System and method for terminal charts, airport maps and aeronautical context display

US8234066B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Boeing Company · US

Inventors

• Patrick Wipplinger · Mörfelden, DE
• Rick Ellerbrock · Aspen, US
• Thorsten Wiesemann · Hessen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 4, 2011
• Grant date: Jul 31, 2012
• Expiry date: Mar 4, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L41/22
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an aircraft that may have a fuselage and a cockpit located within the fuselage. A display may be located within the cockpit, with the display being controlled by a display control system. The display control system may have a graphical user interface module that generates at least one of a primary display or a context display, and receives at least one user input, and an image control module. The image control module may generate primary display data for display on the primary display based on the at least one user input. The image control module may determine, based on the primary display data, whether the context display is displayed, and may automatically display the context display as an overlay in a corner portion of the primary display when the at least one user input causes a portion of information associated therewith to be unavailable for display on the primary display.