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IDELIX and Paragon Imaging Announce Integration Partnership

On November 17th, IDELIX announced they had signed a partnership agreement with Paragon Imaging, a leading provider of image processing and presentation software for government, defense, and related markets. The integration of IDELIX's PDT into ELT will offer Paragon's customers significant accuracy and efficiency gains when viewing, analyzing, and interacting with their data sets.
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The IDELIX Development team is researching the use of Pliable Display Technology (PDT) as a state of the art user interface (UI) paradigm to eventually combine full motion video, static imagery and pattern recognition. The team is exploring how PDT's detail-in-context viewing and data manipulation functionality can be extended beyond still-imagery to motion-imagery such as surveillance video footage and UAV fly-through sensor data.

Persistent surveillance from UAVs hovering overhead is already providing multi-sensor data directly to troops on the ground. PDT provides an effective method of analyzing the multi-source data they receive. It is possible to feed one data source through the PDT lens (i.e. a video feed) and display another as the surrounding context (i.e. still imagery). For example, let's say the surrounding context is displayed as a still image of the area and that it is updated at regular intervals. If any changes are noticed or an area needed to be examined, the lens is moved to that region. The PDT lens displays the live video feed and the situation can be assessed. The surrounding still imagery remains in view to maintain complete situational awareness.

Interested in learning more or understanding how you can become involved in this development? Email our business development team.

The PDT Web Map Client Active X Control provides a demonstration of how PDT's detail-in-context viewing and editing functionality can work on maps and images retained from your favorite Web Map Server within an Internet Explorer browser window. This demonstration of the PDT Web Map Client Active X Control is compatible with IE versions 5.0 and above.

Surf's up! Try the PDT Web Map Client Active X Control for yourself.

Cube Display The outer layer of cubes occlude our vision of the inner elements of the matrix.		Cube Display & PDT PDT displaces the outer layers of cubes to reveal a target hidden within the matrix. Contextual information is preserved.

See how much more you can find in the new imagery IDELIX has included in the PDT editing, layers, and Web Map Client demos. Is that a plane taking off or landing at Dulles airport in the PDT Editing Demo? You tell us. Check out the new demos at www.idelix.com/pdtdemos.shtml.

The PDT executable demos now include an animation that illustrates the main features of the application. Simply click the Play button to watch a short animation that highlights the main functionality of the demo. To stop the demo animation, hit Ctrl Esc.

Download our new demos and try them yourself!

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.   Original satellite images courtesy ©SpaceImaging.
		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).

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.

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.

By combining PDT with JPEG 2000, dramatic efficiency gains for the delivery, viewing, interaction and storage of large images can be realized. As sensor technologies, satellites and reconnaissance systems, and available computing power continue to improve, we are seeing a dramatic increase in the size and complexity of high-resolution spatial and intelligence data. As this data continues to grow, compression formats such as JPEG 2000 will become more important to ensure speed and accuracy in the decision-making process. PDT is a complementary visualization interface to JPEG 2000.

PDT and the JPEG2000 format: End users can benefit from memory and bandwidth savings in constrained environments by using PDT to supply ONLY the information of interest.

Rather than having to save multiple image copies defined with different resolutions, quality levels, and spatial areas, JPEG 2000 makes it all possible with just one archived image.

The focal region of the PDT lens can be dynamically controlled to call as much or as little information as required from the JPEG 2000 file. The surrounding base of the image can be set to extract only low resolution data and result in significant bandwidth savings.

Combining Metadata and PDT: The presentation of important detail contained in high resolution imagery can be enhanced by using the lens as a highlighter.

Details of the PDT lens position can be saved in the metadata of a JPEG 2000 file or an entire script of lens positions could be added to highlight important image details within the image.

Role Based Access Control: PDT facilitates secured control of access to information.

Security controls can be added where access to the higher resolution data may only be permitted to certain personnel. The PDT visualization interface permits the sharing of the right information to the right person at the right time.

PDT as an access control tool.

Once integrated, PDT can enable users to take full advantage of the JPEG 2000 multi-resolution storage format by providing a visualization interface that is an intuitive way to quickly interact with data. To learn more about how PDT can be integrated with your application, contact us.

Learn more about PDT for Electronic Light Tables.

IDELIX Senior Developer Mike Doyle recently became the first ever Canadian to "flash" a rock climb graded at the 5.14 level of difficulty. This accomplishment places Mike in the ranks of the world's very best climbers. In rock climbing, a "flash" ascent of a route is a no-falls ascent accomplished on the climber's first attempt. Very few climbers in the world have ever flashed a 5.14 climb and only a few years ago this of level of climbing was unheard of. Mike was recently in Bulgaria where he coached the Canadian junior national team to a very successful performance at the World Championships.
 

IDELIX Marketing & Communications Coordinator Tiffany Chester was in Quebec City to represent BC in the Canadian National Premier League Championships for soccer. The team finished the tournament with 18 goals for and none against during regulation play. Despite a great performance, the gold was out of their reach after a disappointing loss in a shoot-out. Tiffany led her team in scoring for the tournament with four goals.

December 1-4, 2003
I/ITSEC 2003
Orlando, FL

The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) promotes cooperation among the Armed Services, Industry, Academia and various Government agencies in pursuit of improved training and education programs, identification of common training issues and development of multiservice programs. See PDT demonstrated at The HFE Group booth (no.236).
 

December 2-5, 2003
Autodesk University
Las Vegas, NV

The premier training and networking event for Autodesk users.
 

Would you like to meet us? Find out more about PDT? Find out more about these events? Email Tiffany Chester, Communications Coordinator, to set up an appointment for any of these events.