Enhanced situational awareness system and method

Details Enhanced situational awareness system and method Enhanced situational awareness system and method

2009-04-07

2011-10-18

Nguyen, Hung T. (Department: 2612)

Communications: electrical

Aircraft alarm or indicating systems

Potential collision with other aircraft

C340S963000, C340S971000, C340S973000, C342S029000, C701S301000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08040258

ABSTRACT:
Methods and apparatus are provided for enhancing the situational awareness of an operator. Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) traffic data transmitted by a traffic entity are received. The ADS-B traffic data are processed to determine traffic entity position. The traffic entity position is mapped to corresponding image coordinates on an enhanced vision system (EVS) display. A region of interest around at least a portion of the corresponding image coordinates is selected. An actual image of the traffic entity is rendered on the EVS display, at the corresponding image coordinates, and with at least a portion of the region of interest being highlighted.

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