SBIR/STTR Research Award
Integrated Video for Synthetic Vision Systems
Award amount
$600,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2002Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Rapid Imaging Software, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
The Integrated Video for Synthetic Vision project aims to create a unique software technology to seamlessly add real-time video capture to VisualFlight's proven combination of real time flight simulation performance and Geographic Information System (GIS) power. While solutions exist to do this in hardware, they are ill suited to the flight deck environment for reasons of size and weight. These hardware video mixer solutions are limited to analog video technology, and therefore do not provide the level of resolution offered by new generations of digital video cameras. This project proposes to develop the first software only synthetic vision video overlay solution that will be scalable to any video resolution, and which will have no weight or size impacts on cockpit design.
Technology keywords
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