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Route-planning interactive navigation system and method

  • US 20080133131A1
  • Filed: 11/30/2006
  • Published: 06/05/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A route planning and evaluation system, comprising:

  • at least one host object location device operable to provide the location of a host object over the passage of time;

    at least one sensor operable to sense objects and data from an environment proximate to the host object over the passage of time;

    an electronic chart library;

    a display;

    a computer operatively coupled to the location device, sensor device, chart library and display;

    the computer including a route generator operable to generate a predicted route of at least one sensed object, the route generator further operable to generate a planned route of the host object, the routes displayed to an operator upon the display, in response to a predicted proximate convergence of the host object and at least one sensed object, the convergence signaled to the operator;

    wherein the routes are displayed upon the display, the planned position of the host object and the predicted position of each sensed object displayed as an animation and for any time following the present time, the operator permitted to stop the animation and scroll the animation forward and backwards.

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