Aeronautical Information Display Filtering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Pilots face difficulties in navigating aircraft due to the overwhelming amount of information on charts, making it time-consuming to find relevant data for a specific flight plan, and challenging to track associations between aeronautical objects, which can impact flight operations.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that utilize a graphical user interface to display aeronautical objects, allowing users to input specific data to filter and visualize relevant information, reducing clutter by showing only necessary associations between objects, thereby streamlining the navigation process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If all aeronautical information is displayed on charts, then complete information is available, but the pilot cannot quickly identify relevant information for a specific flight plan
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments aeronautical information into multiple categories (e.g., airports, navigation aids, procedural information, NOTAMs) and allows selective display based on flight plan requirements. This enables pilots to access complete information when needed while reducing the time to find specific relevant information by filtering out unrelated data.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the chart display based on user inputs and flight plan parameters. The chart can transition between showing all information and showing only relevant information, allowing the information density to adapt to the pilot's immediate needs and optimize both completeness and search time.
2Loss of information
If all types of information are displayed on the chart, then comprehensive data is available, but the chart becomes cluttered and difficult to navigate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides aeronautical information into distinct segments or layers that can be independently controlled. Pilots can select which segments to display (e.g., showing only airports and runways, or adding navigation aids and NOTAMs), maintaining completeness when needed while improving usability by reducing clutter during normal operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The chart display dynamically adjusts its content based on user interactions and flight plan context. The system can automatically hide irrelevant information or provide contextual filtering, making the chart easier to navigate while preserving the ability to access comprehensive data when required.
3Loss of information
If associations between aeronautical objects are tracked manually, then complete relationship data is available, but the complexity of tracking increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically tracks and visualizes associations between aeronautical objects (e.g., which airports are associated with which navigation aids, or which procedures apply to which routes) without requiring manual tracking. The chart automatically updates association relationships based on the displayed objects, reducing tracking complexity while maintaining complete relationship data.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer (the intelligent chart system) that automatically manages and visualizes associations between aeronautical objects. This intermediary handles the complexity of tracking relationships, presenting simplified visual connections to the pilot while maintaining complete association data in the background.
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AI summary
A method and apparatus for displaying navigation objects for managing operations of a vehicle. A number of navigation objects for managing the operations of the vehicle is displayed in a graphical user interface to form a display of the number of navigation objects. Responsive to a user input to the number of navigation objects, the display of the number of navigation objects in the graphical user interface is changed to include one or more navigation objects identified based on the user input. The navigation objects in the number of navigation objects have a number of associations with each other. The display of the number of navigation objects includes a number of graphical indicators providing a visualization of the number of associations for the number of navigation objects.