Flight deck having a dual-view display and a method for operating same

• US 8,836,543 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2011
• Issued: 09/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Burns, Timothy Donal Paul, Kolbe, Dashiell Matthews, Ovens, Norman Leonard
• Primary Examiner(s): Lim, Steven
• Assistant Examiner(s): Knox, Kaleria
• Application Number:
  US13/173,120
• Publication Number:
  US 20130002453A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,174 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156, 345/87, 701/454, 701/3, 340/971, 340/949
• US Class Current: 340/971
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 23/00 Combined instruments indicating more than one navigational value, e.g. for aircraft; Combined measuring devices for measuring two or more variables of movement, e.g. distance, speed or acceleration

Abstract

A flight deck for an aircraft having a first display associated with a first pilot and displaying a first image comprising a first set of flight information for the first pilot and a second display associated with a second pilot and displaying a second image comprising a second set of flight information for the second pilot. The second display is a dual-view display simultaneously generating a third image along with the second image, with the second image viewable by the second pilot, but not the first pilot, the third image viewable by the first pilot, but not the second pilot, and the third image containing a subset of information from the second set of flight information.

Claims

1. A flight deck for an aircraft for use by at least a first pilot and a second pilot, comprising:

a dual-view display simultaneously generating a first image and a second image with the first image overlapping the second image and where the second image is viewable at a different viewing angle than the first image;

the dual-view display located on the flight deck such that the first image is viewable by the first pilot, but not the second pilot, and the second image is viewable by the second pilot, but not the first pilot;

wherein the first image comprises a first set of flight information displayed in a first format and the second image comprises a subset of the first set of flight information, with the subset of flight information being displayed in second format, which is different from the first format.

2. The flight deck of claim 1 wherein the second image is viewable from a viewing angle of 40 to 90 degrees left of normal of the display.

3. The flight deck of claim 1 wherein the first image is viewable from a viewing angle of 20 to 80 degrees right of normal of the display.

4. The flight deck of claim 1 wherein the first set of flight information has at least some different information than the subset of flight information.

5. The flight deck of claim 4 wherein at least some of the different information is displayed on the first image.

6. The flight deck of claim 1 wherein the subset of information is displayed in a different arrangement on the second image than on the first image.

7. A method of providing information on an aircraft flight deck having a display for a first pilot and a second pilot, the method comprising:

displaying on the display a first image comprising a first set of flight information in a first format, which is viewable by the first pilot, but not the second pilot; and

displaying on the display a second image overlapping the first image with the second image comprising a subset of the first set of flight information in a second format that is different from the first format, and the subset of flight information viewable at a different viewing angle than the first image such that it is viewable by the second pilot, but not the first pilot.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the second image is viewable from a viewing angle of 40 to 90 degrees left of normal of the display.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein the first image is viewable from a viewing angle of 20 to 80 degrees right of normal of the display.

10. The method of claim 7 wherein the first set of flight information has at least some different information than the subset of flight information.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein at least some of the different information is displayed on the first image.

12. The method of claim 7 wherein the subset of information is displayed in a different arrangement on the second image than on the first image.