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Synthetic airborne hazard display

  • US 6,828,922 B1
  • Filed: 11/22/2000
  • Issued: 12/07/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/09/1998
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An aircraft-based weather information sharing and display device comprising:

  • at a ground station;

    reception equipment for receiving weather parameters from a plurality of weather-sensing sources;

    processing equipment for generating a refined weather information report, based on said received weather parameters, using data compression techniques to reduce the size of said weather information report; and

    transmission equipment for uplinking said refined data-compressed weather information report to a plurality of aircraft; and

    at an aircraft;

    standard weather information gathering equipment for detecting local weather parameters characterizing a weather condition in the vicinity of the aircraft;

    transmission equipment for transmitting said local weather parameters to said ground station;

    reception equipment for receiving said refined data-compressed weather information report uplinked by said ground station;

    storage equipment for storing received said weather information report and said detected local weather parameters;

    picture generating equipment for generating symbolic pictorial information based on the received refined weather information and said detected local weather parameters; and

    weather information display equipment, coupled to the picture generating equipment, for displaying pictorial polygons indicating the dynamic behavior of said weather condition and a future prediction of the behavior of said weather condition, wherein said displayed pictorial polygons of said dynamic behavior and said future prediction presents an intensity indication of said weather conditions, the intensity indication is unrelated to direction of travel.

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