US 2008/0270784 A1Published application

Display Configuration-Reconfiguration Method For a Set of Display Devices

AssigneeThales

InventorsDenis Bonnet, Bruno Capelle, Yannick Le Roux, Francois Michel

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Abstract

The invention relates to systems provide with control devices comprising an important number of displaying devices for displaying an important number of parameters according to accurate configurations, as for example, a modern aircraft instrument panel provided with several displays. The inventive method for configuring or reconfiguring the totality of displaying devices consists in inducing said configuration or reconfiguration by an event. Each elementary configuration is substantially obtainable by means of a reconfiguration logic language and an interpreter algorithm, wherein said logic language substantially comprises a reconfiguration domain, properties, transition rules, and preferences and said interpreter algorithm makes it possible to convert each transition rule into a list of elementary reconfiguration.

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Dependent claims

A method of configuring and reconfiguring a plurality of display formats on a set of viewing devices (VDUs), the reconfiguration of an initial configuration being prompted by an event so as to culminate in a final configuration, wherein each configuration is obtained by means of a logic reconfiguration language and of an interpretation algorithm, said logic language comprising:

a reconfiguration domain including a set of elements comprising
places modeling the VDUs;
tokens modeling the formats;
the events;
the logic functions which unite the places, the tokens and the events;
properties including a set of rules defining acceptable configurations;
transition rules including a set of rules defining acceptable reconfigurations;
preferences defining an order of calculation and priority formats on the VDUs;
and said interpretation algorithm for transforming each transition rule into a list of final reconfigurations.

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