Patent ID: 8631336

Claim:
A display system for an aircraft cockpit, said display system comprising: a plurality of display devices, each of which comprises at least one associated viewing screen configured to display a display format; at least one cursor management unit linked to each display device and configured for moving at least one cursor over said at least one viewing screen of each display device, and position the at least one cursor over a sensitive object on at least one viewing screen of the plurality of display devices, with the sensitive object being triggerable to execute an associated object function; and data transmission network which interlinks the plurality of display devices, wherein each display device comprises: i) format display unit configured to determine the display format of the at least one associated viewing screen, ii) cursor detection unit configured to detect presence of said cursor on the at least one associated viewing screen, iii) geographic determining unit linked to the format display unit and cursor detection unit and configured to determine current geographic position of the cursor on the at least one associated viewing screen upon the format display unit determining the display format of the at least one associated viewing screen is in a navigation format and upon the cursor detection unit detecting the presence of said cursor on the at least one associated viewing screen, wherein the current geographic position of the cursor is determined as latitude and longitude of the geographic position designated by the cursor on the at least one associated viewing screen displaying the navigation format, iv) data transmission link that links the geographic determining unit to the data transmission network, wherein the data transmission link is configured for transmitting the current geographic position determined by the geographic determining unit to the plurality of display devices of the display system, and v) display unit configured to display, upon activation, at least one characteristic symbol indicating the determined current geographic position of the cursor, wherein the display unit displays the at least one characteristic symbol to all of the viewing screens of the display devices in which: i) the presence of the cursor is not detected and ii) the navigation format is displayed.