Flight Plan Route Preview System with Graphical and Textual Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current flight planning systems lack effective methods to provide meaningful route previews to users, relying on location identifiers that are not easily interpretable by all users, necessitating additional information for informed route selection.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that display a graphical representation of available routes on a display module, allowing users to preview selected routes with textual descriptions, enabling better decision-making during the route selection process, and execute the chosen route upon user input.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If location identifiers are used to name routes, then route identification is simplified, but user interpretability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces graphical representations and textual descriptions as intermediary elements between the route identifiers and the user. These intermediaries translate the abstract location identifiers into visual and linguistic forms that are easily interpretable by users, resolving the contradiction between simplified identification and user understandability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates visual copies of the routes through graphical representations that replicate the spatial characteristics and key features of the actual flight paths. These visual copies allow users to understand and interpret routes without needing to decode the location identifiers, maintaining both identification simplicity and user interpretability.
2Ease of operation
If graphical representations are displayed for all routes, then user understanding is improved, but display complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the route information display into different components: a list view for route identification and a detailed graphical view for understanding. Users can switch between these segments based on their needs, improving understanding when necessary while maintaining simplicity in the list view, thus resolving the contradiction between user understanding and display complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a dynamic display system that adapts between different representation modes. The interface can transition from a simple static list to an interactive graphical representation based on user selection or system state, allowing the display complexity to be activated only when needed for user understanding.
3Measurement precision
If detailed route information is provided, then selection accuracy is improved, but information overload increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies partial action by providing detailed graphical representations and textual descriptions only for the selected or highlighted route, rather than displaying all available route details simultaneously. This selective information provision improves selection accuracy for the current focus while avoiding information overload by keeping other routes in a simplified list format.
Data Source
AI summary
A method and system for providing flight plan (i.e., route) previews is disclosed. A graphical representation of a route is provided on a display for a user to preview prior to committing the route to a flight management system. Furthermore, a textual description of the route may also be displayed. The textual description may provide additional information that may further assist the user making the selection.