Patents by Inventor Charlie Hewitt

Charlie Hewitt has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Control of diverse types of crew interface for flight control
    Patent number: 11927460
    Abstract: Diverse types of crew interfaces (400, 430, 450) are provided for outputting visible, audio and tactile information to a pilot for flight control. A unified estimation of the current aircraft state and of a current phase of flight are made (110), based on flight status information. Respective coordinated visible, audio and tactile presentations for the diverse types of crew interfaces are generated, (120) coordinated so that they provide mutually consistent indications of the unified estimation of the current aircraft state, according to the unified estimation of current flight phase. The respective coordinated presentations are output (130) by the diverse types of crew interfaces to the pilot. By coordinating crew interface outputs across sight, sound and touch senses, this can relieve the pilot of workload in interpreting unsynchronised or incoherent outputs from different types of interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS PLC
    Inventors: Charlie Hewitt, Philip Lamb, James Austen Harrison, Antony Kershaw
  • CONTROL OF DIVERSE TYPES OF CREW INTERFACE FOR FLIGHT CONTROL
    Publication number: 20200264010
    Abstract: Diverse types of crew interfaces (400, 430, 450) are provided for outputting visible, audio and tactile information to a pilot for flight control. A unified estimation of the current aircraft state and of a current phase of flight are made (110), based on flight status information. Respective coordinated visible, audio and tactile presentations for the diverse types of crew interfaces are generated, (120) coordinated so that they provide mutually consistent indications of the unified estimation of the current aircraft state, according to the unified estimation of current flight phase. The respective coordinated presentations are output (130) by the diverse types of crew interfaces to the pilot. By coordinating crew interface outputs across sight, sound and touch senses, this can relieve the pilot of workload in interpreting unsynchronised or incoherent outputs from different types of interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS plc
    Inventors: Charlie Hewitt, Philip Lamb, James Austen Harrison, Antony Kershaw