Synchronized video and synthetic visualization system and method

US8944822B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Appareo Systems, LLC · US

Inventors

• Joshua N. Gelinske · Fargo, US
• Robert M. Allen · Reile"s Acres, US
• Barry D. Batcheller · Fargo, US
• Jacob A. Halvorson · Dilworth, US
• Tyler Chris Ohlsen · West Fargo, US
• Seth J. Schubert · Cloquet, US
• Robert V. Weinmann · Hankinson, US
• Johan A. Wiig · Paris, FR

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 18, 2011
• Grant date: Feb 3, 2015
• Expiry date: May 9, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G09B19/165
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The present invention presents a flight training and synthetic visualization system, which comprises a fully mobile, self-contained data recording unit including a desktop graphics software engine for creating a virtual model of the flight capable of playing back the recorded trip, synchronized with a real-time video or imagery recording of the actual flight with a view from the cockpit of the aircraft as a pilot would actually view the flight, along with ambient audio of the cockpit. This allows for the user of the simulation to view both modeled data of the flight, as well as actual time-sequenced still images or video of the flight. The two sources of data are synched in time so that real video images of the aircraft as it is flying at a specific point in time is displayed in the simulation at the same moment as the rendered visualization of the flight.