Method and device for displaying a course of a process of at least one railway safety unit, and railway safety system having such a device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10814895-B2
Application number	US-201615570157-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 1, 2016
Priority date	May 5, 2015
Publication date	Oct 27, 2020
Grant date	Oct 27, 2020

Abstract

A method displays a course of a process of at least one railway safety unit. While using at least one device control, process data supplied by the at least one railway safety unit, are converted by dual-channel processing into first and second image data of the course of the process to be displayed. The image data are output to be displayed on a data display unit. In order to simplify the displaying of the course of the process, a pair of display spectacles having a first and a second display is used as a data display unit. The first display displays a first representation of the first image data delivered thereto that is visually detectable by the right eye, and the second display displays a second representation of the second image data delivered thereto that is visually detectable by the left eye.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for displaying a course of a process of at least one railway safety unit, which comprises the steps of:
converting, via at least one device control, process data supplied by the at least one railway safety unit by means of dual-channel processing into first and second image data of the course of the process to be displayed;
outputting the first and second image data to be displayed on a data display unit; and
providing a pair of display goggles having a first and a second display as the data display unit, the first display displaying a first representation of the first image data delivered thereto that is visually detectable by a right eye, and the second display displaying a second representation of the second image data delivered thereto that is visually detectable by a left eye.

2. The method according to claim 1 , which further comprises converting the process data in sections of the dual-channel processing into right-hand image data and left-hand image data which correspond to images of the course of the process generated from a same perspective for monoscopic examination.

3. The method according to claim 2 , which further comprises:
outputting the right-hand image data as the first image data to the display goggles; and
outputting the left-hand image data as the second image data to the display goggles.

4. The method according to claim 2 , which further comprises converting the right-hand image data and the left-hand image data in further sections of the dual-channel processing into further right-hand image data and further left-hand image data which correspond to image data of the course of the process generated from different perspectives for stereoscopic examination.

5. The method according to claim 4 , which further comprises:
outputting the further right-hand image data as the first imaged data to the display goggles; and
outputting the further left-hand image data as the second image data to the display goggles.

Assignees

• Siemens Mobility GmbH

Inventors

• Burkhardt Marc

Classifications

• B61L27/37

  Migration, e.g. parallel installations running simultaneously · CPC title

• B61L27/30

  Trackside multiple control systems, e.g. switch-over between different systems · CPC title

• B61L27/53

  for trackside elements or systems, e.g. trackside supervision of trackside control system conditions · CPC title

• G06F11/162

  Displays · CPC title

• B61L21/06

  Vehicle-on-line indication; Monitoring locking and release of the route · CPC title