# US 10,246,179 B2 · Display system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,246,179 B2 - Document ID: US10246179B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/148,816 - Filed: 2014-01-07 - Published: 2014-12-11 - Granted: 2019-04-02 - Earliest claimed: 2003-06-25 - Assignees: Augustawestland Limited - Applicants: Agustawestland Limited - Inventors: Keith David Stickels - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10246179B2 ## CPC - B64C 19/00: Aircraft control not otherwise provided for - B64C 13/02: Initiating means - B64C 27/56: characterised by the control initiating means, e.g. manually actuated - B64D 43/00: Arrangements or adaptations of instruments - B64F 5/60: Testing or inspecting aircraft components or systems - G05D 1/00: Control of position, course, altitude or attitude of land, water, air or space vehicles, e.g. using automatic pilots (drive control systems specially adapted for autonomous road vehicles B60W60/00) - G06F 3/0412: {Digitisers structurally integrated in a display} - G06F 3/0488: using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures - G06F 2203/04104: Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger - B64C: AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS - B64D: EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT - B64F: GROUND OR AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-DECK INSTALLATIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH AIRCRAFT; DESIGNING, MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLING, CLEANING, MAINTAINING OR REPAIRING AIRCRAFT, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HANDLING, TRANSPORTING, TESTING OR INSPECTING AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - G05D: SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract A display system for displaying a layout of controls in a simulator including at least one of an information display, a switch such as a toggle or push-button switch, and a monitoring device such as an indicator, or a gauge, for a vehicle, the display system including a touch sensitive screen which is generally transparent over a significant portion of its area, and a plurality of projectors which project onto a back of the screen, images of the vehicle controls, the projectors each being operatively connected to a computer controller which responds to the front of the screen being touched where a depicted control is displayed, to change the display in a manner to mimic the result of a corresponding actual vehicle control being operated. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A control apparatus for a vehicle, the vehicle being an actual, non-simulated vehicle and including a plurality of controllable actuators, the control apparatus comprising: a display system for displaying a layout of controls including at least one of an information display, a switch, and a monitoring device, the display system including a touch sensitive screen; and a computer controller which controls the display system and which responds to a front of the screen being touched where a depicted control is displayed to provide a signal which is used to operate a controllable actuator of the plurality of controllable actuators of the non-simulated vehicle; wherein the display system displays images of the controls in different positions for different vehicle operators, and wherein the computer controller recognizes an identity of a particular operator who will control the non-simulated vehicle. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) A control apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the computer controller of the display system in use, receives one or more inputs from sensors which are responsive to changing vehicle parameters, the display including an information display which changes in response to vehicle parameters changing. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) A control apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display system includes a plurality of projectors which project, onto a back of the screen, the images of the controls, the projectors each being operatively connected to the computer controller which responds to the front of the screen being touched where a depicted control is displayed, to change the display in a manner that mimics a result of a corresponding physical vehicle control being operated. ### Claim 4 An actual, non-simulated vehicle, comprising: a plurality of controllable actuators; and a control apparatus for the controllable actuators, the control apparatus including a display system for displaying a layout of controls including at least one of an information display, a switch, and a monitoring device, the display system including a touch sensitive screen, a computer controller which controls the display system and which responds to a front of the screen being touched where a depicted control is displayed to provide a signal which is used to operate a controllable actuator of the plurality of controllable actuators of the non-simulated vehicle, wherein the display system displays images of the controls in different positions for different vehicle operators, and wherein the computer controller recognizes an identity of a particular operator who will control the non-simulated vehicle. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) A vehicle according to claim 4, wherein the vehicle is an aircraft and wherein the controllable actuators are aircraft controllable actuators. ### Claim 6 A method of controlling a vehicle in which the vehicle is an actual, non-simulated vehicle and includes a plurality of controllable actuators to be controlled, the method comprising: displaying a layout of controls, including at least one of an information display, a switch, and a monitoring device, on a touch sensitive screen; controlling of the displayed layout with a computer controller which responds to a front of the screen being touched where a depicted control is displayed to provide a signal which is used to operate a controllable actuator of the plurality of controllable actuators of the non-simulated vehicle; identifying a controller who is to operate the non-simulated vehicle; and displaying images of the controls within the layout of the controls in positions on the screen depending upon an identity of the vehicle controller.