Situational awareness monitoring systems and methods

US12263956B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Airbus Americas, Inc. · US
• AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED · DE
• National Research Council of Canada · CA

Inventors

• Joyce Tan · Hamburg, DE
• Tina Kay Griffin · Mobile, US
• Patrick Rollfink · Hamburg, DE
• Christophe J. P. J. Legare · Ottawa, CA
• Natalia Cooper · Ottawa, CA
• John Thomas · Harleysville, US
• Shelley Roberts · San Pablo, US
• Caidence S. Paleske · Ottawa, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 21, 2022
• Grant date: Apr 1, 2025
• Expiry date: Jul 4, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06T11/00
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An aircraft with an aircraft fuselage, and a passenger cabin and a cockpit, where the aircraft includes a center-forward attendant space between the passenger cabin and the cockpit. A cabin crew member of the aircraft can stand in the center-forward attendant space for monitoring progress of an emergency evacuation of the aircraft. The aircraft has one or more emergency exits for providing egress of passengers from the aircraft fuselage during the emergency evacuation. The aircraft also has a situational awareness monitoring (SAM) system for use in evacuating the passengers from the aircraft during the emergency evacuation. The SAM system includes one or more imaging devices and one or more display modules, each of which displays within the passenger cabin images captured by a corresponding one of the one or more imaging devices.