Patent ID: 9696878
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G01C,G06F

Claim:
1. A system comprising: a physical display unit, configured to display data; an aircraft system component configured to perform one or more functions of an aircraft system, wherein the aircraft system component is configured to output a first signal for display according to a first display format; an abstraction component configured to receive the first signal from the aircraft system component, the abstraction component further configured to generate a virtual display page according to a first protocol based on the first signal received from the aircraft system component and to map the virtual display page into two modified display pages, each of the modified display pages configured according to a second display format and corresponding to a respective portion of the virtual display page; wherein the abstraction component is further configured to output a second signal comprising a first of the two modified display pages to the physical display unit for display on the physical display unit according to the second display format; wherein the physical display unit includes a plurality of line select buttons configured to indicate a user selection; wherein if the physical display unit is compatible with the second display format and incompatible with the first display format, then the abstraction component is configured to output the second signal comprising a second of the two modified display pages to the physical display unit based on user input; and wherein at least one row of the virtual display page corresponding to at least one row of both the first and the second modified display pages that overlap.