Patent ID: 8020113
Filing Date: 2011-09-13
Classification: G01C,G06F,G08G,G09G

Abstract:
1. A method for display-context synchronization for a display system of an aircraft, said display system exhibiting a distributed architecture and comprising a plurality of units, each of said units comprising: a viewing screen able to display one of a plurality of different formats, and a control panel comprising an actuator allowing an operator to control the display, on the viewing screen, of one of said formats so as to present it in accordance with a particular display context which represents a display configuration, said display context defining a set of particular options which have been selected for the associated format, the method comprising: automatically recording, for each unit, a display configuration, in a memory of the unit, for each of the formats able to be displayed by the unit, wherein the following are recorded in the memory of the unit as the display configurations: automatically extracting, when the display of a new format is requested by an operator via the control panel on a particular unit, the recorded display configuration which is associated with the new requested format from the memory of the unit; and displaying the new format in accordance with the extracted display configuration.