Patent ID: 11919658
Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A method of controlling an exterior aircraft light, comprising:
acquiring altitude data of an aircraft;
identifying a first altitude condition, said first altitude condition being that said altitude data is one of less than or no greater than a predetermined altitude, wherein said identifying is executed by a controller;
activating a first exterior aircraft light in response to an existence of said first condition being identified, wherein said activating is executed by said controller;
capturing a first image exteriorly of said aircraft;
transmitting said first image to a trained image classification model;
determining a first visibility classification for said first image using said trained image classification model;
controlling a magnitude of a light output from said first exterior aircraft light based on said first visibility classification
capturing a second image exteriorly of said aircraft;
transmitting said second image to said trained image classification model;
determining a second visibility classification for said second image using said trained image classification model; and
controlling operation of said first exterior aircraft light using whichever of said first visibility classification and said second visibility classification that maximizes a magnitude of a light output from said first exterior aircraft light.