US Patent Issued to Thales Avionics on July 15 for "Augmented reality through digital aircraft windows of aircraft inflight entertainment systems" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,623, issued on July 15, was assigned to Thales Avionics Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Augmented reality through digital aircraft windows of aircraft inflight entertainment systems" was invented by Samuel Santos (Eastvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality (AR) system for an aircraft obtains an aircraft pose, determines a passenger pose relative to a window, and computes a field-of-view of the passenger. Operations select a set of passenger-relevant points of information (POIs) from a database that satisfy a relevance rule to the real-world objects viewable by the passenger through the window. For each of the passen...