US 12,304,652 B2
System and method to detect authorized user
Wade T. Johnson, Cedar Rapids, IA (US); Arjun Harsha Rao, Marion, IA (US); Timothy J. Wittkop, Marion, IA (US); Christopher L George, Winchester, VA (US); Michael P. Matessa, Ben Lomond, CA (US); and Peggy Wu, Ellicott City, MD (US)
Assigned to Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US)
Filed by Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US)
Filed on May 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/744,411.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/196,424, filed on Jun. 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0388678 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. B64D 45/00 (2006.01); B64C 25/50 (2006.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01); G06V 40/70 (2022.01)
CPC B64D 45/0031 (2019.08) [B64C 25/50 (2013.01); B64D 45/0053 (2019.08); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); G06V 40/161 (2022.01); G06V 40/172 (2022.01); G06V 40/70 (2022.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a camera configured to capture an image within a flight deck of an aircraft;
a non-transitory memory maintaining program instructions and one or more authorized faces; and
one or more processors configured to execute the program instructions maintained on the memory, the program instructions causing the one or more processors to:
receive the image from the camera;
determine a detected face within the image is unauthorized, thereby indicating an unauthorized user is disposed within the flight deck; wherein the one or more processors detects the detected face by a facial detection algorithm; wherein the one or more processors determines the detected face within the image is unauthorized by comparing the detected face with the one or more authorized faces; and
change a mode of the aircraft from a full authority mode to a reduced authority mode in response to determining the detected face within the image is unauthorized; wherein the unauthorized user has full authority to control one or more user interface elements of the aircraft in the full authority mode; wherein the unauthorized user has reduced authority to control the one or more user interface elements of the aircraft in the reduced authority mode.