Touch Screen Target Designator.

Abstract

The touch screen target designator allows an operator observing targets imaged on a display device to merely touch the desired target on the imaging display to instantaneously (millisecond delay) position the courser symbology to that point for tracking designation. This union of a touch screen with an imaging tracker working from real world images allows real time selection of specific, recognizable objects from the field of view for processing or tracking. This greatly simplifies and speeds both still and moving target designation since a finger touch is all that is required to designate a target. It reduces the number of moving parts, such as a joy stick, and eliminates the umbilical connection external to the image, such as a light pen device.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 31, 1979
Accession Number
ADD007107

Entities

People

  • Gerald L. Morris
  • Robert B. Ottesen

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Data Processing
  • Information Processing
  • Light Pens
  • Moving Targets
  • Target Designators
  • Targets

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).