System and method for enhanced situation awareness and visualization of environments
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1. A method for providing an immersive visualization of an environment, the method comprising:
- providing a map of the environment;
receiving a plurality of captured video streams of the environment via a video camera mounted on a moving platform;
associating navigation data with said captured video streams;
said navigation data includes location and orientation data of the moving platform for each said captured video stream; and
retrieving the associated navigation data with said video stream to compute a metadata, wherein said metadata comprise 3D visualization of the location and orientation of the moving platform for each of the captured video stream; and
automatically processing said video streams with said associated navigation data and the 3D visualization with the map to create an-hypervideo map;
wherein said hyper-video map provides a navigable and indexable high-fidelity visualization of the environment.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a system and method for processing real-time rapid capture, annotation and creation of an annotated hyper-video map for environments. The method includes processing video, audio and GPS data to create the hyper-video map which is further enhanced with textual, audio and hyperlink annotations that will enable the user to see, hear, and operate in an environment with cognitive awareness. Thus, this annotated hyper-video map provides a seamlessly navigable, situational awareness and indexable high-fidelity immersive visualization of the environment.
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1. A method for providing an immersive visualization of an environment, the method comprising:
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providing a map of the environment;
receiving a plurality of captured video streams of the environment via a video camera mounted on a moving platform;
associating navigation data with said captured video streams;
said navigation data includes location and orientation data of the moving platform for each said captured video stream; and
retrieving the associated navigation data with said video stream to compute a metadata, wherein said metadata comprise 3D visualization of the location and orientation of the moving platform for each of the captured video stream; and
automatically processing said video streams with said associated navigation data and the 3D visualization with the map to create an-hypervideo map;
wherein said hyper-video map provides a navigable and indexable high-fidelity visualization of the environment. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for providing a real-time immersive visualization of an environment, the method comprising:
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providing a map of the environment receiving in real-time a continuous plurality of captured video streams of the environment via a video camera mounted on a moving platform;
associating navigation data with said captured video streams;
said navigation data includes location and orientation data of the moving platform for each said captured video stream; and
retrieving the associated navigation data with said video stream to compute a metadata, wherein said metadata comprise 3D visualization of the location and orientation of the moving platform for each of the captured video stream; and
automatically processing said video streams with said associated navigation data and the 3D visualization with the map to create an-hypervideo map;
wherein said hyper-video map provides a navigable and indexable high-fidelity visualization of the environment. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A system for providing an immersive visualization of an environment, the system comprising:
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a capture device comprising at least one video sensor mounted in a moving platform to capture a plurality of video streams of the environment and a navigation unit mounted on the moving platform to provide location and orientation data of the environment for each said captured video stream;
a hyper-video database linked to the capture device for storing the captured video stream and the navigation data;
said database comprises a map of the environment;
a vision aided navigation processing tool coupled to the capture device and the hyper-video database for retrieving the combined video stream and the navigation data to compute a metadata, said metadata comprises a 3D visualization of the location and orientation of the moving platform for each said captured video stream, said 3D visualization is stored in the hyper-video database; and
a hyper-video map and route visualization processing tool coupled to the hyper-video database for automatically processing the video stream, the metadata and the 3D visualization with the map of the environment to generate a hyper-video map of the environment. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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