Abstract: A marine docking and awareness system for facilitating docking and otherwise maneuvering vessels in marine environments. A navigation system may include a plurality of directional cameras and an image processing computer. Each directional camera generates images of the marine environment in a particular direction. The image processor processes the images from the cameras, including enhancing the images in accordance with various features. The features may include identifying and highlighting water and/or objects, adding distance markers, predicting and warning of collisions with objects, defining and adding virtual boundaries around the vessel and warning when an object crosses a boundary, automatically selecting the most relevant cameras based on the direction of movement or on an object crossing a boundary, combining multiple images from different cameras into an image, and displaying desired, projected, and historical tracks.

Abstract: A comfortable bone-affixing structure for underwear is provided to reduce pressure and discomfort imposed to wearers by the underwear's boning members such as metal wires and plastic bones. The comfortable bone-affixing structure includes a continuous flexible tube made of fabric and a cushion fixedly attached to a channel portion of the flexible tube when the flexible tube is a single layer tube or to one of layers of the flexible tube when the flexible tube has a multi-layer scroll-like vertical section. In the bone-affixing structure, the boning member is received in a space that is within the flexible tube and adjacent to or separated from the cushion. With the cushion that separates the boning member from the wearer's skin, the pressure and discomfort imposed to the wearer by the boning member can be reduced.