Patent ID: 8958945
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: B64F,G01C,G06F,G06K,G07C,Y02D

Abstract:
1. An aircraft system for operating or maintaining an aircraft having multiple aircraft systems with at least some of the aircraft systems outputting one or more visual indicia indicative of a corresponding status of one or more of the aircraft systems, the aircraft system comprising: a database of instructive information indexed according to the visual indicia indicative of the corresponding status of one or more of the aircraft systems; a handheld device having a display and an imaging system creating an image of the visual indicia; and a computer program having an executable instruction set to process the image and identify the visual indicia indicative of the corresponding status from the image including an actual system values message, an indication, a mode state, an alphanumeric, or a barcode and retrieve corresponding information from the database for the identified visual indicia indicative of the corresponding status of the one or more of the aircraft systems, and display the retrieved information on the display of the handheld device.