Patent ID: 8922587
Filing Date: 2014-12-30
Classification: B60K,G06F,G09G,H04N

Abstract:
1. A shared video display system for use by crewmembers, the system comprising: a computer processor; a display monitor comprising a common display driver configured to provide multiple separate virtual displays to at least two fixed crewmember user stations, the display monitor positioned adjacent to the user stations with each of the virtual displays being visible only to a user at a respective user station based on the angle of view of the user at that respective user station with respect to the display monitor, and the virtual display are configured to provide different displayed images to the users at the respective user stations for aiding users in performing separate tasks; one or more shared activators associated with the display monitor which are configured to be manually activated by users and perform at least one different action at each of the user stations so as to allow users to perform separate tasks at the user stations with the same one or more shared activators; and one or more systems configured to track the locations of the hands of said users at the user stations with respect to the one or more shared activators associated with the display monitor, wherein actions associated with the one or more activators for performing separate tasks at different user stations are controlled according to a user priority determination algorithm executed by said computer processor which is configured to react, based on the tracked hand locations of users, if multiple users at different user stations attempt to activate the same activator associated with the display monitor at the same time to prevent conflicting actions associated with the same activator from occurring.