Patent ID: 8140992

Claim:
A dialogue device for dialogue between an operator of an aircraft and aircraft systems of said aircraft, said dialogue device comprising: a display system comprising at least one screen configured to display at least one interactive window which comprises a plurality of layers, each layer of the interactive window being associated with one of said aircraft systems, and each of said layers comprises at least one interactive object configured to display a menu, wherein the display system is configured to display each of the at least one interactive objects simultaneously at a same position of a corresponding one of the plurality of layers; and at least one cursor control device linked to said display system and configured to be actuated manually by said operator, wherein the at least one cursor control device comprises: at least one movement unit that is configured to move a cursor over said interactive window to indicate the at least one interactive object; a selection unit configured to be actuated manually by said operator to select one of the aircraft systems, wherein the screen presents the cursor, at the time of selection of one of the aircraft systems, in the form of a symbol that is representative of the selected aircraft system; and at least one validating unit that is configured to validate the at least one interactive object through said cursor to open the corresponding menu, wherein the corresponding menu is an interactive list of actions or functions, wherein each one of said layers of the interactive window exhibits interactivity and is configured to be activated and deactivated such that: when a layer is activated, each of the at least one interactive objects of the activated layer is configured to be validated; and when the interactivity of a layer is deactivated, each of the at least one interactive objects of the deactivated respective layer is configured so that each of the at least one interactive objects cannot be validated; and wherein said dialogue device further comprises: an activation/deactivation unit, linked to the selection unit, which is configured to activate and to deactivate the plurality of layers of said interactive window such that, at the time of selection of an aircraft system through actuation of said selection unit, the layer associated with said selected aircraft system is activated, and the layers associated with the aircraft systems that are not selected are deactivated.