Avionic Display System Overlaying Translucent Image on Pilot View
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional avionic display systems obscure color-based information by overlaying monochrome images, requiring pilots to deactivate the vision system to view this information, increasing workload during critical operations.
Innovation Solution
An avionic display system that uses a navigation database to store and identify locations and boundaries of color-based visual references, modifying the translucent image to convey this information without obscuring it, allowing pilots to view both the overlaid data and color-based information simultaneously.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a monochrome image is overlaid on the pilot view, then visibility information is enhanced, but color-based information is obscured
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different transparency properties to different regions of the overlaid image. Specifically, regions corresponding to visual references (such as runway lights, taxiway lights, and other color-coded navigation aids) are made transparent or have reduced opacity, allowing the underlying color information to remain visible. This local differentiation of transparency quality resolves the contradiction by preserving color information in critical areas while maintaining enhanced visibility information in other areas.
2Reliability
If the vision system is activated to view enhanced information, then situational awareness is improved, but color-based information becomes obscured requiring system deactivation
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables continuous viewing of both enhanced visibility information and color-based information simultaneously without requiring pilot intervention to switch systems. The automatic transparency adjustment based on detected visual references allows the vision system to remain activated while continuously preserving access to color information, eliminating the need for deactivation and reducing pilot workload during critical operations.
3Quantity of substance
If a translucent image is overlaid on the pilot view, then additional information is presented, but color-based visual references are obscured
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the color properties of the overlaid translucent image in regions corresponding to visual references. By detecting the presence and location of color-coded navigation aids, the system modifies the overlay to either remove color in those regions or adjust it to not interfere with the underlying color information. This allows maximum information presentation while preserving critical color-based visual references.
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AI summary
Avionic display systems systems generally relate to techniques of displaying images to a pilot, by generating a translucent image to be overlaid on top of a pilot view; determining if the pilot view includes one or more locations of stored visual references including sources of color-based information; overlaying; the translucent image on top of the pilot view; and modifying the translucent image to convey the color-based information to the pilot.