Aircraft Camera Display Color Remapping for Airport Feature Recognition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing aircraft navigation systems lack the ability to quickly and accurately identify and assess relevant visual information surrounding the aircraft, particularly for general aviation applications.
Innovation Solution
The system receives live-streaming images from an aircraft camera, determines color regions, accesses a color map to remap color states, and generates annotated images with enhanced color-based information, including airport feature annotations, to improve visual identification and navigation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If traditional navigation displays are used, then the system is simple and easy to operate, but the pilot cannot quickly and accurately identify and assess relevant visual information surrounding the aircraft
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple information sources (live camera feed, pre-recorded video, graphical overlays, annotations) into a single integrated display system. This merging allows the pilot to view enhanced navigation information with improved identification accuracy while maintaining a unified, manageable interface rather than multiple separate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds dimensional layers of information to the traditional 2D display by incorporating temporal dimensions (live vs. recorded video), spatial dimensions (graphical overlays showing aircraft position and orientation), and informational dimensions (annotations providing additional context). This multi-dimensional approach enhances identification accuracy without creating a cluttered interface.
2Adaptability or versatility
If color-based airport feature information is displayed, then color-blind pilots can better identify features, but the display system becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by implementing color remapping specifically for regions containing airport features of interest, rather than remapping the entire image. The system identifies specific color regions corresponding to airport features and applies targeted color transformations to enhance visibility for color-blind pilots while leaving other areas unchanged, thus improving adaptability without proportionally increasing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs color changes through automated color remapping algorithms that transform colors in the live video feed to enhance contrast and visibility of airport features for color-blind users. The system automatically detects color regions and applies appropriate color transformations, making the display more accessible without requiring manual intervention or complex user configuration.
3Loss of information
If real-time color-annotated images are generated, then navigation information is enhanced, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-processing and pre-organizing video data during recording and playback preparation. The system pre-identifies airport features, pre-maps colors, and pre-generates annotations so that during live playback, the enhanced display can be generated with minimal additional processing time, thus preserving color-based information without excessive time loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements partial action by selectively processing only the portions of the video feed that contain airport features of interest, rather than processing the entire image. The system identifies and remaps only the relevant color regions containing navigation information, preserving critical color-based information while minimizing overall processing time and computational resources required.
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AI summary
A method for providing a color-annotated display on an aircraft. Embodiments include receiving an image from a camera on the aircraft, determining one or more color regions in the image, accessing a color map based upon the one or more color regions, generating a color-annotated image, wherein one or more regions in the color-annotated image corresponding to the one or more color regions in the image are remapped based upon the color map, and displaying the color-annotated image in the aircraft.