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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2009
Applicant:
Howard Glover, Yarrow Point, WA (US);
Inventor:
Howard Glover, Yarrow Point, WA (US);
Assignee:
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 5/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Systems and methods for alerting to traffic proximity in the airport environment. Knowledge of the geographic position, speed, rate of change of speed, heading (or track-angle) and/or altitude of own-aircraft (or vehicle) and another, potentially conflicting aircraft (or vehicle) are used to calculate a predicted distance between the two aircraft (or vehicles) at given point of time in the future. If separation distance is predicted to be less than a predetermined acceptable value, then an alert message (aural, visual or both) is issued to the pilot or operator of the vehicle.