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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2014
Shimon Weichbrod, Baltimore, MD (US);
David Graves, Seattle, WA (US);
Shimon Weichbrod, Baltimore, MD (US);
David Graves, Seattle, WA (US);
ROCKWELL COLLINS, INC., Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Abstract
A method of selectively displaying an image representative of a weather condition in relation to an aircraft includes selecting, on a display screen, a display area to display weather data based on the location of the aircraft, selecting a weather condition to display from among a plurality of weather conditions, determining if any weather conditions are available to be displayed outside the selected display area and if the weather conditions should be displayed outside the selected display area based on the location of the aircraft and the severity of the non-selected weather conditions, receiving, from a weather data source, weather data representative of the selected weather condition with respect to the selected display area, and receiving weather data representative of weather conditions that should be displayed outside the selected display area, the weather data including location data for the weather conditions, and displaying the image representative of the selected weather condition within the selected display area and the weather conditions that should be displayed outside the selected display area, the image based on the received weather data.