Patent ID: 11955022
Assignee: ROSEMOUNT AEROSPACE INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 10:
11. A system for monitoring an external environment of an aircraft, the system comprising:
a plurality of aircraft doors;
a plurality of cameras, at least one camera of the plurality of cameras being disposed within one of the plurality of aircraft doors and each camera of the plurality of cameras having a field of view that is unique among the plurality of cameras, such that a wheel of a main landing gear of the aircraft is within the field of view of at least one camera;
a display device disposed within an interior of the aircraft; and
a processor operatively coupled to the camera and to the display device to:
receive, from each respective camera of the plurality of cameras, image data captured by the respective camera that is representative of the external environment of the aircraft within the field of view of the respective camera;
aggregate the captured image data received from each camera of the plurality of cameras to produce aggregated image data representative of the external environment of the aircraft, wherein image data from overlapping fields of view of the plurality of cameras is presented only once in the aggregated image data;
analyze the aggregated image data by:
identifying a region within the aggregated image data that corresponds to a wheel of a main landing gear of the aircraft;
monitoring the wheel of the main landing gear, based on the aggregated image data corresponding to the wheel of the main landing gear; and

producing an output associated with the wheel of the main landing gear based upon the aggregated image data; and

output the aggregated image data for display at the display device.