Patent ID: 7991018
Filing Date: 2011-08-02
Classification: B64D,G10L,H04H,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A combined cabin management system in an aircraft, said management system comprising an entertainment system, a control system and several audio channels connecting the entertainment system with the control system, wherein said entertainment system is configured for playing back entertainment programs and providing communications possibilities for passengers in the aircraft, and said entertainment system is connected to several first audio data sources for storing and/or recording audio data and to several first audio playback devices for playing back audio data, said control system is configured for setting and displaying cabin parameters by crew members in the aircraft, said control system is connected to several second audio data sources for at least one of storing and recording audio data and to several second audio playback devices for playing back audio data, said several audio channels in both directions are configured for transferring audio data as a series of data packets between the control system and the entertainment system, each of said entertainment and control systems having a coding device for an upward transmission of audio data and a decoding device respectively for a downward reception of audio data and each of said audio channels having an information channel for transmitting channel parameters of the relevant audio channel, wherein each coding device is connected by a multiplexer to said several audio data sources of the respective system for interlinking audio data from said several audio data sources into one data stream; and each decoding device is connected by a demultiplexer to said several audio playback devices of the respective system for depacketing the data stream into audio data for the several audio playback devices, wherein the audio data are transmitted between respective coding devices and decoding devices with a predetermined resolution.