Streaming image display with ground feature color information annotations for an aircraft avionics system
AssigneeCirrus Design Corporation d/b/a Cirrus Aircraft
InventorJonathan Kunze
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Abstract
A method for providing a color-annotated display on an aircraft. Embodiments include receiving an image from a camera on the aircraft, determining one or more color regions in the image, accessing a color map based upon the one or more color regions, generating a color-annotated image, wherein one or more regions in the color-annotated image corresponding to the one or more color regions in the image are remapped based upon the color map, and displaying the color-annotated image in the aircraft.
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A method for providing a display on an aircraft, comprising:
- receiving, from a camera on the aircraft, an image from the aircraft;
- determining one or more color regions in the image;
- accessing a color map based upon the one or more color regions;
- generating a color-annotated image, wherein one or more regions in the color-annotated image corresponding to the one or more color regions in the image are remapped based upon the color map;
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- displaying the color-annotated image in the aircraft.
A method for providing a display on an aircraft, comprising:
- receiving, from a camera on the aircraft, an image from the aircraft;
- receiving navigation information representative of the location and orientation of the aircraft;
- receiving airport feature information associated with each of one or more color-based airport features;
- determining, based upon the navigation information and the airport feature information, a location of each of the color-based airport features with respect to the image;
- determining a color state of each of the color-based airport features in the image;
- generating a color-based annotation for each of the color-based airport features based upon the associated color state;
- generating a color-based annotated image based upon the image and including each color-based annotation, wherein each color-based annotation is at a location in the color-based annotated image corresponding to the location of the associated color-based airport feature;
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- displaying the color-based annotated image in the aircraft.
A method for providing a display in an aircraft, comprising:
- receiving, from a camera on the aircraft, a streaming image from the aircraft;
- determining one or more color regions in the streaming image and a color state of each of the one or more color regions;
- generating a color-based annotation for each of the one or more color regions based upon the associated color state;
- generating a color-based annotated streaming image based upon the streaming image and including each color-based annotation, wherein each color-based annotation is at a location in the color-based annotated streaming image corresponding to a location of the associated color region;
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- displaying the color-based annotated streaming image in the aircraft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.