitory, propagating signal, storing instructions that, when executed by a computing system having a processor, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

• storing terrain information for a geographic region;
• identifying a first image stream captured by a first image capturing device and including images of a first area within the geographic region;
• identifying a second image stream other than the first image stream captured by a second image capturing device other than the first image capturing device and including images of a second area within the geographic region other than the first area within the geographic region;
• rendering a hybrid environment comprising at least a portion of the stored terrain information for the geographic region, at least one image from the first image stream, and at least one image from the second image stream, wherein the rendering comprises:
• determining a position of a virtual camera relative to the hybrid environment,
• determining a position of the first image capturing device relative to the geographic region,
• generating a first transformation matrix based on the determined position of the virtual camera relative to the hybrid environment and the determined position of the first image capturing device relative to the geographic region,
• applying the generated first transformation matrix to images of the first stream to generate first transformed frames,
• determining a position of the second image capturing device relative to the geographic region,
• generating a second transformation matrix based on the determined position of the virtual camera relative to the hybrid environment and the determined position of the second image capturing device relative to the geographic region,
• applying the generated second transformation matrix to images of the second image stream to generate second transformed frames,
• adding at least one of the generated first transformed frames and at least one of the generated second transformed frames to a rendering of the stored terrain information for the geographic region.

A computing system comprising:

• at least one or more processors;
• a display device configured to display at least a portion of a video frame captured by an image capturing device;
• at least one processor, of the one or more processors, configured to receive a request to perform an optical zoom-in operation of the image capturing device;
• at least one processor, of the one or more processors, configured to initiate the requested optical zoom-in operation of the image capturing device;
• at least one processor, of the one or more processors, configured to while the image capturing device is performing the optical zoom-in operation,
• digitally zoom-in on a video frame captured by the image capturing device,
• provide for display at least a portion of the digitally-zoomed-in on video frame in place of the displayed video frame, and
• determine whether the image capturing device has completed the optical zoom-in operation;
• and
• at least one processor, of the one or more processors, configured to after the image capturing device has completed the optical zoom-in operation, replace a digitally-zoomed-in video frame with a video frame captured by the image capturing device.

A computer-readable medium that is not a transitory, propagating signal, storing instructions that cause a computing system having a processor perform operations comprising:

• providing images captured by an image capturing device for display;
• and
• in response to receiving a request to change the orientation of the image capturing device,
• determining a horizontal field of view for the image capturing device,
• determining a vertical field of view for the image capturing device,
• determining a horizontal slew rate for changing the orientation of the image capturing device,
• determining a vertical slew rate for changing the orientation of the image capturing device,
• determining a width of the displayed images,
• determining a height of the displayed images,
• determining an advance period,
• calculating a coordinate based on the determined horizontal field of view, the determined vertical field of view, the determined horizontal slew rate, the determined vertical slew rate, the determined width, the determined height, and the determined advance period, and
• displaying an indication of a digital lead indicator at the calculated coordinate.