Inventors:
Nghia Tran - San Diego CA, US
Hoa Phan - Escondido CA, US
Tu-Anh Ton - San Diego CA, US
John D. Rockway - San Diego CA, US
Anthony Ton - San Diego CA, US
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy - Washington DC
International Classification:
H03M 11/00
US Classification:
341 20, 362102, 362186, 362800
Abstract:
In one preferred embodiment, an aircraft marshaling wand controller displays aircraft marshaling instructions to a pilot on a video display monitor on-board an aircraft, such as an aircraft on an aircraft carrier. When an aircraft marshal uses arm motion gestures to form aircraft marshaling instructions for the pilot on the aircraft, the wand controller of the present invention senses or detects those gesture motions, and generates digitized command signals representative of those gesture motions made by the aircraft marshal. A wireless transceiver then transmits those digitized command signals to the aircraft for display on the video monitor for viewing by the pilot.