Patent ID: 8670921
Filing Date: 2014-03-11
Classification: G01C,G06K,G08G

Abstract:
1. An onboard assistance device for aiding the following of an airport route by an aircraft, said device comprising: a system of optical sensors which provides video images of said airport route; means providing the current position of the said aircraft; a database comprising the topological information for the airport on the airport route to be followed by the aircraft; a recognition system which provides, on the basis of the video images, data characteristic of the portion of the airport route seen by the system of optical sensors; a processing computer configured to: a viewing system comprising a viewing screen, said screen displaying a conformal view of the airport route situated in front of the aircraft and a succession of graphical symbols, each graphical symbol being associated with a geometric shape extracted from the database, the succession of symbols representing the stages of the airport route that are already recognized, the current stage, and the future stages.