Honeywell International Inc.

Sivakumar Kanagarajan

Gobinathan Baladhandapani

Hariharan Saptharishi

Visvanathan Thanigai Nathan

Mahesh Kumar Sampath

Sreenivasan K Govindillam

Sriram P R

Kiran Gopala Krishna

Chaya Garg

Muthusankar Subramaniyan

Ratan Khatwa

Ivan Sandy Wyatt

Raghu Shamasundar

Mohammed Ibrahim Mohideen

Dinkar A Mylaraswamy

Richard Snyder

Vasantha Selvi Paulraj

David B Goldstein

Mahesh Sivaratri

Jason Garde

Jim R Rumbo

Jayasenthilnathan B

Pradeep Huncha

Naveen Venkatesh Prasad Nama

Nathan Shaughn Turner

Soumitri Swain

Ranga A Udipi

Nathan Krishna Moorthy

Lisa Fern

Ethan Storm Williams

Joshua Gavroy

Chunyu Sheng

Amrit Kaur Mann

Lisa Fem

Vengada Ganeshwaran

Dineshkumar Atchuthan

Amal Leo

Vijay Nallusamy

Srilakshmi Kurudi

Sunil Kumar K S

SunilRaj Suseelan

Raghupathy P

Ganesh Shabadi

Karthikeyan Mariappan

Methods and systems are provided for assisting operation of a vehicle using speech recognition and transcription. One method involves identifying an operational objective for an audio communication with respect to the vehicle, determining an expected clearance communication for the vehicle based at least in part on the operational objective, identifying a discrepancy between a transcription of the audio communication and the expected clearance communication, augmenting the transcription of the audio communication using a current operational context to reduce the discrepancy, and providing a graphical indication influenced by the augmented transcription.

Contextual transcription augmentation methods and systems

Techniques for response management in an indoor facility are described. A server device processes a signal from an unmanned vehicle to deduce occurrence of an actionable event. A preliminary location of the occurrence of the actionable event is determined based on an instantaneous position of the unmanned vehicle at the time of transmitting the signal. The inputs obtained from a set of static sensors located in proximity to the preliminary location is processed to verify the occurrence of the actionable event. A verified location of the occurrence of the actionable event is determined based on the preliminary location of the occurrence of the actionable event and an actual location of the set of static sensors within the indoor facility. The server device triggers an alert to indicate the occurrence of the actionable event, wherein the alert comprises the verified location of the occurrence of the event.

Response management in an indoor facility

Systems and methods for indicating communication effectiveness with air traffic control (ATC) are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a transcribed message containing a plurality of words used by an ownship flight crew member in a communication directed to ATC; determining a message intent of the transcribed message from the words used in the communication; identifying a plurality of ideal words that should be used for an ideal message having the same message intent as the transcribed message; comparing the words used in the communication with the words that should have been used in the ideal message; determining based on the comparing whether the words used in the communication conformed to ATC standard phraseology (e.g., ICAO Pilot communication vocabulary); generating an indicator for flight crew that indicates whether the words used in the communication conformed to ATC standard phraseology; and signaling an aircraft display device to display the indicator.

Systems and methods for indicating communication efficiency or compliance with ATC phraseology

Systems and methods for defining a custom fix via a graphical user interface (GUI) for operation of an aircraft. The method includes uniquely sized and arranged custom fix dialog GUI windows that are displayed on an active avionic display, the custom fix dialog windows having preprogrammed arrangements of GUI objects. The GUI objects allow a user to select between custom airports or custom runways, and to select between create, edit, and store custom fix functions. The method decodes and sequences user input, as related to the displayed GUI objects. Embodiments keep track of required data fields for respective custom fixes, and store custom fix data in a custom database that is compatible with the navigation database and avionic display systems.

Systems and methods for a user to define a custom fix, via a graphical user interface (GUI), for operation of an aircraft

Systems and methods for debriefing an offboard pilot by enabling a dynamic priority filter to identify relevant voice communications recorded by a playback system in conversations between air traffic control and a pilot by transcribing, the conversations recorded by the playback system, for processing; identifying text content transcribed in the conversations using a speech engine for analysis of the text content for filtering into a set of multiple levels wherein each level contains a set of text messages; tagging at least one text message associated with context with a contextual tag to identify a category in-flight events with the at least one text message; assigning a priority to the at least one tagged text message to generate at least one set of priority tagged messages; enabling the offboard pilot to select based on a category and priority a set of tagged messages; and displaying the set of tagged messages.

Methods and systems for efficiently briefing past cockpit conversations

Systems and methods for converting voice to text messages in an aircraft. The systems and methods transcribe voice messages between a member of the flight crew and Air Traffic Control (ATC) to provide ATC text messages, transcribe a voice-automatic terminal information service report (voice-ATIS) to provide an ATIS text report, determine flight context data based at least on an analysis of the ATC text messages, determine relevant ATIS data from the ATIS text report using the flight context data, and render a visual User Interface (UI) including at least some of the ATC text messages and at least some of the relevant ATIS data on the same ATC transcription page.

Systems and methods for adding relevant data to ATC transcription messages

Methods and systems are provided for assisting operation of a vehicle using speech recognition and transcription using text-to-speech for transcription playback with variable emphasis. One method involves analyzing a transcription of an audio communication with respect to the vehicle to identify an operational term pertaining to a current operational context of the vehicle within the transcription, creating an indicator identifying the operational term within the transcription for emphasis when the operational term pertains to the current operational context of the vehicle, identifying a user-configured playback rate; and generating an audio reproduction of the transcription of the audio communication in accordance with the user-configured playback rate, wherein the operational term is selectively emphasized within the audio reproduction based on the indicator.

Methods and systems for transcription playback with variable emphasis

Methods and systems are provided for assisting operation of a vehicle using speech recognition. One method involves automatically identifying an input element based at least in part on an audio communication with respect to the vehicle, identifying one or more constraints associated with the input element, obtaining a limited command vocabulary for the input element using the one or more constraints, and automatically constructing a contextual speech recognition graph for the input element prior to user selection of the input element using the limited command vocabulary. Thereafter, subsequently received audio input is recognized using the contextual speech recognition graph that was automatically and prospectively generated.

Contextual speech recognition methods and systems

Methods and systems are provided for assisting operation of a vehicle using speech recognition and transcription to provide a conversation log graphical user interface (GUI) display that consolidates communications with respect to the vehicle. One method involves receiving a data message from a system onboard the vehicle and generating a graphical representation of the data message within the conversation log GUI display, wherein the graphical representation of the data message includes a selectable element and is displayed on the conversation log GUI display concurrently with a graphical representation of a transcription of an audio communication with respect to the vehicle. The depicted data message and transcription are chronologically positioned with respect to one another in accordance with a timestamp associated with the data message. The conversation log GUI display dynamically updates in response to selection of the selectable element.

Transcription systems and message fusion methods

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for predicting ground effects along a flight plan. The systems and methods provide a processor executed process including the steps: receiving a flight plan for a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft; receiving terrain and obstacles geospatial data for the flight plan from the database; determining weight of the VTOL aircraft along the flight plan; determining temperature of the environment along the flight plan; determining ground effect data along the flight plan based on the temperature and the weight; and generating one or more commands to control a system of the VTOL aircraft based on the ground effect data.

Systems and methods for predicting ground effects along a flight plan

Systems and methods to identify a query parameter in an incoming flight voice or data communication to respond to a request. A processing system configured to: in response to receipt of a clearance message, decode the clearance message to determine whether the clearance message contains a command instruction or clearance data for a flight, and to present the command instruction to a pilot as notice to execute the command instruction or if available, obtain at least one query parameter from the clearance data to configure in a query operation to present in response to a pilot question about the command instruction. In response to receipt of the voice or data communication, determine further an intent within the voice or data communication of a question or instruction voiced by applying an acoustic model for tagging identified parts about the question or instruction voiced with query parameters in response to the pilot.

Methods and systems for querying for parameter retrieval

A system for predicting the timing for ownship clearance instructions is provided. The system is configured to: collect communications between air traffic control (ATC) and other aerial vehicles; group the collected communications; derive an average time between successive instructions from ATC to an aerial vehicle; derive an average time for a following instruction in a specific time interval; generate a clearance instruction prediction model that is configured to predict a time by which an ownship will receive a subsequence clearance instruction, based on the average time between successive instructions from ATC to an aerial vehicle, the average time for a following instruction in a specific time interval, and the clearances provided by ATC to other aerial vehicles; predict, using the clearance instruction prediction model, an expected time for a next clearance instruction from ATC; and cause the predicted time for the next clearance instruction to be displayed on a display device.

System and method for predicting ownship clearance and timing by modelling controller pilot conversations

Systems and methods described herein provide one or more processors configured to execute program instructions to cause the one or more processors to receive camera images of a scene including a portion being lit by the searchlight, receive terrain data from a terrain database, generate an augmented/virtual reality scene based on the camera images and the terrain data, display, via a headset display, the augmented/virtual reality scene, track gaze and head movement using headset sensors, output tracking data based on tracked gaze and head movement, and output instructions for controlling at least one function of the searchlight based on the tracking data.

Methods and systems for searchlight control for aerial vehicles

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for guiding a vertical takeoff and landing, VTOL, vehicle to an emergency landing zone. The systems and methods include determining, via at least one processor, candidate landing zone data by interrogating an emergency landing zone database based at least on VTOL vehicle location, the candidate landing zone data representing a list of candidate emergency landing zones. A target emergency landing zone is selected from the list of candidate emergency landing zones based at least on VTOL vehicle related issues including at least one of unanticipated yaw issues, ground effect issues and modified trend vector issues, thereby providing target emergency landing zone data. Guidance for the VTOL vehicle is determined based on the target emergency landing zone data.

Systems and methods for guiding a vertical takeoff and landing vehicle to an emergency landing zone

Human-machine interface for required time of arrival (RTA) constraint negotiation. Embodiments present critical RTA information and results of associated data calculations to the pilot in a concise and informative manner using a dialogue box with intuitive graphical displays. Embodiments present critical RTA information to assist a pilot in negotiating the RTA constraint with air traffic controllers, accepting the clearance, and having confidence in the system that it will achieve the defined RTA constraint.

Methods and systems for graphical representation of required time of arrival (RTA) constraint information

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Sivakumar Kanagarajan