Aviation Watch Perimeter Indicators for Airport Bearing
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Solution Overview
Problem
GPS-enabled mobile electronic devices, such as aviation watches, lack efficient methods to provide quick directional guidance to nearest airports, increasing pilot workload during navigation.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a wearable electronic device with a display featuring indicators around the perimeter that activate to show the directional bearing to the nearest airport, utilizing a GPS receiver and processor to determine proximity and activate corresponding indicators for navigation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If GPS-enabled mobile electronic devices are used for navigation, then positional data and navigation functionality are provided to the user, but the devices lack efficient methods to provide quick directional guidance to nearest airports, increasing pilot workload
Solution Approach 1:
The display is segmented into multiple functional zones: a map display area showing geographic information, a bearing indicator area with perimeter indicators showing directional guidance to airports, and other navigation data areas. This segmentation allows pilots to access directional information quickly without navigating through menus, reducing workload while maintaining navigation efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-calculates and continuously updates the bearing to the nearest airport in the background, so that when a pilot needs directional information, it is already prepared and immediately displayed via the perimeter indicators. This eliminates the need for pilots to manually search for airport directions, reducing workload while maintaining ready access to critical navigation data
2Loss of information
If multiple menu pages are used to access navigation information, then comprehensive navigation data is available, but the complexity of accessing information increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple navigation information types are merged into a single integrated display: the map display shows geographic context, perimeter indicators show bearing to nearest airport, and additional navigation data is displayed in designated areas. This consolidation provides comprehensive navigation information without requiring pilots to navigate through multiple menu pages, reducing access complexity while maintaining information completeness
Solution Approach 2:
The perimeter indicators serve multiple functions: they display bearing to the nearest airport, can indicate directional guidance to selected waypoints, and provide visual orientation references. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate displays or menu pages for different navigation functions, reducing complexity while maintaining full information accessibility
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AI summary
A wearable electronic device utilizes indicators on a display screen, such as tick marks positioned around the perimeter of the display, to point to the bearing of a desired location such as a nearest airport when GPS is enabled. The electronic device may be implemented as an aviation watch that comprises a display device having a screen including a plurality of indicators arranged proximal to a perimeter of the screen. The aviation watch determines a direction of an airport that is nearest in proximity to the location of the aviation watch and activates a subset of the plurality of indicators of the screen, the subset of the plurality of indicators providing a directional bearing to the airport determined to be nearest in proximity to the location of the aviation watch.