Primary objective task display methods and systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9776510-B2
Application number	US-201514721381-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 26, 2015
Priority date	May 26, 2015
Publication date	Oct 3, 2017
Grant date	Oct 3, 2017

Abstract

Methods and systems are provided for adaptive display of information and interaction components on a display device of an aircraft. The method includes: receiving aircraft data from one or more aircraft components; determining context information from the aircraft data; determining a visual situation awareness indicator based on the context information; determining a situational awareness model based on the context information; determining a primary objective based on the situational awareness model; determining a task list based on the primary objective; determining situational awareness information based on a task of the task list; determining interactive components based on the task of the task list; and displaying the context information, the visual situation awareness indicator, the task list, the interactive components, and the situational awareness information on a user interface.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of displaying information on a display device from a flight deck management module of an aircraft, comprising:
receiving by the flight deck management module configured by a set of instructions to at least determine in a first instruction set: context information and a visual awareness indicator and in a second instruction set: a primary objective, situation awareness information and interactive components from across flight deck systems,
wherein the first instruction set comprises:
receiving aircraft data from one or more aircraft components,
determining context information from the aircraft data,
determining the visual situation awareness indicator based on the context information, and

the second instruction set comprises:
selecting the situational awareness model based on the context information and a state machine,
determining the primary objective based on the situational awareness model,
determining a task list based on the primary objective,
determining situational awareness information based on a task of the task list, and
determining the interactive components based on the task of the task list; and

displaying in an integrated interface the context information, the visual situation awareness indicator, the task list, the interactive components, and the situational awareness information from across flight deck systems on a user interface.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the context information comprises: a flight phase and a flight segment.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the context information comprises: controller messages.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the context information comprises: an active task.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the context information comprises: an advisory message associated with the active task.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising allocating tasks of the task list between a pilot and at least one other aircraft operator, and wherein the displaying comprises: displaying the allocating of tasks there between.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining a plurality of alerts based on the context information, and wherein the displaying further comprises: selectively displaying the plurality of alerts.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising prioritizing the plurality of alerts and wherein the selectively displaying is based on the prioritizing of the plurality of alerts.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising allocating the plurality of alerts between a pilot and at least one other aircraft operator, and wherein the selectively displaying is further based on the allocating of the plurality of alerts there between.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising managing a state of the tasks in the task list, and wherein the displaying further comprises: displaying the state of the tasks in the task list.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining interactive components comprises: integrating interactive components across flight deck systems, and building at least one dynamic page based on the integrated interactive components.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the displaying comprises: dynamically generating a situation awareness visualization based on components of a represented situation.

13. A system for displaying information on a display device of an aircraft, comprising:
a display device; and
a computer module that first receives aircraft data from one or more aircraft components, that second determines context information from the aircraft data from which determines a visual situation awareness indicator based on the context information, that third selects a situational awareness model based on the context information and a state machine, that fourth determines a primary objective based on the situational awareness model from which determines a task list based on the primary objective from which determines situational awareness information based on a task of the task list from which determines interactive components based on the task of the task list, and from which generates display objects to display in an integrated interface the context information, the visual situation awareness indicator, the task list, the interactive components, and the situational awareness information from across flight deck systems on a user interface of the display device.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the context information comprises: at least one of flight phase, a flight segment, controller messages, and identification and display of an active task.

15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the context information comprises: deriving and displaying an advisory message associated with the active task.

16. The system of claim 13 , wherein the computer module comprises: allocating tasks of the task list between a pilot and at least one other aircraft operator, and generates display objects to display the allocation.

17. The system of claim 13 , wherein the computer module comprises: determining a plurality of alerts based on the context information, prioritizing the plurality of alerts, allocating the plurality of alerts between a pilot and at least one other aircraft operator, and generating display objects to display the prioritizing and allocating of the plurality of alerts.

18. The system of claim 13 , wherein the computer module comprises: managing a state of the tasks in the task list, and generating display objects to display the state of the tasks in the task list.

19. The system of claim 13 , wherein the computer module comprises: determining the interactive components by integrating interactive components across the flight deck systems, and building at least one dynamic page based on the integrated interactive components.

20. The system of claim 13 , wherein the computer module comprises: generating dynamically a situation awareness visualization based on components of a represented situation.

Assignees

• Honeywell Int Inc

Inventors

• Kawalkar Amit Nishikant

Classifications

• B60K35/29 Primary

  Instruments characterised by the way in which information is handled, e.g. showing information on plural displays or prioritising information according to driving conditions · CPC title

• B60K35/22

  Display screens · CPC title

• B60K35/10

  Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor · CPC title

• G08G5/025

  Physics · mapped topic

• G08G5/0091

  Physics · mapped topic