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A method and apparatus for real-time analysis and display of information to provide information which will enable a user to be continuously apprised of all objects within a predetermined radius from the user\s location (a “sphere of interest”) while at the same time establishing the user\s position

A method and apparatus for real-time analysis and display of information to provide information which will enable a user to be continuously apprised of all objects within a predetermined radius from the user\s location (a “sphere of interest”) while at the same time establishing the user\s position relative to a fixed reference system. The invention involves determining the location and orientation of the user relative to a fixed reference system (such as the earth), as well as the location and orientation of objects in the sphere of interest about the user. Display of this information is on a display format, which may be embodied on an optical medium such as a helmet visor, a heads-up display media, a projection surface or a user\s eye.

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A method for continuously identifying and displaying information relating to objects within a sphere of interest about a user, comprising: determining values representing said sphere of interest about said user, and at least two distinct zones within said sphere of interest, one of said zones being

A method for continuously identifying and displaying information relating to objects within a sphere of interest about a user, comprising: determining values representing said sphere of interest about said user, and at least two distinct zones within said sphere of interest, one of said zones being outside the user\s field of view, determining values indicative of said user\s state within said sphere of interest, determining values indicative of each object\s state within said sphere of interest, providing a display format for simultaneously visually representing the values corresponding to both of said at least two distinct zones within said sphere of interest, mapping said object values and said user values into symbols within said display format to provide a line-of-sight cue to the user that references said objects and forming visual images on said display format corresponding to said object and user values, and continuously repeating each set of said determining and mapping steps without interruption while displaying the visual images corresponding to each last determined set of user and object values, wherein said steps of determining user values includes identifying position and orientation attributes of said user and each of said objects, and said step of mapping said values includes presenting images representative of said user and each object such that said object images are distinguishable from said user image.