Patents by Inventor Lars Schopfer

Lars Schopfer 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).

  • Low-altitude flight guidance system, warning system for low-altitude flight guidance, warning generator for low-altitude flight guidance and method for low-altitude flight guidance
    Patent number: 7379796
    Abstract: A low-altitude flight guidance system for an aircraft including a warning generator that generates a warning based upon a predicted position. The system further including a first sensor system having a terrain database and a calculation module that determines a current position of the aircraft with respect to terrain stored in the terrain database and that determines a reference altitude hDB of the terrain at the current position. The system further includes a second sensor system and a module that determines a predetermined flight altitude difference ?hF at the predicted position and terrain data in a region U of the predicted position. Moreover, the system includes an altitude prediction module that predicts an altitude and forwards the predicted altitude to the warning generator. The warning is based upon the aircraft reaching, approaching, or exceeding a warning altitude limit, and the altitude prediction module determination for the predicted position is based upon a prediction set point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: EADS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Anton Walsdorf, Johannes Drexler, Lars Schöpfer, Alexander Hermann Knoll
  • Low-altitude flight guidance system, warning system for low-altitude flight guidance, warning generator for low-altitude flight guidance and method for low-altitude flight guidance
    Publication number: 20050049763
    Abstract: A low-altitude flight guidance system for an aircraft including a warning generator that generates a warning based upon a predicted position. The system further including a first sensor system having a terrain database and a calculation module that determines a current position of the aircraft with respect to terrain stored in the terrain database and that determines a reference altitude hDB of the terrain at the current position. The system further includes a second sensor system and a module that determines a predetermined flight altitude difference ?hF at the predicted position and terrain data in a region U of the predicted position. Moreover, the system includes an altitude prediction module that predicts an altitude and forwards the predicted altitude to the warning generator. The warning is based upon the aircraft reaching, approaching, or exceeding a warning altitude limit, and the altitude prediction module determination for the predicted position is based upon a prediction set point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Applicant: EADS Deutschand GmbH
    Inventors: Anton Walsdorf, Johannes Drexler, Lars Schopfer, Alexander Knoll