FLIGHT INFORMATION STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING SAME FOR AIRPLANE

• US 20170217601A1
• Filed: 07/22/2015
• Published: 08/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sang-Rae Park, Starnex Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Sang-Rae Park, Starnex Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: PARK, Sang-Rae
• Granted Patent: US 10,934,015 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 2045/0065 Black boxes, devices automatically broadcasting distress signals
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 2045/0075 Adaptations for use of electronic flight bags in aircraft; Supports therefor in the cockpit
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 43/00 Arrangements or adaptations of instruments arrangements of cameras B64D47/08; aeronautical measuring instruments per se G01C
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 45/00 Aircraft indicators or protectors not otherwise provided for camouflage F41H3/00
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 47/08 Arrangements of cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 9/00 Recording measured values
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/89 for mapping or imaging
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0841 Registering performance data recording measured values G01D; information storage G11B
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/165 Control of aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

A flight information storage system for an airplane according to the present invention may include: one or more of a video acquiring device mounted on the airplane; a recording device for recording video acquired through the video acquiring device(s) during a flight of the airplane; and a travel storage device which simultaneously stores the video data recorded by the recording device. Here, the travel storage device may be a USB cartridge, and the video acquiring device may be one or both of a digital camera and a radar device. The digital camera may include a first digital camera that is installed in front of the cockpit of the airplane to capture an image to the front of the airplane during flight, and two or more second digital cameras installed behind the cockpit of the airplane to capture an image of the instrument panel of the airplane and the area surrounding the instrument panel.

Claims

1. An aviation information storage system for an aircraft, comprising:

one or more image obtaining devices mounted in the aircraft;

a recording device configured to record images obtained through the image obtaining devices during a flying process of the aircraft;

a portable storage device configured to synchronously store image data recorded by the recording device; and

an event signal generator configured to be connected to equipment of an instrument panel that generates an event and to generate a trigger signal when an event situation is generated by operating the instrument panel during a flying process of the aircraft,

wherein when the trigger signal is received, the recording device synchronizes data related to the corresponding event with a corresponding event image to display the data related to the event in a certain area of the corresponding event image that is record or display in real time or the corresponding event image that is recorded and then regenerated.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable storage device is a universal serial bus (USB) cartridge.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the image obtaining device is one or both a digital camera and a radar device.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the digital camera comprises a first digital camera installed in front of a cockpit of the aircraft to take an image of the front of the aircraft that is flying and two or more digital cameras installed in the rear of the cockpit of the aircraft to take images of an instrument panel of the aircraft and surroundings thereof.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the aircraft is a military aircraft, the event signal generator is connected to offensive military equipment of the aircraft and generates a trigger signal when the corresponding offensive military equipment is operated, and data related to an event, generated by the recording device, is data for displaying an operation time of a pilot with respect to the corresponding offensive military equipment during the corresponding operation in ms ( 1/1000 second) when the offensive military equipment is operated.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein when the trigger signal is input from the event signal generator, the recording device inserts a beginning code and a completion code into an image obtained for a time preset for each type of the trigger signal, and

wherein the recording device further stores an event image distinguished by the beginning code and the completion code as a separate file.

7. An aviation information storage system for an aircraft, comprising:

one or more image obtaining devices mounted in the aircraft;

a recording device configured to record images obtained by the image obtaining devices during a flying process of the aircraft; and

a portable storage device configured to synchronously store image data recorded by the recording device,

wherein the recording device is loaded with a recording program capable of dividedly displaying images obtained through two or more obtaining devices and simultaneously transmitted on one screen and simultaneously displaying only one image selected as necessary and a regeneration program capable of displaying one image selected from the images dividedly displayed on one screen on overall screen.

8. An aviation information storage system for an aircraft, comprising:

one or more image obtaining devices mounted in the aircraft;

a recording device configured to record images obtained by the image obtaining devices during a flying process of the aircraft;

a portable storage device configured to synchronously store image data recorded by the recording device; and

a monitor installed inside the aircraft to display the images obtained by the image obtaining devices,

wherein the monitor is connected to an electrical connection line of the image obtaining devices and the recording device in parallel and includes a function of regenerating the images obtained by the image obtaining devices in real time or a function of regenerating the image data stored in the recording device or the portable storage device.

9. A method of storing aviation information for an aircraft, comprising:

obtaining images for each of a plurality of image obtaining devices mounted in the aircraft while the aircraft is flying;

recording, by a recording device, the images obtained for each of the image obtaining devices; and

synchronously store image data recorded through the recording device in a portable storage device,

wherein the obtaining of the images for each of the plurality of image obtaining devices mounted in the aircraft comprises;

generating and transmitting, by an event signal generator connected to pieces of equipment of an instrument panel of the aircraft when an event situation is generated by operating the instrument panel, a trigger signal for each of the pieces of equipment of the instrument panel that generates an event, to the recording device; and

generating, by the recording device, data related to the corresponding event according to reception of the trigger signal and then synchronizing the generated data with a corresponding event image to record together by the recording device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the generating and transmitting, by the event signal generator connected to the pieces of equipment of the instrument panel of the aircraft when the event situation is generated by operating the instrument panel, the trigger signal for each of the pieces of equipment of the instrument panel that generates the event to the recording device comprises:

operating a corresponding piece of operation equipment of the instrument panel to perform an offensive military function of offensive military equipment of a the aircraft that is a fighter plane;

generating, by the event signal generator connected to the corresponding piece of equipment, the trigger signal when operating the operation equipment of the instrument panel for operating the offensive military equipment;

generating, by the recording device that receives the trigger signal, data for visually displaying an operation time of a pilot with respect to the corresponding offensive military equipment in ms ( 1/1000 second) based on one time operation of the offensive military equipment; and

synchronizing the data for visually displaying in ms ( 1/1000 second), generated by the recording device, with a corresponding event image to transmit to the recording device.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the obtaining of the images for each of the plurality of image obtaining devices mounted in the aircraft while the aircraft is flying comprises inserting, by the recording device, a beginning code and a completion code into an image obtained for a preset time when the trigger signal is input from the event signal generator, and

wherein the recording, by the recording device, the images obtained for each of the image obtaining devices comprises storing an event image distinguished according to the beginning code and the completion code as a separate file.

12. A method of storing aviation information for an aircraft, comprising:

obtaining images for each of a plurality of image obtaining devices mounted in the aircraft while the aircraft is flying;

recording the images obtained for each of the image obtaining devices by a recording device; and

synchronously storing image data recorded by the recording device in a portable storage device,

wherein the recording of the images obtained for each of the image obtaining device by the recording device comprises;

selecting one image obtaining device among the image obtaining devices to dividedly display the obtained images with images of the other image obtaining devices;

recording images obtained by the selected image obtaining device among the image obtaining devices and simultaneously transmitted to the recording device to be dividedly displayed in one screen; and

outputting image data recorded to be dividedly displayed based on one screen by the recording device to regenerate only one image selected during a regeneration process while being enlarged to an overall screen.