Cockpit Display Interaction via Format Replication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current aircraft cockpit display systems lack a mechanism for pilots and co-pilots to easily share and interact with each other's display formats, leading to time-consuming verbal communication and diversion of attention during critical flight operations.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that allows cockpit display units to interact and share display formats, enabling the pilot to configure the co-pilot's display to match their own, using touch-controlled and multi-touch enabled displays with display processing units to process and transmit input commands for layout modifications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If pilots use separate display units with independent display formats, then each pilot can view customized information relevant to their role, but they cannot easily share display information with each other
Solution Approach 1:
The system captures the display format and layout information from one display unit and transmits it to another display unit, enabling the receiving display to replicate the same visual arrangement. This copying mechanism allows pilots to share their customized display configurations without manually reconfiguring the other pilot's display, thus resolving the contradiction between independent customization and easy information sharing.
2Loss of information
If pilots verbally communicate display information, then they can share information between display units, but it consumes time and diverts attention from flying
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces the mechanical/physical process of verbal communication with an automated electronic information transmission system. The display processing units automatically capture, process, and transmit display format data between displays, eliminating the need for pilots to verbally communicate display information. This substitution reduces both time loss and attention diversion while maintaining complete information transfer.
3Device complexity
If display units operate independently without interaction provisions, then system complexity is reduced, but interaction and coordination between pilots is hindered
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary communication interface between the display processing units that enables information exchange without requiring complex direct integration between display units. This intermediary layer handles the transmission and translation of display format data, allowing interaction while maintaining the independence and simplicity of individual display unit structures.
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AI summary
A system for interaction between cockpit display units, said system comprising: a first display unit configured to display one or more flight data in a predetermined format; a first display processing unit operatively coupled to said first display unit; a second display unit; a second display processing unit operatively coupled to said second display unit; wherein the first display processing unit is operatively connected to the second display processing unit; the second display processing unit is configured to process the command signal received from the first display processing unit; and the second display unit is configured to display data associated with the first display unit based on the processed command signal by the second display processing unit.