US 12,006,060 B2
Human-machine interface architecture in an aircraft
Neset Sozen, Toulouse (FR); and Marc Vie, Toulouse (FR)
Assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS, Toulouse (FR)
Filed by Airbus Operations SAS, Toulouse (FR)
Filed on May 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/320,292.
Claims priority of application No. 2004940 (FR), filed on May 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0354845 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. B64D 43/00 (2006.01); B64D 45/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01)
CPC B64D 43/00 (2013.01) [B64D 45/00 (2013.01); G06F 9/5027 (2013.01); G06F 9/542 (2013.01); G06F 9/546 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A human-machine interface system configured to enable interactions between aeronautical applications and aircraft control and display instruments via the human-machine interface system, comprising:
an interface server in which the aeronautical applications and control and display managers are connected, each control and display manager being associated with a control and display instrument and performing an abstraction of the associated control and display instrument, the interface server communicating with each aeronautical application and each control and display manager using a common core protocol;
application extension libraries which are called up by the interface server to obtain an implementation of the common core protocol dedicated to each aeronautical application, as well as a display window definition which is dedicated to each aeronautical application and which has a part which is agnostic to any display technology and another part which is specific to a display technology; and
at least one control and display utility extension library which is called up by the interface server to obtain implementation of the common core protocol dedicated to the control and display managers.