Aircraft traffic awareness system and methods
US8185301B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 22, 2007 |
| Grant date | May 22, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 3, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG08G5/80
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
The invention provides, in some aspects, aviation navigational systems and methods for cockpit display of traffic information that generate intuitive three-dimensional graphical representations of air traffic (and/or other potential conflicts) in the vicinity of an aircraft in flight, as well as during take-off and landing. These systems and methods provide improved awareness of potential conflicts, offering in the cockpit an immediate understanding of the significance of potential conflicts, e.g., vis-à-vis their nature, direction, and time to visual contact. Thus, according to one aspect of the invention, there is provided an aviation navigational system that generates a 3D representation of the airspace in the vicinity of an aircraft and, relative to that representation, a representation of air traffic in that airspace. In related aspects of the invention, the 3D representation of the airspace is relative to the aircraft position in that airspace, the representation of the air traffic in that airspace is relative to a viewer on that aircraft.
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