Methods and systems for propagating user inputs to different displays
Inventors
He, Gang • Feyereisen, Thea • R, Rakshit • He, Zuowei
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Publication Number
US-12461702-B2
Publication Date
2025-11-04
Expiration Date
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for propagating a free-form user input across different displays. One method involves receiving a free-form user input on a navigational map display, assigning a geographic location to the free-form user input based on a position of the free-form user input on the navigational map display, and generating a graphical indication influenced by the free-form user input on a second display at a respective position on the second display corresponding to the geographic location assigned to the free-form user input.
Core Innovation
The invention relates to aircraft cockpit methods and systems that propagate unconstrained free-form user input across different navigational map GUI displays. The method receives a free-form user input whose shape corresponds to a predefined symbol associated with a particular attribute, state, or action on a first navigational map graphical user interface associated with an aircraft. The first navigational map GUI comprises one of a lateral map display and a forward-looking display.
The method assigns a geographic location to the free-form user input based on its position on the first navigational map GUI, producing a georeferenced free-form user input. Using the georeferenced location, the method identifies one of a taxiway, a runway, an airspace, and a navigational reference point associated with the georeferenced input to be avoided based on a distance threshold. The particular attribute, state, or action associated with the predefined symbol is carried through the process and is used to characterize what the graphical input means.
The method generates, on a second navigational map GUI associated with the aircraft, content different from the first navigational map GUI, and displays a second graphical representation of the georeferenced free-form user input concurrent with displaying the first representation. The second graphical representation is displayed at a translated position on the second navigational map GUI corresponding to the assigned geographic location, and indicates the particular attribute, state, or action associated with the identified taxiway, runway, airspace, or navigational reference point. The second navigational map GUI comprises an other one of the lateral map display and the forward-looking display.
Claims Coverage
The identified claim coverage centers on five inventive features.
Receiving symbol-corresponding free-form input on a first navigational map GUI
Receiving a free-form user input having a shape corresponding to a predefined symbol associated with a particular attribute, state, or action on a first navigational map graphical user interface associated with an aircraft, wherein the first navigational map GUI comprises one of a lateral map display and a forward-looking display.
Assigning a geographic location to georeference the free-form input
Assigning a geographic location to the free-form user input based on a position of the free-form user input on the first navigational map GUI, resulting in a georeferenced free-form user input.
Identifying a nearby navigational element to be avoided via threshold distance
Identifying one of a taxiway, a runway, an airspace and a navigational reference point associated with the georeferenced free-form user input to be avoided based on a distance between the geographic location assigned to the georeferenced free-form user input and a respective geographic location associated with the one of the taxiway, the runway, the airspace and the navigational reference point being less than a threshold distance.
Generating a concurrent translated representation on a second navigational map GUI
Generating, on a second navigational map GUI associated with the aircraft depicting content different from the first navigational map GUI where the free-form user input was received, a second graphical representation of the georeferenced free-form user input on the second navigational map GUI concurrent to displaying a graphical representation of the free-form user input on the first navigational map GUI, wherein the second graphical representation is displayed at a translated position on the second navigational map GUI corresponding to the geographic location assigned to the georeferenced free-form user input and indicates the particular attribute, state, or action associated with the one of the taxiway, the runway, the airspace and the navigational reference point; and wherein the second navigational map GUI comprises an other one of the lateral map display and the forward-looking display.
The coverage combines georeferenced free-form input, threshold-based identification of a taxiway, runway, airspace, or navigational reference point to be avoided, and concurrent translated display on the other map modality while preserving the associated attribute, state, or action.
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