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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2006
Patrick Ralf Wipplinger, Moerfelden-Walldorf, DE;
Jens Schiefele, Hessen, DE;
Thorsten Wiesemann, Hessen, DE;
Patrick Ralf Wipplinger, Moerfelden-Walldorf, DE;
Jens Schiefele, Hessen, DE;
Thorsten Wiesemann, Hessen, DE;
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A system and method for controlling a display of geographical data on a primary display device to assist in navigating a mobile platform such as an aircraft, ship, train, land-based motor vehicle, etc. The system includes a graphical user interface module (GUI) for receiving a plurality of user inputs, and an image control module. The GUI generates a primary display of the complete route being traveled on the primary display device. If the entire route does not fit on the display device, then the image control module generates data that the GUI uses to generate a context display on the primary display device. The context display presents the entire route as a smaller image on the primary display device, simultaneously with the primary display. The user inputs for the GUI enable the user to zoom, pan and perform other image control operations on either the primary display or the context display.