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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2010
R. Michael Keen, Malabar, FL (US);
Jeffrey A. Frisco, Palm Bay, FL (US);
R. Michael Keen, Malabar, FL (US);
Jeffrey A. Frisco, Palm Bay, FL (US);
LIVETV, LLC, Melbourne, FL (US);
Abstract
An aircraft communications system includes at least one personal electronic device (PED) carried by an aircraft passenger, and an aircraft in-flight entertainment (IFE) system. The PED includes a PED display, a PED wireless transceiver, and a PED controller for generating a respective registration token image on the PED display. The aircraft IFE system includes an IFE video entertainment source, IFE passenger seat displays, a respective IFE optical sensor associated with each of the IFE passenger seat displays, an IFE wireless transceiver, and an IFE controller. The IFE controller is for selectively displaying video from the IFE entertainment source on the IFE passenger seat displays, and for communicating with the PED wireless transceiver via the IFE wireless transceiver based upon a respective IFE optical sensor sensing the registration token image on the PED display.