System and method for displaying an electronic checklist for an aircraft

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10705684-B2
Application number	US-201715480249-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 5, 2017
Priority date	Apr 5, 2017
Publication date	Jul 7, 2020
Grant date	Jul 7, 2020

Abstract

A system includes display equipment and a processor coupled to the display equipment. The processor is configured to cause the display equipment to display an electronic checklist associated with an aircraft. The processor is configured determine whether the electronic checklist includes a checklist item associated with a particular control page of a plurality of control pages. The processor is configured to, based on determining that the electronic checklist includes the checklist item associated with the particular control page, cause the display equipment to display the particular control page that includes a control element that is selectable to cause a control command to be sent to one or more components.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
displaying, at a first portion of a display equipment of an aircraft, at least a portion of an electronic checklist;
displaying, at a second portion of the display equipment of the aircraft, a plurality of control elements of a first control page of a plurality of control pages of a user interface concurrently with the portion of the electronic checklist at the first portion of the display equipment, the plurality of control elements corresponding to a graphical representation of at least one control system of the aircraft, the plurality of control elements comprising a first control element and a second control element;
receiving a selection of the second control element while the first control element is an active item of the electronic checklist, wherein no control commands are sent to one or more components of the at least one control system of the aircraft in response to the selection of the second control element responsive to the first control element being the active item of the electronic checklist;
sending at least one control command to one or more components of the at least one control system of the aircraft responsive to a selection of the first control element of the plurality of control elements while the first control element is the active item of the electronic checklist;
responsive to determining completion of the active item of the electronic checklist, determining that a third item of the electronic checklist is associated with a second control page of the plurality of control pages, the second control page different from the first control page; and
responsive to determining that the third item of the electronic checklist is associated with the second control page, displaying, at the second portion, at least one control element of the second control page of the plurality of control pages concurrently with the portion of the electronic checklist at the first portion, wherein the second control page is distinct from the first control page, wherein the second portion includes control elements from a single control page at a time, wherein the plurality of control elements is associated with a first system of the aircraft, and wherein the second control page includes a second plurality of control elements associated with a second system of the aircraft, and wherein the first system is distinct from the second system.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first control page comprises a synoptic page.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying a subset of control elements of the plurality of control elements of the first control page based on the active item of the electronic checklist.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising modifying a display property of the first control element based on the electronic checklist.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second control element of the plurality of control elements of the first control page is displayed at the display equipment with a display property to visually de-emphasize the second control element based on the active item of the electronic checklist, based on one or more completed items of the electronic checklist, based on one or more uncompleted items of the electronic checklist, or a combination thereof.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising deactivating the first control element of the first control page displayed at the display equipment responsive to the active item changing to a third control element.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first system corresponds to a fuel system, and wherein the second system corresponds to an engine system.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising
responsive to receiving a selection of a second item of the electronic checklist, determining that the second item of the electronic checklist is associated with a second control page of the plurality of control pages, the second control page different from the first control page; and
responsive to determining that the second item of the electronic checklist is associated with the second control page, displaying at least one control element of the second control page of the plurality of control pages.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, responsive to determining that a third item of the electronic checklist is associated with the first control page, displaying a second control element having an emphasized display property and the plurality of control elements having an unmodified, de-emphasized, or deactivated display property.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the plurality of control elements comprises a macro-function control element.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying, at the display equipment, a pop-up window responsive to selection of the plurality of control elements, wherein contents of the pop-up window are based on determined states of components corresponding to the plurality of control elements.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising removing, from the pop-up window, an indication of a state for a component of the components, disabling control of the component via the pop-up window, or both, wherein the first control page comprises a synoptic page, and wherein the indication is removed and the control of the component via the pop-up window is disabled responsive to input at the synoptic page after the pop-up window is displayed.

13. A system comprising:
display equipment; and
a processor coupled to the display equipment, the processor configured to:
cause the display equipment to display at least a portion of an electronic checklist associated with an aircraft at a first portion of the display equipment;
cause the display equipment to display a plurality of control elements of a first control page of a plurality of control pages at a second portion of the display equipment concurrently with the portion of the electronic checklist at the first portion of the display equipment, the plurality of control elements corresponding to a graphical representation of at least one control system of the aircraft, the plurality of control elements comprising a first control element and a second control element;
receive a selection of the second control element while the first control element is an active item of the electronic checklist, wherein no control commands are sent to one or more components of the at least one control system of the aircraft in response to the selection of the second control element responsive to the first control element being the active item of the electronic checklist;
cause a subsystem controller to send one or more control commands to one or more components of the aircraft responsive to a selection of the first control element of the plurality of control elements while the first control element is the active item of the electronic checklist;
responsive to determining completion of the active item of the electronic checklist, determine that a third item of the electronic checklist is associated with a second control page of the plurality of control pages, the second control page different from the first control page; and
responsive to determining that the third item of the electronic checklist is associated with the second control page, cause the display equipment to display at least one control element of the second control page of the plurality of control pages at the second portion concurrently with the portion of the electronic checklist at the first portion, wherein the second control page is distinct from the first control page, wherein the second portion includes control elements from a single control page at a time, wherein the plural

Assignees

• Boeing Co

Inventors

• Pandya Vikram H
• Downs Joshua Lee
• Campise Alex Jay
• Nikolic Mark Ivan

Classifications

• Y02T50/40

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• B64D43/00

  Arrangements or adaptations of instruments · CPC title

• G06F3/04847

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• G06F3/04886

  by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title