US 12,293,056 B2
Fading PIREP icons based on validity of report
Nitin Kumar, Frankfurt am Main (DE); and Michael Gottscheck, Frankfurt (DE)
Assigned to The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US)
Filed by The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US)
Filed on May 11, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/316,123.
Prior Publication US 2024/0377920 A1, Nov. 14, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/04817 (2022.01); G08G 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/04817 (2013.01) [G08G 5/0021 (2013.01); G08G 5/0091 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method of displaying pilot reports, the method comprising performing, using a number of processors in a computer system, operations of:
graphically displaying a flight plan for an aircraft in a user interface;
receiving a pilot report;
displaying an icon representing conditions reported in the pilot report in the user interface in relation to the flight plan and an opacity indicating a relevance of the conditions to the aircraft at a location affected by the pilot report;
displaying weather data in the user interface, wherein the flight plan and icons are displayed on a map in the user interface;
determining an age of the icon;
responsive to determining that the icon has not reached a maximum age, checking for a renewed confirmation in the computer system of a continued presence of the conditions;
displaying, responsive finding the renewed confirmation, the icon at full opacity on the user interface and resetting its age in the computer system to new;
progressively decreasing the opacity of the icon in the user interface until the icon reaches a maximum age in a specified number of discrete steps with each step decreasing the opacity by an equal percentage until reaching zero opacity when the icon reaches the maximum age and then expires and disappears from the user interface, wherein the maximum age is two hours, the specified number of discrete steps is 4, and the equal percentage is 25 of the full opacity.