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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 18, 1999
Mark Issac Snyder, Glendale, AZ (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
An aircraft Flight Management System (FMS) simultaneously displaying FMS navigation data and geographically referenced bitmap data charts. The bitmap data charts are properly registered with the various FMS navigation data to achieve proper registration of the data. A common distance algorithm, known as Sedonos Equations, are utilized to determine the distance of each data point with reference to a map center position, such as the current position of the aircraft, a waypoint or a map corner. The system and technique allows for an arbitrary number of bitmapped data charts to be tiled, overlapped, rotated and scaled. The latitude and longitude coordinates of each data point, as well as the corners of the charts, are utilized to determine the distance of the various data points from the aircraft to achieve proper registration when simultaneously displayed.