Patent ID: 6952630
Filing Date: 2005-10-04
Classification: B64D,G01C

Abstract:
1. A method of presenting a combination of multiple types of data relating to at least one of environmental, aircraft flight, situational awareness, aircraft operation and aircraft systems status on a single display for ease of viewing of the presented data by a user of the aircraft, the method comprising: identifying, among the multiple types of data, high importance primary data for presentation on the display; identifying, among the multiple types of data, secondary data of lesser importance than the primary data for presentation of the secondary data on the display; presenting the primary data on the display at a first brightness level appropriate for facilitating attention to and ease of viewing of the primary data on the display by the user; presenting the secondary data on the display at a second brightness level predeterminately less than the first brightness level and suitable for viewing of the secondary data on the display by the user, detecting that the user is manually entering a new value of the secondary data requiring user attention to the secondary data on the display; and changing the brightness level of the secondary data on the display from the second brightness level to the first brightness level in response to said detecting that the user is manually entering the new value of the secondary data, and returning the changed brightness level of the secondary data from the first brightness level to the second brightness level a predetermined time interval after said detecting that the user is manually entering the new value of the secondary data.