Patent ID: 8339283

Claim:
A device for viewing an aerial environment for an aircraft, comprising: a display screen; a processor in communication with the display screen, the processor in communication with a memory, wherein the memory is adapted to store: a series of instructions executed by the processor to generate images; a series of instructions executed by the processor to process environmental data, the environmental data comprising digitized data of an aerial environment from an angular sector on either side of a heading of the aircraft, said angular sector having a constant range and an origin point coincident with a reference point, the environmental data having a graphical representation comprising colored zones, wherein each color of the colored zones is associated with a respective danger level for the aircraft; and a series of instructions executed by the processor to process cartographic data, wherein the cartographic data comprises digital terrain data, wherein: the device further comprises a graphical mixer to overlay the graphical representation of the environmental data onto a representation of the cartographic data on one viewing screen, wherein each zone of having a predetermined color has a transparency coefficient dependent on the danger level.