Logbook with multimedia function

• US 20140039717A1
• Filed: 07/30/2013
• Published: 02/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH (Airbus SE)
• Original Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH (Airbus SE)
• Inventors: Henkel, Wolfram
• Granted Patent: US 10,049,081 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/30 Transportation; Communications
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2205/02 using a vehicle scan tool
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0858 wherein the data carrier is removable
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0866 the electronic data carrier being a digital video recorder in combination with video camera

Abstract

A system for documenting the state of a component, for example a component present on board a transport device; the use of such a system in a transport device; a transport device having such a system; an associated method for documenting the state of a component; and a computer program for executing the method. The transport device may be an aircraft. The system comprises a central logbook equipment and at least one mobile recording device, the mobile recording device comprising a recording unit for recording items of multimedia information relating to the state of the component, and a transmitting unit for transmitting the recorded items of multimedia information to the central logbook equipment. The central logbook equipment is configured to generate a multimedia logbook entry on the basis of the transmitted items of multimedia information, and to store the generated multimedia logbook entry.

Claims

1. A system for documenting the state of a component, the system comprising:

a central logbook equipment; and

at least one mobile recording device, the mobile recording device comprising

a recording unit for recording items of multimedia information relating to the state of the component, and

a transmitting unit for transmitting the recorded items of multimedia information, relating to the state of the component, to the central logbook equipment;

the central logbook equipment being configured to generate a multimedia logbook entry on the basis of the transmitted items of multimedia information, and to store the generated multimedia logbook entry.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein said component comprises a component present on board a means of transport.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein said means of transport comprises an aircraft.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the transmitting unit and the central logbook equipment is further configured to transmit at least a part of the recorded items of multimedia information to a control center.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein said component comprises a component present on board a means of transport and said control center is outside of the means of transport.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile recording device further comprises a locating unit for at least one of determining the position of the mobile recording device and determining the position of the component.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile recording device comprises an identification unit for identifying the component.

8. The system according to claim 7, wherein the identification unit is at least one of configured to read out a code identifying the component and to identify the component on the basis of the read-out code, and configured to identify the code by means of imaging methods.

9. A means of transport having the system according to claim 1.

11. A method for documenting the state of a component, the method comprising:

recording items of multimedia information relating to the state of the component, by means of a mobile recording device;

transmitting the recorded items of multimedia information, relating to the state of the component, to a central logbook equipment;

generating a multimedia logbook entry on the basis of the transmitted items of multimedia information, by means of the central logbook equipment; and

storing the generated multimedia logbook entry in the central logbook equipment.

10. A means of transport according to claim 11 comprising an aircraft.

12. The method according to claim 11, the method further comprising at least one of the following steps:

transmitting the recorded items of multimedia information to a control center by means of the mobile recording device; and

transmitting at least a part of the stored multimedia logbook entry to a control center by means of the central logbook equipment.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein the component is present on board a means of transport and wherein the control center is located outside of the means of transport.

14. The method according to claim 11, wherein the component is present on board a means of transport.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the means of transport comprises an aircraft.

16. The method according to claim 11, wherein the method further comprises at least one of determining a position of the mobile recording device and determining a position of the component.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the step of determining the position of at least one of the recording device and the component occurs upon recording of the items of multimedia information relating to the state of the component.

18. The method according to claim 11, wherein the method further comprises identifying the component.

19. A computer program, comprising program code means, which, when loaded into a computer or processor, or when running on a computer or processor, causes the computer or processor to execute a method according to claim 11.

20. A program storage medium or computer program product comprising the computer program according to claim 19.