SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING RUNWAYS AND TERRAIN IN SYNTHETIC VISION SYSTEMS
First Claim
1. A method of displaying a runway on an aircraft display in a three dimensional manner, said method comprising:
- receiving information about a height of the runway;
receiving information about a height of at least one terrain point near the runway;
using the height of the runway to determine a plane;
using said plane to determine an adjusted height for the terrain point near the runway;
displaying the runway; and
displaying the terrain at said at least one terrain point as having the adjusted height.
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Abstract
A method and system for displaying three dimensional images of runways and terrain, as well as additional information, on one or more screens of an avionics display system is provided. The system merges elevation information for terrain points and elevation information for runway points by grouping runways together that are within a threshold distance of each other. For each group, a plane is calculated. The calculated plane is then projected onto all of the runways within the group. The plane may also be projected onto a subset of neighboring terrain points. The adjusted elevation created by the projection of the plane are then used in creating the images for display on the synthetic vision display. The result is that all of the runways within a group, along with their neighboring terrain, are displayed as being coplanar.
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24 Claims
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1. A method of displaying a runway on an aircraft display in a three dimensional manner, said method comprising:
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receiving information about a height of the runway; receiving information about a height of at least one terrain point near the runway; using the height of the runway to determine a plane; using said plane to determine an adjusted height for the terrain point near the runway; displaying the runway; and displaying the terrain at said at least one terrain point as having the adjusted height. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of displaying a plurality of runways in a three dimensional manner on an aircraft display, said method comprising:
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receiving information about a location of a first runway at an airport; receiving information about a location of a second runway at said airport; determining if said first and second runways lie within a threshold distance of each other; and displaying in a three dimensional manner both said first and second runways on said aircraft display as lying within a common plane if they are within the threshold distance from each other. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A system for displaying three dimensional images of terrain and runways on an aircraft display, said system including:
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a screen for displaying the images; a memory containing data defining a first height of a runway at a first location and a second height of the runway at a second location, said memory further including data defining a plurality of heights for a plurality of terrain points; and a controller in communication with the screen and the memory, said controller adapted to determine a plane using said first and second heights of said runway, said controller further adapted to project said plane onto a set of said plurality of terrain points, said controller further adapted to generate three dimensional images of said runway and the set of terrain points for displaying on said screen, said images depicting the runway and the set of terrain points as being coplanar. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A system for displaying three dimensional images of terrain and runways on an aircraft display, said system including:
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a screen for displaying the images; a memory containing first data defining a location of a first runway and second data defining a location of a second runway; and a controller in communication with the screen and the memory, said controller adapted determine if said first runway and said second runway lie within a threshold distance of each other, said controller further adapted to generate three dimensional images for display on said screen of said first and second runways, said images depicting the first and second runways as lying in a common plane if said first and second runways lie within the threshold distance of each other. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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