US 11,741,573 B2
System and method for recreating image with repeating patterns of graphical image file to reduce storage space
Jeff M. Henry, Cedar Rapids, IA (US); Kyle R. Peters, Ely, IA (US); and Reed A. Kovach, Cedar Rapids, IA (US)
Assigned to Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US)
Filed by Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US)
Filed on Nov. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/525,572.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/278,576, filed on Nov. 12, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0153947 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. G06T 3/60 (2006.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01); B64D 43/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/60 (2017.01)
CPC G06T 3/60 (2013.01) [B64D 43/00 (2013.01); G06T 3/40 (2013.01); G06T 7/60 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30242 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
at least one computer readable medium; and
at least one processor communicatively coupled to the at least one computer readable medium, the at least one processor configured to:
obtain a graphical image file, the graphical image file including an image, wherein the image includes at least one sequence of repeating pattern elements, each of the at least one sequence including the repeating pattern elements that are repeated along a linear direction; and
convert the graphical image file to at least one file including hardware directives that when executed cause a recreation of the image of the graphical image file to be drawn,
wherein a file size of the at least one file is smaller than the graphical image file,
wherein the graphical image file has a set of vector graphics for each repeating pattern element, wherein a given set of vector graphics for each repeating pattern element of the graphical image file is converted to a more compact set of vector graphics in the recreation of the image, wherein a given more compact set of vector graphics fully defines a given repeating pattern element from the graphical image file,
wherein the image of the graphical image file is a flight chart image, wherein when the hardware directives are executed by a display unit computing device of an aircraft, the recreation of the flight chart image of the graphical image is drawn on a display of the display unit computing device.