Awareness enhancing display for aircraft
First Claim
1. A method of alerting an aircraft crew of a relevant condition, the method comprising:
- receiving information from an aircraft warning system regarding a condition;
displaying an awareness-enhancing indication on a touchscreen display in an aircraft cockpit, the awareness-enhancing indication being communicated to a user, the indication suggesting a need to investigate the existence of the condition; and
locating the awareness-enhancing indication about a substantial portion of a periphery of the display.
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Abstract
Systems, methods and computer-storage media are provided for enhancing awareness in an aircraft using a touch-screen instrument panel. In one aspect, a warning is displayed peripherally in the panel in a way that attracts attention without interfering with the use of the panel for other purposes. In another aspect, a crew member is directed by highlighting through menus to a screen that enables the problem causing the warning to be corrected. In another aspect, parameters (e.g., temperatures, pressures) are displayed along with oriented graphical representations of system components. In yet another aspect, aircraft parameters are displayed in a historical context so that the user has a time-line context for a value at issue.
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24 Claims
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1. A method of alerting an aircraft crew of a relevant condition, the method comprising:
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receiving information from an aircraft warning system regarding a condition; displaying an awareness-enhancing indication on a touchscreen display in an aircraft cockpit, the awareness-enhancing indication being communicated to a user, the indication suggesting a need to investigate the existence of the condition; and locating the awareness-enhancing indication about a substantial portion of a periphery of the display. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 20, 21, 22)
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5. A method of operating a touchscreen display in an aircraft, the method comprising:
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receiving information regarding a real-time value for an aircraft-parameter, the parameter being relevant to a condition in an aircraft system; displaying a window including graphic representative of the physical appearance of an aircraft component relevant to the parameter on the touchscreen display the graphic reflecting a symmetrical orientation and relative location of the component, the orientation and relative location enabling a user to select said component for correction of an abnormality based on the physical appearance, symmetrical orientation, and relative location; and communicating the real-time value of the aircraft-parameter to a user proximate the graphic. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7)
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8. A method for increasing crew awareness, the method comprising:
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offering a plurality of menu items on a display in an aircraft cockpit, each of the menu items relating to a particular aircraft system; generating a first awareness-enhancing indication on a first menu item of said plurality, the first menu item being associated with a first aircraft system, and the first indication being in response to a first alert regarding a first condition, the first condition regarding a first real-time value of a first parameter relating to the first system on the aircraft; and highlighting the first menu item; and
,enabling, upon a first selection being made of the first menu item, an automatic bringing up of a first window displaying a first corrective option for changing the first condition in the first system. - View Dependent Claims (9, 23)
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10. A method of operating a touchscreen display in an aircraft, the method comprising:
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receiving information regarding a real-time value for an aircraft-parameter, the parameter being relevant to a condition in an aircraft system; and communicating the real-time value of the aircraft-parameter onto a display in the aircraft in a historical context continually displaying the real-time value while time stamping and saving a plurality of historical values, and displaying the historical values behind the continually displayed real-time value. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 24)
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13. A system comprising:
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a touch-screen device incorporated into an aircraft having a cockpit; the touch-screen device being arranged to interface with a computing system on the aircraft; the computing system being configured to receive information regarding a parameter relating to a condition in one of an electrical or a mechanical system on the aircraft; a first process operating on the computer system, the process being configured to display a system identifying graphic related to the condition on the touch-screen device; a second process operating on the computer system, the second process being configured to present an action selection graphic that when selected institutes a corrective action with respect to an aircraft component regarding the condition by interfacing with an aircraft system relating to the component. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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