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"Hottest Thing on the Floor" at GEOINT 2004... Find out more.

Pliable Display Technology by IDELIX has been integrated with RSI's Image Access Solutions streaming and viewing technologies to provide a superior prototype solution for data dissemination. PDT and the IAS clients utilize JPEG 2000 technology to reduce bandwidth requirements and increase the speed at which information is transmitted to the field. An image analyst can quickly access a low-resolution image from the server and use a PDT lens to define the area within the image where high-resolution detail is required. PDT allows for controlled access of relevant information within large files without the bandwidth burden of downloading the entire file.

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GIS Monitor—On the Floor at GEOINT 2004

By Adena Schutzberg, GIS Monitor Editor

"Hottest thing on the floor? It was a touch table, but not the one displayed at the ESRI conference. No, this table, from Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL, up the road from me in Cambridge, Mass.) is smarter. ...The MERL folks were showing off the tool with a Java app built with IDELIX's Pliable Display Technology (PDT) toolkit. We were actually using PDT lenses to look at the image. IDELIX was also showing off a new implementation of PDT in RSI's software. The work, funded by the Special Projects Office of NGA's Enterprise Directorate will incorporate PDT into the client side of RSI's Image Access Solutions (IAS). That means, in a nutshell, that a wired or mobile client will get a JPEG 2000 low res image from a server. And, by using the lens, determine an area of interest..."

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By Nuke Goldstein "...Showcased technologies included a GEOINT portal from BEA Systems, GEOINT discovery services from Compusult, imagery access services from ITT Industries and CubeWerx, automated feature analysis from Visual Learning Systems running on ESRI's ArcGIS, 3D visualization and planning services from Skyline and GeoTango, image analysis tools from IDELIX, Intergraph and BAE Systems, new transactional Web Feature Service (WFS-T) extensions for ArcGIS from Northrop Grumman Information Technology, TASC and Ionic Enterprise, sensor planning services from Analytical Graphics, interactive modeling services from SAIC, and many more..."

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October 7, 2004 — IDELIX Releases PDT C++ SDK 3.1 and PDT Java 2.0

New versions of the Pliable Display Technology (PDT®) Software Development Kits were released in October featuring programming options and performance enhancements that will open the door to new opportunities for the company's flagship product.

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Interested in purchasing a PDT Software Development Kit? Contact partners@idelix.com.

September 28, 2004 — Former President of Northrop Grumman TASC Joins IDELIX Advisory Board

"There is great opportunity and applicability for PDT-enhanced user interfaces in the latest generation of defense-based applications," commented Mr. Frey. "I'm excited to play a role in bringing this leading edge technology to market."

Mr. Frey will advise IDELIX on its business development efforts in the homeland security, aerospace, intelligence and defense markets.

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New imagery is now available in the IDELIX Image Library. New Orleans, Oct 12-14 — At the USGIF sponsored GEOINT SYMPOSIUM, IDELIX challenged visitors to think beyond conventional visualization tools, and to discover how Pliable Display Technology could advance the existing user interfaces and data fusion techniques available in software products today.

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) showcased a PDT-enabled DiamondTouch tabletop display (see IDELIX and MERL). Government and industry representatives alike were impressed by the multi-user, "hands-on approach" to the sharing of geospatial and imagery intelligence data.

Pliable Display Technology by IDELIX was also integrated in various software applications featured by

• Research Systems Inc. — Rapid Access Image Viewer
• Paragon Imaging — ELT 5500
• Black Coral Inc. — Black Coral LIVE

As a part of the Interoperability Demonstration, IDELIX unveiled a PDT-enabled Java portlet, made available through the BEA portal, to enable data access, fusion and analysis in a web-based, interoperable systems environment.

"The fast relationship building between companies like BEA and IDELIX allowed the Geo Intelligence Demo team to easily integrate a typically "fat client" into a thin client portlet inside the BEA portal that directly benefits the imagery analyst," said John B. Little III, Solutions Engineer for BEA Systems.

If you did not have a chance to stop by the IDELIX booth in New Orleans contact bizdev@idelix.com for a personal demonstration.

With Defence Industry Research Development Canada (DRDC) support, IDELIX continues to advance the Pliable Display Technology (PDT) Software Development Kit (SDK) through ongoing innovations in PDT lens capabilities and geometries. The new Line Focus Lens gives users the ability to rotate the line focal region to any orientation, with simple controls for elongating and widening the region. Imagery analysts can now resize and reshape their lens to further decrease distortion.

"The evolution of the PDT Line Focus Lens is a very powerful step in our ongoing research in novel PDT lens geometries," says Dr. David Baar, CTO and Founder of IDELIX. "The line focus and its associated user interface provide users with the ability to align PDT lenses along an arbitrary axis with ease. The new PDT line focus lens is well-suited to optimal viewing and interaction with typical extended geographic features such as runways, borders, and road sections, as well as oblong objects such as vehicles and marine vessels."

The PDT Line Focus Lens is also effective for path-following tasks such as automated search and persistent surveillance. The line focus uses a line segment as the geometric source for the focal region shape. By providing greater control over the lens' shape, PDT Line Focus Lenses by IDELIX ensure that greater accuracy and efficiency are achieved in the gathering of intelligence from data.

Contact partners@idelix.com for more information on PDT Line Focus Lenses.

MERL has advanced the existing functionality of large multi-touch devices such as tabletops, whiteboards and digital walls by creating DiamondTouch, the first affordable multi-touch device that can sense multiple touches from multiple people simultaneously. It can identify who is touching where, and is debris tolerant — everyday objects such as coffee cups and pencils will not interfere with the operation of the interactive surface. MERL has also created DiamondSpin, which allows information on the DiamondTouch tabletop to be reoriented and rotated, enabling around-the-table user interaction.

"DiamondTouch is well-suited for shared-display groupware applications," says MERL Research Lab Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist, Dr. Chia Shen. "It is a new technological platform with possible applications in command-and-control rooms, business or technical meetings, and a variety of casual applications, games and entertainment."

With the PDT user interface enhancement, users can view and interact with important details without losing sight of surrounding information, thereby enhancing situational awareness. Multiple PDT lenses can be used to share and compare areas of interest being analyzed by multiple users. PDT lenses also facilitate a unique "folding" technique, where the focal region of the PDT lens can be folded across the entire data space, enabling one to easily compare and manipulate information on the display directly.

"Military decision makers are often under tight timelines and intense pressure to analyze complex geospatial intelligence data and make decisions, " commented IDELIX Chief Technical Officer Dr. David Baar. "PDT with DiamondTouch enables decision makers to collaborate, analyzing important detail within complex information while maintaining complete situational awareness. Working together, they can make informed decisions faster."

The combination of DiamondTouch and PDT will make it possible for multiple users to share and interact seamlessly and simultaneously with data, resulting in a true collaboration experience. Click here to download a short clip of PDT and DiamondTouch in action at GEOINT 2004.

Hottest thing on the floor at GEOINT 2004 — article by Adena Schutzberg, Editor of GIS Monitor
For more information on PDT or DiamondTouch, contact info@idelix.com.

IDELIX believes that actively partnering with the academic research community is of great benefit to all involved. As a result of the IDELIX academic partner program, PDT is playing an important role in research projects around the world.

Dr. Andrew Duchowski, of Clemson University in South Carolina, is one example. Andrew, a researcher in the areas of eye tracking, virtual environments and visual perception, is working to employ PDT in new and exciting ways. Andrew's work is ongoing, and not yet released.

Another academic research group working with PDT is the Institute of Computergraphics, at the University of Rostock, Germany. Researcher René Rosenbaum and faculty member Dr. Heidrun Schumann have been working on techniques for allowing efficient transmission and display of raster image data over bandwidth limited links. They have performed pioneering research on the use of JPEG2000 encoding for efficient transmission, and in their work recognized a natural fit between JPEG2000 and fisheye lens presentations. IDELIX and the Institute of Computergraphics have thus teamed up to investigate the implications of using PDT lenses in conjunction with JPEG2000 encoding.

Dr. Carl Gutwin of the University of Saskatchewan is continuing his multi-year research project on fisheye lenses. Dr. Gutwin has already published important papers dealing with fisheye lenses and steering tasks, fisheye lenses for use on handheld devices, and fisheye lenses to promote multi-user workspace awareness. Dr. Gutwin is currently using the PDT C++ SDK in the continuation of this research thread.

For more information on these or other research programs working with IDELIX, or if you are a researcher at an academic institution and think your work might benefit from PDT, contact Garth Shoemaker, IDELIX Director of Research, at partners@idelix.com.

The IDELIX office has been buzzing since the arrival of Serena Grace on March 20th of this year. Vice President of Operations, Keith Ippel is the proud papa of this beautiful little bee who recently experienced her first Halloween outing "trick or treating" with her dad.

Date	Event	Location	Contact
Nov. 15 - 19	CWID Initial Planning Conference	Portsmouth, Virginia	sgorkoff@idelix.com
Nov. 30 - Dec. 3	Autodesk University	Las Vegas, Nevada	ali@idelix.com
Dec. 6 - 9	I/ITSEC Transforming 21st Century Operations Conference	Orlando, Florida	sgorkoff@idelix.com

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