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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7965202 | System, system, module, and method for presenting an abbreviated pathway on an aircraft display unit A present novel and non-trivial system, module, and method for presenting an abbreviated pathway on a tactical display unit. A processor generates an image data set representative of a pathway and a three-dimensional perspective scene outside the aircraft using terr... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7952493 | System and method for rendering a primary flight display having an attitude frame element A flight deck display element for an aircraft includes a primary flight display rendered thereon. The primary flight display includes a primary display region having a perimeter, a perspective view of terrain corresponding to a flight deck viewpoint, and an attitude... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7903000 | Representing a holding pattern on a vertical situation display Techniques for representing a holding pattern on a vertical situation display are described. The vertical situation display has a first screen area to depict the holding pattern and second screen area to show a flight path after the holding pattern. The representati... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7696905 | Method and apparatus for controlling the operational mode of electronic devices in response to sensed conditions A system is disclosed that senses physical characteristics of an electronic device. The system controls the electronic device in response to the sensed physical characteristics. The system includes a control subsystem. The control subsystem includes a time trigger a... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7605719 | System and methods for displaying a partial images and non-overlapping, shared-screen partial images acquired from vision systems A novel and non-trivial system and methods for displaying partial images and non-overlapping images acquired by vision systems representing scene is disclosed. A system is disclosed for displaying partial images and shared, non-overlapping images on a display compri... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7440825 | Constant vertical state maintaining cueing system This invention relates to the concept of managing the rate of change of energy in a helicopter or other aeronautical vehicle. The invention uses energy management calculations to determine the maximum longitudinal and lateral inputs that can be made while still enab... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437223 | Heading reference command and control algorithm and cueing systems and methods for aircraft turn-to-target maneuvers Systems and methods are provided for determining a final heading of a turning vehicle, such as a rotorcraft. The system may include an algorithm that calculates an advance prediction of a final heading that will be achieved after control input is terminated. The sys... | 10/14/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7433765 | Fly by wire static longitudinal stability compensator system A static longitudinal stability (SLS) system provides an unobtrusive airspeed hold function that reacts to the pilot control inputs into the flight control system and the measured states of the aircraft to engage and disengage smoothly without any explicit mode sele... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7418318 | Method and HUD system for displaying unusual attitude Methods and systems are provided for displaying an unusual attitude of an aircraft in a head-up display system. The system comprises a projection unit configured to project the unusual attitude of the aircraft and a processor coupled to the LCD projection unit. The ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7403133 | Dynamic primary flight displays for unusual attitude conditions Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of dynamically transitioning into a distinct display format during unusual attitude conditions. In one embodiment, the method includes collecting attitude data, comparing current attitude to a first set attitude ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7365705 | Flight control display An aircraft flight control display for orientation of the pilot during an approach of the aircraft toward a destination has a center of the display as its fixed point. An aircraft symbol with a center depicts the longitudinal axis as well as a lateral line to depict... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365652 | Method of pilot support in landing helicopters in visual flight under brownout or whiteout conditions The invention relates to a method and system for supporting pilots in landing helicopters in visual flight under brownout or whiteout conditions. According to the invention, 3D data of the planned landing site are generated during the approach for landing, and are a... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363121 | System, method and apparatus for searching geographic area using prioritized spatial order A spatial data search method, system and apparatus for identifying particular data of significance around a reference vector through the spatial data. The method involves determining a reference vector within a spatial region for which spatial data exists, loading a... | 04/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7322236 | Process for manufacturing a triaxial piezoresistive accelerometer and relative pressure-monitoring device A manufacturing process of a semiconductor piezoresistive accelerometer includes the steps of: providing a wafer of semiconductor material; providing a membrane in the wafer over a cavity; rigidly coupling an inertial mass to the membrane; and providing, in the wafe... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7309998 | Process monitor for monitoring an integrated circuit chip A system or apparatus for monitoring an Integrated Circuit (IC) chip, comprises: a sense circuit at least partially constructed on the IC chip and configured to produce one or more sense signals each indicative of a corresponding process-dependent circuit parameter ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7307549 | Standby display aircraft management system One embodiment of the present invention includes an aircraft instrumentation system for a cockpit instrument panel having a first device associated with a first pilot of an aircraft and positioned on the instrument panel substantially in front of the first pilot. Th... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7292291 | Flat panel display having integral heater, EMI shield, and thermal sensors A flat panel display having a black mask EMI layer isolated from Vcom and tied to zero potential. The flat panel display has an integral metal heater layer and thermal sensor that are in close proximity to the liquid crystals to provide efficient heating and tempera... | 11/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7265809 | Flat panel display having integral metal heater optically hidden behind an EMI shield A flat panel display having a black mask EMI layer isolated from Vcom and tied to zero potential. The flat panel display has an integral metal heater layer and thermal sensor that are in close proximity to the liquid crystals to provide efficient heating and tempera... | 09/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7219114 | Fast approximation to the spherical linear interpolation function A method for an accurate approximation to Slerp function that is much faster to compute on current processors. Specifically, the present invention provides a method for obtaining an interpolated quaternion comprising forming a first product of a first quaternion and... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7212890 | Aircraft dialog device for dialog with system of aircraft A dialog system for dialog between an operator of an aircraft and at least one system of the aircraft including a display configured to display at least one window including a plurality of responsive objects respectively associated with one of multiple functions of ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7212942 | Power available and limitation indicator for use with an aircraft engine An instrument for use in a helicopter includes a performance calculator typically housed in a control unit (16) and a display unit (14). The system receives electronic indicia (44) of current altitude, air temperature, fuel on-board and engine m... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209070 | System and method for enhanced situational awareness of terrain in a vertical situation display A vertical situation display (“VSD”) system according to the invention generates a terrain image that represents a profile view of terrain elevation relative to the position of an aircraft traveling above the terrain. The VSD system generates the VSD image such ... | 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 |
| 7194342 | Navigational instrument, method and computer program product for displaying ground traffic information The present invention provides an aircraft navigational system including a graphical user interface that is capable of displaying navigational information in a split-screen format. The split-screen format includes displaying multiple graphical user panels, each depi... | 03/20/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7123749 | Height measurement apparatus Apparatus and methods for enhancing the accuracy of height above ground measurements in which the registration error between successive images taken of the terrain over which an aircraft is flying is minimized, the earlier image having first been transformed accordi... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123999 | Aircraft dialog device for dialog with system of aircraft A dialog method for dialog between an operator of an aircraft and at least one system of the aircraft. The method includes the steps of displaying on a display at least one window including a plurality of responsive objects respectively associated with one of multip... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7091881 | Integrated hover display with augmented approach to hover symbology cueing for degraded visual environmental conditions A flight control system includes a primary flight display having a hover display which facilitates operations in DVE conditions. The hover display includes a radar altitude display, heading drift symbology and lateral drift symbology which assists pilots in the dete... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7089090 | Flight control indicator determining the maximum slope for the flight control of an aircraft by terrain following The flight control indicator may include a set of information sources, a computation unit connected to said set of information sources, and a head-up display device. The computation unit determines, on the basis of information emanating from the set of information s... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7070150 | Method and system for presenting moving simulated images in a moving vehicle Methods and systems for presenting images to vehicle occupants are disclosed. A system in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes at least one display portion configured to display an image and be positioned proximate to a seat location within the v... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7062364 | Electronic non-linear aircraft dynamic parameter display A method and apparatus is disclosed for displaying a dynamic parameter of an aircraft, the apparatus comprises a display unit receiving a display signal and displaying a scale that changes dynamically and non-linearly in accordance with a selected display algorithm,... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7054725 | GPS navigation device A navigation device for navigating a vehicle to a point comprises a GPS receiver for receiving GPS signals, a processor connected with the receiver for processing the GPS signals, navigation data created by the processor, and a display page. The navigation data incl... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053796 | Multi-dimensional instruments for monitoring engine and system parameters A monitoring instrument that represents the state of n parameters is disclosed, where n is an integer greater than two. The monitoring instrument includes n axes having a common origination point. Each axis is configured to indicate one of the n parameters. The inst... | 05/30/2006 |
