Method and systems for providing contextual visual and aural feedback and awareness to flight crews using a voice activated flight deck
AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorsSteven C. Crouch, Chaya Garg, Sudarshan Parthasarathy, Naveen Nama, Robert DeMers
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Abstract
A voice activatable flight deck system including a voice recognition and processing system for receiving and processing input voice commands and determining machine commands for the voice activatable flight deck system. The system provides indications as to whether user interface functional elements are voice command enabled, disabled or whether voice command input is not available. The system provides directional feedback to the voice command depending on whether a pilot in command or second in command issued the voice input.
Claims20
A voice activatable flight deck system, comprising:
- a display device;
- a database including data on acceptable voice commands associated with functions or applications;
- a voice recognition and processing system for receiving and processing input voice commands and determining machine commands for the voice activatable flight deck system;
- at least one processor in operable communication with the display device, the database and the voice recognition and processing system, the at least one processor configured to execute program instructions, wherein the program instructions are configured to cause the at least one processor to:
- display a graphical user interface (UI) comprising a window and at least one functional UI element in the window through which a user is able to enter an input;
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- display, based on data from the database, graphical symbology on the graphical UI indicating whether the at least one functional UI element and/or the window allow the user to enter an input by voice command using the voice recognition and processing system.
A voice activatable flight deck system for a cockpit of an aircraft, comprising:
- a display device;
- speakers;
- a voice recognition and processing system for receiving and processing input voice commands and determining machine commands for the voice activatable flight deck system;
- at least one processor in operable communication with the display device and the voice recognition and processing system, the at least one processor configured to execute program instructions, wherein the program instructions are configured to cause the at least one processor to:
- receive a voice command input to the voice recognition and processing system, wherein the voice command input is from either a pilot in command positioned on a left side of the cockpit or a second in command positioned on a right side of the cockpit;
- determine visual and/or aural feedback to the voice command input;
- and
- output the visual feedback through the display device and/or the aural feedback through the speakers;
- wherein the visual feedback and/or the aural feedback is directional to indicate whether the voice command input is from the pilot in command positioned on the left side of the cockpit or the second in command positioned on the right side of the cockpit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.