Method of communicating information of an avionics system

• US 20150360796A1
• Filed: 06/03/2015
• Published: 12/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Airbus
• Original Assignee: Airbus
• Inventors: Huet, Jean-Max, Nguyen Manh, Dang, Romey, Eric
• Application Number:
  US14/729,296
• Publication Number:
  US 20150360796A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 2045/0085 Devices for aircraft health monitoring, e.g. monitoring flutter or vibration
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 45/00 Aircraft indicators or protectors not otherwise provided for camouflage F41H3/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06037 multi-dimensional coding
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10861 sensing of data fields affixed to objects or articles, e.g. coded labels postal sorting B07C3/14, conveying articles B65G47/48
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/18506 Communications with or from aircraft, i.e. aeronautical mobile service

Abstract

A method of communicating information from an avionics system connected to an avionics network of an aircraft to a receiver system connected to a second network independent of the avionics network. The method comprises the steps of producing at least one image representative of said information; displaying this image on a viewing screen of a system connected to the avionics network; acquiring the image displayed on the viewing screen by means of a mobile terminal, transmitting by means of the mobile terminal, bound for the second network, data representative of said information; receiving these data representative of said information, via the receiver system connected to the second network; and utilizing said information via the receiver system.

Claims

1. A method of communicating information from an avionics system embedded onboard an aircraft to a receiver system, the avionics system being embedded onboard the aircraft and connected to an avionics network of the aircraft, the receiver system being connected to a second network independent of said avionics network, the method comprising the following steps:

dispatching by said avionics system, via the avionics network, data representative of said information, to a system of the aircraft connected to the avionics network and comprising a viewing screen;

producing at least one image representative of said information;

displaying this image on the viewing screen;

acquiring said at least one image displayed on the viewing screen, by means of a mobile terminal,

transmitting by means of the mobile terminal, bound for the second network, data representative of said information;

receiving these data representative of said information, by means of the receiver system connected to the second network; and

utilizing said information by means of the receiver system.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, in which the data representative of said information, transmitted by means of the mobile terminal bound for the second network, correspond to said at least one image representative of said information.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, furthermore comprising a step of analyzing said at least one image by means of the receiver system, so as to decode said information.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, furthermore comprising a step of analyzing said at least one image by means of the mobile terminal so as to decode said information, in which the data representative of said information, transmitted by means of the mobile terminal bound for the second network, correspond to said information decoded by the mobile terminal.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, in which the viewing screen is a screen of the cockpit of the aircraft.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, in which said at least one image representative of said information is produced by said avionics system and the data representative of said information, transmitted by the avionics system via the avionics communication network to the system comprising the viewing screen, correspond to this at least one image.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, in which said at least one image representative of said information is produced by said system comprising the viewing screen.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, in which the transmission of the data representative of said information, from the mobile terminal bound for the second network, is carried out according to a wireless technique.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, in which the second network is a network using a wireless technique and the mobile terminal is connected to the second network.

10. The method as claimed in claim 8, in which a unit for receiving data according to a wireless technique is connected to the second network and the data representative of said information are transmitted from the mobile terminal bound for said unit for receiving data, the method furthermore comprising a step in the course of which said unit for receiving data transmits the data representative of said information, on the second network, to the receiver system.