摘要:
The present invention is an apparatus and method for simultaneously processing multiple communication and navigation signals. An apparatus of the present invention may comprise a single receiver with a direct radio frequency (RF) sampling front end, a single analog to digital converter, a digital downconverter and a digital signal processor. In an embodiment of the invention, the receiver of the present invention may simultaneously process navigation signals in the 108-118 MHz band and communication signals in the 118-137 MHz band.
摘要:
The present invention is a method and system for managing a transmitter located in close proximity to a sensitive receiver. In an exemplary embodiment, the method may include recognizing incomplete receive operations on frequencies that may be affected by co-site transmit operations. Further, the method may include detecting the beginning of a speech message and delaying the speech message up to a selected maximum amount of time. The speech message may be delayed to correspond to required communications performance, allowing receive and transmit operations to be coordinated and thus, reducing the possibility of the receiver to be interrupted or affected by the transmitter operating on a relatively nearby frequency.
摘要:
The present invention is directed to a flight controls system and a method for navigating an aircraft via the flight controls system implemented on-board an aircraft. The flight controls system may provide a first mode for allowing the aircraft to be autonomously navigated safely to a loiter zone in the event the pilot becomes incapacitated or unable to operate the aircraft. Further, the flight controls system may provide a second mode for providing autonomous landing functionality for the aircraft when the engines of the aircraft have failed.
摘要:
An enhanced flight display system for an aircraft, including primary display controls, a flight display, and processing elements. The primary display controls provide a primary capability for performing defined display functions. The flight display includes a touchscreen input device being partitioned into a plurality of fixed touch regions that are responsive to touch so as to provide a secondary capability for performing defined flight display functions. The processing elements are operatively associated with the primary display controls and the flight display for implementing the defined flight display functions in response to utilization of the primary display controls or the touch of one of the touch regions, wherein operation of the fixed touch regions is configured to be independent of the primary display controls. This system provides an intuitive, aircraft optimized touchscreen interface to an aircraft flight display with no or minimal display design changes.
摘要:
A software defined radio system is described. The software defined radio comprises a modem bank at least partially defined by software running on a processor. The software defined radio also comprises an antenna group translator coupled to the modem bank. The software defined radio also comprises at least one antenna coupled to the antenna group translator. Further, the software defined radio comprises a program stored in a memory and running on the processor. The program is configured to generate a test signal to be leaked by the first of the at least two channels and to be received by the second of the two channels. The program is configured to automatically and autonomously verify the availability of a function of one of the at least two channels and determine the integrity of the function of the one of the at least two channels.
摘要:
A mobile radio has more than one channel, each channel corresponding to a programmable transceiver circuit. The mobile radio also includes at least one high gain antenna coupled to at least one of the programmable transceiver circuits. A location determining circuit is configured to determine the location of the mobile radio. A processor is coupled to the transceivers and to the location determining circuit. The processor runs a program logic that is configured to identify whether the mobile radio is in a location that enables the mobile radio to extend the reach of the network both due to its location and due to the use of the at least one high gain antenna. The processor also runs a program logic to carry out spectrum sensing to identify available spectral resources based on communication traffic on various frequency bands.
摘要:
The present disclosure is directed to a method for updating a system for providing a centralized status indication of an aircraft. The system includes a plurality of indicators, and the method includes the step of replacing the plurality of indicators with a single display. The display is configured for presenting an emulated view of the plurality of indicators. The next step of the method involves receiving status information for at least one indicator of the plurality of indicators from an existing logic associated with the plurality of indicators. The next step of the method is to display an emulated view of the plurality of indicators. The emulated view includes an icon associated with each indicator of the plurality of indicators, and each icon is placed in a similar geographical location as the associated indicator.
摘要:
The present invention is a MEMS-based broadband transceiver/sensor.A MEMS-based transceiver/sensor in accordance with the present invention may comprise: (a) an antenna; (b) a front-end triplexer block; (c) a plurality of N transceiving channels; and (d) an RF energy sensor. The front end triplexer block may comprise M triplexers, each triplexer having MEMS-based filters. The transceiving channels may each comprise: (i) a local oscillator; (ii) a mixer; (iii) a first N:1 MEMS-based switch; (iv) a plurality of N MEMS-based variable bandwidth bandpass filters; and (v) a second N:1 MEMS-based switch. The RF energy sensor may comprise: (vi) an M:1 MEMS-based switch; (vii) a local oscillator; (viii) a mixer; and (ix) a plurality of MEMS-based variable bandwidth bandpass filters.
摘要:
A software defined radio system is described. The software defined radio comprises a modem bank at least partially defined by software running on a processor. The SDR also comprises an antenna group translator coupled to the modem bank. Further, the SDR comprises at least one antenna coupled to the antenna group translator. The antenna group translator comprises an antenna switch comprising RF filtering functions and RF front ends comprising frequency conversion functions. To greatly reduce the complexity and cost of the system, the architecture includes an antenna group translator having RF front end hardware that is specific to the frequency band of each antenna. In addition, the modem bank includes banded frequency converters.
摘要:
An apparatus for providing format and display configuration selection includes a display device, a user interface device, and a computer control system communicatively coupled to the display device and the user interface device, wherein the computer control system is configured to initiate a display format selection menu in a display area of the display device, wherein the display format selection menu includes an application menu area, a display configuration area, and an application configuration preview area, select an application from the application menu area, select a display configuration from the display configuration area, generate a multi-application display preview by displaying the one or more selected applications in a configuration defined by the selected display configuration in the application preview area, and implement the previewed multi-application display in response to a signal received from the user interface device indicative of acceptance of the previewed multi-application display.