Hands-free communication systems and methods for an aircraft
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsPiyush Varshney, Kiran Gopala Krishna, Brian David Gilbert
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Abstract
A system and a method include detecting signals from the operator that are motion signals and/or audio signals. A coded datalink message is created by a first control unit by converting the signals to coded signals. Each of the signals is associated with a coded signal based on a reference table. The coded datalink message is communicated with a second control unit. The second control unit decodes the coded datalink message by converting the coded signals to the signals based on the reference table and executes the datalink message.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- detecting one or more signals from an operator, wherein the one or more signals that are detected are one or more of motion signals or audio signals;
- creating a coded datalink message by converting the one or more signals to one or more coded signals with a first control unit, wherein each of the one or more signals is associated with a corresponding coded signal based on a reference table;
- communicating the coded datalink message with a second control unit;
- decoding the coded datalink message by converting the one or more coded signals to the one or more signals with the second control unit based on the reference table;
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- executing the datalink message with the second control unit.
A hands-free communication system, comprising:
- one or more sensors configured to detect one or more signals from an operator, wherein the one or more signals that are detected are one or more of motion signals or audio signals;
- a first control unit configured to create a coded datalink message by converting the one or more signals to one or more coded signals, wherein each of the one or more signals is associated with a corresponding coded signal based on a reference table;
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- a second control unit configured to receive the coded datalink message from the first control unit, wherein the second control unit is configured to decode the coded datalink message by converting the one or more coded signals to the one or more signals with the second control unit based on the reference table,
- wherein the second control unit is configured to execute the datalink message.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause one or more control units comprising one or more processors to perform the operations comprising:
- detecting one or more signals from an operator, wherein the one or more signals that are detected are one or more of motion signals or audio signals;
- creating one or more coded datalink messages by converting the one or more signals to one or more coded signals with a first control unit, wherein each of the one or more signals is associated with a corresponding coded signal based on a reference table;
- communicating the one or more coded datalink messages with a second control unit;
- decoding the one or more coded datalink messages by converting the one or more coded signals to the one or more signals with the second control unit based on the reference table;
- executing the datalink message with the second control unit by changing at least some data stored within a memory of the second control unit;
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- displaying at least some of the data that is changed via a display device responsive to changing at least some of the data stored within the memory of the second control unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.