PDT's HyperJump functionality

Imagine that you are a member of a city's security forces called to respond by helicopter to a local incident. You must deploy rapidly and analyze en route the details of where you are going and the situation you are approaching. The high-resolution aerial imagery you are provided shows an overview of the city, but you need detail. How do you navigate this data efficiently to get the local details of your target while maintaining the context of your overall situation?

PDT's HyperJump functionality is a new navigation technique that allows a user to move smoothly from location to location within an image. Using your mouse, click on the lens and navigate to an area of interest. Release the mouse and PDT will facilitate the ability to automatically zoom to the detail appearing within the lens focal region. It is smoothly animated, providing the user with an understanding of where they are "traveling" within the image.

PDT's HyperJump functionality works like this:

Image 1. The PDT interface provides a detail-in-context view of the helicopter's current location.
 

Image 2. A single keystroke zooms the entire image to the scale of the PDT focal region and provides a detailed view of the current location.
 
Image 3. A second keystroke maximizes situational awareness by zooming the image out so a contextual overview of the city is again in view and other regions of interest, such as the destination of the helicopter, can be quickly identified. A PDT lens highlights the location of the helicopter, providing location detail within the entirity of the available information. The user now has a big picture understanding of their situation. They can then use the mouse to move the PDT lens to the location of the incident (final destination of the helicopter).
 
Image 4. The user releases the mouse button and the view zooms in smoothly to the new region of interest. The local details can be analyzed and, with a single mouse click, the situational overview restored (as shown in Image 3).
 
Original satellite images courtesy ©SpaceImaging.

PDT's HyperJump functionality allows for rapid navigation within high resolution images while maintaining mission-critical context. By releasing the mouse, the PDT lens will rapidly "jump" to a single scale to bring the local situation detail (the detail that appeared in the lens focal region) into view.

About IDELIX Software Inc.

IDELIX is comprised of a team of scientists with expertise in the field of Information Visualization. Our leading product is Pliable Display Technology (PDT), an innovative visualization interface designed to improve situational awareness and decision-making capabilities of end-users. PDT facilitates "detail-in-context" magnification and editing functionality in digital imagery and multi-layer data sets. It addresses the common screen real estate challenges faced when working with complex 2D, 3D, multi-fused data sets and motion imagery within the spatial limits of any display screen. Major opportunities for PDT exist in markets where visualization software plays a large role such as Defense and Intelligence, GIS and Remote Sensing, CAD/CAM, Handheld/Wireless, and Oil and Gas Exploration and Production.

Learn more about PDT functionality in the PDT Whitepapers or Technical Descriptions. Check out the PDT Integration Guide for more information on integrating PDT functionality into your application.