Cognitive load reduction and field of view enhancing standardized graphical user interface (GUI) overlay generating system or systems that include elements that correlate various device, event, or operation inputs with common GUI overlay generation modules and group related GUI elements across overlays along with associated methods

摘要

A device or computer program that takes the data and/or video from separate sensory devices and then combines this information for display in a standardized, but user configurable Graphical User Interface. Since each input device is paired with a device driver to properly parse the data for the input device, new devices may be added by writing new device drivers. The GUI has a standard set of elements that the individual user can modify to suit their personal preferences and needs. Since the Graphical User Interface is standardized, the user knows where to look for the data that they need no matter which sensory device is attached.

主权项

1. A system that generates standardized electro-optic device (EOD) graphical user interface (GUI) overlays including GUI overlays having outputs common to different EODs in a cognitive load reducing and field of view enhancing format comprising:
one or more EODs that each outputs a first plurality of EOD outputs comprising different types of EOD device outputs common to said one or more EODs; a processor; a one or more storage media; at least one display designed to display a plurality of GUIs comprising said EOD GUI overlays; a software program stored on at least one said storage media that is read by said processor to operate one more sections of said system to receive said first plurality of EOD outputs and produce or display said plurality of GUIs displaying different GUI elements and the text associated with said first plurality of EOD outputs, wherein said program comprises;
a library of device drivers that receives said first plurality of EOD outputs and generates device driver outputs comprising a first plurality of program outputs that are stored on said one more storage media, wherein said first plurality of program outputs are each respectively associated or correlated with different types of said first plurality of EOD outputs;a library of GUI view generators (GVG) that each displays one of a plurality of said GUI elements and text elements, wherein each of said GVG generates one type of said GUI element or said text respectively associated with each said outputs common to different EODs at a respective plurality of same sections or locations within said plurality of GUI overlays associated with different EODs and GUI overlay application format categories including equipment item targeting operations and non-targeting surveillance operations, wherein each CVG will generate at least some of said GUI elements and said text at a periphery of a field of view of each of the EODs, wherein at least some of said GUI elements and said text are grouped based on related function or operation;a plurality of GUI element mediators, wherein each of the GUI element mediators receives mediator inputs comprising said first plurality of program outputs or mediator inputs derived from said first plurality of program outputs each respectively associated with each of said different types of EOD outputs, wherein said GUI element mediators call or execute an associated one of said GVGs associated with said different types of EOD outputs; a video data grabber; wherein the software program is executed by the processor and stored on the at least one storage media; wherein said video data grabber receives video from each EOD; wherein said video is combined with said GUI overlays and shown on the display.