Abstract: Helmet mounted display apparatus for use in aircraft and rotorcraft includes an image source for generating images that are projected into the pilot's forward field of view by a portion of relay optics that are common to both day and night viewing and interchangeable optical eyepieces, one for daytime viewing and one for nighttime viewing.

Abstract: Helmut mounted display apparatus configured for simulator use includes a pair of visual image sources and a pair of optics arrangements, including relay optic and eyepiece portions thereof, that optically present the image source images into the wearer's forward visual field, a first eyepiece type optimized for daytime luminance conditions, a second type optimized for nighttime luminance conditions, a single eyepiece being releasably engageable to and rotatable about the corresponding relay optic portion, wheeby said eyepiece rotation allows a varying binocular field of view to be displayed to the wearer.

Abstract: Helmet mounted display apparatus for use in aircraft and rotorcraft includes an first image source for generating images comprising pilotage symbol information, a second image source for sensing and generating images of the exterior scene, and relay optical components that optically superimpose the two images together and subsequently project the superimposed image into the observer's forward field of view.

Abstract: System operating regimes are identified by dividing a range of each one of a plurality of sensed system parameters into a plurality of predetermined range segments, assigning an alphanumeric character to each range segment of each parameter, and generating a composite number, each digit of which is made up of one of the alphanumeric range segment characters of each parameter. Apparatus compares the current sensed values of each parameter to the corresponding predetermined range segments to determine the current range segment of each sensed parameter, generates a current composite number made up of the current range segments of all of the parameters, and compares the current composite number to a plurality of predetermined system operating regimes to determine if the current composite number identifies one of a plurality of system operating regimes.

Abstract: Apparatus is connected by way of a serial communication link to at least one computer-based elevator controller in order to monitor the diagnostic output of each connected controller. The diagnostic output of a controller is determined in a manner by which the elevator system is modeled as normally operating sequentially from state to state in a closed loop sequence of linked operating states. Any deviations from this sequence generate diagnostic messages that are communicated from the controller to the monitoring apparatus. Also communicated are the last to occur of a plurality of parameter signal state changes. The monitoring apparatus processes the diagnostic signals for visual and/or hard copy display to interested elevator personnel in a meaningful way. Further, the monitoring apparatus provides a plurality of signals to the elevator controller indicative of corresponding reference standards that the elevator controller utilizes in determining the occurrence of certain elevator event conditions.

Abstract: Binary logic states (ONE, ZERO) are presented to the data inputs (24) of a multiplexer in a pattern characterized by a reversal of the binary logic states at input boundaries defined numerically as radix two raised to successive integer exponents. After sequencing the multiplexer address lines (22) to select the inputs to appear at the multiplexer output (25) in a desired sequence, the assembled output word (27) can, because of the pattern presented to the inputs, uniquely identify one of a number of particular address line conditions. Preselected codes are determined that facilitate identification of the conditions by comparing the codes to the output word in a flowchart of program steps (FIG. 4). Each code is associated with a pair of conditions, a first condition with a comparison result of all ONEs and a second with a comparison result of zero.