Honeywell International Inc.

Timothy John Case

Richard A Burne

John G Meeker

Dan T Horak

John Burt McKitterick

Randy Black

John Meeker

A method and system for maintaining visual vertical reference on a rotorcraft display during rotorcraft landing is provided. The method generates vertical poles and positions them on the rotorcraft display such that vertical reference as well as roll information may be quickly and easily comprehended by a pilot.

System and method for displaying vertical reference on a rotorcraft system

Methods and apparatus are provided for determining a position of a vehicle with respect to a terrain. The method comprises accumulating data received from at least one sensor device regarding the occupancy of a spatial region between the vehicle and a first geographic region of the terrain, generating an evidence grid that describes the occupancy of the spatial region, identifying the position of the first geographic region of the terrain based on the evidence grid and previously compiled reference data, and determining the position of the vehicle based on the position of the first geographic region of the terrain with respect to the previously compiled reference data.

Apparatus and method for determining the position of a vehicle with respect to a terrain

A thermally-directed optical imager and a method of thermally-directing optical processing are described. The thermally-directed imager includes a thermal image sensor, an optical image sensor, and a processor. The thermal and optical sensors respectively generate thermal image and optical image signals. The processor uses the thermal image signal to determine an optical processing region, which the processor uses to derive a compressed-image signal. The optical processing region may be determined by detecting a center of heat-mass associated with the thermal image signal or by performing an edge detection algorithm. In addition, the thermally-directed imager may be focused, zoomed, or centered via the thermal image signal.

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Timothy John Case