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IDELIX Granted US Patent for PDT!!

IDELIX was granted US Patent No. 6,727,910 "Method and System for Inversion of Detail-in-Context Presentations" on April 27, 2004. The patent granted to IDELIX was based on PDT's unique capability more commonly referred to as "Undisplace."

Read the Media Release.

United States Patent No. 6,727,910 can be viewed online at: http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm.

IDELIX is pleased to announce the formation of their Professional Services group to provide a wide array of development services and human factors engineering consulting to customers interested in adding Pliable Display Technology (PDT) capabilities to new or existing applications. Find out more Pliable Display Technology Java and C++ Software Development Kits and IDELIX Professional Services have been made available for federal government and agency purchase on NASA's SEWPIII contract.

Visit the SEWP website: http://www.sewp.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/mfr_clin_list.pl.

IDELIX is making friends in all the right places. We would like to welcome the following new IDELIX Partners:

• Black Coral Inc.
• Greenly & Associates
• iGov
• IMTech
• Intelligence Data Systems
• IX3
• Matrox

Read the Media Release. Visit IDELIX at the GeoInt conference being held in New Orleans from October 12-14, 2004!

Find out more about the partners listed above. Interested in becoming an IDELIX Developer or Academic Partner? Contact us at partners@idelix.com.

Two new usability studies on visualization lenses out of the University of Saskatchewan by Carl Gutwin and Chris Fedak show how effective a lensing technology such as PDT can be for combating screen real estate issues and improving interactive layout tasks. Featured in the April Issue of Military Geospatial Technology, "Integrating Interfaces, JWID: Setting the Stage for Geospatial Intelligence Technology Advancements." Read the article on the MGT Website. Explore PDT in the Oil and Gas world by reading Hart's E&P April 2004 issue: Visualization software aids comprehension (pdf). Check out an interview with IDELIX CTO and Founder, Dr. David Baar in the May 2004 issue of BC Business Magazine. Read the article on www.bcbusinessmagazine.com. The 2004 Venture All Stars is a Washington-based non-profit organization that recognizes emerging private companies in the Northwest for current growth achievements and future potential. IDELIX was honored along with 38 companies from the United States and Canada, at a ceremony held on June 4, 2004 at the Chateau Ste. Michelle, in Seattle. Read the media release on www.ventureallstars.com. The spotlight shines on IDELIX Software Inc. and Detail-in-Context Visualization in the Company's View section of GIM International June 2004 edition. Download a PDF SGI and IDELIX are pleased to announce that Pliable Display Technology (PDT) is now being demonstrated on SGI's Reality Center Configurations at the SGI Customer Briefing Center (CBC) and the Mobile Innovation Center (MIC).

To book a briefing of IDELIX Pliable Display Technology at the SGI Customer Briefing Center (CBC), please visit http://www.sgi.com/company_info/cbc/. To book a briefing of IDELIX Pliable Display Technology at the SGI Mobile Innovation Center, please visit http://www.sgi.com/events/mic/, or contact IDELIX directly at bizdev@idelix.com.

IDELIX wows the Canadian defence and security industry with PDT's information visualization capabilities at CANSEC 2004 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Special Forces Operations Week 2004, Tampa, Florida, IDELIX announces their partnership agreement with Intelligence Data Systems and gives General Brown a PDT/Black Coral GIS demonstration.

The Defence Industrial Research Program (DIRP) is a Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) Program designed to foster and support innovation in the Canadian Defence Industrial Base by providing financial and scientific support for industry-initiated research projects related to the defence of Canada. IDELIX has been granted DIR Program funding for the research and development of the next generation of PDT. This contribution will take some of IDELIX's emerging research to concept. IDELIX will be working closely with the Department of National Defence J2IM (Intelligence) Group, and the DRDC locations in Valcartier, Toronto, and Ottawa to make this project a reality.

"Innovative and intuitive user interface technology makes the user's job easier and faster," says Dr. David Baar, CTO & Founder of IDELIX. "It doesn't add complexity in the form of more buttons and controls to fiddle with. This is the mandate for Intelligent Lens Technology—to enable users to interact with data without spending time fine-tuning the data presentation. R&D into Intelligent Lens Technology, with support from this grant and interactions with DRDC, will extend IDELIX leadership in direct user interfaces. Collaboration with the DRDC will allow IDELIX to gain crucial domain-specific feedback and expertise as we develop "Smart" PDT Lenses."

The Defence Industry Research Program is focused on two main areas. First, the DIRP advances PDT's Core Geometry Engine, adding an understanding of the characteristics of the data that PDT is operating on. The intent is to maximize efficiency for the end user, by presenting the most effective views of the data with minimum user intervention.

The second element of the DIRP focuses on augmenting PDT's lens shapes and usability capabilities such that lenses will have shapes, constraints, and user interface controls that make it more efficient for end users to interact with complex data. This new space-oriented, data-centric paradigm will allow users to deal with objects that have distortion or layout constraints. The DIR Program funding for PDT research will keep IDELIX at the forefront of "detail-in-context" technology at a time when this technology is gaining market validation across a number of applications. Contact bizdev@idelix for a copy of our PDT Smart Lenses Discussion Paper.

As Seen at JWID Explore the PDT Layers Demo to discover how PDT can enhance data fusion visualization! This demo was produced as a part of the 2004 Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration trials to show how data layers derived from various stove-piped applications can be brought together within one visualization interface and viewed simultaneously using the PDT lens.

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This month we turn the spotlight on Black Coral's integration of PDT by IDELIX into Black Coral GIS (BC GIS) for JWID 2004 "The Globe" suite of tools. We will be focusing on how Black Coral GIS and PDT can improve Non-combatant Evacuation Operation (NEO) deployment.

The Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (JWID) provides innovative companies such as IDELIX and Black Coral the opportunity to introduce, test and evaluate new COTS products and technology applications in a simulated war-fighting environment. The Canadian Department of National Defence's J2 Information Management group (J2 IM) sponsored the joint IDELIX/Black Coral participation in JWID 2004 as a part of the coalition interoperability trial known as "The Globe" suite of tools.

Black Coral GIS is a net-centric C4ISR application that has been developed to provide a consolidated view of information gathered from various stove-piped applications, open standards-based information from government agencies throughout the world, and other geospatial data sources. Black Coral has integrated PDT by IDELIX to provide advanced visualization and data interaction and to facilitate adjustable "detail-in-context" magnification and editing functionality on digital maps, imagery, and multi-layer data sets fused within Black Coral GIS. By integrating PDT, Black Coral has improved both the information harvesting techniques and visualization tools currently available to first responders and warfighters. The end result will be warfighters and first responders being provided with a tool that enables the presentation of relevant and timely information and increases decision-making capabilities.

Sudden notice is typical of NEO missions, allowing military teams little time for planning before deployment and execution of missions. To paint a typical scenario, a NEO mission notice is received within a couple hours before deployment. Military teams will meet with embassy staff upon arrival to the foreign territory, and will immediately be required to perform a briefing on the foreign territory. This information often includes complex geospatial intelligence (terrain, civil infrastructure, red/blue forces in area, etc.), base maps (imagery, raster, vector), and other intel data. With Black Coral GIS, data from different sources (e.g. GCCS tracks, proprietary databases, GPS units, etc.) can now be fused together by subject matter experts (e.g. plume analysts, forensic experts, image analysts, etc.) into one visualization interface and can be quickly distributed out to the users in the field.

Using Black Coral GIS, the NEO team can extract a base set of data from both the local and national servers, and save the data on their computers for later use and quick reference, With PDT's "detail-in-context" viewing capabilities integrated within Black Coral GIS, the NEO team now has access to tools that will improve their efficient navigation and comprehension of data. By using a PDT-enabled version of Black Coral GIS, the NEO team quickly has a grasp on their situational awareness.

The NEO team then deploys - leaving a support group at the base. Using Black Coral GIS and PDT, both the deployed team and the support team can now view the situational awareness map and can easily collaborate it - on tasks such as adding more mission-specific data and linking to various intelligence sources.

Black Coral GIS can also be used to add or retrieve other relevant information (e.g. information gathered from the team in the field, the embassy, local military, or other friendly forces), and synchronize this data with the existing data set. By linking the maps to various other intelligence sources, a fused picture is presented, allowing the team to better assess and respond to the situation. The result is one common viewing interface, with data gathered from various stove-piped sources and applications. Once the data is gathered, PDT can be used to improve the efficiency and accuracy of viewing multi-layered information and performing tasks such as adding annotations and marking possible extraction routes and points of interest.

PDT is also a useful tool to assure that areas of interest are assessed accurately and that important or obscure information related to these areas is not overlooked. The PDT "detail-in-context" interface helps the warfighter to visualize the location of closely situated hostile entities located within the contextual surroundings of the detailed target area of interest. The actual locations of other hostile and friendly forces near the target location are revealed in the shoulder region of the PDT lens with precision and accuracy, improving overall situational awareness of the deployed NEO team.

Upon the NEO team arriving in the foreign territory—Black Coral GIS resynchronizes the information that has changed—both in the plane and back at the base. Both groups end up with a map that shows all of the information that both bases have created. The base team evaluates their initial plans (routes, points of interest, etc.) with the data provided from the deployed team, and they collaboratively assess their options.

To read more about IDELIX and Black Coral's participation in JWID 2004 check out Military Geospatial Times Online Edition for April 23, 2004 and read the article entitled "Integrating Interfaces: The Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration is setting the stage for global geospatial intelligence technology advancements" appears.

Find out more about Black Coral GIS.

The 20th annual Vancouver Sun Run was held on Sunday, April 18, 2004. Team IDELIX unleashed their competitive side. By answering the Sun Run challenge, they joined 998 other corporate teams and 48,637 runners, joggers, walkers and wheelchair participants, to support the "Raised-a-Reader" campaign and amateur athletics in BC. This race to the finish line is Canada's largest and North America's 2nd largest 10K race. Team IDELIX consisted of three zealous and energetic IDELIX staff members: Software Developer - Mike Doyle, Director of Systems Integration - Andrew Skiers and Marketing and Communications Coordinator - Chantal-Marie Stark. Team IDELIX made an impressive finish with individual finish times of 38:00, 44:15, and 55:00 respectively. PDT at a location near you

NGA Technology Exposition
July 22, 2004
Roberdeau Hall Auditorium—NGA Headquarters
Bethesda, MD
10:00am—2:00pm

NATO Research and Technology Organization ST-043/RWS-006 Workshop
Visualization and the Common Operational Picture (VizCOP)
September 14-17, 2004
Canadian Forces College
Toronto, Canada

The NATO Research and Technology Organization IST-043/RWS-006 Workshop focus for this year will be on "Visualisation and the Common Operational Picture (VizCOP)". As part of this focus, Dr. David Baar, Chief Technology Officer and Founder of IDELIX will be delivering a seminar entitled "Pliable Display Technology for the COP" in Session 6 on September 16, 2004.

Download a PDF file of Dr. Baar's Presentation Abstract.

IDELIX invites you to join Dr. Baar for this informative seminar. For more information, contact Chantal-Marie Stark, IDELIX Communications Coordinator, at 604-484-2891.

GeoInt 2004
October 12-14, 2004
New Orleans, LA
Sheraton New Orleans
http://www.usgif.org/symposium/about.html

Schedule a personal PDT demonstration at this event!

If you are interested in arranging a meeting with our IDELIX representatives at any of these events, contact Chantal-Marie Stark, IDELIX Communications Coordinator, at 604-484-2891.

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IDELIX, the IDELIX Logo, Pliable Display Technology, and PDT are registered trademarks of IDELIX Software Inc. in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan, and/or other countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. Pliable Display Technology is protected by US Patent 6,727,910. Other patents pending.