Honeywell International Inc.

Sue McCullough

Charles Dairman

Hariharan Saptharishi

Mahesh Sivaratri

Mark Pearson

Phillip Toews

Nathan Shaughn Turner

Shane Lai

Venkat Ramana Mummadi

Kalimulla Khan

Gobinathan Baladhandapani

Steven Curtis Crouch

Soumitri Swain

David Bibby

Minni Ambooken

Sujith Kalarickal

Eric Christianson

Vincent Acuna

Kelsey Begaye

John R

John-Paul Gorsky

Systems and methods for controlling a flight deck multifunction control display unit are disclosed. In various embodiments, the systems may comprise a flight management system or other MCDU driven devices, a command database that stores a plurality of voice commands and a plurality of multifunction control display unit commands. In various embodiments, each voice command is associated with one of the plurality of multifunction control display unit commands. The systems may further comprise a pilot voice interface configured to receive a voice command from a pilot and transmit the voice command to the multifunction control display unit. The multifunction control display unit can receive the voice command from the pilot voice interface and, in response, access the command database to identify a multifunction control display unit command in the command database that is associated with the voice command.

Flight deck multifunction control display unit

A vehicular situation display including a user interface, a display, and a processor is provided to modify a vertical profile of a flight plan. The processor may generate vertical profile display data on the display based, receive a request to edit the vertical profile, expand the vertical profile display data on the display, generate a first movable reference line corresponding to one of an altitude, a distance and a time, receive, from the user interface, a flight plan change request to change an altitude, distance or time of the flight plan, the altitude, distance or time corresponding to the first movable reference line, generate a preview of an updated flight plan, and transmit the approval of the displayed updated flight plan to a flight management system, the flight management system configured to update the flight plan of the aircraft based upon the command to change the flight plan.

System and method to revise vertical profile of a flight plan

A wearable device is provided to be worn by an operator of an aircraft. The wearable device includes a communication unit configured to receive aircraft parameters from an aircraft system; a database configured to store a rule set that defines at least a first rule with a first alert condition and a first response associated with the first alert condition; a processing unit coupled to the communication unit and the database, the processing unit configured to evaluate the first alert condition in view of the aircraft parameters and to initiate the first response when the aircraft parameters violate the first condition; and an alert unit coupled to the processing unit and configured to communicate the first response to the operator.

Aircraft systems and methods with wearable device alerts

A system and method for providing the information contained in instrument procedure charts in a more intuitive and easier to comprehend manner is provided. The provided enhanced instrument procedure visualization system displays a dynamic three-dimensional view of a selected instrument procedure, and incorporates time-relevant information from weather and traffic sources. The provided enhanced instrument procedure visualization system further allows a pilot to scroll forward and backward in time to review and study the complete instrument procedure.

Enhanced instrument procedure visualization

Flight deck multifunction control display unit with voice commands

A system and method are provided for programming a flight management system in response to a voice input. The voice input is validated (the pilot spoken vocabulary is thereby filtered (e.g., adapted) to improve recognition accuracy and reduce false positives) by comparing the current operational state of the aircraft (for example, climb, level flight, descent, speed, altitude, and heading), operation validities and availabilities (for example, operations allowed and not allowed) based on the flight management system planned and predicted lateral and vertical trajectory of the flight route (flight plan) from origin/present position to destination, and the requested action being taken.

Systems and methods for utilizing voice commands onboard an aircraft

A method of managing speech data in a system is provided. The method includes receiving speech data that is generated by a speech recognition module; searching data structures of a definition file for a speech tag based on the speech data, wherein the data structures define features of a display screen; and determining an action associated with the speech tag; and at least one of communicating data to an application of the system and generating display data based on the action.

Methods and systems for integration of speech into systems

Embodiments of a touchscreen-enabled electronic device (referred to as a 'digital pilot notepad'), methods, and program products facilitating the entry of handwritten pilot data into one or more flight deck systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, the digital pilot notepad includes an avionics interface over which alphanumeric input data is transmitted to a flight deck system, a touchscreen device, and a controller operably coupled to the avionics interface and to the touchscreen device. The controller is configured to digitally capture a handwritten pilot note written on the touchscreen device by a pilot, convert the handwritten pilot note to alphanumeric input data in a format compatible with the flight deck system, and subsequently submit the alphanumeric input data to the flight deck system over the avionics interface.

Touchscreen-enabled electronic devices, methods, and program products providing pilot handwriting interface for flight deck systems

A visual display system is provided for an aircraft having a flight plan with a plurality of flight plan pages. The system includes a display unit configured to display at least one of the flight plan pages; an input device configured to receive an input from a user corresponding to a selected flight plan page from the plurality of flight plan pages; and a processor coupled to the monitor and the input device. The processor is configured to receive the input from the input device and provide the selected flight plan page to the display unit for display based on the input.

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Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

Sue McCullough