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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8022843 | Wireless aircraft sensor network A method and apparatus in a sensor network in an aircraft for collecting data about the aircraft. The sensor network in the aircraft collects the data about the aircraft. The sensor network comprises a set of wireless sensors attached to a first set of locations for... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7952492 | Landing assistance device and method for aircraft A landing assistance device and method for an aircraft according to the invention, based on the landing procedure rules attached to the runway, a lower threshold and an upper threshold of total energy acceptable for the aircraft are determined and the current total ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7940196 | System and method for indicating the field of view of a three dimensional display on a two dimensional display An aircraft display system is provided that is configured to render a perspective display having a field of view. The aircraft display system includes a monitor and a processor coupled to the monitor. The processor is configured to generate a map display on the moni... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7898435 | Optical system for detecting and displaying aircraft position and environment during landing and takeoff A system and method uses light signals to detect and display the position of an airborne vehicle, such as a helicopter, during takeoff or landing or low speed, low altitude operation. A transmitter on the vehicle emits light signals while an optical receiver retriev... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7834779 | System and method for increasing visibility of critical flight information on aircraft displays System and method increase the visibility of critical flight information on electronic displays. An aircraft display system includes a processing unit, a flight management system, a navigation system, a database for storing target data and terrain data, a graphics d... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7764198 | Aircraft standby display device An aircraft standby display device includes a set of data sources, a data processing unit, and a display. The display presents altitude control indicators representing speed, altitude, attitude, and a heading scale that includes a characteristic symbol indicating a ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7679529 | Method and apparatus for indicating operational state of aircraft engine A method and a system for indicating a target idle running speed, a predicted core speed, a predicted time to running, current engine state or automation modes of an operating aircraft engine, and indicating that the current core speed of the aircraft engine is less... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7642929 | Helicopter brown-out landing An electromagnetic emissions free optical signal based helicopter landing assistance arrangement wherein helicopter rotor wash dust cloud-caused obfuscation of the intended landing site and other landing threats are overcome. Real time optical sourced data is collec... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7561067 | Airspeed / wind speed measurement device for aircraft, and display device for same A measurement system for an aircraft having the three-axis components of the airspeed of the aircraft, the three-axis components of the wind speed currently encountered by the aircraft, and the wind speed distribution ahead of the aircraft simultaneously in real tim... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7489257 | Traffic law violation recording and transmitting system Presented herein is a system that enables a vehicle operator to record continuous images of surrounding traffic activity, wherein the vehicle is equipped with a video camera 20 for continuously recording the vehicle surroundings. The system further comprises ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7432828 | Dynamic lateral deviation display A method of dynamically displaying lateral deviation in formats on a display is provided. The method comprises assigning one or more positional boundaries for displaying the lateral deviation information, wherein the one or more positional boundaries define areas on... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7386374 | Methods, data structures, and systems to configure avionic equipment with profile data Methods, data structures, and systems are provided for configuring avionic equipment with profile data. Profile data is defined, stored, and/or retrieved. The profile data is used to configure one or more display fields of the avionic equipment, display units of mea... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7342514 | Display of automatic dependent surveillance (ADS-B) information on head-up display A head-up display (HUD) is disclosed. The HUD is provided on board an aircraft. The HUD comprises a projector and a combiner. The combiner enables viewing of the world outside of the combiner and also allows viewing of information provided from the projector. A comp... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342512 | Aircraft flat panel display system A flat panel display system for an aircraft display includes a graphics rendering computer for rendering of anti-aliased graphical imaging data derived from aircraft sensors for full-field imaging on a cockpit display screen. A comparator processor independently gen... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342515 | Hybrid centered head-down aircraft attitude display and method for calculating displayed drift angle limit Methods and apparatus are provided for displaying terrain and attitude data symbology for an aircraft. The apparatus is a hybrid centered head-down display for an aircraft having a monitor configured to generate a display and a processor coupled to the display. The ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7327284 | Smart altitude callout for helicopters A method, computer software product, and system to generate altitude callouts according to proximity to a runway at an airport or heliport includes determining whether the helicopter is flying in proximity to the runway and automatically selecting an altitude thresh... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321318 | Methods and systems for controlling the display of information at an aircraft flight deck Methods and systems for displaying aircraft operations information are disclosed. A method in accordance with one embodiment includes receiving operations information, presenting a first portion of the information over a first area of a display medium having a first... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7312725 | Display system for operating a device with reduced out-the-window visibility A display system for a device with reduced out-the-window visibility includes a display processor that receives an image from a sensor, wherein the sensor is capable of providing a continuously updated image of an area outside the device that is obscured from view o... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7309048 | Vision system and method incorporating graphics symbology for use in a tanker refueling system A vision system and method for use on a refueling tanker to assist a boom operator in performing an airborne refueling operation on a receiver aircraft. The system includes a digital camera system, a sensor subsystem and a processing system that receives information... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305286 | System and method for gyro enhanced vertical flight information A flight instrument and associated method where vertical speed information is combined with gyro information to produce gyro enhanced vertical speed information that is displayed to a pilot. The gyro information may include a pitch rate gyro and may include an azimu... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295135 | Flight information system A flight instrument displays azimuth information in combination with horizon information and other optional information such as altitude and/or airspeed. Azimuth information is displayed using an elliptical pattern placed below a horizon line displaying horizon info... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286911 | Aircraft pilot assistance system and method A system and method for assisting a pilot to recover the aircraft from a variety of dangerous situations involving one or more of the following: altitude, airspeed, attitude, roll rate, and a partial equipment failure in the control panel. In accordance with the inv... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283064 | System and method for facilitating target aiming and aircraft control using aircraft displays An improved system and method are disclosed for facilitating target aiming and aircraft control by flight crews using electronic displays. For example, an aircraft display system is disclosed that includes a database for storing target location and boundary data, a ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7272471 | Computer-readable media, methods, and systems for computer tactical operation Computer-readable media, methods, and systems for computer tactical operation are provided. First computer program code to facilitate a communication with a remote station. Second computer program code to identify from the communication a position of the remote stat... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268702 | Apparatus and methods for providing a flight display in an aircraft Apparatus and methods are provided for flight instruments in an electronic format. The flight instruments may appear in a standard configuration, including both primary flight instruments and secondary flight instruments. The apparatus and methods may also provide s... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7256710 | Methods and systems for graphically displaying sources for and natures of aircraft flight control instructions Methods and systems for graphically displaying sources for aircraft flight control instructions are disclosed. A method in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes displaying at a display medium a map of a region at least proximate to an aircraft and... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7237747 | Device for assisting an airplane in intercepting a segment of a flight path utilizing positional and ground speed indicators Device assisting with interception by an aircraft of a flight path segment located in a horizontal plane and a system of assistance with interception and follow-up of such a segment. The device includes means of determining a ground speed vector and means of display... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7219011 | Vertical deviation indication and prediction system A vertical deviation indicator and predictor includes a vertical deviation scale having a plurality of vertically spaced markers, one of the markers indicating the vehicle's present vertical position. Current vertical flight path segment symbols are selectively supe... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218245 | Head-down aircraft attitude display and method for displaying schematic and terrain data symbology Methods and apparatus are provided for displaying terrain data symbology for an aircraft. The apparatus is a heads-down display for an aircraft having a monitor configured to generate a display and a processor coupled to the display. The display has a centerline. Th... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215256 | Method and apparatus for displaying attitude, heading, and terrain data A method for displaying attitude, heading, and navigation data on a single display is described. The method comprises configuring the display with terrain data, overlaying the terrain display with a compass rose display, and superimposing an attitude direction indic... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212216 | Perspective view primary flight display with terrain-tracing lines and method A display system and method are provided for a vehicle that includes a processor and a display. The processor is adapted to receive terrain data and navigation data operable, in response thereto, to supply one or more image rendering display commands. The display de... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212107 | Odometer system and method for a vehicle A mileage display system includes a control unit operatively connected to an ignition switch of a motorcycle that obtains the accumulated mileage by accumulating a pulse signal produced according to running of the motorcycle. The control unit records odometer data i... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209053 | System and method for displaying validity of airport visual approach slope indicators An improved system and method are disclosed for indicating the validity of airport runway visual approach slope indicators on an aircraft display. An aircraft display system is provided, which includes a database for storing data about the specific visual approach s... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7205907 | Non linear tape display A graphical display of a nonlinear scale emulating the view of a mechanical drum gauge. The nonlinear scale may be used for the display of aircraft flight data including airspeed, altitude, heading, and other aircraft data suitable for presentation on a nonlinear sc... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7190390 | LCD tile display A liquid crystal display system having a plurality of liquid crystal display (LCD) units arranged in a tile configuration. The units simultaneously display different data as determined by the channelization. Each channel controls the operation of one or more units a... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7188007 | Apparatuses and methods for displaying and receiving tactical and strategic flight guidance information Methods and apparatuses for displaying and receiving tactical and strategic flight guidance information. A method in accordance with one aspect of the invention includes displaying at least one first indicator to an operator of the aircraft, with a first indicator c... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187303 | Flight timer A timer usable in navigating and piloting an aircraft, the timer having a plurality of application modes for management of time and numeric data, including an approach mode, a fuel mode, a chronograph mode and a clock mode. Each application mode can drive independen... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7164366 | Process and device for detecting on an aircraft an overshoot of design loads at the level of a structural part of said aircraft A process and device for detecting on an aircraft an overshoot of design loads at the level of a structural part of the aircraft. The detection device includes a speed measuring device for measuring an effective speed of the aircraft. A first comparator compares the... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161500 | Display device for aircraft and method for displaying detected threats This invention concerns a display device for aircraft comprising a display surface (15) that has a punctual marking (11) arranged so as to represent the pilot's own airplane and one or more threat markings, each of which is arranged so as to represent ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161501 | Historical analysis of aircraft flight parameters Method and system for analyzing and displaying one or more present flight parameter values FP(t) of an aircraft in motion at a measurement time tn, and for comparing the present flight parameter value with a selected percentage band, containing historical... | 01/09/2007 |
