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PALM DESERT, CALIF.-"The past 60, 90 days have been the craziest that risk managers have ever faced in their careers, in terms of the national debate over the U.S. debt ceiling, market volatility and a host of other key risks asset managers are now facing," said Joseph A. Carrier, chief risk officer at Legg Mason.
Which is helping put risk management and the work of chief risk officers at the forefront of fund management. Carrier made his remarks at the Investment Company Institute's Tax and Accounting Conference here last week.
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Since the credit crisis of 2008 and the recession, Legg Mason has developed a new approach to risk management where the impossible and the improbable are considered. "The new terminology at our firm is 'managing outcomes.' We are not just history-based, looking out the rearview mirror, but through the windshield," Carrier said. This lesson should have been learned a decade ago, when the terrorists attacked the World Trade Center twin towers and the Pentagon on 9/11/01 by hijacking airliners and slamming into those structures, Carrier said.
"I remember post-9/11, talking to one of our analysts," Carrier recalled. "He wondered how the CIA and the FBI could have failed. Well, the real reason was we had a failure of imagination. We could not conceive that such an event was possible. And it is true that some of the risks we oversee are a matter of life and death, so since then, we try not to have a failure of imagination and consider the realm of every possibility-because so much has changed in the world since the 9/11 attacks and the credit crisis."
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#818375 Dec 8, 2012
No child can get a correct education without school. That's why there required to go to school. School is for learning. Home is for other stuff. Only a trained teacher with educational training can supply a child with a proper educaton.
#818376 Dec 8, 2012
The economy is improving more day by day. You can't expect President Obama to fix in four years whit it took Bush eight years to destroy.
#818377 Dec 8, 2012
Most people who don't like President Obama are racists. If he was white they would have voted for him and he'd won by 90%.
#818378 Dec 8, 2012
I haven't heard Rush in years. My last receiver purchased didn't have AM Radio.
#818379 Dec 8, 2012
The only people unhappy about the job President Obama and FEMA have done are spoiled, rich republicans. They think the goverment should give them a new house free while at the same time complaining about giving starving children a few food stamps. Even Republican Governor Cristie has praised both the President and FEMA publically for their excellent response. Republicans live in a fantasy land.
#818380 Dec 8, 2012
That equals the equivalant over a million new jobs. That equals the equivalant to almost the entire population of Dallas texas.
#818381 Dec 8, 2012
Nobody listens to him anymore anyway. People have wised up.
#818382 Dec 8, 2012
The public schools are low because the republicans keep blocking the Natonal Education Associations efforts to improve public school education an want teachers to work for slave wages like Walmart and Mcdonalds.
#818383 Dec 8, 2012
They teach many other things in first grade beside reading and arithmatic, stupid.
#818384 Dec 8, 2012
Rand Paul is a racist sociopath just like his father.
#818386 Dec 8, 2012
Smoking should be outlawed everywhere. Next to guns, smoking accounts for the highest percentage of America's health care costs. If smoking and guns were banned, healthcare costs would drop immensly.
#818389 Dec 8, 2012
The only thing children from the 1800s needed to know was how to buy and sell black slaves.
#818390 Dec 8, 2012
9/11 happened because of Bush's incomptence. He knew weeks in advance it was going to happen but was clueless (as usual) how to stop it so he let it happened and started a war with the middle east because he was mad a Sadam Hussien who didn't have nothing to do with it because he was stupid like you. Then he destroyed the economy and let thousands die in Katrina.
#818391 Dec 8, 2012
It might take him three terms to fix everything Bush screwed up.
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How the Mainstream Press Bungled the Single Biggest Story of the 2012 Campaign
Post-mortems of contemporary election coverage typically include regrets about horserace journalism, he-said-she-said stenography, and the lack of enlightening stories about the issues.
But according to longtime political observers Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, campaign coverage in 2012 was a particularly calamitous failure, almost entirely missing the single biggest story of the race: Namely, the radical right-wing, off-the-rails lurch of the Republican Party, both in terms of its agenda and its relationship to the truth.
Mann and Ornstein are two longtime centrist Washington fixtures who earlier this year dramatically rejected the strictures of false equivalency that bind so much of the capital's media elite and publicly concluded that GOP leaders have become "ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition."
The 2012 campaign further proved their point, they both said in recent interviews. It also exposed how fabulists and liars can exploit the elite media's fear of being seen as taking sides.
"The mainstream press really has such a difficult time trying to cope with asymmetry between the two parties' agendas and connections to facts and truth," said Mann, who has spent nearly three decades as a congressional scholar at the centrist Brookings Institution.
"I saw some journalists struggling to avoid the trap of balance and I knew they were struggling with it -- and with their editors," said Mann. "But in general, I think overall it was a pretty disappointing performance."
"I can't recall a campaign where I've seen more lying going on -- and it wasn't symmetric," said Ornstein, a scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute who's been tracking Congress with Mann since 1978. Democrats were hardly innocent, he said, "but it seemed pretty clear to me that the Republican campaign was just far more over the top."
Lies from Republicans generally and standardbearer Mitt Romney in particular weren't limited to the occasional TV ads, either; the party's most central campaign principles -- that federal spending doesn't create jobs, that reducing taxes on the rich could create jobs and lower the deficit -- willfully disregarded the truth.
"It's the great unreported big story of American politics," Ornstein said.
"If voters are going to be able to hold accountable political figures, they've got to know what's going on," Ornstein said. "And if the story that you're telling repeatedly is that they're all to blame -- they're all equally to blame -- then you're really doing a disservice to voters, and not doing what journalism is supposed to do."
Ornstein said the media's failure led him to conclude: "If you want to use a strategy of 'I'm just going to lie all the time', when you have the false equivalence meme adopted by a mainstream press and the other side lies a quarter of the time, you get away with it."
#818393 Dec 8, 2012
Typical statement from a racist Republican immigrantphobe.
#818394 Dec 8, 2012
My local school system has removed the word "god" from it's Pledge of Allegiance to Obama. Public school is no place to have religeon rammed down our children's throats.
#818395 Dec 8, 2012
Dancing Queen is Newt Gingrich's ringtone! He loves Abba
#818396 Dec 8, 2012
I find it amazing how many adults have no knowledge of how our government works, even people on here; so therefore, are these adults capable of teaching a child anything? I may be wrong, but I thought it was mostly religious people who homeschool. Indoctrination, mind control, isolation.
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Bowdewyn's grim eyes scanned Woden, frustration filling him at his friend's obsession. Convinced by a Saxon named Arw, his fellow warrior firmly believed that he was the rightful heir to the leadership of a small outpost on the borders of the Wealas land. The dwellings that Arw described had been settled only recently, a small fortified village to help hold back invading Silure Wealas. He knew it was futile to dispute Arw's claims so instead, he took another approach.
"Why have the place anyway?" They walked towards Cuthred's men, down the brown smeared slope that had been the major site of the battle, "The place is a haven for Wealas attacks."
A mouth full of crooked teeth answered him, his friend's grin reeking high spirits, "Not scared are you?"
"Wessex! Wessex!"
The sudden interruption made them both look to the crowd of warriors the now surrounded Cuthred. It was only the victorious chanting to their King and his success. Maybe it was an important achievement: with Mercia so badly weakened Wessex was now the dominating force for miles.
"There will be land we can take from the Wealas, Bowdewyn, the village is not just a small outpost: it is full of possibilities."
"Have you been there?"
The question caught Woden short and he stopped for a second, unsure of what to say. Indeed he was going by Arw's word, and he had only met the man on a few occasions, but something told him what the Saxon said was true. Still taking the word of a semi-stranger on instinct alone wasn't the best of reasons. He opted for ignoring the question.
Hundreds of warriors crowded around Cuthred and his guard, now raising his sword high to show his superiority over the fallen body before him. Eager men stood enthralled by a moving speech. The Saxons all wore the usual battle dress: some were lucky to have mail shirts and iron rimmed shields; other simply wore their tunics and leggings, aided by their tapered shields and spears. All bore marks from the battle; weapons chipped; blood smeared clothing; scars from battle.
Pushing his way through, Woden elbowed men aside as they began to disperse. A young man led a horse through the throng, a black stallion for the ruler. Forcing the last man aside, Woden's way was quickly blocked by a large, dark haired man whose dress and armour suggested a high standing. He instantly recognised the symbol of the King's Household on the shield.
"Let him through."
Clear, deep and well-spoken, the voice had come from the King who was hoisting himself up onto his steed. From up high he looked down at Woden and for some reason it grated his nerves.
"I come for the debt you owe me." The words came sharply, maybe too sharply, and Woden realised the man may very well have him killed for such arrogance. But the air of superiority seemed to bite into Woden's mind, like an annoying itch that couldn't be satisfied.
Cuthred tilted his head to one side, "The man who saved me in battle." Woden's red hair usually made him easily recognisable, "What do you want?"
Glimpsing Bowdweyn fidgeting out of the corner of his eye, Woden knew what his comrade wanted: money and women. But it was not what he came for. "I am the true heir to Wulfdun village and seek men to take it from the heathen bastard who stole its lands."
"Wulfdun?" Cuthred murmured, unsure of the name. An aide ran to his side and he lent over, listening to what the young man had to say. Nodding he regained his posture and shrugged, "Take ten men and have your village." Tugging the horse's reigns he turned it away before leaving into the crowd.


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Kaithal, Sep 17 (UNI) About 30,000 pilgrims took a dip in the holy tank at Faral village, 25 km from here, on the third day of Phalgu 'mela' today.
A number of them offered "pind dan" for their ancestors in the wake of 'shradhs'. The 'mela' will continue till September 29.
Deputy Commissioner Vikas Gupta reviewed the mela arrangements and informed media persons that the administration had got insured 10 lakh pilgrims during the 'mela. The Oriental Insurance company will pay a compensation of Rs 1 lakh to the kin of victim in the event of accident within a radius of 2 km of mela area .
He said that two temporary bus stands and five other spacious parkings had been set up for the convenience of passengers. A temporary hospital had also been set up in which as many as 40 doctors will perform duty by rotation .
Besides 8 health posts and one ayurvedic hospital had also been set up. Nine ambulances, 21 pharmacists and 77 other health workers would remain deployed in the mela area to provide health services to needy pilgrims.
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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung (Newspaper) - May 19, 1995, New Braunfels, Texas J ■ Herald-Zeitung ■ Friday, May 19, 1995 Sports Day ■ To talk with Sports Editor Thomas Godley about Sports Day, call 625-9144. ext. 24. The PressSports DayNew Braunfels hosts first-ever Triathlon The Day's Quote "It's one more game for all the marbles. We've given ourselves a chance to win this thing." — Houston Rockets Coach Rudy Tomjartovich. In the news Canyon baseball camp slated Canyon High School will host a boys' baseball camp Tuesday, May 30 through Friday, June 2 from 8:30 a.m. to noon for boys in grades 6-8. CHS Baseball Coach Ralph Behrend and assistants will conduct the camp at Cougar Field. The cost is $40, For more information, call 629-2649. Unicorn girls' basketball camp Registration is being taken for a girls' basketball camp set for 8:30 a.m. to noon, June 5-8 at New Braunfels High School. The camp is for girls entering grades 7-9 in the New Braunfels Independent School District. The deadline to register is May 22 in order to receive a T-shirt. Mail or bring forms to NBHS, attention to Cindy Manley, or call 625-6271 Spurs close out series over Lakers Robinson scores 31 to lead San Antonio into uncharted playoff turf By JOHN NADEL AP Sports Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — There would be no second miracle finish by the Los Angeles Lakers. David Robinson saw to that. Robinson scored 14 of his team's 21 points in the fourth quarter, including 12 straight at one stage, as the San Antonio Spurs beat the Lakers l(X)-X8 on Thursday night to win the second-round sones 4-2. Robinson finished with 31 points and 15 rebounds as the Spurs earned their first Western Conference final berth in 12 years. The Spurs, 47-8 since Jan. 24 and an NBA-best 62-20 during the regular season, will meet the winner of Saturday's Houston-Phoemx game. The Rockets beat the Suns 116-103 on T hursday night to force a seventh game in that series. "I can smell it," Robinson said when asked about the possibility of reaching the NBA Finals for the first time. "I don't know if I can taste it. It s up to us. We could he right there.'' The Spurs rebounded from a 98-% overtime loss to the leakers in Game 5 at the Alamodome on Tuesday night, a game decided by Nick Van Exel's 3-point shot with a half-second to play. * T he Lakers appeared on the verge of pulling off another comeback when they outscored the Spurs 16-5 to trim a 79-66 deficit late in the tlurd quarter to 84-82 with nearly 7 1/2 minutes to play. The Forum crowd of 17,505 was SAN ANTONIO (IOO) Elliott 9-18 4-5 26, Rodman 6-8 0-0 12, Robinson 10-19 11-1231. Del Negro 3-10 0-1 6, Johnson 5-9 3-3 13, Person 1-7 0-0 2, Reid 4-6 0-0 8, Rivers 1-4 0-0 2, Cummings 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 39-82 18-21 100. LJL LAKERS (88) Campbell 10-19 1-2 21, Ceballos 4-8 6-6 16, Divac 6-14 1-2 13, Peeler 2-5 0-04 Van Exel 2-139-10 13, Bowie 1-2 OO 2, Jones 3-10 0-0 7, Lynch 3-5 2-2 9, Smith 1 -2 0-0 3, Harvey 0-0 0-0 0, Miller 0-0 0-0 0 Totals 32-78 19-22 88. San Antonio24233221—10O L A Lakers 182624 20—88 3-Point goals—San Antonio 4-11 (Elliott 4-7, Del Negro 0-1. Person 0-3), Los Angeles 5-14 (Ceballos 2-4. Lynch 1-1, Jones 1-2, Smith 1-2. Peeler 0-1, Van Exel 0-4). "I can smell it. I don't know if we can taste it. It's up to us. We're right there. — David Robinson going wild, but it would soon be quieted After a short jumper by Dennis Rodman made it 86-82, Robinson began his streak of 12 straight San Antonio points, ensuring there wouldn't be another miracle. "Dennis was fantastic early, but everyone was a little bit mad from the last game," Robinson said. "We were up, everybody was ready." San Antonio used a 16-2 run late in the third quarter to go ahead for good. Then. after the Lakers got within 2 points, the Spurs finished the game with a 16-6 spurt. "I think they got a little hit tired," Robinson said of the Lakers. "We made them play catchup the whole game." Bull riding event on tap The Wrangler Bull Riding Blowout is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, June 2-3 at Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio. Top major bull riders will compete. Tickets may be purchased at any Ticket Master outlet. Comal Saddlery offers two vouchers redeemable for two tickets to customers who purchase two Wrangler garments at the store. For more information, call Comal Saddlery at 625-9641 7th annual River City Summer Slam Boys' Basketball camp The camp, coordinated by local high school head coaches Kenny Rotzler and Cliff Wilkins, is scheduled for Monday through Thursday, June 5-8 at Canyon High School from 9 a m. to noon for boys currently in grades 4-8. Cost is $45. Registration forms may be picked up at CISD and NBISD school campuses. For more information, call Coaches Wilkins or Rotzler at 620-0326 and 620-6940. Rockets force Game 7 HOUSTON (AP) — Hakeem Olajuwon and Houston's 3-point experts made sure Charles Barkley got his wish Olajuwon wouldn't allow the defending champions to fold, scoring 30 points. The Rockets sharpshooters also hit five straight fourth-quarter 3-pointers as the Rockets defeated Phoenix 116-103 Thursday night, tying the Western Conference semifinal series 3-3 Houston is 9-1 in elimination games and gets a chance to add to their comeback reputation Saturday "lf someone told us from the beginning, we could have one game at home to determine the series, we would have taken it," Barkley said. "And that's what we've got Saturday." The Rockets, accustomed to staring ! elimination in the face and still surviving, would become the fifth team in NBA history to overcome a 3-1 deficit to win a L playoff series, if they beat the Suns in Game 7. "Last year, they had the home court, ■ this year we have it," Barkley said "Hopefully, we can take advantage of it. I love having the deciding game at home r and taking our chances." Despite the Rockets' success at living J on the edge of elimination, there is a neg-t, ative statistic to consider. Road teams are 0-20 since 1982 when playing Game 7. r The last road winner was Philadelphia over the Boston Celtics. Houston coach Rudy Tomjanovich believes the Rockets, I; who have struggled through controversy J and injury all season, now have a chance I to beat any odds. "It s heart, guts and believing in each / other," Tomjanovich said. "We've given ( ourselves a chance and we just need to jj keep it going. We've been a good road i team all year. I think we have a good J chance. I have so much confidence in I these guys when they are up against the J wall." And why not? The Rockets beat the J Suns on the road 103-97 in overtime in i' Game 5. They fought through three quar- i ters Thyrsday night and finally used an I 18-5 run that started late in the third. Taking second aim at Junior Nationals Canyon Middle school student set to top 1994 goals in wheelchair racing By THOMAS GODLEY Sports Editor Like many 13-year-old kids, Jeremy Fisher enjoys sports. When he's not shooting hoops on the basketball court, he can usually be found reluming serve on the tennis court, waler skiing on the lake or training for wheelchair races around the neighborhood. Jeremy, a seventh grader at Canyon Middle School, was born with Spina Bifida. The disability means he spends his days in a wheelchair, but he hasn't lei it slow him down nor quell his competitive drive. Last year he entered an essay contest and won a racing wheelchair. The prize was the beginning of a new love in Jeremy's life. He now trains several days a week for wheelchair races around Texas. Jeremy finished second at the Flamingo 5K in Austin on March 19. A week later he entered the Capitol 10,000 in Austin and came in fifth overall, outrac ing several adults along the way. Last month he placed first in six events and second in five others at the Southwest Regional Qualifying Meet in San Marcos. In early May he was just as impressive, garnering top finishes in seven events and second place in four events. It took only one year for Jeremy to qualify for the Junior National Championships in Wheelchair Sports in Oklahoma. Once there he soared into the finals and captured a silver medal in the slalom (obstacle course event). That firsttime success came against athletes who had been competing for years. He plans to test his skills again at the week-long national competition on July 2 in Fort Collins, Colorado. For now his sights are set on the I (th annual Schlitteit>ahn Three Parks Wheelchair 5K on June 3 in New Braunfels. As a member of the New Braunfels Running Club, Jeremy keeps in touch with local runners and the local racing scene. Along with his mother, Vicki, Jeremy has organized a local recreation program for children with physical impairments. The group, called Thunder Rollers, meets monthly for games such as bowling, tee ball, fishing and for pizza parties. "It's a way to encourage the kids to be active in sports and to make new friends," Vicki said. "Jeremy is the kind of person who isn t shy when he sees another person in a wheelchair. He usually goes over and wants to know if they play any sports." The group, which currently has about ten members and welcomes many more, will meet this Friday near the danix stage at Landa Park. The NB Running Club is working to help fund Jeremy's trip to Colorado. If you ate interested in donating to the fund, mail a check to: New Braunfels Running Club-Jeremy Fisher Wheelchair Sports. It can be mailed to the Victoria Bank & Tmst, P.O. Box 37, Victoria TX, 78132. By THOMAS GODLEY Sport Editor Only a rare breed of athlete wakes at dusk on a Sunday ready to dive into the Comal River and swim 1000 meters. Indeed it takes a certain kind of person to consider the morning swim just a warm-up to a 20-mile bicycle ride and 3.1-mile run. As masochistic as it sounds, more than 200 people will converge Sunday along the river near Union and Lincoln streets in New Braunfels for the city's first-ever triathlon. Mike and Carolyn Burrow, co-directors of the 1995 New Braunfels Triathlon, said this year's event marks a change of venue from its original site at Canyon Lake. "We felt New Braunfels would be a good place to have it this time around," Mike Burrow said "In years past we've had it at Canyon Lake but the hydrilla growth right now has made it difficult. "We decided to bring it here, and the cooperation and response has just been great. Everyone from city officials to police and the Chamber of Commerce has been supportive. It couldn't be done without a lot of volunteers." Sponsored by the New Braunfels Evening Rotary and sanctioned by the Triathlon Federation, the race has attracted athletes from as far away as Louisiana, New Mexico and Kansas. The bulk of competitors, however, hail from the San Antonio and Austin areas. Greg Bell, a professional triathlete and recent winner of the Corpus Christi Triathlon, will be among the big names competing in the field. Local entrants Yvette Hargrove, Laura Landrum, Dr. Mitch Finnie, Bert Whitaker and Eddie Evans are ready to test their physical limits. "Triathlons can be physically demanding, but they are a great way to set goals, train for them and see how well you come out against yourself,"Finnie said. "Not to mention that while you're doing, it you're getting in good shape." The local three-person relay team of Can Fowler, Ray Rivas and Dale Fowler has entered the race. Pete Rivas, owner of Comprehensive Fitness, also is set to bring teammates Chandler Clark and Ramiro Ayala to the battle, "You're gonna see two old men giving it their best shot, and a young guy making up ground," Rivas said. "We're looking forward to it." More are expected to sign up Saturday. Registration is at Hill Country Inn, Seguin Street at Interstate 35, from IO a.m. to 7 p.m. Entry fee is $45 per person and $75 per team. Racing divisions are by age groups ranging from 15-70 and beyond. The race usually has more than one person in the 70-and-older age range," Burrow said. "It's a race for everybody." Beginning on the Comal River at the rapids near Schlitterbahn Resorts, racers will swim downstream to the newest ADA-approved tuber Firing it in there Herald-Zeitung photo by MICHAEL DARNALL The Phillies' Kliff Kingsbury flings s fast ball during fifth-inning action against the Indiana Thursday at Unicorn Field. The right-hander gave the Phillies a 14-4 win In the first gsms of the New Braunfels Senior League season. Herald-Zeitung photos by MICHAEL DARNALL Jersmy Fisher Is aiming to add another medal to his collection st th# Junior National Championships in Whselchair Sports. His long-rangs goal is to maks tho Olympic team in Bvt ysars. Herald-Zeitung photos by MICHAEL DARNALL Triathletes bolted from the start of the 5K run at the 1993 Triathlon. The event took a break in 1994, and thia year the aits moved to New Braunfels. The race begins 8 a.m. Sunday in the Comal River near Schlitterbahn. exit near Union Street. From there the pack will jump on their bikes and head out of the city limits for a 20-mile ride that winds through a few hills. They then return for the 5K run which loops through Cypress Bend Park. Aid stations will be set up along the way, providing fluids. Racers also will be treated to live music, and the top individual male and female finishers are tagged to receive prizes. The top three finishers in each age division also will take home awards. ;
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Oct 23, 1990
|Filing date
|Jan 20, 1988
|Priority date
|Sep 5, 1985
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Luen C. Chan, Kenrick W. Kautz
|Original Assignee
|Harris Corporation
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (11), Non-Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (31), Classifications (12), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 773,228, filed Sept. 5, 1985, now abandoned.
The present invention relates to imagery data processing systems and is particularly directed to a scheme for effecting the compression and reconstruction of digitized color aeronautical chart images.
For the navigation of an aircraft along a route to a specified destination, the pilot makes use of various types of on-board equipment, including sophisticated navigational computer systems which are capable of providing guidance information such as heading, altitude, geographical position, ground speed, and the like. To obtain a complete picture of the flight path of the aircraft the pilot also makes use of an aeronautical chart that contains geographical data including elevation and cultural terrain features such as rivers, lakes, natural rock formations and vegetation, as well as man-made cultural features, such as roads, towns, and significant structures, each uniquely identified in the map by a specific color for the purpose. For example, a lake may be shown on the map using a deep or dark blue color, while a river or stream feeding the lake may be a light blue color, and a surrounding forest a dark shade of green.
In order to incorporate the aeronautical chart with other aspects of the aircraft's guidance equipment, the chart is normally presented to the pilot via a cockpit display, such as a cathode ray tube (CRT) display, with various navigation indicators superimposed on the displayed chart. Because the pilot is normally interested in observing only a prescribed portion of the map which represents an area of terrain immediately surrounding the geographical position over which the aircraft is currently flying, yet the map display must be capable of providing coverage for hundreds of miles of an overall flight path, the provision of an electronic data base from which such map data may be accessed could involve an on-board memory storage capacity that would be prohibitive due to space and weight restrictions placed on airborne system components. To satisfy these requirements, aircraft display digital data bases are typically stored in a compressed format with a resolution of some number of plural bits per pixel of the CRT display, the storage mechanism consisting, for example, of a magnetic storage medium, such as a magnetic tape or disc. In the reconstruction processor on-board the aircraft, the stored compressed data is decompressed and the original image reconstructed for display to the pilot. Unfortunately, compression/reconstruction techniques that have been proposed to date have limited resolution capability and/or are extremely complex to implement, so that they suffer from a substantial airborne storage and processing penalty that limits their practical use.
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a new and improved scheme for compressing and reconstructing multi-color high resolution navigation image data, such as aeronautical chart images, and which, for a standard 512�512 pixel display, is capable of producing an effective compression ratio of 24:1, thereby providing an effective bit rate of one bit per pixel. Pursuant to the compression mechanism employed in accordance with the present invention, data representative of the image of a color aeronautical chart, such as one derived by imaging the chart via a conventional camera tube, is sampled for a plurality of aerial grid points of the image (corresponding to pixels of the display) each sample being digitized, to provide an original color-representative matrix of data points, each resolved to some number of digital bits (e.g. eight) per basic color (e.g. red, green, blue), per sample point (display pixel equivalent).
These twenty-four color data bits per sample point of the basic color data are transformed into a corresponding number (twenty-four bits) of data bits representative of the luminance (Y) and in-phase and quadrature chrominance (I,Q) components thereof. The Y,I,Q values are compressed using a clustering process that produces, for an aeronautical chart, sixteen clusters of combinations of colors and shades in the Y,I,Q domain Then, for each sample point, a four bit code representative of the centroid of the three dimensional (Y,I,Q) cluster in which its transformed color/shade value is located is generated, resulting in a preliminary compression ratio of six-to-one (four bits per pixel).
This preliminarily compressed color image data is further processed using a four-to-one compression code-table to obtain the desired one-bit/pixel bit rate. The compression code-table is based upon the observation that, for a digitized chart image, the number of distinct colors in an N�N (e.g N=4) pixel neighborhood is small; correspondingly, the number of possible distinct color combinations in the neighborhood is also small. Advantageously, for a color aeronautical chart image, it turns out that the number of color combinations is less than or equal to 216, so that the sixty-four bits for any 4�4 pixel neighborhood in the chart by which the sixteen pixels of the neighborhood are defined can be compressed to sixteen bits by a lookup table (having a capacity of 64 data values of sixteen bits each), thereby achieving the additionally sought-after four-to-one compression ratio. Where the number of color combinations for a particular multi-color image application is larger than a prescribed memory capacity (e.g 264 addresses for use with an aeronautical color chart), the color/shade code combinations may be subjected to a neighborhood thinning process or processed by correlating each sixteen bit code with a (reference) set of prescribed patterns through which the additional compression process for obtaining the one-bit per pixel bit rate is achieved.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a system for compressing and reconstructing color aeronautical chart image data in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic illustration of a matrix of sampling points for a color aeronautical chart processed by the system of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic illustration of an enlarged portion of the matrix of FIG. 2 showing map features therein in greater detail;
FIG. 4 is a diagrammatic illustration of a chrominance/luminance clustering histogram of the map features detailed in FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a diagrammatic illustration of an enlarged portion of the matrix portion of FIG. 3 showing map features thereof in greater detail;
FIG. 6 is a diagrammatic illustration of an enlarged portion of the matrix portion of FIG. 5 showing map features thereof in greater detail; and
FIG. 7 shows respective color segment portions of which the matrix pattern of FIG. 6 is comprised.
Referring now to FIG. 1, there is shown a block diagram of a system for compressing and reconstructing aeronautical color chart images in accordance with the present invention. Before describing, in detail, the components, interconnection and operation of the system of FIG. 1, it should be observed that the invention resides primarily in a novel combination of conventional data/signal processing circuits and not in the particular detailed configurations thereof. Accordingly, the structure, control and arrangement of such conventional circuits have been illustrated in FIG. 1 in block diagram format which shows only those specific details that are pertinent to the invention, so as not to obscure the disclosure with structural details which will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art having the benefit of the description herein. Thus, the block diagram illustration does not necessarily represent the mechanical structural arrangement of the exemplary system, but is intended primarily to illustrate the majoral structural components of the system in a convenient functional grouping, so that the present invention may be more readily understood.
As described briefly above, the inventive system is directed to a scheme for compressing color aeronautical chart images for storage in a medium that may be readily incorporated with present day vehicles (e.g. aircraft) for reconstructing a display image in display equipment thereon. For purposes of the present description, the display equipment will be assumed to be a conventional cathode ray tube color display having an image display matrix of 512�512 picture elements (pixels). Pursuant to the compression capability of the invention, the image of an aeronautical color chart to be displayed is encoded digitally and the digital encoding representation is compressed to provide an effective one bit per pixel bit rate.
At the front end of the system, wherein the aeronautical chart is prepared for storage in an electronically accessible data base, such as a magnetic tape or disk, the chart itself is presumed to be a color map containing various geographical data including elevation and cultural terrain features, such as lakes, rivers, rock formations, vegetation, as well as man made features such as roads, towns, etc.
In the system shown in FIG. 1, a color aeronautical chart 11 is placed on a flat surface, such as a table, within the field of view 13 of an imaging camera 12, such as a conventional television raster scan camera. Camera output signals respective of basic color components (red, blue, green) of the image of the map are digitized by analog-to-digital converter 14 to produce a matrix of digital code values, each of which is comprised of a prescribed number of bits (e.g. eight) representative of the shade of gray for each respective basic color component (red, blue and green) at a matrix of sample points in the field of view of the camera, corresponding to a matrix of picture elements to be displayed (here, corresponding to 512�512 pixel matrix).
A diagrammatic illustration of a 512�512 matrix of sampling points of the aeronautical chart image as viewed by camera 12 is shown in FIG. 2. For purposes of the diagrammatic illustrations to be described below, FIG. 2 is shown as a gridwork of 8�8 blocks 31-1 . . . 31-4, each of which contains a matrix of 64�64 sampling points. In order to facilitate an understanding of the present invention, the manner in which map features located in one of the blocks of sampling points of FIG. 2 is processed will be described. For this purpose, as shown in FIG. 2, block 31-27 is shown as containing three respective terrain features each having its own respective color. Specifically, in that portion of the color aeronautical chart 11 defined by block 31-27, there are a lake 42, a surrounding forest 43, and a river 45 flowing into the lake. On the aeronautical chart, the lake has a dark blue color, while the river flowing into the lake is of a lighter blue color, with a surrounding forest a dark green color. Thus, for each of the (64�64) sample points lying within block 31-27, the output of A-D converter 14 will produce respective 24 bit codes (eight red bits, eight green bits, eight blue bits) which, in the present example, will correspond to one of the dark blue, light blue or dark green colors of the terrain features of the lake, river or forest.
Analysis of color usage in aeronautical charts has revealed that only a relatively small number (usually about 10) of unique colors are used in preparing aeronautical charts. Of these colors, only a small number may have different color shade values (shades of gray). In fact, as documented by various Defense Mapping Agency map production specifications, there are typically no more than sixteen combination of colors and shades of gray in an aeronautical chart. To take advantage of this numerical limitation in the color/shades of gray combinations of a color aeronautical chart, the compression scheme according to the present invention initially performs a basic color (R,B,G)-to-luminance/chrominance (Y,I,Q) transform operation to convert the color data into a format which may be significantly compressed through cluster/histogram processing.
More specifically, as shown in FIG. 1, the output of analog-to-digital converter 14 (which produces for each pixel/sampling point a multi-bit code representative of the three basic colors of red, blue and green (8-red bits, 8-blue bits and 8-green bits)) is coupled to a color transform unit 15 which converts the red, green and blue-representative data into luminance (Y) and chrominance (in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q)) representative data. At this point, there is no compression of the data, but simply a color space transformation. To effect the luminance/chrominance transformation from the red, green and blue color-representative data produced by converter 14, color transform unit 15 is comprised of a set of matrix multipliers, which may be implemented either combinational logic or through a suitably programmed data processor. Since RGB/YIQ transform algorithms are well known, no further description of the make-up of unit 15 will be described. What is important here is that the original color data for each sample point of the aeronautical chart 11 has been transformed to the luminance/chrominance domain, which considerably simplifies further processing, as will be described below.
The output of transform unit 15 is coupled to a luminance/chrominance clustering processor 16 which produces a histogram of the chrominance portion of each of the data values for the respective sample points of the image of interest. In the histogram, the I and Q chrominance values will tend to clump or "cluster" into regions representative of the distinct colors of the image. Within these regions in which the chrominance values have been clustered, the luminance values of the sample point will also tend to cluster around some shade-of-gray level. These respective chrominance and luminance clusters, with which the respective color data values produced by color transform unit 15 are associated, are then used to assign a specific cluster representative code for each sample value to effect an initial six-to-one compression of the data sample values.
To facilitate an understanding of this process, attention is directed to FIG. 3 which shows an enlarged portion of sample point block 31-27 of FIG. 2 in which the lake 42 is shown as residing in the central four of a matrix of sixteen blocks 41-1 . . . 41-16 of sample points, each block comprising a 16�16 array of points. River 45 is shown as extending through blocks 41-10, 41-12 and 41-13, with both the river 45 and the lake 42 being surrounded by the green foliage of the forest 43. A luminance/chrominance clustering histogram of the three color components of the chart image represented in FIG. 3 is shown in FIG. 4. For the present example, each of the sample points lying in the green forest portion of the image is shown as occupying a region in the I,Q plane having some shade of gray value (Y component), creating a three dimensional (Y,I,Q) cluster 46. In the illustration of FIG. 4, the darkest shades of gray are considered to lie in the IQ plane, while lighter shades are considered to have an increasingly significant Y component. In the present example, it is assumed that the color of the forest area 43 is a relatively dark green so that the color components of the chrominance samples are clustered in the vicinity of the I,Q plane as shown at 46.
The other two color components of the image portion employed in the present example are the dark blue color of the lake 42 and the light blue color of the river 45. In the I,Q plane, the blue components are shown in a region spaced apart from the green region. The darker blue color of the lake 42 is delineated by cluster 47 while the lighter blue color of the river 45 is delineated by cluster 48, which has a more pronounced luminance (Y) component because of its lighter shade of gray.
For the purpose of effecting the cluster histogram through which the color values of the respective samples produced by transform unit 15 are assigned, cluster processor 16 preferably employs a nearest neighbor algorithm, such as that described in chapter 6.10 entitled "Hierarchical Clustering", in the text "Pattern Classification and Scene Analysis", by R. O. Duda et al, John Wiley & Sons publishers. In the clustering processor, with each of the colors of the image having been defined by a respective (Y,I,Q) cluster, each of the twenty-four bit sample values is converted into a new data code value representative of the effective centroid of the cluster with which its particular color value as produced by transform unit 15 is associated. Thus, for the three color image of FIG. 3, having the corresponding three clusters 46, 47 and 48 of FIG. 4, each sample value of the image may be encoded using only a two bit code. In actuality, however, a typical aeronautical color chart contains up to sixteen color combinations, as described above, and therefore will produce a sixteen cluster histogram; a four bit code is therefore required for assigning the centroid of the cluster of each color of interest within the aeronautical chart. For the present example, only three of the color/shade combinations have been described in order to simplify the illustration.
As is the case with the color transform unit 15, cluster processing unit 16 may comprise either combinational logic or a processor, programmed to implement the above-referenced nearest neighbor algorithm for compressing twenty-four bit luminance/chrominance data values for each of the sample points supplied by transform unit 15 into four bit codes representative of one of sixteen possible color/shade cluster centroids in the cluster histogram in the Y,I,Q space, as illustrated in FIG. 4 (for the three color example presently described).
In order to achieve the sought-after 24:1 compression ratio, namely an effective bit rate of one bit per pixel, a further 4:1 compression of the four bits per pixel produced by clustering processor 16 is carried out. To facilitate an understanding of this process, attention is directed to FIG. 5 which shows an enlarged portion of one of the 16�16 sample point blocks of FIG. 3. Specifically, FIG. 5 shows a portion of the river 45 and surrounding forest 43 in block 41-13 of FIG. 3 In FIG. 5, block 41-13 is shown as a matrix of 16 blocks of sample points each containing a 4�4 arrangement of sample points One of these 4�4 sample point blocks, specifically block 51-1, containing a portion of river 42 and surrounding forest 43 is shown in enlarged format in FIG. 6. In FIG. 6, block 51-1 is shown as comprised of sixteen sample points/pixels 61-1 . . . 61-16 falling within the original 512�512 sample point image. On the actual aeronautical color chart, each of sample points/pixels 61-16 . . . 61-16 has some color value which, through the operation of transform unit 15 and cluster processor 16, has been compressed to one of sixteen 4-bit color/shade cluster combination codes. From FIG. 6, it can be seen that the 4�4 sample point/pixel matrix is, in effect, a color combination pattern, wherein each of sample points/pixels 61-1 and 61-5 through 61-8 has a compressed code value corresponding to the light blue cluster of FIG. 4, whereas sample points/pixels 61-2 . . . 61-4 and 61-9 . . . 61-16 have a compressed (four-bit) code value corresponding to cluster 46, representing the green of the forest surrounding the river 42.
FIG. 7 shows the specific assignment of compressed (four-bit) cluster color code values for the sample point/pixels of FIG. 6, with code G corresponding to the sample points/pixels lying in the dark green forest region 43 and color code value B corresponding to the sample points/pixels lying in the light blue river region 42.
In the course of the development of the present invention, numerous color aeronautical charts were analyzed and it was observed that for a digitized chart image, the number of distinct colors in a reasonably confined sample point/pixel neighborhood (e.g. a 4�4 neighborhood as illustrated in FIG. 6) is relatively small. As a result, the number of possible distinct color combinations in that neighborhood is also small. It turns out that the number of color combinations within any 4�4 sample point/pixel neighborhood in the aeronautical chart image is always less than or equal to 216. As a result, it is possible to obtain a 4:1 compression ratio of the cluster code values produced by clustering processor 16 through a lookup table having 264 memory locations each having a sixteen bit (color combination pattern) capacity. Such a lookup table is effectively what is contained in an encoder 21 which is coupled to the output of clustering processor 16.
More particularly, the output of clustering processor 16 is supplied to a lookup table 21 in groups of sixty-four bits representative of the cluster codes of each sample point/pixel a 4�4 neighborhood. Referring again to FIG. 6, which shows such a 4�4 neighborhood, it is to be recalled that each sample point/pixel is represented by a four bit code representing one of the sixteen possible color/shade cluster combinations, a portion of which are illustrated in FIG. 4 described above for the three color components of the sample of the lake 42, forest 43 and river 45 feeding the lake 42 shown in enlarged format in FIG. 3. Thus, clustering processor 16 couples respective sixty-four bit cluster code values (for respective 4�4 sample point/pixel neighborhoods) as input words for addressing a lookup table 21. The output of lookup table 21 is a sixteen bit code representative of one of up to 216 neighborhood color code combinations of which an aeronautical color chart may be formed. In other words, for each sixty-four bit input to lookup table 21, there is produced a sixteen bit output or, in effect, a one bit-per-pixel bit rate. At the output of lookup table 21, the compressed data is stored in a suitable compact and light weight memory medium, such as a magnetic tape 22.
To reconstruct the compressed data, the storage medium 22 is coupled through a suitable playback mechanism and applied to a reconstruction lookup table or decoder 23 which corresponds to an inverse of the 4:1 compression ratio lookup table 21 in the compression processor. The output of lookup table 23 is then applied to a chrominance/luminance-to-primary color reproduction table 24 to reconstruct the original eight bits per basic color data values that were obtained from the original imaging unit (camera 12 and digitizer 14). The output of unit 24 is then coupled to the reconstruction display unit 25 for providing a display of the aeronautical color chart.
As pointed out above, analysis of the color combination patterns in a small (4�4) neighborhood grouping of sample point/pixels of an image of an aeronautical color chart permits the use of a lookup table, thereby simplifying the implementation of the compression mechanism for obtaining the 4:1 compression of the cluster codes provided by cluster processor 16 to obtain the sought after one bit-per pixel bit rate. If the characteristics of the color image being processed results in a number of color combinations within a small pixel neighborhood being larger than the practical 216 number described here, the small neighborhood still can be represented with a sixteen bit number by allowing errors during reconstruction or by the use of a thinning process to effectively match substantially similar neighborhood patterns which may differ in only one or two sample point/pixel locations to a pattern having high correlation properties with each pattern. In fact, a nearest neighborhood processing technique corresponding to that of the cluster processing carried out by clustering processor 16 may be employed for this purpose. In this connection, it should be observed that the number 216 is not critical to the practice of the invention, but is simply a convenient value that simplifies processing in the 512�512 pixel matrix of a typical color display, wherein eight bits per color are as signed for encoding the respective basic colors produced by the imaging opto-electronic components of the image digitizing unit and the fact that a typical aeronautical color chart contains no more than sixteen colors/shade combinations. As the parametric values for these respective components change, there is a corresponding change within the data groupings within the compression process for achieving the sought after one bit per pixel bit rate for archival storage.
As will be appreciated from the foregoing description, through the use of cluster processing and the recognition that the characteristics of a color aeronautical chart produce a manageable number of color patterns for small-numbered sample point neighborhoods, a highly simplified compression and reconstruction processing mechanism is afforded which offers an effective bit rate of one bit per pixel with high reconstruction quality and low implementation complexity.
While we have shown and described an embodiment in accordance with the present invention, it is understood that the same is not limited thereto but is susceptible of numerous changes and modifications as known to a person skilled in the art, and we therefore do not wish to be limited to the details shown and described herein but intend to cover all such changes and modifications as are obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art.
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