Method, system and computer program for providing, on a human-machine interface, data relating to an aspect of the operation of an aircraft

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9626873-B2
Application number	US-201414310940-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 20, 2014
Priority date	Jun 21, 2013
Publication date	Apr 18, 2017
Grant date	Apr 18, 2017

Abstract

A method, system and computer program for providing, on a human-machine interface, data relating to an aspect of the operation of an aircraft and grouped into one and the same area of the interface, the method comprising the following steps. A step of detecting a request to display an aspect of the operation of the aircraft. The method also includes a step of computing a flight situation and generating a consolidated aeroplane situation. A step of associating the elementary data linked to the consolidated aeroplane situation to extract therefrom updated situational data. The method then includes a step of grouping the updated situational data into a plurality of sub-sets to allow display of the data in the display area. Finally the method includes a step of displaying, in the display area, the sub-sets of data.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method implemented by computer for providing, into one and a same area of a human-machine interface coupled to a flight management system, data relating to an aspect of an operation of an aircraft, the method comprising the steps of:
detecting by the flight management system a display situation request to display an aspect of the operation of the aircraft, the display situation representing several pages to be displayed on various screens of the aircraft;
recovering by the flight management system information on a flight situation of the aircraft and an environment in which the aircraft evolves to determine elementary situations for the aircraft;
generating by the flight management system a consolidated aeroplane situation by combining or ordering the elementary situations;
determining by the flight management system from the requested display situation and the consolidated aeroplane situation a set of situational data;
filtering by the flight management system the set of situational data to determine a plurality of sub-sets of situational data, wherein each sub-set comprises relevant data related to said aspect of the operation of the aircraft to be displayed; and
building a page from the plurality of sub-sets for the display of one or more sub-sets in one and the same display area of said human-machine interface.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the grouping step allows removing updated situational data from certain sub-sets when a quantity of updated situational data exceeds a display capacity of the human-machine interface.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the grouping step allows, when an aspect of an operation of an aircraft concerns a flight plan, displaying only the data relating to two waypoints of said flight plan, the waypoint that has been reached and a next waypoint.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the displaying step allows alerting a crew if the quantity of updated situational data exceeds a display capacity of the human-machine interface and choosing one or several sub-sets that are not to be displayed on the human-machine interface.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the displaying step allows offering display of only the sub-sets whose quantity of updated situational data does not exceed a display capacity of the human-machine interface, taking into account other sub-sets that are to be displayed on the human-machine interface.

6. A system for providing, on a human-machine interface, data relating to an aspect of an operation of an aircraft and grouped into one and a same area of said interface, the system comprising the human-machine interface and a flight management system configured to implement means for implementing the steps of the method according to claim 1 .

7. A non-transitory computer program product, said non-transitory computer program product comprising code instructions to carry out the steps of the method according to claim 1 , when said program is executed on a computer.

8. A system for providing, on a human-machine interface, data relating to an aspect of an operation of an aircraft and grouped into one and a same area of said interface, the system comprising the human-machine interface and a flight management system configured to implement the steps of the method according to claim 2 .

9. A non-transitory computer program product, said non-transitory computer program product comprising code instructions to carry out the steps of the method according to claim 2 , when said program is executed on a computer.

10. A system for providing, on a human-machine interface, data relating to an aspect of an operation of an aircraft and grouped into one and a same area of said interface, the system comprising the human-machine interface and a flight management system configured to implement the steps of the method according to claim 3 .

11. A non-transitory computer program product, said non-transitory computer program product comprising code instructions to carry out the steps of the method according to claim 3 , when said program is executed on a computer.

12. A system for providing, on a human-machine interface, data relating to an aspect of an operation of an aircraft and grouped into one and a same area of said interface, the system comprising the human-machine interface and a flight management system configured to implement the steps of the method according to claim 4 .

13. A non-transitory computer program product, said non-transitory computer program product comprising code instructions to carry out the steps of the method according to claim 4 , when said program is executed on a computer.

14. A system for providing, on a human-machine interface, data relating to an aspect of an operation of an aircraft and grouped into one and a same area of said interface, the system comprising the human-machine interface and a flight management system configured to implement the steps of the method according to claim 5 .

15. A non-transitory computer program product, said non-transitory computer program product comprising code instructions to carry out the steps of the method according to claim 5 , when said program is executed on a computer.

Assignees

• Thales Sa

Inventors

• Mazoyer Patrick
• Lacombe Antoine
• Coulmeau Franåois

Classifications

• G01C23/00

  Combined instruments indicating more than one navigational value, e.g. for aircraft; Combined measuring devices for measuring two or more variables of movement, e.g. distance, speed or acceleration · CPC title

• G08G5/0021 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G08G5/003

  Physics · mapped topic

• G08G5/0047

  Physics · mapped topic

• G08G5/0052

  Physics · mapped topic