US 12,002,368 B2
Host aircraft with mobile device-based system for collecting and disseminating flight data
Millie Irene Sterling, Wiesbaden (DE); André Brodbeck Dugas, Englewood, CO (US); and Joerg Robert Oliver Schmidt, Phoenix, AZ (US)
Assigned to The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed by The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed on Jan. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/578,640.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/187,327, filed on May 11, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0366795 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G08G 5/00 (2006.01); B64D 45/00 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 5/0013 (2013.01) [B64D 45/00 (2013.01); G08G 5/0021 (2013.01); B64D 2045/0065 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A flight data system for use aboard a host aircraft, comprising:
a mobile device having a processor, memory programmed with computer-readable instructions, a radio frequency (RF) communications circuit, a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, and a sensor suite configured to collect raw flight data, the sensor suite including a multi-axis accelerometer configured to generate a set of composite accelerometer readings as part of the raw flight data, wherein execution of the computer-readable instructions by the processor causes the mobile device to process the raw flight data into a synthesized data set, and to filter out human-induced motion of the mobile device from the synthesized data set, using a statistical filtering model, including calculating a rolling standard deviation of the set of composite accelerometer readings, thereby generating time-stamped filtered flight data;
a central data server in wireless communication with the RF communications circuit, and configured to receive the time-stamped filtered flight data therefrom; and
a transceiver communicatively coupled to the central data server, wherein the transceiver is configured to disseminate the time-stamped filtered flight data to a remote user device, wherein the time-stamped filtered flight data includes time-stamped turbulence data of the host aircraft based at least in part on the composite accelerometer readings.