US 11,842,646 B2
System and method for providing interactive electronic charts
Jan Urbanec, Stara Lubovna (SK); and Santosh Sahoo, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC., Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed by HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC., Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed on Mar. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/214,145.
Claims priority of application No. 202111005661 (IN), filed on Feb. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0254257 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G08G 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); B64D 43/00 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 5/003 (2013.01) [B64D 43/00 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G08G 5/0013 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A processor-implemented method in an aerial vehicle for transferring electronic chart data during aerial vehicle operations to an avionics system, the method comprising:
receiving a file in a file format that presents an electronic chart, including text formatting and images, in a manner that is not specific to application software, hardware, and operating systems;
identifying from the file in the file format that presents the electronic chart in a manner that is not specific to application software, hardware, and operating systems a data element that contains information content for flight crew entry into avionics systems on the aerial vehicle;
translating the identified data element identified from the file in the file format that presents the electronic chart in a manner that is not specific to application software, hardware, and operating systems into a user-selectable control element having one or more values or flight plan data and having a graphical user interface element that identifies the user-selectable control element as including avionics information that may be entered into an avionics system;
associating the user-selectable control element that was derived from the file in the file format that presents the electronic chart in a manner that is not specific to application software, hardware, and operating systems with an avionics system into which the one or more values or flight plan data of the user-selectable control element may be entered;
converting the file in the file format that presents the electronic chart in a manner that is not specific to application software, hardware, and operating systems to an interactive electronic chart by the associating the user-selectable control element with the avionics system into which the one or more values or flight plan data of the user-selectable control element may be entered;
displaying, on a display device, the interactive electronic chart that was derived from the file in the file format that presents the electronic chart in a manner that is not specific to application software, hardware, and operating systems and includes the user-selectable control element;
displaying, responsive to user selection of the user-selectable control element, a data entry graphical element that includes avionics information from the selected user-selectable control element and one or more selectable graphical elements identifying an avionics system function for the avionics information; and
transferring, responsive to user-selection of at least one selectable graphical element, avionics information from the selected user-selectable control element to an avionics system associated with the user-selectable control element to change a state of an avionics system associated with at least one user-selectable control element;
wherein the data element in the interactive electronic chart that contains information content for flight crew entry into an avionics system on the aerial vehicle is made interactive.