Patent ID: 11869375
Assignee: BOREALIS TECHNICAL LIMITED
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. An artificial intelligence-based airport terminal ramp area monitoring system that improves ramp operations safety in all visibility conditions for electric taxi drive system-driven during all real time monitored ground travel within the airport ramp area, comprising: a. an airport ramp area at an airport terminal with a plurality of passenger loading bridges attached to said terminal, aircraft, moving ground service vehicles and equipment, and nonmoving structures within said ramp area; b. said aircraft being equipped with landing gear wheel-mounted electric taxi drive systems operable by a pilot to drive said aircraft during all ground travel within said airport ramp area, with multiple different monitoring devices mounted at different heights above a ramp surface in exterior locations on said equipped aircraft operable to provide constant streams of real time data comprising views or images of and information about a monitored volume of exterior ramp space surrounding said equipped aircraft not visible to a pilot in a cockpit of said aircraft extending from a ramp surface to just above a wing of said equipped aircraft, and with at least one display located in at least a cockpit of said equipped aircraft; c, additional monitoring devices operable to provide real time views of and information about said ramp area surrounding said equipped aircraft mounted in exterior locations on at least said moving ground service vehicles and equipment; and d. an artificial intelligence-based processing system capable of intermediate and high level image understanding using artificial intelligence-based processor software in data transfer communication with said multiple monitoring devices mounted on said equipped aircraft, said additional monitoring devices mounted on at least said moving ground service vehicles and equipment, and with said at least one display to receive said constant streams of real time data with said real time views of and information, to process said constant streams of real time data using said artificial intelligence-based processor software, to generate real time views and images of and information about said equipped aircraft's monitored volume and said surrounding ramp area from said processed real time data, and to communicate said generated real time views, images, and information to said at least one display.